is the main computing help page. (You can reach it from the main departmental page by choosing the Computing link on the main menu near the top of that page.)
The Search button in the upper right corner of the main webpage is also very useful. Try searching our site for:
for example.The IT Status blog has information about the state of departmental computing systems.
Webmail: https://mail.math.toronto.edu/
Want to filter more spam (with higher probability of filtering real email
too though)? Then run, on coxeter:
"spamfiltering on 5" or "spamfiltering on 7"
("spamfiltering help" gives documentation)
Configure email client: http://www.math.toronto.edu/cms/email-and-spam-filtering/
Quick printing examples (from coxeter):
Print -Plw2 thesis.pdf
to print thesis.pdf in the mailroom (BA6290A)
Print -Plw3 thesis.pdf
to print thesis.pdf in BA6200
Print
to see what the Print command can do
Public terminals: BA6200
Mathematica, Magma, Matlab: available on sphere
as mathematica, magma, matlab
Because things are especially busy at the start of the academic year it is best to email your questions. The Contact User Support page on the Computer Help page lists three main emails:
requests@math.toronto.edu is for systems related questions/comments
consult@math.toronto.edu is for general computing questions
webmaster@math.toronto.edu is for web related questions
(Email sent from your departmental email account is much less likely to be accidentally flagged as spam.)
Your passwords are for you only; do not give out your password to anyone. We will never ask for it via email (except perhaps by encrypted email, only if prearranged).
Please be careful about any suspicious email that tries to send you to a website that asks for your departmental/university username and password. We have never sent such an email and in the unlikely event that we needed to do so, we would try to give adequate warning before such a request was made so that you could verify that it was legitimate.
For quite some time spammers/hackers have been using phishing email attacks to try to get your passwords (and eventually money) from people. Of course very targeted phishing attempts called spear phishing, where emails are specially crafted to go to you individually sometimes with nicknames or names of other people that you know, are particularly serious.