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Computing Facilities available to Biological Sciences at SFU

Help Available

If you need help receiving e-mail attachments, putting classes or information on the web, or you are not sure but think your computer should be doing something more for you, please e-mail or see me (Dave Carmean, carmean@sfu.ca). I am available to anyone in our department for help with computing- my (half time) job is to answer your computing questions or point you in the direction of someone that can (I also do research in insect phylogeny and yellowjacket biology).

A great deal of general and SFU specific help is available from Academic Computing Services (e-mail them at "help"). Their phone number is 291-3230 (undergrads use 291-3930).

Computing Hardware and Software Available

  • Air-conditioned Undergraduate Computer Labs (B8218 and B8253)- All computers have Office97 or Office98 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), statistics, Acrobat Reader (for PDF files), networking (Netscape, Eudora light, Telnet etc. ) and other software. Graduate students are able to use the rooms when not scheduled for classes. Please get an account from me (Dave Carmean, carmean@sfu.ca) to print and store files on the server. Printing is charged to the supervisor's account.

  • Publication quality HP 300dpi Scanner connected to Macintosh Centris 650. Has both image and text (OCR) scanning software.

  • Panasonic LCD projector, true SVGA 800 x 600 (digital 1024 x 768) (shared with and checked out through IMBB).

  • Sun Workstation (147mhz, Sun OS 6.5). More (information and accounts can be obtained from The Ha (the@sfu.ca).

  • SFU_BISC1 Novell Server (running NetWare 4.11)

    Please send questions or suggestions to Dave Carmean at carmean@sfu.ca
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