Geography Computing Resources

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Geography Computing Resources

• September 21, 2008

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Geography Computing Team - Introductions

• Mark Probert Information Systems Manager
• Dylan Parenti Geotechnical Information
  Specialist
• Gwen Raubal Computer Network Technologist
• Jon Hall Web Programmer (jon.hall_at_geog.ucsb.edu)
  
• Guylene Gadal Spatial_at_UCSB Web Administrator
• Best address for computer help is
  (request_at_geog.ucsb.edu)

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Network

• 300 computers
• 525 users
• 2 computer instructional labs
• Jeffrey L. Star Lab (Ellison Hall, Rm. 2610)
• Descartes Lab (Ellison Hall, Rm. 3620)
• 1 grad student-only computing lab
• Spatial_at_UCSB Lab (Ellison Hall, Rm. 2616)
• 2 classrooms
• Ellison Hall, Rm. 2620
• Ellison Hall, Rm. 3621

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Network

• Buildings
• Ellison Hall
• Faculty, Grad and Staff Offices (1st and 5th
  floors, mainly)
• Descartes Lab (3rd floor)
• Star Lab (2nd floor)
• Spatial_at_UCSB Lab (2nd floor)
• Hydrology Lab (3rd floor)
• Haptic / Soundscapes (1st floor)
• VIPER Lab (3rd floor)
• Human-Environmental Relations Lab (5th floor)
• GeoTransportation Lab (3rd floor)
• McFadden Lab (3rd floor)
• Ocean Physics Group (1st floor)
• Climate Hazards Group (1st floor)
• Raubal Lab (5th floor)

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Network

• Phelps Hall
• Soils Lab (3rd floor)
• Spatial_at_UCSB Center (3rd floor)
• Bren Hall
• 4th floor offices
• Still Lab (1st floor)
• Trailer 942

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Network

• Marine Science Building
• Washburn Lab
• Siegel Lab
• Noble Hall
• King Lab

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Accounts

• Unix accounts
• Assigned password
• You can change your Unix account password using
  Secure Shell Client or X-Windows
• e.g., on latitude.geog.ucsb.edu, use
• yppasswd username
• and follow prompts
• Password initially matches e-mail password
• Dont give it out to anyone
• Forgot it? Visit Mark for a new one (passwords
  never e-mailed out)
• Persist as long as you are here
• Dissemination of accounts

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Accounts

• Good Password rules
• No dictionary words
• Seven or more characters
• Mixed upper/lower case
• Punctuation !_at_()_-,/.
• Numbers
• Spaces not allowed (generally a bad idea
• in Unix, anyway)

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Accounts

• Class accounts
• These are Unix accounts. For instance, Jane Q.
  Doe taking Geography 184 would have an account
  named jqd184
• But, they expire quarterly/yearly
• Useful for students class-related webpages
• Disk storage reserved for class accounts
• keep area tidy

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Accounts

• E-mail accounts
• username_at_geog.ucsb.edu
• No webmail interface
• E-mail profile
• Change password, set forwarding and vacation
• message
• Open http//mailhost.geog.ucsb.edu8082 with
• Internet Explorer (not Mozilla)

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Accounts

• E-mail accounts continued
• POP/IMAP server mailhost.geog.ucsb.edu
• Geog network SMTP servers
• sbox.geog.ucsb.edu
• mailhost.geog.ucsb.edu
• Otherwise use UCSB VPN or local service provider
• Spam filtering
• Barracuda Networks hardware Spam appliance
• 90-95 of all e-mail we receive is spam
• All UCSB computers are whitelisted, and
  therefore not
• filtered for spam
• Quarantine account http//sbox.geog.ucsb.edu800
  0

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Accounts

• E-mail accounts continued
• U-Mail http//www.umail.ucsb.edu
• E-Mail policies
• University of California Electronic
  Communications Policy http//www.ucop.edu/ucophom
  e/policies/ec/
• UCSB Interim Electronic Communications
  Implementing Guidelines http//www.policy.ucsb.ed
  u/vcas/isc/InterimECImpGuide5612.pdf

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Computer Labs

• Descartes Lab
• SmartCard Access required
• Access for enrolled undergrads until 5 p.m.
• Computers
• 15 Sun Blade 100 workstations (Solaris 8)
• 15 Shuttle XPC PCs (Windows XP SP2)
• 20-inch LCD displays
• Xerox Phaser 7760DX color printer

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Computer Labs

• Star Lab
• SmartCard Access Control
• Open 24/7 for grad students (as long as you can
  get into the building)
• Open 24/5 for undergrads (without grad
  supervision)
• HP LaserJet 5700dn duplex printer
• UPS protection
• Computers
• 32 Core 2 Duo CPU
• Windows XP SP3
• 22-inch LCD monitors

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Computer Labs

• Lab Policies
• Use common sense
• No food, beverages, bikes, skateboards
• Logoff computers before leaving
• Surveillance cameras
• Yield to incoming classes
• Noise
• Please do not let your noise level disturb others
  working in the Lab

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Computer Labs

• Lab use
• The Lab is also a classroom. When a class has
  reserved the lab, the lab is closed for all other
  access. Please pay attention to the sign on the
  lab door. If the Class in Progress-Please Do Not
  Disturb sign is posted, do not enter the
  facility.

