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2. OpenOffice DTP e a OpenOffice Calc www openoffice org LGPL So R OpenOffice Web www openoffice org LGPL OpenOffice Math www openoffice org LGPL ks OpenOffice Printer www openoffice org LGPL 3 Impress is a powerful presentation package with features similar to Pow erpoint it can load and save ppt files It is good at maintaining formats and layouts between versions 1 Recording Sensorl Sensor 2 14 9 3 Sensor Data Expt 1 20 7 07 25 uw m Recorded Value volts 0 024 6 8 10121416 18 20 Reading wf 10096 ESA Sum 0 lt gt 9 Sheet1 heet2 Sheet 1 3 fault Calc is a fully functional spreadsheet package which can interchange files with other packages e g gnumeric Excel retaining funtions and formats tidisciplinary Design Proiect read only OpenOffice org Wri nsert Format Table Tools Window Help GIO SIA CMI Multidisciplinary Design Project Welcome to the Multidisciplinary Design Project MDP Engineer s Desktop and Library EDaL DVD which has been developed as part of a Cambridge MIT Institute CMI programme to generate resources to enhance undergraduate teaching The experimental EDaL disk offers users a suite of free or open source programs and resources aimed at helping them to undertake cross discipline engineering projects Please read and accept the license agreement before using this disk and the resources included N B
3. Home page of FreeMind able of key ngs _ Browsing the files oi oar Using rich text by means of HTML in nodes Freemind is a easy to use cross platform application to generate and maintain mindmaps It has good drag and drop facilities to aid the re layout of maps the ability to include HTML links and exportto HTML ad other packages via XML 44 Applications Project Support kdissert http freehackers org tnagy kdissert html GPL E Di 2 QOD 5oeoZ4oxb Kdissert is a mindmap style program specifically designed to help with the production of project documentation Once the map has be con structed and populated with attachments e g additional text images etc the structure can be exported in a number of text formats e g OpenOffice HTML Latex PDF presentation Applications Octave 111 9 Octave octave http www gnu org GPL D qtoctave http gtoctave wordpress com what is qtoctave GPL a gnuplot http www gnuplot info GPL 45 The GNU Octave language for numerical computations Octave is a mostly Matlab compatible high level language primarily intended for numerical computations It provides a convenient command line inter face for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically The associated octave forge proj
4. WI 7Z 95 VIIL6 Desktop Configuration 4242482 EN 86 VII 6 1 Desktop Settings Mo To 86 VII 6 2 Desktop Themes AW lllo mm 86 VII 6 3 Paging 4 Mo 86 VIIL6 4 Save Settings 29 222 87 VII 7 Emulators MD DMD 88 VII 7 1 Qemu H MDI lt lt 88 VII 7 2 Virtual PC TS 88 MVIl Z 3 VMware aux so tae dox E RO a IHRER ooo o o o RR 88 VIILZA Virtualbox e woe eae ent ee hee ee eo e 88 MIES COLMO lt Vw 9 Go ee ee ee ee ray Tr 88 VII 9 EDaL Knoppix and Linux EEUU ee 89 VII 9 1 What is Knoppix Wa DD Fc 89 VIIES 2 What is Linux oa vs WE v EE boo SG eee nae ee eee ee es 89 VIII 10Licences s au vo hak ewe a oe es EP Rom oec o9 ox Xo Y EG a 89 VIII 11Acknowledgements 2s 92 I MDP Engineers Desktop and Library 1 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 install
5. e Focus follow Mouse Give the ability to type in a window without bringing to the top e Animation on Off Animate the opening of windows default off for greater speed e Screen Grab Simple screen grabbing routine that is part of the desktop system A more powerful system can be found in the Gimp see section 111 5 e Fvwm Console Direct access to the window manager s console window for specific modifications to Ul The Desktop themes menu has been included to give examples to a user of some of the possible alternative graphical interfaces available via FVWM should the user wish to develop their own However it is anticipated that most users will use the default The Button Menu Styles give the user the option of simply changing the style and colours of system buttons and how the menus react The way in which the desktop pager reacts is controlled by the menu accessed via Start Rightarrow Settings Paging Settings The first two icons allow the user to toggle the functionality of keeping the pager window onto of all other windows The next four icons set unset the ability and extent by which windows can be dragged to the edge of an active desktop and then force the window into the adjacent desktop which then becomes active N B Windows can be moved to specific desktops by selecting the icon at the top right of a window with the right mouse key and selecting the required number VIII 6 4 Save Settings 87 The save settin
6. Explore Install Uninstall Properties DN Search for Computers Description Map Network Drive Transmission Control Protocol Intemet Protocol The default o wide area network protocol that provides communication across diverse interconnected networks Create Shortcut Rename Show icon in taskbar when connected Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties Bring up the Network Settings Window You can reach this by right Hc le icicle E a clicking on My Network Places Or Network Neighbourhood Or something with a similar name and then select Properties the appropriate IP settings C Obtain an IP address automatically Use the following IP address Pats 151212 10 e Click on Local Area Connection Properties Subnet mask 255 255 255 0 sis ad ECE e Select Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties Obtain DNS server address automatically Mittin m e Write down the relevant information Altemate DNS server 123 123 123 4 Advanced Cancel 82 VIII 5 2 ADSL Broadband A broadband Internet connection lets you download at up to ten times the speed of a conventional modem It also lets you make and receive voice calls on the same line at the same time The technical name is Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line ADSL To use ADSL broadband Internet over a conventional phone line with the EDaL system you need 1 2 A telephone line
7. Latex Drawing CAD Project Support Octave Electronic CAD and Analysis Simulations Scientific Tools Programming Settings gt About Display Settings Printer Settings Discs Network Desktop Settings Desktop Themes Pager Settings Access XXXX 15 selection of lAlEXoriented applications giving a full for this powerful scientific text processing sys tem IATEXIS the standard package for generat ing EDaL documentation Section 111 6 2 General drawing packages for documentation and presentations graphics together with 2D and 3D CAD applications Section 111 7 Support applications for undertaking projects in cluding Gantt charting mind mapping and ad vanced white boarding Section 111 8 Matrix based analysis program MATLAB syn tax compatible and associated applications and documentation Section 111 9 gEDA suite of EDA tools and a set of simulation and analysis applications Section 111 10 General simulations resource structural analysis and aircraft emulator Section 111 11 Standard scientific tools and applications e g data plotting periodic table symbolic manipula tion Section 111 12 Access to the standard programming languages and editors Section 111 13 Date and Version number of the EDaL please quote in all communications Controls for the screen resolution and graphics drivers See section 11 3 2 Printer setup routines See section 11 3 3 Disc
