College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Instructional Support Group /share/b/pub/multimedia.help /share/b/pub/image-processing.help /share/b/pub/removable-media.help /share/b/pub/acroread.help /share/b/pub/airtrame.help /share/b/pub/projector.help July 23 2018 CONTENTS: Abobe Creative Cloud Campus Bundle USB Memory Sticks Projectors and Audio for Presentations Color Printer Flatbed Scanners Software for Writing DVDs Backup Data From Unix Accounts To Optical Media Image and Audio Editing Software Converting Word .doc files to PDF Copying Files Between the PCs and the Macs PDF Bug on Windows; Acroread, Foxit Wireless Video with 3 Overhead Displays in 200 SDH Wireless Video with Projectors in 271, 273, 275 330 Soda Abobe Creative Cloud Campus Bundle ---------------------------------- (Oct 2014) The campus has an 3-year agreement with Adobe for the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications at no additional cost to all faculty, students, and staff for both institutionally-owned and personal computers. The products include: * Photoshop * Illustrator * InDesign * Dreamweaver * Premiere Pro * Photoshop Lightroom, Edge, Muse (newly available software) For information and downloads, see https://software.berkeley.edu/adobe USB Memory Sticks ----------------- The Windows and UNIX computers in the EECS Instructional labs can read standard USB memory sticks. The USB ports may be on the back of older computers. You can copy files to and from the USB memory stick. When you plug it into a USB port on a Windows system, a window pops up automatically that gives you options for accessing the contents. It is best to eject it (right-click on the USB device name and click on "eject") before unplugging it. When you plug it into a USB port on a UNIX system, it is mounted on either mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbjump (Linux) USB memory stick appears as an external drive on Desktop (Mac) On Macos and Linux, if you drag the icon of the USB memory stick or any file inside it to a terminal window, the path gets typed out for you. If you can't find it there, you can probably find it by typing the UNIX "df" command. There is no "eject" option and simply unplugging the USB memory stick does not give any error. But be sure you have saved any open files on it first. Projectors and Audio for Presentations -------------------------------------- Several EECS classrooms and auditoriums have projectors and speakers for displaying the screen and audio from a PC or laptop. Rooms are listed under http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~inst/iesglabs.html. Instructions are posted in the rooms and under http://iesg.eecs.berkeley.edu/multimedia/. In addition, instructional support can install a portable projector and speakers in any of our computer labs. Most people use the wireless CalVisitor or Airbears2 networks in the classrooms and auditoriums. CalVisitor does nto require a password, but it only allows network traffic for ssh and WEB browsers. Airbears2, which requires a Calnet ID to authenticate, does allow the full range of network connectivity. If a visitor needs access to the campus VPN, any UCB faculty or staff member can request a temporary guest account at http://ist.berkeley.edu/airbears/guest_account. If you wish to connect your own computer to a wired network in those rooms, you may have to register the ethernet address of the computer ahead of time. Use the form http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/idsg/forms/activate-system.html for that, or ask for help at the IDSG Help Desk (see below). Contacts: * Request services in an EE or CS instructional lab: inst@eecs (378 Cory, 643-6141) in ISG labs esg@eecs (380 Cory, 642-6952) in ESG labs * Request temporary logon in classroom or auditorium, schedule videotaping: csav@cs (377 Cory, 642-7481) * Borrow a projector, digital camera in Soda Hall: csoffice@cs (387 Soda, 642-1042) in Soda Hall chrisc@eecs (253 Cory, 642-8458) in Cory Hall * Request access to network: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/idsg/forms/activate-system.html help@eecs (IDSG Help Desk: 395 Cory, 642-7777). Color Printer ------------- EECS Instruction maintains color printers in 199 Cory and 274 Soda. They should only be used for course-related printouts that require color. Please see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/printers for the names and locations of our printers. Flatbed Scanners ---------------- EECS Instruction maintains 2 flatbed color scanners in 199 Cory. These should be used only for course-related projects. Adobe Acrobat Pro is installed on all the Windows computers in 199 Cory. It can be used to produce concise PDF files from scanned homework pages that will be submitted online. Software for Writing DVDs ------------------------- Our workstations typically have DVD burner software that comes with the operating system. Backup Data From Unix Accounts To Optical Media ----------------------------------------------- Here are the steps to backup data from either a unix home directory or /home/tmp: 1) Move the files and directories to be backed up into a single directory (note: all in this directory will need to fit on one cd or one dvd disk) 2) On a unix machine with access the directory containing the files run: mkisofs -o .iso -RrJ 3) Once the iso image has been created, mount \\mamba\ on a windows machine with a recordable optical drive. 