Harvard Mathematics Department : Computing: Macintro

There are a few dozen public G5 machines available in the Mathematics department. The picture shows two of the machines located in the 5'th floor.

Boot problem: the Mac OS X keys can help especially during startup.
Slow Mail application: users with large mail boxes experience a slow down of the mail application. Solution: trim the mailbox. Suggesition: less than 1000 messages. Also delete the trash containing spam frequently.
Printing from local macs: From the local macs, printing with lpr does not work yet. Solution: ssh to abel and print from there.
Magma: Magma is not availble on the macintoshs. You can still use it: open the Terminal and type "ssh neron". Once you are loged into Neron, you can start Magma from the commandline with "magma".

This introduction to the Macintosh for new Macintosh users at the Harvard Mathematics Department was presented by Robin Shostack on January 31, 2005.

Simplicity, Clarity, Generality B.W. Kernighan, R. Pike, in "The Practice of Programming".