FAS Computer Services to Harvard University IT: (617) 495-7777.
OSX machines
There are a few dozen public G5 machines available in the
Mathematics department. The picture shows two of the machines
located in the 5'th floor.
Answers to some recent FAQ:
Boot problem: the Mac OS X keys can help
especially during startup.
Slow Mail application: users with large mail boxes experience a slow down
of the mail application. Solution: trim the mailbox. Suggesition: less than
1000 messages. Also delete the trash containing spam frequently.
Printing from local macs: From the local macs, printing with lpr does not
work yet. Solution: ssh to abel and print from there.
Magma:Magma is not availble
on the macintoshs. You can still use it: open the Terminal and type "ssh neron".
Once you are loged into Neron, you can start Magma from the commandline with "magma".
An introduction for beginners
This introduction to the Macintosh for new Macintosh users at
the Harvard Mathematics Department was presented
by Robin Shostack on January 31, 2005.