8. X SALOME328 Studyt a X Eile Edit View New Entity Operations Repair Measures Tools Window Help inma aster DE X Ba e Geometry E 0 Aa 35 Es v OhAVIA dd K 08 COS 1 Sep 4 2005 22 00 45 j ebian 1 3 3 5 13 on linux2 type help to get general information on environment gt gt gt The geometry tool of the Salome Meca analysis suite gives a basic 3D CAD tool that can be used to create modify import export IGES STEP repair clean CAD models It links to a number of meshing and simulation packages see Aster in section IIl 11 below 42 Drawing CAD Chemtool 1 6 9 File Edit View Tools Help a d M k CU gt O O ME Zi gt 9 Bonds 3 B A AN Sl pa Text H chemtool p pss Benzene H http ruby chemie uni freiburg de martin chemtool GPL Chemtool is a 2D chemical structure editing package Drawing produced can be exported in a range of formats including EPS SVG Xfig It also supports direct input from ghemical ghemical http www bioinformatics org ghemical ghemical GPL Ghemical is a molecular modelling software package It has a number of very powerful features that mean making correctly orientate image of atomic structures is easy It also has a wide range of output format options to interact with many other chemical programs Applications Project Support 11 8 Project Supp
9. gv http wino physik uni mainz de plass gv GPL N xdvik http xdvi sourceforge net LGPL Applications Viewers This section contains information on applications related tot he viewing and direct manipulation of standard text formats e g PDF Postscript FUNdaMENTALS of Design Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering This book was made possi y a generous gift fro Neil and Jan rm be ardo Support for this book was also provided by the Cam vise MIT Institute and iCampus the Microsoft MIT Alliar 2007 Alexander H Sloc COCE ES n mma amp 2 Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files These are also sometimes also called Acrobat files from the name of Adobe s PDF software The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor PDF to PostScript converter and various other utilities newmanualwi2 dvi as i State Page Portrait 1 000 A4 newmanualwf2 dvi Tue Nov 27 0735522007 Pro ENGINEER Wildfire 3 Introduction Manual This manual is designed to give the user a very basic understanding of the philosophy of the Pro Engineer Wildfire ver 3 0 package and its user interface gv is a program to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF doc uments on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript PostScript interpreter e a document markup language ana a e ses sytem way y ed by mathe
10. Access Default Network Share samba 4 Configure Server Connections a Access Network Drive 0 x Please supply the following details Network drive fileserver acme co uk anathert Username another Password r Hide typing ok X Cancel A Network Setup 0 x Connection Name the Engineering Dept As indicated in section II 3 4 general access to most of the disks avail able to a EDaL system is available via the desktop or file manager inter faces However a series of more detailed text based access schemes are available via Start Rightarrow Settings Disks Access Hard Disks and USB Drives gives a menu listing all the drives that have been detected by the system and offers the user the opportunity to mount them e g allowing access to read write from them Access CD or DVD Drives mounts optical drives N B if the EDaL system is being run from a CD or DVD the user will not be able to use another disk in that drive Access Reserved Space if the user has set up an area of Re served Space on a native disk this option will give direct access Unmount Drives Direct access to the menu giving options to un mount including network drives Rescan Host Drives When operating the EDaL system in the Qemu emulator the system may not automatically register a disk newly mounted in the host operating system Rescanning will at tempt to make any disk mounted by the hos
11. The MDP Engineer s Desktop and Library Peter Long Paul Fidler Tim Froggatt Cambridge University Engineering Department Trumpington St Cambridge CB2 1PZ July 2008 MDP A Cambridge MIT Institute funded project Multidisciplinary Design Project www mdp eng cam ac uk X QCad Drivesfhda7 proeng coombs rotor1 dxf Elle Edit View Select Draw Dimension Modify Snap Info Layer Ez Gnuplot window id 0 akuus Smplify omna Numeric IRMA 4 AL vedada 0 7 02 unsaved 435 3 i amp u WIBEZIRAN AOS O By Layer By Layer By Layer Label o o s Ds T T T m cw Gessdbequ NM a ca MN ME Met mE dil a8 Ghemical2 10 E E A so 0 A 2c A reco center Erg e 4 ul li 118 solvetI s x 1 E 018 xs2 435 8i 1 xeq35 5i 1 x20 o s Silo tex TM sstleft x 1sqrif35 1 1 1 x sqrt 35 i 1 x 0 right parer is 55120 ye x ho re YA 54 5530833836 i UK gallons per minute 54 5530833839 gpm tl EE Es 1 2eady for user input litres per minute 12 Ipm VA Unit Name Units Equations Matrix Plot Statistic UK gallons per minute gpm UK UK gallons per second gps UK i e x Zz e 4 US gallons per minute gpm us funionfsfusrisharefappsiktechlab exar File Edit View Project Tools Settin x Ses Eater U
12. 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 amp 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 distri
13. GPL dA ARM Assembler MAS Rolecks http www mdp eng cam ac uk GPL Applications Programming Languages Fortran is one of the earliest procedural languages to be developed and while having been superseded in a wide range of area is still used in computational modelling often building on existing libraries It is supplied on the EDaL system by gcc currently offering f77 and f95 functionality but expected to include aspects of Fortran 2003 Similar in syntax to C C Java has the benefit that it is typically com piled to an intermediate bytecode which means that a single pro gramme can be run on a number of coputer architectures using a Java Virtual Machine JVM The version included on the system was origi nally developed by SUN microsystems and released under the GPL in 2007 Perl is a general purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration web development network programming GUI development Python is a dynamic object oriented programming language that is used for many kinds of software development It has good integration with other languages and tools although the core is relatively small has a wide range of standard libraries Brandy is a cross platform recoding of the BASIC that was used in the BBC micro and subsequenily extended in the Acorn range of computers It has been included as there a large number of
