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=Tip of the Day Archive= Tip of the day for 2010-10-15 :

UGCS is looking for new sysadmins! If you think you've got what it takes to help run a small-size cluster, take our sysadmin survey.

Tip of the day for 2010-05-22 :

We now have an NFS shared space for storing larger files. It is mounted on /mnt/shared on all shellservers and our web server.

Tip of the day for 2010-02-10 :

You can now run cron jobs on UGCS shellservers. See our user cron documentation page for more details, or just run "crontab -e"

Tip of the day for 2009-10-06 :

You can now have your page listed on our user directory page. You can enable it by running "ldapedit -m listWebsite TRUE" See the page for details on adding your site.

Tip of the day for 2009-09-02 :

You can use distcc on UGCS to compile large projects quickly.

Tip of the day for 2009-05-04 :

You can now use a semi-automated system to reset your password. See password resets for more information.

Tip of the day for 2009-02-18 :

You can now make use of Subversion on UGCS via the standard svn protocol, and manage users and permissions in the standard way.

Tip of the day for 2008-10-15 :

You can now access the Apache error and access logs for your webspace (in most cases). Look under /afs/.ugcs/apache-logs/

Tip of the day for 2008-05-11 :

Want to run a CPU-intensive job on several machines without it interfering with normal users? Try the new Mortals cluster.

Tip of the day for 2008-03-14 :

Like Linux? Want to help make UGCS a better place? Think you've got what it takes to be a UGCS sysadmin? Well, then you're in luck. UGCS is conducting its annual sysadmin search. If you're interested, please fill out our Sysadmin Survey and submit it by the end of spring break (March 30).

Tip of the day for 2008-02-13 :

To create a mailing list on UGCS, login and type create_mailinglist LISTNAME. You will receive an email with the password within a minute.

Tip of the day for 2007-12-02 :

Interested in free stuff? Then check out https://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/wiki/Hardware_Giveaway, where we keep a list of old hardware that we are offering to our users before it goes to e-waste.

Tip of the day for 2007-11-27:

Want to know more about the daily happenings in UGCS? Then subscribe to ugcs-forum, a low-volume mailing list for all things UGCS. We'll use it to announce lab upgrades, hardware give-aways, new features, and other "cool stuff".

Tip of the day for 2007-11-19:

Two machines in the UGCS lab (polyhymnia and lara) now have GeForce 8600GT cards from Galaxy Technologies with 256MB of DDR3 video RAM. Come by and try them out!

Tip of the day for 2007-11-05 :

Every UGCS account comes with a Postgresql database that you can use to host dynamic website content such as a wiki or bulletin board, as well as to store your personal data in.

Tip of the day for 2007-10-24 :

You can log in without entering your password each time by installing a Kerberos client on your computer and configuring it to work with UGCS.

Tip of the day for 2007-10-17:

You can e-mail the sysadmins to request the installation of any software in the Debian lenny apt repository and be using the software package you've requested within 10 minutes if a sysadmin is awake and checking e-mail.

Tip of the day for 2007-10-15 :

polyhymnia is one of the new Core 2 Duo machines - it's blazing fast, so give it a whirl on your next login.