Lending laptop pool General remarks The Faculty of Science has a pool of 60 RU-standard laptops that can be lent by employees and students of the Faculty. These are standard-RU laptops. They are almost identical in use to the pc’s in the computer labs. The main difference is that reservation is not through Housing & Logistics. The reservation of the laptops is administered by the Library of Science. Use for FNWI education has precedence. ...
How can I access my course file? The course files is an network disk that can be attached on campus. Off-campus, VPN must be used to attach this network disk. More info on how to attach a network disk and on using VPN is available. Linux users have the alternative to login with ‘ssh’ on the Science loginserver lilo, followed by cd /vol/cursusdossiers. Windows: At ‘File Explorer’, choose the option ‘Map Network Drive’, and type in file://cursusdossiers-srv.science.ru.nl/cursusdossiers and pick your drive letter of choice. By doing so, you will link up the network disk to your local computer. The next options are also possible to get a more limited set of courses: ...
New Intel compilers (Intel OneAPI Base and HPC Toolkits) The newest versions of the Intel compilers, available under the name Intel OneAPI, do no longer require a license, they are freely available. The 2023.2 version has been installed on C&CZ managed Ubuntu systems. When they are available, the module command module avail will list among others “compiler/latest”, so e.g. the Intel C (icc) and Fortran (ifort) compilers can be used after typing ...
students WWW by students All student associations of the Science Faculty have their own WWW service. These are Thalia (Computer Science), 1 Desda (Mathematics), 2 Sigma (Chemistry), 3 Marie Curie (Physics), 4 BeeVee (Biology), 5 Leonardo (Sciences), 6 Students who would like to start their own www service are advised to contact their association using the association’s website or by sending a mail to one of the mail addresses. If that doesn’t work out you can always visit C&CZ and talk to one of the system administrators to see if it is possible to start a new WWW service.
Information security European directives and Dutch law prohibit the storage of personal data (persoonsgegevens) outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Most of the well known cloud services are US based: Dropbox, all Google services such as Gmail and Google+, Hotmail, iCloud. This implies that (data collections containing) personal data may not be stored on these cloud services. In addition to the law, Radboud University has issued an internal security policy that prohibits the storage of data that is classified as critical (this includes all personal data) on any (public) cloud service, even those which are EEA based. However, RU considers SURFnet’s SURFdrive, SURFfilesender and edugroepen as safe community cloud services for data exchange between RU employees, students, and external parties. ...
ProQuota, what does it do ? When you log in on a managed PC, your private settings (Profile) of Windows and the applications are copied from the network to your current PC. During the session, these copied settings on the PC are used and changed if necessary. At logout, the (altered) settings are copied back to the network. When you log in, at a later point in time, on a different managed PC, these settings are copied to the new PC and your own settings are available again. You may locate these settings under C:\Documents and Settings\<loginname>. ...
Sieve If one wants incoming mail to be sorted into folders automatically or to be filtered in some special way, one can use “Sieve” if one has the IMAP-server post.science.ru.nl as incoming mailserver. To put the sieve script on the mail server and activate it, use a mail program which supports sieve. The filter settings can be managed quite easily in Roundcube webmail with Settings -> Filters. It is also possible with e.g. KMail or Thunderbird with the sieve addon. On lilo4 you get with the command sieve-connect postvak.science.ru.nl an interactive commandline where you can use the command put to upload a sieve script. The Sieve language is described in RFC3028. ...
Most licensed software that can be freely used by students and staff of the Science faculty can be found in the install network share. You can connect the install share in MS Windows using the path: \\install-srv.science.ru.nl\install Info ...
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RU Corporate Identity Information Starting September 1, 2004, a new corporate identity has been introduced in which the name and logo of the university changed, but also the layout of all printed material. For MS-Word, templates and manuals have been centrally developed. Information can be found elsewhere. For LaTeX C&CZ developed a new letter layout. RU letter layout for LaTeX The new version supports an English and a colored version of the logo. ...