BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Pharmacy & Pharmacology Computing Services Pascal Loizeau Computing Services Supporter Dept. of Pharmacy & Pharmacology 5W4.6a /

Getting Help BUCS / Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology FAQs online and Problem reporting Form (Pink HELP! button) Get in touch with me: 5 West 4.6a BUCS Service Desk in the Library (Level 2, West wall)

You have a “roaming profile” so your personal settings will follow you around. “My Documents” or “Documents” and the Desktop are redirected to your network filestore, at h:\dos\ Do not install Dropbox client or other cloud clients! BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Centrally Delivered Services

Sun Ray Thin Clients Found in the Library, cyber cafes, and many corridors around the campus These don’t have any computing power themselves – they simply connect to our central servers. Allow access to a web browser, webmail, Windows terminal servers, a Linux desktop and a Unix terminal BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology

UoB WiFi – ‘eduroam’ available around the University campus (including the residences). The Cloud Get Connected

Accessing Bath resources from off-campus BUCS / Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology You can use Unidesk from anywhere – using the Microsoft “Remote Desktop Connection” You can then map our network drives to Windows and Mac and set-up \\myprint\general. Most web based services will be accessible.

High Performance Computing (HPC) HPC clusters allows researchers to solve large, advanced, complex computational problems which are too big for a single machine to compute. P&P users can run a variety of programs on the clusters, working on a range of problems including but not limited to molecular interaction simulations, X-ray crystallography and large-scale statistical analyses. BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology

Important bits and BUCS IT Policy: NEVER tell anyone your password. If you do, and it’s abused, you will be held responsible. BUCS never need to know your password, and will never ask for it. BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology

BUCS / Department of Physics – Intro to Physics IT Support Use your h: drive – 1GB default quota It’s the “My Documents” on windows Backed up every night + snapshots Check quota in “Your Account” on BUCS web Backup

Save, save, save, and then save again. Use Research Network storage when possible. Cloud solution: Google Drive: Dropbox: SkyDrive: Please Do Not Install any of the above clients on a University machine, it will corrupt your profile. You must use their web interface instead. BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Backup the backup

Our primary means of communication BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Has a separate quota to your h: drive 1Gb maximum size Webmail: Default client on campus computers is currently Mozilla Thunderbird but Outlook 2013 will be soon implemented. All is virus scanned and given a spam rating – you can enable filtering if you wish.

Printing *** New Managed Print Service*** BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology “managed print system” across the campus. This is a secure, “follow me”, type service General on Myprint Don’t ask me about budgets…

Check “Your Account” – from the homepage go to “Computing Services” then “Your Account” BUCS / Department of Pharmacy& Pharmacology

Person Finder – BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology Use it to find: Ian Eggleston, Kevin Smith, Linda Humphreys and your Tutor

The Computer Shop – IT (IT purchasing) BUCS / Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology For personal purchases use ITP in the Library For all your computing needs – USB sticks, CDs, DVDs, PCs, Laptops, Netbooks, Student Software, upgrades etc. It’s a ‘not for profit’ service

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