14. Originally the MDP EDaL system had difficulty directly writing to NTFS discs those found in Windows 2000 NT XP and Vista machines A system using a MDP reserved area was employed see the help section on the disk for further information on how to access it on legacy systems VIII 4 1 Mounted Discs disc names Drive names Users may be familiar with the Microsoft Windows naming scheme for disk drives For example drive A for the first floppy drive drive C for the first visible hard drive partition and so on The EDaL system has its own drive naming scheme based on the one derived from De bian Knoppix except when running under emulations e g CD DVD or USB booted systems Disk types IDE drives SCSI drives IDE CD ROM drives The naming scheme starts with a two letter code for the type of disk Name Drive type fd Conventional floppy drive hd Integrated Drive Electronics IDE drive sd Small Computer System Interface SCSI drive IDE drives are the most common in desktop PCs and laptops A single letter indicates how the drive is connected Most PCs and laptops have two IDE channels primary and secondary Each channel can have up to two devices master and slave Name IDE drive hda Primary Master hdb Primary Slave hdc Secondary Master hdd Secondary Slave For SCSI drives a single letter indicates its location This is called its position in the SCSI chain SCSI hard drives are usually found in
15. WinFF D File Edit View n o Add Remove Clear Play Convert Options Drives hda7 presentation SEQUENCE AVI Convert to SWF 4 gt Output folder Home WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter FFMPEG It will convert any video format file that FFmpeg will convert together with the facility to process multiple files in multiple formats in one operation Untitled kdenlive PAL modified File Edit View Project Timeline Monitor Render Layout Windows Settings Help Bla amp ad Hu ramo GBs 1234 Project Tree Transition Effect List Effect Stack Timeline Monitor Clip Monitor Capture Monitor x Z Search q x Thumbnail Filename Description caravan avan mpeg a gt Move Resize mode PAL 720x576 25fps Current Time 00 00 00 00 kdenlive is a non linear video editor that easily produce video clips etc suitable for presentations It has the cpability to combine video tracks and sync audio tracks as required in Wink O x File Edit View Image Project Help DSEDAxseBe ua ii p gt wo 0T unnamed2 unnamed3 Properties for frame 1 E Kfe Dr 7 esthda2 pjgl2 pjgi2itun_videos El Wel Eile Edit Bookmarks View Leftpanel Right pa Stay in this frame for time 0 msec t nao h marca Next Button v Cursor e adic m Location E Drives hda2 pjgl2
16. Your acceptance of the license is implied upon use Page1 1 HTML o hoom solll Web HTML page editor File Edit View Format Tools Window Help x checa XaB OS QEAQ889 2 4 Selection C he asd acA f x d a mx Ex Mx dx e x fx x x dx x Printer setup application for Openoffice can also be accessed from within most OpenOffice applications 38 D xsane http www xsane org GPL scribus http www scribus net GPL OpenOffice DTP 704 705 24 1 4 MB 11 95 cmx11 95 c DEE OB o XSane is a graphical frontend designed for acquiring images with scan ners The system can scan direct to file do a photocopy create a fax create and send a mail Is also acts as a plugin to GIMP X Scribus 1 2 5 Document 1 nx e Elle Edit Style Item Page View Tools Extras Settings Windows Script Help xii x 1 1 Skip to Content t 1 lima src images cam gif alt Cambridge University t 4 1 lima src Project Home p i 2 ima sro i i rc ii rgi d idisiplin i ri i i a Da 10000 3 24 old el fra Ufa ne X Pos 876 00 pt Y Pos 1 10 00 pt A scribus is a powerful DTP package similar to Microsoft publisher or Pageplus with the ability to import export pdf eps svg Latex 1 6 2 TEX
17. www linuxtag org Linux pronounced Lin ucks is the kernel The kernel is the core com ponent of the operating system Think of an operating system as a nut The shell is the part that you use The kernel is the core that talks to the computer s hardware The EDaL system is constructed to be free using a combination of open source software and documents combined with material devel oped released by the project or material for which specific permission has been gained to reproduce distribute The material collated and installed that is nominally free is covered by a number of licences all of which meet the Open Source Software inti tiative GPL http www fsf org LGPL _http www fsf org MIT http mit edu Apache http www apache org LPPL http www latex project org lppl txt In addition the open documentation is also released under a number of free licences Creative Commons _http creativecommons org GFDL http www fsf org 90 Notes Notes 91 92 Internet connection Details Tables to store information about internet addresses for commonly used locations Example 192 1687 MED 10 IP address JS Bm Subnetmask 10 oo Default Gateway Example 192 168 123 10 IP address gt g Subnet mask 00 o Default Gateway Example IP address Subnet mask Subnet mask Default Gateway _ o Vill 11 Acknowledgem
18. x 1 Xlatex http www tug org LPPL c Kile http kile sourceforge net GPL 39 ATEXis a document markup language and document preparation sys tem widely used by mathematicians scientists philosophers engineers scholars in academia and the commercial world and other profession als LaTeX is used because of the quality of typesetting achievable by TeX The typesetting system offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typeset ting and desktop publishing including numbering and cross referencing tables and figures page layout and bibliographies Xlatex offers a simple interface to editing processing and viewing printing ITEXdocuments Used with emacs see Editors section it offers a quick solution to producing high quality documents Emacs has been en hanced to give real time highlighting and local previews as required 3 Document Home LaTeXidemoreport tex Kile File Edit View Build Project LaTeX Wizard Bookmarks Tools Settings Help jp Quee ARAARA BO ak depts yy BEGG ABBA section x label x normalsize 8 1 g sz seas ft yz lett ign ly ex B La F demoreport tex e Si re y e S 9n A 0 K v p T w ST TST T s Te SN Log amp Mes
19. 4 survey tif http www k3b org uds G P L S Current Projects Me E DataDVDO Bum amp 5 Rename Audio Files Rename Audio Files Volume Name a project 3K3b data project Name y Type Size Local Efree flow area pdf PDF Document 541 1 KB Drive thermal lag engine pdf PDF Document 940 6KB JDrive user Knoppix 2810 SALOME pidict Plain Text Document 6 3 KB Hom EL i ED 1 5 MB Available 4 4 GB of 4 4 GB BTemp 1 5 GB 1 6 GB K3b 0 12 17 k3b is a CD DVD burning utility that can produce data music and video format disks The interfaces is similar to a number of commercial alter natives 26 Applications Accessories File Operations Disks Device Options Help OTEELI The following drives have been detected qtparted a 070 http qtparted sourceforge net Dormi Lab GPL idev hdai fat16 47 03MB 47 06MB 0 03MB 47 06MB 302 fdevihda2 ntfs Active 50 79GB N A 47 07MB 50 83GB 03 dev hda3 unknow 200GB N A 50 83GB 52 83GB dev cloop amp 04 dev hda4 extended 40 82GB N A 52 83GB 93 16GB Model FUJITSU 05 Idev hda5 unknow 2 00GB N A 52 83GB 54 88GB sane uns La 06 devihda6 ext3 4 88GB 387 74MB 54 83GB 5971GB Capacity Mb 95396 3 A07 idevihndar ext3 3845GB 12 88GB 5971GB 93 16GB Length 195371568 sectors Status busy QTParted C 2002 2003 by Zanac