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Labs/Classrooms

• SmartCard Access for entry
• Arrive early enough to allow students in
• Keep doors closed holding/propping them open
  sounds alarm
• Close windows/turn off lights if you are the
  last to leave/log off computers/push the chairs
  in/clean white board
• If you are teaching/TAing a class, verify that
  podium is locked when you are done!

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Podiums

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Podiums

• Locked keys checked out from office staff
• Key may be issued for an entire quarter, and
  must be returned at the end of each quarter
• Top tray
• Dedicated WinXP Laptop with Microsoft Office
  2007 Pro
• Mouse and power adapter
• LCD Clock
• Locked Cabinet
• Basic DVD player, no audio (for now)
• Top tray laptop plugs into Ethernet port on side
• Documentation, and Wireless Projector Manager
  software
• Microphone/speaker, if needed
• Geography website has an overview of the
  podiums, with
• photographs

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Projectors

• Panasonic, ceiling-mounted, wired/wireless
• Path of least resistance go wired (open access)
• Podium laptop resolution is native to
  projectors (1024 x 768 pixels)
• When using your laptop, if it can be set to 1024
  x 768, choose that
• No software required
• Wireless advanced (not open access requires
  password)
• Basic how-to on the Department website
• Isnt good for video/Google Earth swarming
• Wireless Manager software check out software
  with Computing Staff
• Panasonic warns software may not be compatible
  with Vista
• Dont expect to learn the program 2 minutes
  before your initial class
• 10 x 6 pull-down screen in 2620 classroom
• 8 x 6 motorized screen in 3621 classroom
• 10 x 6 motorized screen in Star, Spatial, and
  Descartes Labs

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Department Resources

• Printers
• Star Lab HP LaserJet 5700dn
• Descartes Lab Xerox Phaser 7760DX
• Spatial_at_UCSB Lab HP LaserJet 3000dtn
• Ellison 5th floor HP Color LaserJet 9050dtn
• CHG 1st floor HP LaserJet 2100dtn
• 36-inch scanner (Ellison 3rd floor)
• Wireless implemented Summer 08.

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Department Resources

• Printers
• The new print management system will be in place
  at the beginning of the quarter.
• Print stations release jobs, and are charged to
  your BARC account.
• Color printing more spendy than monochrome.
• Classes youll teach/TA will have accounts to
  charge to.
• Stay tunedmore details will be posted on the
  website.

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Department Resources

• Mailing Lists
• Official lists
• allfaculty_at_geog
• allgrad_at_geog
• all_at_geog (goes to everyone except undergrads)
• Private
• gradb_at_geog (private grad student list/forum
  only)
• Bulletin Boards
• http//bbs.geog.ucsb.edu

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Campus Resources

• Wireless
• Need a UCSBnetID (which means youll need a
  UCSB-affiliated e-mail address beforehand to get
  one)
• Select areas on campus Geography classrooms,
  computing labs and conference rooms
• https//noc.ucsb.edu/wireless/
• Once connected, Geography networks accessed via
  SSH/SFTP client programs
• Library
• Alexandria Digital Library
• Map and Imagery Library (MIL)
• Digital research journals
• UCSB VPN Service
• http//www.oit.ucsb.edu/network_services/VPN_servi
  ce/default.asp
• Windows and MacOS X clients

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Web Pages

• Department Web Server (established by webmaster,
  content created by you, managed by you and the
  webmaster)
• Personal web pages (created managed by you)
• http//www.geog.ucsb.edu/username
• Create public_html folder/directory
• index.html your default username page
• Use sftp/winscp/etc. to transfer/command line
• Map network drive in Windows Explorer
• Unencrypted passwords for Samba access

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What Services Do I Get?

• Core Services Provided Include
• Geography Department E-mail (username_at_geog.ucsb.ed
  u)
• Bulletin Board Service
• GPS units for field instruction use only
• Wireless Access through UCSB OIT
• One static, in-office, IP address per grad
  student
• Network troubleshooting (wall-plate in)
• Use of the Spatial_at_UCSB computing lab
• Oracle UCSB CorporateTime Calendar account
• Allowed to install ESRI/ENVIIDL on
  University-owned machines
• Various training workshops during the year

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What Services Do I Get?

• Additional Services for Recharge
• Printing
• Hardware troubleshooting for grant research-owned
  computers
• Assistance with your own machines
• Poster printing at the Institute for Quantum
  Complex Dynamics (iQCD) at 40.00 a poster for
  this academic year 

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• Not a good idea to save stuff on the computers in
  the labs
• Student passwords for Windows boxes in the labs
• Security vigilance
• Non-Geography enrolled students are not allowed
  in computing labs
• Mind your laptops and belongings