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The MDP Engineer’s Desktop and Library Peter Long, Paul Fidler, Tim Froggatt Cambridge University Engineering Department Trumpington St. Cambridge CB2 1PZ July 2008 DRAFT 1 2 MDP Engineers Desktop and Library Cambridge-MIT Institute The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is a pioneering partnership between Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was set up in 2000 to enhance the competitiveness, productivity and entrepreneurship of the UK economy by improving the effectiveness of knowledge exchange between university and industry, educating leaders and developing programmes for change in universities, industry and government. CMI focuses primarily on business, competitiveness, research and education, and developing strong relationships between these areas. Students, for example, benefit from CMI development and delivery of unique educational programmes for undergraduates, graduates and executives working in industry, including an undergraduate student exchange, an undergraduate research opportunities programme (UROP), CMI Enterprises entrepreneurship programme and several master’s degree programmes. Contact Details : Cambridge-MIT Institute :- http://www.cambridge-mit.org License Agreement - PLEASE READ If you wish to use the ED&L system you must accept the following agreement. Your acceptance of these terms is implied upon use. If you do not agree with these terms or the terms of the Licences under which many of its components are released, please do not use the CD/DVD/USB. Neither the University of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or the Cambridge- MIT Institute (CMI), nor any person who has been involved in the creation, production or distribution of the MDP EDaL CD/DVD/USB makes any warranties or representations with respect to the MDP EDaL CD/DVD/USB and any of its contents whether express or implied by statute, common law, trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise all of which are hereby excluded to the fullest extent of the law. The EDaL system is delivered to you ”as is” and the University of Cambridge, MIT and CMI do not warrant that the MDP EDaL CD/DVD/USB will meet your requirements or that the operation of the MDP EDaL CD/DVD/USB will be uninterrupted or error-free. The University of Cambridge, MIT and CMI and any other rights holders will not be liable to you for any loss or damage (other than for personal injury or death arising from the negligence of the University of Cambridge, MIT or CMI) including lost profits or other consequential loss arising from your use or inability to use the MDP EDaL CD/DVD/USB or from errors or deficiencies in it. The MDP Project has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the use of others’ data and materials is done with the full consent of copyright owners and in accordance with relevant statutory provisions. We welcome any information that might lead us to correct any improper attributions or correct copyright acknowledgements in our CD/DVD/USB/website. We would be most grateful to those who assist us toward these goals. Please contact the [email protected]. We cannot guarantee that, despite our best efforts, we have not unwittingly infringed someone’s copy- right. 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DRAFT Contents I MDP Engineers Desktop and Library 6 I.1 Introduction .................................... ....... 6 I.1.1 HowtouseEDaLsystem?. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 6 I.1.2 Whatcanitdo................................... ... 7 I.1.3 Howdoesitwork? ................................ ... 7 II Getting Started 9 II.1 Howtostartthesystem. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..... ......... 9 II.1.1 Notes ........................................ 10 II.2 Bootingmethods ................................. ....... 10 II.2.1 Booting from the EDaL Disk (CD/DVD) . ......... 10 II.2.2 Booting from an USB Memory device . ........ 11 II.2.3 Booting under QEMU emulation (Windows 200/NT/XP/Vistaonly). 11 II.2.4 Booting from an ISO image of the EDaL disk . ......... 13 II.3 Desktop and initial setup . ........... 14 II.3.1 Desktoplayout ................................ ..... 14 II.3.2 Setting Screen Resolutions . ......... 17 II.3.3 Printing ..................................... 17 II.3.4 DiskAccess................................... 18 II.3.5 Network/Internet Access . ........ 20 III Applications 22 III.1 Accessories ................................... ........ 23 III.2 Admin ......................................... ..... 27 III.3 Internet...................................... ........ 28 III.4 Viewers ....................................... ...... 30 III.5 Multimedia.................................... ........ 32 III.6 OpenOffice/DTP................................. ........ 36 III.6.1 OpenOffice ................................... 36 III.6.2 LATEX........................................... 39 III.7 Drawing/CAD ................................... ....... 40 DRAFT 3 4 MDP Engineers Desktop and Library III.8 ProjectSupport ................................ ......... 43 III.9 Octave........................................ ...... 45 III.10 Electronic CAD and Analysis . ............. 46 III.10.1 gEDA ....................................... 46 III.10.2 Electronics - Simulation and Analysis . ............... 48 III.11 Simulations .................................. ......... 51 III.12 ScientificTools ............................... .......... 53 III.13 Programming .................................. ........ 55 III.13.1 Development Environments . .......... 55 III.13.2 Languages .................................. ..... 55 IV Documentation and Tutorials 57 IV.1 DesktopApplications . .......... 57 IV.1.1 Document Preparation - LaTeX/TeX / DTP . .......... 58 IV.2 Engineering Applications . ............ 59 V Library 61 V.1 MDPDocuments .................................... 61 V.2 Aerothermal ..................................... ...... 62 V.3 Materials and Mechanical . ......... 63 V.4 Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation . .................. 65 V.5 DesignandManufacture .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ 67 V.6 CivilandStructural .............................. ......... 69 V.7 ComputingandMaths ............................... ...... 70 V.8 Monographs and General Textbooks etc. ............ 71 VI Microprocessor 72 VII Teaching resources 73 VIII Advanced Setup & Configuration 74 VIII.1 Startup/Boot configuration . .............. 74 VIII.1.1 CD/DVD/USB Boot order . ........ 74 VIII.2 Screen and Power management configuration) . ................ 75 VIII.3 Printer Configuration . ............ 76 VIII.3.1 CUPSwizard ................................. ..... 76 VIII.4 SettingupDiscAccessDRAFT . ........... 78 MDP Engineers Desktop and Library 5 VIII.4.1 Mounted Discs/disc names . ......... 79 VIII.5Internetaccess ............................... .......... 81 VIII.5.1 Obtaining Internet information from windows . ................. 81 VIII.5.2 ADSLBroadband.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... 82 VIII.5.3 Dial-up.................................... ...... 83 VIII.5.4 Setting up Email/News feeds (Icedove) . .............. 84 VIII.5.5 UserAccounts ............................... ...... 85 VIII.6 Desktop Configuration . ........... 86 VIII.6.1 Desktop Settings . ........ 86 VIII.6.2 DesktopThemes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... 86 VIII.6.3 Paging..................................... ..... 86 VIII.6.4 Save Settings . ....... 87 VIII.7Emulators .................................... ........ 88 VIII.7.1 Qemu ....................................... 88 VIII.7.2 VirtualPC .................................. ...... 88 VIII.7.3 VMware ..................................... 88 VIII.7.4 Virtualbox ................................. ....... 88 VIII.8CoLinux ...................................... ....... 88 VIII.9 EDaL, Knoppix and Linux . .......... 89 VIII.9.1 What is Knoppix? . ....... 89 VIII.9.2 WhatisLinux? ............................... ...... 89 VIII.10Licences .................................... ......... 89 VIII.11Acknowledgements . ........... 92 DRAFT I. MDP Engineers Desktop and Library I.1 Introduction The EDaL system has been developed to meet a number of needs that arose during the MDP development, in particular the requirement to give students access to standard engineering and office software packages, actual engineering data/data-sheets and text books. It was found that in many cases the cost to students, and in some cases institutions, was a significant barrier to attempting projects. In an attempt to help with the problem a number of solutions where investigated but most were rejected due to difficulties relating to cost, installation or maintenance issues. The solution described here has been a development over a