20. C 2005 Ark Linux Qtparted is a GUI for parted which allows the user to partition split a disk so as to look like multiple disks lt has interface similar to the commercial package Partion Magic N B This application is run as su peruser see Section VIII 5 5 and can destroy your files USE WITH CARE Manual info Links The Manual info sub menu gives direct access to a number of the sub MDP Documentation areas of the MDP information website E Desktop Apps All Engineering Apps Linux manuals amp Apps Info Applications Admin 111 2 Admin m Xosview http xosview sourceforge net GPL htop http ntop sourceforge net GPL xkill http xosview sourceforge net GPL e Xosview is a lightweight application that displays the system parameters and cpu load etc for the machine it is running on The application can be useful to monitor applications and user programs that may be going wrong e g using too much memory or getting into an endless loop N B different types of cpu and memory usage are colour coded 0 95 0 69 5 emacs manuali tex 3 Xorg noreset config etc X11 xorg 151 0 140 1 102 00 htop 151 46 usr bin gimp 60 xfe 307 3 0 usr lib icedove icedove bin fe 100 51 emacs Drives hda scripts update 51 SOS0SC00000000HSCOSOCCCCSsS Si Se mire me A ei ee Ral PCR O ie es CON I O N ON ON ON ON ON BRP I DEI O CN ON ON Y CO I n2 Oo SSOSCCSCSCCSCCSCSSOSCOICSCCS
21. Full Screen Mode AS Slide Show a Q Q Ep Location E Home images dj a z ERI gwenview Eros sea ates amp Esfachwerk Es g amp E3fbview re a http gwenview sourceforge net pones agesepeg G P L e E3gofun 124x95 x 3 7 KB 4 DO A FEto wna images jpeg 2007 12 28 13 47 118x89 2 4 KB imagesw jpeg 2007 12 28 13 57 123x82 nz RX Intel R JPEG Library version 1 5 992 x 842 pixels Gwenview is a fast and easy to use image viewer that can load and save a wide range of image formats including GIMP files xcf Gwenview lets the user accurately control the way images are scaled you can Applications Multimedia 33 zoom in and out or automatically scale the image to fit the window it is also possible to lock the zoom factor to keep the same zoom between images Pr The GIMP fof x9430 jpg 47 0 RGB 1 layer 1600x1200 P Ele Xtns Help Select View Image Layer Tools Dialogs Filters Script Fu gimp http www gimp org GPL Rect select Mode jij E Eh dh Ed a EM px Sil 3392 Background 14 7 MB uel X Cones 7x GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program It can be used as a simple paint program an expert quality photo retouching pro gram an online batch processing system a mass production image ren derer
22. MDP Options menu in the Windows envi ronment records the default settings used by a Microsoft Windows environment to a file MDP NetSetup dat in the top directory of the windows disk or in Documents and Settings All Users direc tory When the the EDaL system is booted the file is read and the network setup automatically to use the same settings as when running Windows Wireless connection Wireless connections from Linux can be difficult especially with new ma chines as the control software is often withheld by the manufacturers and has to be reversed engineered However the EDaL system has been constructed to try and accept most hardware The EDaL system has two direct methods of access setting up wireless cards 1 A gui application kwifimanager which allows the user to search for available wireless points and is accessed via gt Start Settings Network Wireless Settings 2 A text based access system that allows the mode advanced user to define each of the parameters associated with a wireless card gt Start Settings Network Wireless Modems Details on using internal and external dial up modems can be found in section VIII 5 3 ADSL The EDaL system works well with most ADSL modem routers please see section VIII 5 2 for more details E name Home website URL Licence Ill Applications ATerminal Gui x File Explorer Most of the normally used programs are available from the st
23. N B This will cause any active windows to close and any unsaved data to be lost In some cases the fastest graphics driver may not be selected typi cally with Nvidia cards when the default open source software selected in preference to the commercial drivers Should the user require maxi mum performance the driver can be changed using Start gt Settings Display Settings Advanced Display Settings Change Graphics Drivers and then select the correct driver N B Should a force resolution change need to be made after a change graphics driver operation has been undertaken the graphics driver may need to be reset again N B The next section can be skipped over if the user does not require printing immediately Printing in the EDaL system is controlled by a package called CUPS which allows both local and remote printers to be accessed As with most systems the the correct printer and driver must be selected before printing can be initiated The following section gives a brief overview of how to setup various types of printers see section VIII 3 for more details Selecting a Printer Local printers can be setup using the CUPS wizard type interface via the Start gt Settings Printer Settings Configure printer option If no printer is automatically detected select the Admin istration tab and then choose Add Printer and follow the wizard instructions Detailed instructions are included in section VIII 3 1 Net
24. amp Safety Safety factors failure theories e Springs Threaded Fasteners Welded Joints Cylinders Pressure vessels Motors V belts Brakes and Clutches Spur Gears Fracture Mechanics e Finite Elements Introduction to Finite element theory with ap plication to linear elastic problems See application Aster sec tion 111 11 for FEA package in EDaL Engineering Drawing and Sketching MIT MDP Introduction to using manual drawing to convey design ideas and gener ate detailed orthographic drawings Topics covered include e sometric amp orthographic drawings e Detailed drawings dimensioning and sectioning e Assembly drawings N B See section IV 2 for details on documentation and tutorials on the production of 2D and 3D CAD models drawings using the applications section 111 7 supplied as part of the EDaL system 68 Library Design and Manufacture Fundamentals Handbook Engineering Symbology Public Release Permission l Wa Publi ission Two volumes total 200 pages covering the basics of drawing includ ing how to read a drawing engineering symbols for mechanical electri cal and fluid engineering Details on layout for construction mechanical and electrical diagrams Library Civil Structural 69
