System Announcements 10/10/12

Departmental News

• New WWW pages are listed on http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/whats_new.html
• Printing - the printing system is new. It should now be easier to print via the network - details are on http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/oper/help/printing.html Note that the new system is less tolerant of non-conformant postscript, so files from old programs may not print out as before.
• COMET (Cambridge On-line Management of Engineering Teaching) has been launched - see http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/comet/

Teaching System News

• New Screens - About half of the DPO screens (clusters 1-3) are new, with many more colours and much faster 3D performance. Some graphics programs (especially screen-dumpers) do not properly handle the greater colour depth and may not work properly.
• Mozilla - A Web new browser ("mozilla") is installed for trial purposes. If you've used the older netscape browser, your preferences will be copied over. If you haven't used netscape before you can type "mozilla_setup" after having run mozilla.
• PIN numbers - There's a pin command to assist with the increased use of PINs. See http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/jmrm/intranet/pins.html.
• Matlab
  • Matlab 6.5 (release 13) installed as the default. The old version is available as "matlab12_1" for a limited period.
  • FEMLAB (a matlab Finite Element add-on) is installed. See http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/programs/matlab.html#FEMLAB for details.
• Minor updates
  • gs (Ghostscript) updated to version 7.05
  • The gtk and glib libraries are updated to 1.2.8. The png lib has been updated to 1.0.9.
  • xglinfo and openglcheck are installed to query openGL capabilities
• The tw700 machine no longer exists.