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Computing Services & Resources      שירותי ומשאבי מיחשוב

Hardware and Software Reference

• The math institute server
• Laptop internet access
• HUJI e-mail accounts
• Software packages installed on the math server

The math institute server

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The main math department server math.huji.ac.il is Scientific Linux 4 machine (1400MHz CPUx2, 2Gb mem)

The main services work through this server, e.g.:

• mail
• home-directories services

To connect to math.huji.ac.il, you no longer use telnet, use only Security Shell (ssh) since telnet is closed on it.
SSH Client for PC - Download

The Solaris Server sundial.ma.huji.ac.il will continue to work as before. It is a Sun Fire V250 2x1.28GHz Ultra SPARC computer, with 2000Mb of RAM. It runs under the operating system Solaris 9, a variant of UNIX.

HU WebMail: email through a browser from any computer/network Choose our mail server from the list: MATH More information from the Authority for Computation, Communication & Information: Webmail

Laptop Internet Access

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Two Internet access routes for laptops are available in the library:

• Network ports (and electricity): In the library's 1st floor, Mathematics periodicals room
• Wireless access: In the main reading hall
  For additional information check the Computing Authority's Wireless HUJI website: http://wireless.huji.ac.il

Other Computer resources in the library

HUJI e-mail accounts

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As of the 2007/8 academic year e-mail accounts with HUJI addresses, username@mail.huji.ac.il, were opened in GMAIL for all students registered at the university.

• All formal messages from the university (including the libraries) are directed to this address only.
  To access the email: http://mail.huji.ac.il

• Messages from the Mathematics Institute will continue to be directed to the email provided to Lena.
• You can forward your emails from one account to the other automatically. Please contact Lena if you need help.

More information:
http://ca.huji.ac.il/gmail

Here are some links to manuals and other reference material about some of the software packages installed on sundial:

1. How to display PostScript (=PS) files
2. How to display PDF files - Use Adobe Acrobat Reader.
   Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5.0 for Windows 95/98/NT. Save to disk, and then double-click on ar500enu.exe to install it.
3. LaTeX2e - our main mathematical typesetting environment.
4. Mathematica - a symbolic algebra/graphics/mathematical programming package. A brief summary of the mathematica commands is available by typing "mathbook" on an X-terminal.
5. vi - a simple text editor. A manual is here.
6. StarOffice - instructions for using StarOffice on sundial
7. netscape - instructions for java with netscape-4 .75
8. techexplorer - instructions for using techexplorer
9. LyX - instructions for using LyX
   Installing MikTeX and LyX with Hebrew on Windows / Iddo Samet
10. vim - instructions for using vim
11. groff
12. xrn
13. imagemagick
14. xemacs
15. nedit
16. bzip2
17. ftnchek
18. xfig
19. TeX-XeT

Typesetting Hebrew using (La)TeX  /  Rama Porrat
How to use Hebrew LaTeX (in UNIX)  /  Ben Gurion University math dept.

Hebrew University's academic staff can obtain licenses of scientific software, such as: Mathematica, Matlab and SPSS from the Hebrew University's Authority for Computation, Communication and Information MicroShop.

EndNote Web  /  Thomson Reuters.      הדרכה / ספריית הרמן למדעי הטבע

EndNote is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.