25. an image format converter etc GIMP is expandable and extensible It is designed to be augmented with plug ins and extensions to do just about anything The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted on Camorama http camorama fixedgear org GPL Hi show Adjustments 8 Take Picture O Contrast 128 Brightness 128 E Color oj Camorama is a image capture system designed to work with webcams It offers a number of real time image processing options together with stils capture Multiple versions can be run concurrently allowing stereo and 3D images to be obtained ay ET View Settings Audio Video Navigation Help EA b a n Sm vic http www videolan org vic GPL 0 00 06 0 0 x1 ot Drives hda2 pjgl2 pjgl2 fun videos F11 MOV VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats MPEG 1 MPEG 2 MPEG 4 DivX mp3 ogg as well as DVDs VCDs and various streaming protocols It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high bandwidth network 34 Wins Winff http www winff org GPL FFmpeg http ffmpeg mplayerhg hu GPL oT kdenlive http www kdenlive org GPL e wink http www debugmode com wink Freeware Author s Permission Applications Multimedia f
26. an initiative funded by the Cambridge MIT Institute to generate a package of information primarily to aid students and teachers undertaking undergraduate projects The core material was based on a second year course the Integrated Design Project IDP run in the Cambridge University Engineering Department CUED and a similar course 2 007 in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT However the material has been significantly enhanced and extended by material kindly donated by individuals organisations and companies around the world Developed with the support of ARM usak Shamban FARNELL S S ionic LA Don MEM as NEET HUNTSMAN PinsTRUMENTS Parkers Rockwool OWA HIER GRANTS v N Technic AechOreLinied ETR CEOMEGA y Cambridge MIT Institute 93
27. analyzed If the required electri cal properties are entered the physical parameters can be sythesized Applications Electronic CAD DA 49 Xoscope http xoscope sourceforge net GPL Ktechlab http ktechlab org GPL e Piklab http piklab sourceforge net GPL x xoscope BI x File ne c Xoscope is a simple yet powerful digital oscilloscope that uses as its in put the standard computer sound card or EsounD and or a ProbeScope osziFOX and or Bitscope hardware Allows for upto 8 signals to be displayed with variable time scale math e g fft memory measurements and file save load Junionfs lusr share apps ktechlab examplesi555 square wave circuit KTechlab 5 x File Edit View Project Tools Settings Help AQ AM I o Untitled 4 Untitled Circuit square wave circui amp a Joypa way 7 amara OQUIAS fe dieu 3xejuo2 e E Scope Screen Very Rough KTechLab is an Open Source Intergated Design Environment IDE for electronic and PIC micro controller circuit design and simulation It has an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and simulation of many common electronic components and logic elements It also has an easy to use flowchart based PIC program designer Flowcoder along with a BASIC like programming language called Microbe Programs de signed by these tools c
28. and newsgroup accounts as well as mail See the on line help for more details 3 Identity Enter you real name and organisation email address Server Information Select the type of server that is intended to be used most Internet Service Providers use POP Post Office Protocol As prompted enter the addresses of the ISPs incoming and out going servers User names Enter the usernames as supplied by you email provider e g ISP 6 Vill 5 5 User Accounts The user account The superuser account WARNING 85 Account Name the system allows for multiple accounts to be setup and a local name to be associated with each as entered here The EDaL user account is called user This account is for almost all productivity tasks including CD burning and printing When the X Window System starts you are logged in to that user account automatically without a password The superuser account is for system administration tasks The su peruser account is called the root account When Knoppix starts you are logged in as root to all four consoles automatically with no password It is also possible to use the root account within the X Window System by prefixing commands with sudo e g gt sudo ls 1 N B Some applications will not work unless run by a superuser When selected from the start menu the programme will automati cally be started as though the user is a superuser The superuser status will only apply
29. attempt tp start the system in a minimum configuration If failsafe results in a complete boot it is probable that a less restrictive option is possible with a certain amount of detective work A complete list of cheatcodes are available at the boot prompt and there are also additional information on the MDP website and the knoppix net website at htto www knoppix net wiki Cheat_Codes A list of the more common options are given below knoppix module fbdev Forces the system to use a frame buffer knoppix screen 1600x1200 Force screen resolution typ options 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 knoppix depth 16 Force colour depth on screen typ val ues 8 16 24 32 knoppix no wheelmouse Force driver for mouse with or without wheel knoppix mem 128M Force knoppix to use available mem ory typ values 256M 512M 1G knoppix no apm Switch Automatic Power Manage ment off On knoppix no firewire Switch Firewire detection off On knoppix no swap Switch swap detection off On knoppix no pcmcia owitch pcmicia detection off On knoppix no audio Switch audio detection off On knoppix dma Enable DMA on all IDE drives knoppix alsa Use ALSA sound driver 76 VIH 3 Printer Configuration VIII 3 1 CUPS wizard When the Configure Printer option is selected from the setting menu the system starts a browser window pointing at the local CUPS Common UNIX Printing System pages These pages contain help information display of the printer s statu
30. available as a free download from Microsoft the EDaL system has been used with Virtual PC on both Macs and PC s see http www microsoft com download The EDaL system has been used with VMPlayer however the commer cial licence and some difficulties with accessing the host s filing system has resulted in it be currently unsupported The EDaL system is known to work reasonably well with the Personal Use and Evaluation license version of VirtualBox but unfortunately it cannot be distributed Work is continuing to obtain a stable version of the Open Source Edition See http www virtualbox org This is an exciting possibility but investigations to date have lead to a unstable system 89 VII 9 EDaL Knoppix and Linux VIII 9 1 What is Knoppix VIII 9 2 What is Linux VIIIL 10 Licences Knoppix was created in Germany by Klaus Knopper Knoppix is a volun teer co operative community effort It exists entirely on the Internet At the moment Klaus is the person who does most of the work on the disk he does get patches and some scripts from the community but he is still the primary developer The Knoppix project is hosted by LinuxTag which is based in Germany at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern The LinuxTag team runs conferences workshops and exhibitions for everyone interested in Linux and Free Software Web links The home page of Klaus Knopper http www knopper net The home page of LinuxTag in German http
