Math Department Computer Accounts

The Math Department computing facilities --except for the computer classroom room B107 which can be used by undergraduates-- are only for the faculty, staff and graduate students of the Math Department. This web site assumes that you are a faculty member or a graduate student of the Math Department.

You should have been given an authorized Math Department computer account, i.e. a username and password. With an authorized account you're free to use the Math Department's computing facilities described on this site's index page. If you didn't get a username and password, come see the Math Department's computer staff, in room 507 or 515.

Computer accounts of people no longer members of the Math Department in the above sense will be deleted after a short grace period. During that period, such users can save their user files elsewhere. Here are a few more details on this topic.

• In exceptional circumstances, someone not a member of the Department may be given temporary access to the departmental computing facilities, for the purpose of facilitating joint work with a faculty member of the Department. The faculty member involved should email the Computer System Oversight Committee explaining the particular need, and will bear full responsibility for that account. Such requests will be reviewed yearly.
• Normally, accounts of people who leave will be deleted on September 1 following the time of their departure. Former members who need extra time to relocate may request a temporary (1 or 2 month extension) of their accounts.
• Students who earned their PhDs during the past academic year but have been unable to find a job, may request a one year extension of their accounts.
• In cases of former Math Department members that don't fit the above guidelines, the Computer System Oversight Committee will decide when to remove an account.
• The Math Department maintains several e-mail lists. Some of them (faculty, graduate, supportstaff) are used primarily to notify people about matters related to their jobs and, hence, users can neither subscribe to nor unsubscribe from these lists. The lists will be reviewed twice a year to make sure that the people on them are members of the Math Department. If someone wants to remain on a list, they request this from the Computer Oversight Committee.

Here is the Official Math Department Computer Account Policy. Here is the Official Math Department Policy on Web Servers and Web Services.

Quotas

Your authorized account allows you to log on to the department computers, and gives you a personalized piece of the department's UNIX file system. Graduate students receive 600 MB of file space and faculty 1 GB. Mind this quota and periodically tidy your directories by deleting or compressing your files (see UNIX: Introduction: Files and Directories), because if you exceed this quota, you won't be able to log on to the computers anymore. To check how much of your filespace quota has been used, open a UNIX terminal window and type quota -v. You can also use the command listjunk to do a recursive search of your directory for junk files. The command rmjunk (on the suns, only) will then remove these files.

You authorized account also lets you use department printers. You are allowed to print 200 pages per month on the grayscale printers free of charge. After that you will be charged 5 cents per page rounded down to the nearest whole dollar amount. Printing on the color printer costs 20 cents per page rounded down to the nearest whole dollar amount. To check how much of your monthly page quota has been used, open a UNIX terminal window and type pages. Pages are counted only if they are successfully printed.

Rules of Courtesy for Shared Computers

When using computers in the computer labs and grad offices, exercise courtesy and consideration towards other users by following the guidelines below.

• Do not power down or reboot.
• Do not lock your screen.
• Do not bring food or drink into the computer labs.
• During peak usage hours, limit your use to two hours.
• Do not run more than one large job at a time on any given machine.
• If you do run a large job for a long period of time, assign the job a low priority rating by using the nice command.

Rules of Courtesy for Shared Printers

When using the departmental printers, exercise courtesy and consideration towards other users by following the guidelines below.

• Do not print large jobs (>100 pages) between 10am and 5pm.
• When printing, stand by the printer to refill paper or clear jammed paper.
• Do not print multiple copies of documents. Use the photocopier instead.

University Policies

The University of Wisconsin has it's own policies for Account Eligibility, Appropiate Use, Disposal of Computer Equipment and Web Accessibility. The Math Department also follows these guidelines.