Thayer School Computing Services supports all computing needs of the Thayer School community, including faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates.
To request technical support, please email computing@thayer.dartmouth.edu or submit a request via our Web Help Desk system.
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Recent Blog Entries
March 30, 2009
I’ve run into this one a couple of times so far, so I thought it might be good to post the solution :-) In OS X, with Matlab versions R2008b, R2008a, R2007b and R2007a, a Java update on the system may have made the cursor in the text editor not align with the text: you align the cursor with a character, hit delete, and a character several spaces over goes away. VERY annoying. Mathworks has a patch to fix this, available at http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/details.html?rp=495091 (you’ll [snip...]
February 20, 2009
Ever need to send a file to someone that was just a bit too large for an e-mail attachment? There are a few options - put it in your web space, use Dartmouth’s ftp dropbox, etc. But any of these can take lots of extra steps, especially when you just want to get your file out. So, what to do? Thayer School Dropbox to the rescue…
The new Thayer School Dropbox is a way to quickly and easily get your file sent. Once you visit [snip...]
February 17, 2009
We’ve bumped the default ThayerFS disk quota from 512 MB up to 1 GB. We also doubled the, “no questions asked”, maximum quota for undergraduates to 2 GB.
The “no questions asked” maximum quotas for graduate students remains at 5GB and 10GB for faculty and staff. As always, if you have reasonable case for needing more space, just let us know.
Full details about ThayerFS quotas are here.
