Schrock Lab Computing (PC) Questions

Your Personal PC

• How do I get my computer on the network?
• What free software is available?
• How do I print?
• How can I avoid nefarious software?

Accessing Network Resources

• How do I connect to the group server?
• I use Zonealarm and can't connect, why?
• Can I map my athena directory to a drive?
• The chemistry DNS system is down, how do I access anything?

Crossfire

• I get an error message about not being able to connect to ISIS/Draw.

NMR

• How do I look-at/edit Bruker NMR data from lab?
• How do I look-at/edit Varian NMR data from lab?
• Can I print spectra to a lab printer?
• How do I make a postcript file of my spectrum?
• Where can I get a list of common VNMR commands?
• In VNMR my axis is in ppm/Hz and I want Hz/ppm.
• How do I get the peak width at half height in VNMR?
• I'm using VNMR and I want to make an inset of a region of my spectrum on the same page.
• X-Win32 is running in evaluation mode, doesn't MIT have a site license?
• When I try to connect to zippy, why do I just get a black screen?
• When I try to connect to zippy, why do I just get snow?

Purchasing

• When I try to buy something I just get an error with a negative number, huh?

X-Ray

• What files do I put on the server?
• How do I make an ORTEP diagram?
• How do I make a Chem3d model?
• I only get a piece of my molecule, where did the rest of it go?
• Chem3d is adding non-existent atoms and screwing up the molecular geometry.
• Ortep3 crashes when I load my instruction file or while manipulating my structure.
• The postscript file I generated from Ortep3 clipped off some of my structure.
• How do I make pictures with POV-Ray?
• How do I make my POV-Ray background transparant?
• My POV-Ray molecule is missing a bond.