Computing and E-Mail If you're living in college, you may be lucky enough to have Internet access in your room. If not, don't despair. There are two computer rooms in the clinical school - Seminar Room 9 on the ground floor and the Wolfson Room in the library. All the computers are networked and have Internet and e-mail access. Computers in the Clinical School Seminar room 9 contains about 20 PCs with ZIP drives connected to the University PWF and a shared laser printer. At most times, we're the only people who can use these machines, but occasionally they're used by the librarians for teaching courses. SR9 is open Monday-Friday 8am-9.30pm and Saturday 9am-4pm. Once there, you need a University PWF password to logon and, through the PWF, everyone has their own personal space to save any work you do. As standard, you get 100 free pages of laser printing, but you can get more credits by asking the librarians. These machines can use any software on the PWF, from Microsoft Office and the Corel Suite, to SPSS and News programs. The Wolfson Room in the library contains a larger number of Macs and PCs and a couple of scanners, but these computers can be used by anyone with a library card. The printers can print both in colour and black and white and you pick up your pages at the library desk for a not-so-small charge. The library desk also sells overpriced disks and ZIP disks, so buy elsewhere unless desperate. What is useful, though, is that the librarians can help you set up an account to use on the Wolfson Room machines. They can also tell you how to set up the Athens account you are entitled to. Software on these library machines is, as you'd expect, focused on reference works. They have access to numerous CD-ROMs and full-text access to far more journals than the PWF machines. However, anything you decide you want to keep must be saved on your own disks as there is no personal storage space. Even more irritating is that most of the other software is so painfully slow that this room is generally only used by most medical students for e-mail or as a last resort. What is the "PWF" and where can I get a password? The PWF is the university computer network. Every student has around 500MB of file space that can be used at any computer on the network. To access your account (and the computers in SR 9), you need a password. You can get this from the central computing service reception in town or possibly from the computer officer at the clinical school, Richard Smith. Contact him on (University network) 36261 or richard@medschl.cam.ac.uk. University Computing Service New Museum Site Pembroke Street Cambridge CB2 3QG Enquiries:(3)34600 Fax: (3)34679 Help Desk Tel:(3)34681 Also: www.cam.ac.uk/localusersonly/cs/pwf Who is "hermes" and why care? Hermes is the university e-mail server. You should get access to your account as soon as possible as e-mail's used all the time here to inform you of teaching, attachments and timetable changes as well as for keeping in touch with friends. You can access your account through Pine and Mulberry at PWF machines, through Outlook Express at home or through "telnet" on most other computers. If you've been at Cambridge before, you'll know all this already, but if you're new, you'll need to contact the Computing Service to set up your hermes account. Some colleges do this automatically, but others leave it to you, so check the stuff you were given when you arrived. If you have any problems accessing the system, the quickest way to get help is to ask another student. If that fails, contact the Computing Service directly. ERWeb The Electronic Resources Web (ERWeb - https://erweb.medschl.cam.ac.uk/) was made for students here at Addie's. Once you log in with the password issued to you at the beginning of the course, you have access to your timetables, details of attachments and a huge online resource. NOTE: it is often worth looking through the teaching materials for your speciality under the old/new course as not all information has been transferred. You can receive personalised messages or send e-mail to other students or Attachment Directors just by clicking on their photos. Alternatively, take advantage of their extensive, quality-rated web-links on every clinical specialty, read book reviews in each specialty or do the various Computer Aided Learning tutorials. You can also use ERWeb to access your hermes account via the WebMail link, which can be very handy both on Attachment and Elective. All in all, it's a great site so have a look around it and see how it can help you.

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