Accessing your PC lab account for Math 217A
The PC labs are in APM B325 and APM B349/B337. You will need to use
machines which have Microsoft Development Studio (for C++ development).
Logging in:
- Open the ACS Account Utilities folder. Double-click the Login
icon. Follow the directions, log into the machine insci14.
- Once you are successfully logged in you should get a message telling you that drive H:
and drive P: have been loaded. Drive P is the "public directory" for the
account. Some software items may be placed here. However, most course items
will be placed on the course home page at http://math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/Math217.
- Drive H is your personal directory. Files stored here are saved remotely and will
be available next time you login. Files stored elsewhere on the PC will be lost when
you logout.
Logging out:
- To log out, go to the ACS Account Utilities folder and select the Logout
icon. Don't forget to logout as otherwise the next user will have access to your
files.
- Unfortunately it takes about 3 minutes for the logout process to be completed. You may
leave, but no one can log in immediately.
Disk space:
- You have 30MB (???) of disk space allocated to your account. If you exceed this
limit you will get strange or nonsensical error messages, usually saying something about
being unable to write a file, but sometimes just crashing your programs.
- If you have troubles with this limit, please first try erasing old files. In
particular, in your C++ project directories, any directory named Debug or
Release may be safely deleted (as the compiler will just regenerate it
automatically next time you compile the project). It is a good idea to just erase
these whenever you finish with a project. Of course, you should be careful not to
erase .c, .cpp and .h files as
these are your source files.
Printing:
I still have to figure out how to make printing work.....