4) Use available burning software (Ahead Nero or Sonic, mentioned above) to burn the iso image created by mkisofs across the network from the newly mounted drive. Image and Audio Editing Software -------------------------------- Software for editting images and audio includes: gimp It is an open source competitor to Adobe Photoshop. "locate gimp | more" shows you the location UNIX file conversion utilities There are some of the many UNIX file conversion utilities in /usr/bin. Look for filenames with "2" and "to" in the middle. The names generally describe their functions, such as: /usr/bin/pdf2ps /usr/bin/pdftohtml /usr/bin/pdftotext /usr/bin/ps2ascii /usr/bin/ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2txt Converting Word .doc files to PDF --------------------------------- If you wish to display an MS Word document via a WEB page, it is usually better to convert it to PDF so users do not have to have Word on their own computers to read it. Here's one way to do that on EECS computers: 1) In Windows, add a local color printer (such as "Xerox DocuPrint C55 PS") 2) In Word, select that printer and "print to file". Give the filename a '.ps' extension, and print (ie create the file). Save it to your UNIX home directory. For information about connecting to your UNIX home dir from Windows, see https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=samba.help 3) Login to a UNIX system, convert that *.ps file to PDF with the command 'ps2pdf'. For example: /usr/sww/bin/ps2pdf word.ps word.pdf For information about logging into a UNIX system from Windows, see https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=unix.help Copying Files Between the PCs and the Macs ------------------------------------------ See /share/b/pub/macos.help for information about using MacOS and about transferring files to your UNIX or Windows account. There is a large disk (/home/tmp, \\inst_fs\tmp) that is available on all of our computers (Windows, MacOSX, Solaris, Linux) and has no disk quota. You may use that to make files accessible between operating systems. Please see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?file=disk.quotas for informatation about how to create a directory and access this disk. See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html for more information, such as connecting to your home directories from home. PDF Bug on Windows; Acroread, Foxit ----------------------------------- (Feb 2011) Problem: If you try to open a PDF document in a WEB browser, it fails. If you save the same document to a file, you can open it with Acroread. This problem occurs on Windows computers that have the new Adobe Acroread X and a Symantec Endpoint Protection version earlier than 11.0.6200. By default, Adobe Acroread X runs in "Protected Mode". Acroread conflicts with the SEP anti-virus software when SEP intercepts some system calls that are made by Acroread. In these cases, Acroread fails to open, or crashes after displaying an incompatible configuration dialog. We hope this will be fixed when newer versions of Acroread and SEP become available to us. In the meantime, we are also installing 'foxit' on the computers that have this problem. Foxit (www.foxitsoftware.com) is a simple, free PDF reader. Wireless Video with 3 Overhead Displays in 200 SDH -------------------------------------------------- (June 2018) To connect to the overhead displays in 200 Sutardia Dai Hall, you can use an AirBears-connected laptop or any of the workstations in the lab. 1) Turn on the displays (the ON button on the keypad on the wall). 2) To project from your laptop wirelessly*, connect its wifi to Airbears2 (or EECS-Secure or EECS-PKS). Then open the AirTame app on your laptop (download it from https://airtame.com/download). To project from any EECS workstation in the lab, open the AirTame app: MacOSX: in /Applications/Airtame Linux: in a terminal, type /opt/airtame-application/launch-airtame.sh 3) Follow the instructions on the displays (copy the network address from the displays into the Airtame app, then copy the 4-digit password that is displayed). Your screen should appear on the displays. 4) Control the volume of the displays with the keypad VOLUME buttons. 5) Press the OFF button twice to shutdown the projector. * IOS and Android are not supported yet. * CalVisitor wifi will not work with this wireless option. * In 200 Sutardja Dai Hall, there is no additional VGA or audio connection. Wireless Video with Projectors in 271, 273, 275 330 Soda -------------------------------------------------------- (July 2018) To connect to the wireless projector in 271, 273, 275 or 330 Soda, you can use an AirBears-connected laptop or any of the workstations in the lab. 1) Turn on the projector (the ON button on the keypad on the wall). 2) Start the Airtame app*. (On the laptop, install the app from https://airtame.com/download. On our Linux systems, click on the top icon on the left side of the screen and enter "Airtame".) 3) Follow the instructions on the projector screen (copy the network address from the projector screen into the Airtame app, then copy the 4-digit password that is displayed from the projector). Your screen should appear on the projector screen. 4) Control the volume with the keypad VOLUME buttons. 5) Press the OFF button twice to shutdown the projector. * IOS and Android are not supported yet. * CalVisitor wifi will not work with this wireless option. EECS Instructional Support 378/384/386 Cory, 333 Soda inst@eecs.berkeley.edu