31. docx by default it uses the new international standard XML based OpenDocument format In addition the system also allows the user to export documents HTML format for the web or publish in Portable Document Format pdf ircdiagram penO rg D File Edit View Insert mem Tools Modify Window Help iCu2BweB Basvig KB dio 638 05 1 mal A Contr 0 02cm 3 HN Black 3 i 2 3 4 b 6 7 B 39 10 1i 12 13 14 5 46 17 18 19 p Cel 1 uawa 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Ci s Dimension Lines emm n Cnr SB d 15 95 0 4F 0 00 x 0 0 100 Slide 1 1 Default Draw is a substantial graphics application that integrates well with the whole Openoffice suite allowing drawings to be edited directly within text documents etc F aed2004g OpenOffice org Impress Eie Edit View Insert Format Tools Slide Show Window Help is seems VE x Ss 2 amp 8 Soo Eat imd E Conte 0 00cm 3 NM Black r Colour HEMBluez A CAL Normal Outline Notes Handout Slide Sorter Tas l 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 po 22 24 26 284 s es S 24 22 20 18 161412108 6 4 2 a NS IT GIC be it iain e Slide 3 43 Notepad
32. launch scripts directly in a directory ski 0 9 0 rev335 1ubuntulO i386 tap tt pl tt pl The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System lt provides emulations of industrial standard terminals DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 for programs that can t use the window system directly x EY Calenda Emacs nx File Options Buffers Tools Scroll Goto Holidays Diary Moon Help OexoQG G0 Emacs is a very powerful text editor that has specific modes for most of the applications and programing languages included on the EDaL sys tem The interface is design to be driven from the keyboard often mak ing it faster than a mouse driven editor The full manual and a quick start guide are included in the applications area gt relart cis reirep cis Meld File Edit Settings Help DE 2 Q New Save Ur Down Up Stop refart cls refrep cls x Drives hda7 LaTeX knoppix_manual kn Browse Drives hda7 LaTeX knoppix_manual kn vi Browse a newcounter subsection section newcounter paragraph subsubsection ES 1 5 newcounter subsubsection subsection newcounter subparagraph paragraph newcounter paragraph subsubsection renewcommand thepart Roman c par newcounter subparagraph paragraph renewcommand thechapter arabic c ch renewcommand thepart Roman c par 21 renewcommand thesection thechapter renewcommand thesection
33. number of flow visualisation videos and downloadable software packages routines ples are shown below 7xeymmetric Cone st M 1 7 M 2 2 and M 3 0 a ERES ae eal How wings work Author IOP a ER A monograph on the flows around wings and how lift is generated Fundamentals Handbook Thermodynamics Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Public Release Permission l l a Three volumes total 300 pages covering the basics of the areas Je pat IMDPllibrarylenginfoitextbooks dvd onlyidoe handbooksithermol pd D xII UTE 1 Thermodynamics Properties Energy work heat thermody namic systems property diagrams and compression processes 2 Heat Transfer Terminology Conduction convection Heat ex changers heat generation decay heat ECTPDETLETECEDED E 3 Fluid Flow Continuity Laminar Turbulent flow Bernoulli two phase flow pumps Library Materials and Mechanical 63 V 3 Materials and Mechanical FUNdaMENTALS of Design author 2 Bar Linkages Triggers nies Material and Mechanical Engineering resources and databooks Written by Prof A Slocum to complement the MIT 2 007 course see section V 5 for details in more chapters from the book 4 Linkages ba
34. of RED Tools please check the validity of all results as no guarantee can be made of the accuracy of the current functions or data Done RedTools is a user editable library of engineering scientific simulations and calculations The package allows for both spreadsheet and oc tave MATLAB syntax functions to be held in the database The Octave scripts can also be run automatically from a Web interface generated by a simple textfile The system also allows for the addition of on line manual entries tutorials to be added Code Aster or Aster is a finite element analysis and numeric simula tion for mechanical systems It has a range of modules including linear and non linear statics and dynamics and 3D thermal It was released opensource by the French company EDF but is still used for the design of conventional and nuclear power plants Main View Truss Calculation Additions Hel Es Ja Q J e om 7 e a 8 832 E 9331000 ox ALLY o hw Fachwerk gives a simple interface to the analysis discontinuous stress fields and strut and tie models It only uses the equilibrium conditions and does not include elastic behaviour of the members If the system is statically indeterminate the program calculates the forces of the members that are determinate anyway You can assign forces to the remaining members If you assign more forces to members than needed to accom
35. pjgl2 fun videos r t GotoButtonl amp A m m Folders Drives hda2 pjgl2 pjgl2 Goto Button 2 r3 f aed2004 Name EJ alex Totacoma C Textbox at o E ES mf aspiration EM The Most Powerful Di Properties common for all frames b5 E Wingless F15 fil Bl Bach j EJ bellringing E Amazing Pictures And cdio ne CNN com Scientist H 7 Frame Titles E ES MI images 48 14 ad 18 18 ER E 921x498 921x4 Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software typically used to create flash videos of screen operations for software tutorials It can be used add explanations boxes buttons titles etc to give the end user and interactive experience Applications Multimedia 9D X SuperShow 5 xi zl a mm E o Current files Presentation cdio_june05 pdf Audio Video kings2 0gg No video r Current Slide S u pe rs h OW CUED Integrated Design Project h tt p WWwW raste rs oft CO m 24 XE ten m project course IR studeuts tearey Design amp Build a Autenomons vabicle 24 honms supported labs 26his additional ware programas supershow html GPL T qb Be cero s MF mme venei Devercort P MIB mimetames ritiro em Next slide Sound position 0 00 17 41 SuperShow allows the used slides from a presentations IMPRESS or Powerpoint exported to PDF together with an audio video r
36. save network settings Section 3 6 Read MDP Reserved Space from Windows 7 Open Explorer window to view Disk contents 8 Copy ISO image of CD to hard disc Section 11 2 4 9 Make a boot floppy Section 11 2 1 10 Installation of an accelerator for emulator QEMU Section 11 2 3 11 Exit to Windows 10 Getting Started 1 1 1 Notes e For simplicity the EDaL CD DVD USB disk is described as the Disk in the remainder of this document In operation the CD and DVD USB are very similar with the DVD USB versions effectively being a superset of the CD with some subject specific applications and or extended library of resources Information specific to the DVD USB or customised CD DVD USBs is indicated in the text by e If you need further information about the disk please see the project website at www mdp eng cam ac uk and the associated user forums 11 2 Booting methods Booting is the technical term used to describe the start sequence prior to the user being presented with a usable interface normally a desktop en vironment On most systems this operation is split into two sections the bios during which the core hardware is started and then the installation of the operating system The EDaL system replaces the normal second stage of this process and attempts to automatically detect the PC config uration and replace the host operating system with Linux obtained from the EDaL media N B Except when booting from a USB mem
