Computer Documentation
Computer Resources
Computer Labs
- Location: Computer terminals for students currently enrolled in Mathematics and Statistic courses are located in Lab rooms 033 – 038, in the basement of the Erskine Building and room 442, level 4 of the Erskine Building.
- Hours of use: Lab rooms 033 – 038 are available 24/7 except when booked. After hours you will need your Canterbury Card to access the building and labs or you can use our remote access servers.
- Installed software: MATLAB, Maple, R, SAS, Microsoft Office, LaTeX, EndNote.
- Printers: Printers are located in 034 and 037, which are the bays between the basement lab entrances. Printing is charged to your Canterbury card.
- USB Ports: USB flash drives can be used on the computer terminals.
Two USB ports are located on the front of the PC cases. However, the is no notification
when they are inserted. You can find the drive in the
"Other" section in "My Computer" listed as "Media on
<hostname>"
. - Audio: Headphones with a standard 3.5mm plug can be plugged into the light-green socket on the front of the PC cases. The light-red microphone socket is inactive.
Remote Access
- School of Mathematics and Statistics Windows Servers: Remote access to windows
- For students and staff wanting access to applications such as MATLAB and Maple when outside the School, connected to UC Wireless or off-campus.
- My Documents: Accessing your ICT "My Documents" folder (P: drive) remotely.
- School of Mathematics and Statistics Windows Servers: Remote access to windows
Using a laptop on Campus
Once connected to the campus UC Wireless network, students can use remotely access the School Windows Terminal servers. Printing can be done from the remote desktop session - if connecting to mathlab1, only printing to a PDF file is available.
Below are links to information pages on the ICTS website:
- Information for Students: http://www.it.canterbury.ac.nz/for/students.shtml
- UC Wireless access: http://www.it.canterbury.ac.nz/web/wireless/
- Email and Internet: http://www.it.canterbury.ac.nz/web/internet/
Printing for staff and visitors is available viaucprint1.canterbury.ac.nz
which provides windows and lpd print queues to the printers on level 4 and above of the Erskine Building. The print queues to choose begin with MATH-Erskine….
Software Guides
MATLAB
- MATLAB licenses and contacts
- For Advanced Users (PDF – 19KB)
SAS
- Introductory Guide to SAS for Windows (PDF – 1.1MB)
- Introductory Guide to Unix-SAS (PDF – 77KB)
LaTeX
- LaTeX lessons - using LateX on our Terminals
- TikZ: Producing diagrams in LaTeX
- A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX (PDF – 1.87MB)
Author: Harvey J. Greenberg - The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2 (or LaTeX 2e in 150 Minutes) (PDF – 2.44MB)
Author: Tobias Oetiker
Current Index to Statistics (CIS)
- How to use the “Current Index to Statistics Database” (PDF – 214KB)
Brief Notes:- To run CIS from a School unix machine type “ciscd”.
- CIS will create temporary files in your working directory, which you are given the option to delete on exit.
- CIS website
- Further CIS database documentation available in /scratch-network/CIS/DOCUMENTS/
- How to use the “Current Index to Statistics Database” (PDF – 214KB)