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Knowledge Base

The Mathematics Computing Knowledge Base is a resource for faculty, students and staff. There are a number of articles available for viewing that should be able to provide answers to many of the common questions about computing resources in the department.

The knowledge base is still being updated in order to better assist all of our users. If you have any additional questions please feel free to ask us via email.


Date updated 05/12/2020
The technician will either send an email to start a remote session or have you navigate to https://remote.help.ucla.edu. The process...
Date updated 10/01/2019
The e-mail clients currently supported by the Department of Mathematics are: UNIX Pine Microsoft Outlook Mozilla Thunderbird...
Date updated 09/04/2019
Here is a video demonstrating the instructions below.   Web files and presentation occur on the UNIX / Linux system. If you...
Date updated 07/30/2019
At 1:40 Type the password for newuser that was provided by Bugs (Help Desk Manager)   Why do I need to activate my account...
Date updated 09/04/2018
This article will demonstrate how to turn on (and off) your vacation auto-responder. If you are a Windows user, you will have to use an...
Date updated 08/03/2018
Some websites available to Math Department members are filtered by the network the traffic originates on.  In particular,...
Date updated 08/03/2018
  All examples below are for the sample user "Math User" - email address mathuser@math.ucla.edu. User "Math User" is on machine...
Date updated 08/03/2018
Note: If you are using a laptop computer, you must set your wireless to UCLA-MATHNET. Available Public Printers  For...
Date updated 06/06/2018
Name Version 7-Zip 16.04 (x64)  16.04 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 18.011.20040...
Date updated 03/02/2017
There are three levels of Disk Storage Management at the Mathnet:   P1: Protected Storage 1 is frequently backed up (every 24-...