Computing
Division of Archaeology computer support¶
Contents¶
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Guidelines on display screen equipment: Working with VDUs
- Rules and guidelines made by the ISSS
- A layperson’s guide to computer security and A note on privacy by Karen Spärck Jones formerly of the Computer Laboratory.
- Computing in the Division of Archaeology
- Administrivia
- How to gain access to the Department’s computing facilities
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Sources of computing support for archaeologists in Cambridge
- Training for archaeologists in Cambridge
- Health and safety for computer users
- How to find the Computer Officers
- Ethics policy for the Division of Archaeology
- Advice for students
- Advice for visitors
- Advice for Principal Investigators
- Advice for fieldworkers
- Advice for conference organisers
- Advice for lecturers
- Advice for GIS users
- Presentations and teaching
- Facilities for presentations in the Division of Archaeology
- Advice for users of Powerpoint in the Department
- Network access
- Rules governing the connection of a computer to the ArchAnth subnet
- Application for the connection of a computer to the ArchAnth subnet
- Pre-requisites for the connection of a computer to the ArchAnth network
- Application form for an account on Department systems
- Equipment for loan
- Using Office applications
- How to Produce a Mail Merge using Office XP on Department PCs
- How to Print Envelopes on the HP4200 in the Department Office
- How to create a PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) file on the PWF
- How to use the Department photocopier as a scanner
- Tools for collaboration
- GIS for archaeologists
- Geographic Information Systems in the Division of Archaeology
- Using the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Models in ArcGIS on the PWF
- How to plot a database of points using ArcGIS on the PWF
- Using the GTOPO30 Global Topographic data set with ArcGIS on the PWF
- How to obtain Ordnance Survey map data
- Systems
- Viruses and anti-virus software
- Altering the behaviour of the mouse in MacOS X
- Changing the behaviour of the mouse in Windows XP
- The World Wide Web
- Archaeology WWW servers in Cambridge
- WWW personal data consent form
- Application for an account on the Department’s web server
- Running your web site on the Division of Archaeology’s web server
- Some useful XHTML entities
- Setting up SSH and SFTP on your computer
- Using WinSCP on the PWF to connect to www.arch.cam.ac.uk
- Using SSH and SFTP on a Mac to connect to www.arch.cam.ac.uk
- Links
- The Public Workstation Facility
- PWF printing payment form
- PWF printing
- PWF Status
- PWF disc space
- How to create a CD on the Archaeology PWF PCs
- How to use the Microtek 3600 slide scanner
- Graphics
- Dealing with PostScript (*.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (*.eps) files on the PWF
- How to use the MS3B Magnetic Susceptibility meter