By default all Kent logins come with a personal file storage space, mapped as your Z drive, and with a quota of 300MB. This limit … Read more
Category: SMSAS computing advice
Mapping network folders (Windows)
Folders anywhere on a Windows network that you have access to can be “mapped” and once you have done this the folder will be accessible … Read more
Creating a Bloomberg login
A detailed Bloomberg guide for students can be found here: http://www.kent.ac.uk/smsas/documents/Bloomberg-getting-started-guide.pdf. This does not offer very much information about the process of creating a Bloomberg … Read more
Colour printing
At the time of writing SMSAS has one colour printer, named dpma501. In order to use this you will need to first have permission granted … Read more
Backing up your data (Ubuntu)
This blog entry covers the topic very well: http://www.howtogeek.com/108869/how-to-back-up-ubuntu-the-easy-way-with-dj-dup/ … But I have to say that rsynch does the job pretty reliably, as long as … Read more