Linux

Karl Ove Hufthammer has created an unoffical LaTeX document class for Master’s theses at UiB, which is used by most of the statistics students. The document class and the (very unfinished) documentation can be found at /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/mi.uib.no/uib-mi-master/.
Karl Ove says: Feel free to use it!

For Linux users there is a LaTeX document class at the department called mi-brev. Type texdoc mi-brev in a Linux terminal window to view the documentation for this class. It can also be used for private letters and for faxes. (It should also be possible to copy the class to a compatible TeX system on MS Windows or OS X.)

More templates and pointers are still welcome.

Please help us by providing information for getting starting with this program.

Linux: To run Maple in text mode, type maple in your terminal. To run the full windowed version with worksheets and so on, type xmaple & instead.

Maple can also be run on Macs and Windows PCs.

Different programs have different ways to present a print dialogue. Choose one of the printers on this list:

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The commands “rsync” and “scp” allow you to copy files to remote servers. For automathic autentification see the post about remote login from linux machines. Please leave a comment if you have questions about this.

The command “ssh” establishes a login on remote machines. For example the command

ssh alfred

will log you onto the server alfred. (From alfred you have access to your personal web-pages.)

If you use ssh (or scp or sshfs) a lot it will be convenient to use automatic autentification. The command “man ssh” will display information on howto do this. More detailed information will follow later. (If you have a good recipie on howto do this, please leave a comment.)

The command sshfs mounts a remote filesystem. For example the command

sshfs alfred:/People/www/mbr085/ www

mounts the filesystem containing my personal web-pages into the directory www. (For this to work an empty directory called www should already exist.)

Flere har lurt på hvordan man kan kjøre Windowsprogrammer fra sin Linux arbeidsstasjon.

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For employees the outgiong server is smtp.uib.no and the incoming server is imap.uib.no. The LDAP server (online address book for all employees and students) is ldap.uib.no, with base DN dc=uib,dc=no and port number 389.

Very useful if you use Thunderbird as your e-mail client. Apple’s Mail.app and probably many other mail programs can also make use of this.

See It-avdelingen for more details.

There are many editors to chose from. Many people prefer Emacs. If you want Emacs to access remote files it will be an advantage to install one of the newer versions of Emacs.

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