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IMAP ACCESS
IMAP server for remote and local email access via various email clients (mutt, pine, evolution, mozilla-mail, kmail, ms-outlook, eudora, etc.). Client configuration

Printing Color printing is now available. See the directions.
Cornell E-Mail

On 25 March 2003 CIT released new service WebEmail. This is the long awaited secure method for accessing CIT email. Now you can check your @cornell.edu accounts from any browser that suports encryption, including the ones installed on PECF machines. You would need to first set up your CIT account, therefore the best is to read the directions at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/webemail .

CD-Burninng

xcdroast is now working. This is a GUI program suitable for a beginner, however it uses a lot of system resources and you are encouraged to use the console program cdrecord (see below).

There is 2100 MBytes of temporary space on /scratch. It is cleaned up every other morning at 6:30am. However please remove your files from there as soon as you are done, so that the next person can use it.

The recommended way for burning files on a CD is through the console tools mkisofs and cdrecord.

1.) Create an image with ISO9660 filesystem containing your files:
mkisofs -r -J -T -o /scratch/imagename.img directory_with_stuff_to_burn
This includes Rock-Ridge and Joliet flavors of ISO9660. For more options read man mkisofs.

2.) Burn the image:
cdrecord -speed=16 /scratch/imagename.img
Obviously the speed depends on the disk you are using. The burner supports recording speeds up to 32.
You can mount your optical disks either by using the desktop tools of GNOME and KDE, or by typing mount /cdrom. After you are done, don't forget to umount cdrom.

3.) Remove the image you just burned:
rm /scratch/imagename.img

Nicer formulas in maxima
For better loooking formulas in maxima you can access it through texmacs. After launching texmacs click on the display icon on the menubar and select maxima.