MATH DEPT Computer Network News

by Steve Bell

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Network News, Volume 1, You and your .cshrc file
Network News, Volume 2, How to handle .pdf files on the web: acroread, distill, and Netscape
Network News, Volume 3, How to take advantage of the newer, faster machines on our network
Network News, Volume 4, At last! A spreadsheet for the Math Dept
Network News, Volume 5, How to use the e-Print Archive at http://xxx.lanl.gov/
Network News, Volume 6, Getting a math xterm window on a PUCC PC
Network News, Volume 7, How to put figures in TeX
Network News, Volume 8, A convenient way to do e-mail from home, by Donu Arapura
Network News, Volume 9, MATH 2,000! -- Powertools for the mathematician of the 21st century, a web based tutorial on latex, amstex, maple, matlab, excel, and html for the math dept
Network News, Volume 10, How to make your own Home Page on math.purdue.edu
Network News, Volume 11, How to submit an NSF proposal via the fastlane
Network News, Volume 12, Quick and dirty math on the internet
Network News, Volume 13, How to dork your classlist
Network News, Volume 14, How to make your Purdue Mail*Hub e-mail account functional
Network News, Volume 15, How to gain access to Mathematica on a math dept SUN
Network News, Volume 16, How to use gnumeric on a Math Dept SUN
Network News, Volume 17, How to improve visibility of fonts on older monitors
Network News, Volume 18, How to make your computer look and feel like new!
Network News, Volume 19, How to handle e-mail attachments
Network News, Volume 20, You and your .forward file
Network News, Volume 21, A new calendar and appointment book program called ical
Network News, Volume 22, How to put JPEG photos in a TeX document, by Bill Fuller
Network News, Volume 23, How to view e-mail formatted in HTML originating from the web
Network News, Volume 24, How to make your home PC feel just like your office computer
Network News, Volume 25, TeX for Mac OS X, ssh, and Mac security
Network News, Volume 26, How to trim an e-mail alias
Network News, Volume 27, How to approve Plans of Study on the web
Network News, Volume 28, How to create an e-mail filter via a .procmailrc
Network News, Volume 29, How to update your login shell from csh to tcsh
Network News, Volume 30, How to create an ASCII version of the Purdue logo
Network News, Volume 31, How to create PDF files from TeX
Network News, Volume 32, The new TeX and how to create the new Math Department Letterhead
Network News, Volume 33, How I teach big calculus lectures on a tablet PC
Network News, Volume 34, Vanilla beamer for baby boomers by example
Network News, Volume 35, How to share files at Purdue with filelocker
Network News, Volume 36, How to update or delete your publication list on WWWbio
Network News, Volume 37, How to put TeX on the web
Network News, Volume 38, How to add the Math Seminar calendar to your google calendar
Network News, Volume 39, How to personalize your bio page at MathSciNet
Network News, Volume 40, How to find a photo roster of your class

Information on...

TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-TeX.
UNIX
The Web and Home Pages

More information...

Beginners guide to emacs by Donu Arapura
A new version of xdvi with special emacs features by Donu Arapura
Portable classroom Mac Facts
Download latest MATLAB ODE software (with Polking's book)
David Goldberg on the NEW MATLAB 6

The new Mathematics Subject Classification 2000, which many journals plan to use as their classification system beginning in the year 2000, is now available at
http://www.ams.org/mathweb/msc2000.html