37. servers Zip USB and Firewire drives are also treated as SCSI drives Name SCSI drive location sda First SCSI drive sdb Second SCSI drive sde Third SCSI drive Disk partitions IDE and SCSI hard drives are divided into par titions Zip USB and Firewire drives also contain partitions A partition is like a compartment within a disk There may be a single partition that covers the entire disk There may be more than one partition Each partition is indicated by a number Name Drive Partition hdal Primary master IDE drive First partition hda2 Primary master IDE drive Second partition hda3 Primary master IDE drive Third partition IDE CD ROM drives are treated as SCSI drives This is called SCSI emulation SCSI emulation is there so that CD burning 80 applications can use the same language to talk to SCSI and IDE drives Name CD ROM drive scdO First CD ROM drive scd1 Second CD ROM drive scd2 Third CD ROM drive Floppy drives For ordinary floppy disk drives a number shows the drive number Name Floppy drive number fdO First floppy drive fd1 Second floppy drive Running under Qemu When the system is run using the Qemu emulator the option of accessing the host machines discs via NFS during the start up wizard If this option is taken drives mounted by the host system are accessible under their host letter in the Drives directory irre spective of their type e g typically Host Floppy A Drive a Host Hard Disc C D
38. setup utilities access to network drives Section VIII 4 Routines to setup network amp wireless cards Section VIII 5 Simple desktop configuration See section VIII 6 1 Change window layouts See section VIII 6 2 Configure pager actions See section 11 3 3 Direct access to local networked machines Only available on certain versions 16 Desktop Save Seitings Save desktop settings to disk Task Bar Icons To the immediate right of the start button are icons that give quick access to three of the major desktop applications file browser Web browser and OpenOffice N B The exact operation depends on which mouse button is used to select the icon see the table below File Browser Left Opens in Home directory y XFE Middle Opens in Drives directory Right Opens in directory gt Web Left Opens blank web page Browser Middle Opens MDP Documentation Iceweasel Right Opens Google Office Tools Left Opens Writer Word processor 7 OpenOffice Middle Opens Calc Spreadsheet Right Opens impress Presentation package Pager Virtual Desktop The desktop manager allows the user to run a number of virtual desktops e g separate desks The MDP desktop starts with 9 desks active which can be ac cessed from the pager window at the right end of the task bar This contains a miniature image of the open icons on eack of the desks The currently selected desk is highlighted with a blue back
39. 11 5 Multimedia zox File View Mute aumix Rec Level Balance http xdvi sourceforge net is vol 50 GPL et ae L a IGain m 50 Linel m 50 0 i 0 0 0 1 Digitall 0 m Phoneln 1 PhoneOut 0 m Video i50 m m u 00 0 100 E R aumix is a simple tool to control the computers audio settings ki nx e File Edit View Tracks Generate Effect Analyze Help E EP Da e PA TL o P audacity http audacity sourceforge net GPL Project Rate Hz Selection Start End Length Audio Position B 8000 v Snap To OGhO4m27s 00h09m03s7 00hl0m28sr Click and drag to select audio Actual Rate 4410 Audacity is a cross platform audio editor and recorder that allows the user to record live audio Edit sound files e g Ogg Vorbis MP3 WAV or AIFF Cut copy splice or mix sounds together Change the speed or pitch of a recording A Image Magick display Imagemagick m http www imagemagick org Transom GPL ECTS FE F X a Ea display is a subset of the Imagemagick suite of image display manipulation routine Display is used as the default image viewer on the system se lecting the image with Right gives access to the main Imagemagick interactive menu gt Harlton High St jpg Gwenview File Edit View Go Bookmarks Plugins Window Settings Help Browse si View Image
40. 30 sec loop return sub delay 30 sec movlw D 255 movwf CounterB movlw D 162 movwf CounterA sub delav 30 sec loop Ka Actual delay 29 99993700 s 29999937 clock cycles PiKLoop generates code to create delays for Microchip PIC microcon trollers It is a useful companion for the Piklab IDE Applications Simulation 111 11 Simulations Rab RedTools http www mdp eng cam ac uk Redtools GPL Aster Code Aster http www code aster org GPL ARK fackwerk http fachwerk berlios de GPL 51 A range of simulation and analysis applications primarily based on civil structural engineering however the RedTools package has a num ber of spreadsheets and British Standards related calculations encoded is RED Tools Home Iceweasel EE Ll File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help 43 G http localhost 8080 tmp 0424729347000 index i KG GlGoogle MDP Document ts Aboutthis CD Eg Engineering Dept Hermes Webmail knoppix net 6 O MDP RD wea emm RED TOOLS INDEX gn El ctrica Electronic formation Materials Welcome To The MDP On Line Engineering Calculation Library ME e program Mechanical Currently the ely few more are To make sui useful e your own information on the project please e mail mdp support eng cam ac ul Biructu ral Hl Version 0 1 0 beta Aug 2006 pi a liermoriuids EE warming User s Area 4 This is a trial release
41. 41 14 File Home untitled c opened 1 line 22 col O sel O INS mode Unix LF encoding UTF 8 filetype C scope unknown Geany is a small and fast integrated development environment with a wide range of features including syntax highlighting code folding code completion support for gt 20 languages including C Java PHP HTML Python Perl Pascal T C Programming Environment A Edit Compile Run Kill Help Print Quit Directory Home CPlusPlus Document demo cc Executable deme Compiler g Editor emacs lemo ib q in the vogle window to quit this demo xcc is a simple development environment for use with C and C code C is a general purpose language originally designed for generating sys tem software It is now used for a many control applications it is supplied on the EDaL system by the GNU Compiler Collection gcc the official compiler for the opensource GNU system The C programming language evolved from C and is emerging as the standard in software development Many operating operating systems and applications are now written in C The EDaL system uses the C compiler contained within the gcc suite 26 FET Fortran 77 95 http www gcc gnu org GPL java http www java com GPL Perl http www perl org GPL e Python http www python org GPL 4 Brandy http sourceforge net projects brandy GPL Bash http www gnu org software bash
