Astrophysics articles - IT Services

Computing in Astrophysics

An overview of computing facilities in Astrophysics

Adding Printers in Linux

How to connect to a Sharp printer from a Linux computer

Adding Printers in OS X

How to add printers in OS X

Adding Printers in Windows

How to add printers in Windows

Administrative Privileges Form for Astrophysics MacOS X Desktop Systems

Covering letter for the Astrophysics MacOS X Administrative Privileges form

Applications Setup

How to Activate certain programs and suites at the command line

Astrophysics Apple Desktop Backups

A description of the backup system for Astrophysics Apple Desktops

Astrophysics Apple Desktop System

A brief introduction to Astrophysics desktop Macs

Astrophysics Apple Developers' Page

A brief overview of Astrophysics developer information

Astrophysics Apple Laptops backups

a description of the backup facilities for Astrophysics Apple laptops

Astrophysics: Available Software

Software available on the MacOS X systems in Astrophysics

Astrophysics: Available Software: Overview

Overview, and listing, of software available to members of Astrophysics

Astrophysics: Available Software: Wrapper scripts

Stuff put in /Local/bin by Applications Setup

Astrophysics: Libraries

Software libraries available on Astrophysics OS X systems

Astrophysics: MacPorts

MacPorts programs and libraries on Astrophysics MacOS X systems

Astrophysics: minor tools

Minor applications and command-line programs available under MacOS X in Astrophysics

Backups in Astrophysics: A History

A description of the history of the backups systems in Astrophysics

Care and Feeding of Shells

How to not blow your command interpreter out of the water before it starts

Conditions for Self Management of a Astrophysics Desktop System

A description of the conditions for self management of a Desktop system in Astrophysics

Connecting to Physics file servers from OS X

How to connect to file servers from OS X

Development tools

Software development tools on Astrophysics MacOS X systems

Editors available in Astrophysics

Editors available on Astrophysics MacOS X systems

Email in OS X

Instructions for configuring various Mac email clients

Glamdring, Astrophysics' compute cluster

Glamdring is Astrophysics' compute cluster for people needing lots of CPU time

IDL in Astrophysics

IDL, as installed on Astro MacOS X systems

IRAF

Initiating IRAF at the command line

List of Printers in Physics

Printers in Physics by building

PyRAF

Running PyRAF from SciSoft

Python and SciSoft under MacOS X 10.6

How to use SciSoft's libraries and/or your own with Python

Remote Access to Apple Desktops

how to remotely access your Apple desktop system

SciSoft

The SciSoft suite

Self-Service under OS X

The Self-Service facility under MacOS X

Starlink

The Starlink collection

The Astrophysics Alumnus Server

An Astrophysics system for use from off-site

Transition to the New Astrophysics OS X System Setup

Information about the Astrophysics Snow Leopard upgrade

Using screen

Interactive background processing

VPN Access in OS X

How to setup VPN access in OS X

What version is this software?

Suggestions on discovering which version of some software you're using

Where has g77 gone to?

.... and why you might not need it after all