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General The ‘Managed PC’ is a standard Windows machine which gets installed with standard software. The installation of the PC runs fully automated without any user interaction. When such a ‘Managed PC’ gets installed an employee of C&CZ needs approximately 5 minutes to start the installation and to enter some initial data. Thereafter the installation runs fully automated and will be finished after approximately 1 hour. After a reboot the rest of the software is automatically installed....

Wireless network The wireless network that we advise to use, is eduroam. Authentication is done in one of the following ways: U-number@ru.nl and RU password (for employees) S-number@ru.nl and RU password (for students) Science-loginname@science.ru.nl and Science password Employees of Science-departments can request Eduroam Visitor Access accounts, that give visitors access to a separate part of the wireless network. through C&CZ-Operations, tel. 20000. Every employee of Radboud University can provide a guest with access for the rest of the day, by providing the guest a day code (keyword)....

Matlab Matlab, a “matrix laboratory” for interactive scientific calculations of The Mathworks Inc. is an integrated software package, it combines numeric calculations, data visualization and a programming language. License A number of departments in the university have bought shares in the network license that C&CZ has arranged for the use of Matlab. When one has bought a share, one can get the software and installation/licensing keys of Matlab for either Linux, Mac or MS-Windows, also for older versions of Matlab, from C&CZ system administration....

Installing a PC When installing a new PC you have several options. If the PC is not connected to the network, C&CZ can offer little or no help to install your PC. You can borrow DVD/CD’s with a Windows Operating system and application software like MS-Office, etc from C&CZ . If the PC is connected to the network via a (PXE enabled) network interface, a fully automated installation of Windows with standard applications is possible....

The system clocks on C&CZ managed Linux machines are being kept up to date by using the Network Time Protocol (ntp). Each machine checks at regular intervals its system clock with several designated machines on the network and adjusts their system clock when needed. Whenever the difference between the local system clock compared to the system clock of other servers gets bigger than half a second the clock will be adjusted....

Disposal Safe disposal of IT equipment and data carriers The FNWI Housing & Logistics (HL) department manages a contract with an external specialized company for the secure destruction/shredding of data carriers on location. The secure metal container that is used as a temporary cache, can be found at C&CZ as of September 2022. Employees and students of the Faculty of Science can put data carriers with sensitive data in the container themselves at C&CZ....

C&CZ manages a large number of machines that anybody with an Science-account can use. Students can also login to the PC’s in the computer labs, the study area and the library with their S-number and RU-password, in the RU-domain on MS-Windows. All computer labs are dual boot: during startup of the PC one can choose to boot Linux (Ubuntu) or Windows. Available computer labs The Science Faculty provides the following computer labs:...

Mozilla Thunderbird is free and open-source email client software. Below are instructions to configure Thunderbird for RU MS365 mail and for Science mail. Configure Thunderbird for RU MS365 mail. The RU MS365 instructions do not mention Thunderbird, but there is a RU created set of instructions (pictures in Dutch). Configure Thunderbird for Science mail. NB: For a self managed pc after installing Thunderbird you’ll have to uncheck Launch Mozilla Thunderbird now and click Finish....

Thunderbird tags In Thunderbird you can tag a message with one or more tags by clicking on the message with the right mouse button and choosing Tag. There are five standard tags with descriptions Important, Work, etc. If the mail server is an imap server like post.science.ru.nl, then the tags are stored on the server, which means that every Thunderbird will show the tags. It is somewhat more complicated for new tags that you can create....

C&CZ’s Not Frequently Enough asked questions with answers! Last modified: 2018-03-21 For questions, contact us. About this FAQ Contributors Patrick Atoon patricka@cs.kun.nl Kees Keijzers keesk@science.ru.nl Jos Alsters josal@science.ru.nl Peter van Campen Peter.vanCampen@science.ru.nl Simon Oosthoek S.Oosthoek@science.ru.nl Linux shells What is a shell? The shell is a program that interprets the user’s commands and executes them on the Operating System. There are many kinds of shells, which have different interpreted languages in which to write commands....