Tablet Configuration Information
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General Configuration
Hardware
There are two variants of the Tablet PC currently in use by the physics department, the older HP/Compaq tc1100 and the newer HP/Compaq tc4200. The major differences between the two tablets are the color scheme, hard-drive size, video card, and processor.
| Item | tc1100 | tc4200 |
|---|---|---|
| Color Scheme | Silver | Black |
| Hard-Drive | 40 GB | 60 GB |
| Graphics Card | NVidia GeForce 4 Go | Intel 900 |
| Processor | Intel Pentium M 753 1.20 GHz | Intel Pentium M 750 1.86 GHz |
| Display | 10.4" TFT XGA | 12.1" TFT XGA |
| USB Ports | 2 | 3 |
| TV Out | No | Yes |
| Wireless Card | ipw2100 (a/b/g) | ipw2200 (b/g) |
Partitions
The hard-drives on the tablets are partitioned into several pieces in order to accomedate the dual-boot setup. The Linux and Windows Operating systems are both allocated 10 GB of space and there is an additional 10 GB FAT32 partition accessible by both operating systems, any additional space is left unpartitioned and can be used by the students in any way they see fit.
| Linux Device | First Cylinder | Last Cylinder | Allocated Blocks | Filesystem Id | Filesystem Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /dev/hda1 | 1 | 1217 | 9775521 | 7 | HPFS/NTFS |
| /dev/hda2 | 1218 | 2434 | 9775552+ | 83 | Linux |
| /dev/hda3 | 2435 | 2496 | 498015 | 82 | Linux swap / Solaris |
| /dev/hda4 | 2497 | 7296 | 38556000 | 5 | Extended |
| /dev/hda5 | 2497 | 3712 | 9765976+ | b | W95 FAT32 |
Windows Partition Configuration
Configured Software
Proprietary Software
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.5 A freeware program to visualize PDF files
Authentium's Command AntiVirus 4.93.0 Virus protection service
Cisco VPN Client 4.6.00.0045 VPN program for accessing the Mines network
InterVideo WinDVD A player for MPEG2 files
Realplayer 10.5 Movie viewer and associated RealPlayer codecs
RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote desktop management client and server
Macromedia Flash Player 8.0.22 Plug-in for accessing Macromedia Flash online content
National Instruments LabVIEW 7.1 Programming language for working with lab instruments
QuickTime 7 Movie viewer and associated QuickTime codecs
Sun Microsystems Java 5.0 Support for the Java programming language and online content
StarOffice 8 An Office Suite from Sun Microsystems based on OpenOffice
Wolfram's Mathematica 5.2 Application for solving complex math analytically
Open-Source Software
7-Zip 4.23 A powerful file archiving and compression utility
Audacity 1.2.3 Audio wave-form recorder/editor
- With the LAME MP3 encoder
Cygwin A Linux environment for the Windows operating system
Fityk 0.5.0 Non-linear curve fitting and data analysis program
GIMP 2.2.8 Image manipulation program
- With GTK+ 6.9.6 libraries for Windows
GhostScript and GhostView PS editing and viewing software
Inkscape 0.42 Vector drawing program
Jarnal 660 Tablet collaboration and note-taking software
MikTeX 2.4.1461 A Tex Compilier for Windows
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Standards-Compliant web browser
OpenDX An Advanced Grapical Language for Data Visualization
- Accessable Through the X server in Cygwin. Open the Cygwin shell, type "startx" into the command line and then "dx" into the x window that pops up.
PuTTY 0.58 SSH Client for Windows
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4 Malware detection and removal tool
VLC 0.8.2 An Open Source Media Player
WinSCP 3.7.6 SSH File Protocol Client for Windows
WinShell 2.6 A LaTeX front end for Windows
XviD 1.0.3 Advanced video compression codec
Linux Partition Configuration
Unsupported Features
Under Linux there are a couple of tablet features that are unsupported, please see Linux Problems for details.
Configured Software
The Linux partition of the tablets has a large selection of software configured by default, including several proprietary packages that cannot be freely distributed or downloaded.
| This is a preliminary list, please update as necessary. |
Proprietary Software
National Instruments LabVIEW 7.1 Programming language for working with lab instruments
Wolfram's Mathematica 5.2 Application for solving complex math analytically
Macromedia Flash Player Plug-in for accessing Macromedia Flash online content
NVidia Graphics Driver Driver for the NVidia GeForce 4 Go graphics card (tc1100 only)
Custom Software
vpnc-gui Graphical User Interface for the vpnc open source Cisco VPN client
uEye Graphical application for getting optical data from a camera
glScope Audio oscilloscope program
LabVIEW Oscilloscope Interface A LabVIEW interface for Tektronix Oscilloscope
Open-Source Software
OpenOffice.org Workplace productivity suite
Kile LaTeX document editor for KDE
vpnc Cisco VPN Client for Linux
Mozilla Firefox Standards-Compliant web browser
mplayer Media Player for Linux
mplayerplug-in Embedded plugin for playing media in mozilla web browsers
gnuplot Command-line data plotting program
grace Graphical data plotting program
xfig X11 Drawing Program
SANE Imaging drivers and applications for Linux (scanners, cameras, etc.)
Octave Numerical analysis program similar to MatLab
KDE Popular graphical desktop environment for Linux
GNOME Popular graphical desktop environment for Linux
Eclipse Graphical software development environment
gcc GNU compiler for C, C++, Fortran, Java, and other popular programming languages
Jarnal Tablet collaboration software
Inkscape Vector drawing program
Audacity Audio wave-form recorder/editor
GIMP Image manipulation program
ImageJ Image processing and analysis program
fityk Non-linear curve fitting and data analysis program
tgif Vector graphics editor
povray Ray tracing program
ddd Graphical debugger
LaCheck LaTeX syntax checker
g95 Fortran compiler
OpenDX Advanced data visualization program
Notice: Very Incomplete List
