Special Services
Special Services
The following list of special services may be useful to CISE users:
Wireless access
Wireless is available inside the CSE building, and is planned to cover all of the UF campus. This service is being provided at the University level, and is NOT a CISE service. Please refer to the wireless home page for details.
FTP mirrors
The CISE department mirrors a number of projects from the web. Local users can download software from these mirrors much faster than from the original site. Mirrors are updated nightly.
- Operating systems
- Mepis Linux
- SuSE Linux
- Knoppix Linux (a distribution that runs from CDrom)
- Ubuntu Linux
- Specific Software
- AM Utils (automounter)
- Apache (web server, Tomcat, and other web related items)
- Blender
- CPAN (Perl Archive)
- CTAN (TeX and LaTeX)
- Cygwin (UNIX environment for a PC, including X windows)
- Eclipse (Programming IDE)
- Gimp
- Gnome
- GNU software repository
- kde
- LPRng(print server)
- Mozilla (web browser)
- OpenSSH (secure login)
- OpenSSL (encryption library)
- Postfix (mail server)
- Ruby
- XFree86
- Zsh
- Misc
- Project Gutenberg (online books)
- OpenCD (free software for Windows)
File uploads
Occasionally, someone needs to send you a very large file. Doing this as an email attachment will often not work (there is a limit to the size of attachments; also the attachment may not fit in the disk space allocated for your mail quota).
We have provided an alternate way for somebody to send you large files to CISE users over the web.
Request that the person use the URL: File Upload to transfer the file. This allows someone outside of CISE to upload a file (temporarily) to our web server. They must supply one (or more) valid CISE usernames who the file should be delivered to. That user will receive an email with directions on obtaining the file.