CERN Accelerating science

CERN Computer News Letter
October - December 1999	IT Division
No. 237	CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland

Editor: Nicole Crémel

Technical editor: Michel Goossens

• Information for Authors and Readers
• If you need help
• Letter from the Editor
• Announcements
• Computing Services During the Annual CERN Shutdown
• Help Desk and User Area Refurbishment (Bldg. 513)
• Termination of DECdns and DECdts Services
• Physics Computing
• Major New Linux Public Interactive and Batch Services (LXPLUS and LXBATCH)
• Physics Data Processing Group Data Management Plans
• SHIFT Software Evolution: CASTOR
• Second Tape Library for CERN
• Desktop Computing
• Commands Phone and xwho - Improved
• Springer UNIX Print Server Removal
• VMS XPRINT Interface
• Y2K Compliant HEPiX Shell Scripts
• StarOffice Package in ASIS
• Web Form for Password Change or Quota Increase
• Internet Services
• LDAP Protocol Deployment at CERN
• Remote Access to CERN SMTP Server
• Scientific Applications and Software Engineering
• Cernlib 2000 News
• Java Utilities in the ASIS Software Repository
• Garfield Version 6.33
• Software Development Tools Service
• The Learning Zone
• X11 Desktop Environments (KDE and GNOME)
• A Guide to Web Colouring
• Questions and Answers from the Computing Helpdesk
• User Documentation
• Consult - the User Oriented Entry Point to Computer related Information
• News from the Computing Bookshop
• User Support Reference Cards - Current List
• User Support Book Catalogue
• Just For Fun ...
• The Unusability Study
• Millennium Bug