42. 4q OpenOffice org Impress Capture Monitor j lt gt mi a y c E d Ro MbS e ENDO O 9 re au vo Eng peer 580 eer pae E I n MOSFET e A GF contr 0 00cm E Black amp colour sos Q o 9 Os Ir Pt Au Hg No objects selected Click Shift c i p MOSFET gt sli CU NS Fey Bh Hs Mt uun uuu Uub uut uug Uup Uuh uus uuo h RIM y Slides Normal Outline Notes Handout Slide Sorter Tasks VIEW rat 3 5 SSe ESA uo 2 5 4 1n121a 18 ID ESTAD ee fe 2 4 6 8 101214 16 18 PO 22 24 26 Be avouts 31 Pm sm eu ca To py Ho amp tm vo gpiv conso ia ic Mixing pm3d surfaces with hidden line plots zm 20 doter int a is a Mer kero D Scr usetts Institute of Technology MIT s acpi Boeck EP lane le I Major Engineering Schcol in r vp 4 i TI t age USA 4000 Undergraduates age yr Mech Eng aln me 6600 Graduate students stie gd al due p c foo BAR c0 MM e arbo a col J si x y G es 1 Custom Animation M Slide Transition a E Tem gt 1 4 31 08 9 1 0 00 x 0 01 34 Slide 3 43 Notepad gt 2 Move Resize mode PAL 720x576 25fps Current Time 00 00 00 0 The Cambridge MIT Institute 2 MDP Engineers Desktop and Library Cambridge MIT Institute The Cambridge MIT Institute
43. ALOME MECA 2 008 3 GPL SALOWE SALOMESV3 3 eNSDAbUGISEOM_Va_2_sNeDebughloc eslome s gcc g77 gfortran Java perl python bash Brandy Inkscape Dia QCad Chemtool Blender Salome ghemical Pro E Wildfire 3 Documentation and Tutorials Desktop Applications C Tutorial html Guide To Fortran 77 pdf manual pdf Overview of Fortran 95 pdf manual pdf Java Introduction pdf mannual html Tutorial html CGI Perl pdf Tutorial html Tutorial pdf Ref manual paf Libray manual pdf beginners Guide pdf User Manual Manual pdf keyboard shortcuts Manual pdf Manual pdf Quickstart guide pdf Quickstart manual pdf Intro manual pdf Advanced manual Resources pdf Geometry Manual html Quickstart guide pdf Mini manual Wildfire 3 pdf Quick Reference Guide pdf Tutorial 3 part pdf V 1 MDP Documents Databook MDP permission Ow MDP Multidisciplinary Design Project Engineering dictionary MDP permission V Library This library section of EDaL contains a number of pdf and locally hosted on disc usb versions of websites covering various areas of engineer ing The lists below give a brief description of some of the individual documents including details of the major topics covered The resources come from a variety of sources and in a number of cases the distribu tion licence agreement indicated after the title is specific to the EDaL system
44. CCCSCCSCCOSONtG irs gt rorerers rere ri E emacs gperiodic temp hald addon storage polling dev hdb m 25 fuum 101 26 emacs tmp REDtools 1809391321000 oc F3 htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux that can also be ac cessed using CTRL ALT DELETE The window displays system sta tus in bar graph and numeric form at the top of the window and a list of the processes applications using the most of the system resources ina table below Individual processes can be selected using 7 or keys and specific information obtained from the function keys N B using lt F9 gt followed by RETURN can be used to kill end a rogue process Xkill is a small utility program that allows the user to kill or stop a partic ular program or window A couple of seconds after selecting xkill from the menu the mouse pointer will change to a skull and crossbones Moving the pointer over a window and click the left mouse button will cause the window application to exit 28 111 3 Internet Iceweasel http packages debian org etch iceweasel LGPL Icedove http packages debian org etch icedove Eus LGPL a Pidgin http www pidgin im GPL Applications Internet Cambridge MIT Multidisciplinary Design Project Iceweasel File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help G O file MDP indexhtml Efe Gi Goose G Googlee MDP Document ts About this CD Engineering Dept Hermes Webmai
45. I project Starting a technology company is a practical guide for anyone interested in setting up a science based company Starting a technology company cane cota AUN Although based from a Cambridge point of view the main ideas carry over to any location Split into three parts experts give advice on eval uating business ideas and looking at personal and company objectives Then advice is given on Getting going and then actually keeping the ee company going during the early stages NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards author The Pocket Guide presents key health and safety information and data on over 650 commonly used chemicals Designed for the US area the basic data is common through out the world although if safety critical users should check local exposure limits and working conditions Simple Nature Creative Commons Permission Simple Nature is a introductory physics book for engineering students covering Simple Nature 1 Introduction 8 Relativity 2 Conservation of Mass 9 Atoms and Electromagnetism y 3 Conservation of Energy 10 DC Circuits 4 Conservation of Momentum 11 Electromagnetism 5 Conservation of Angular Momentum 12 Optics 6 Thermodynamics 13 Quantum Physics 7 Waves Fundamentals Handbook Classical Physics Public Release Permission o Short introduction to physics including modules on units vectors the ory application of Newton s laws and
46. IV 1 Desktop Applications MM MD 97 IV 1 1 Document Preparation LaTeX TeX DTP o 58 IV 2 Engineering Applications ES 59 V Library 61 V1 MDP Documents RR e 61 V2 Aerothermal amp 29 llle 62 V3 Materials and Mechanical bee a 63 V4 Electrical Electronics and Instrumentation 65 V5 Design and Manufacture leere s 67 V6 Civil and Structural QD 69 V 7 Computing and Maths WD 70 V8 Monographs and General Textbooks etc a ee a 71 VI Microprocessor 72 VII Teaching resources 73 Vill Advanced Setup amp Configuration 74 VII ABBtartup Boot configuration e a 74 VII 1 1 CD DVD USB Boot Order a 74 VIII 2 Screen and Power management configuration aoa aoa oa a a a a a ee eee 75 VIIL3 Printer Configuration A y a e a a 76 vie wizard A a 76 VIII 4 Setting up Disc Access o oo a a 78 MDP Engineers Desktop and Library 5 VIIl 4 1 Mounted DiSCS diSC names e 79 VIILS Internet access meras Go ass a AA e ede 81 VIII 5 1 Obtaining Internet information from windows 81 VII 5 2 ADSL Broadband a 82 VIIL5 3 Dial up ono oaoa eee oR 2 o 99 a 5299 e E 83 VIII 5 4 Setting up Email News feeds Icedove 0 84 VIII 5 5 User Accounts 49
47. RTD thermocouples detection circuits Pressure sensors level sensors Flow detectors Position sensors Radiation detectors inc proportional counters Geiger Muller and scintillation Library Design and Manufacture 67 V 5 Design and Manufacture Information on Design and Manufacture FUNdaMENTALS of Design author Introduction to the design process with details on see section Materials 2r Linkages Tigers and Mechanical V 3 for more information on chapters marked Writ 3 ten by Prof A Slocum to complement the MIT 2 007 course and other ES m design and build mechtronics courses q Ec E e Design is a Passionate Process ch 1 e Creating Ideas ch 2 e FUNdaMENTAL Principles ch 3 e Linkages ch 4 e Power Transmission Elements I ch 5 e Power Transmission Elements ll ch 6 e Power Systems ch 7 e Structures ch 8 e Structural Connections Interfaces ch 9 Bearings ch 10 Design and Analysis of Machine elements author Extensive HTML resource which covers the introduction and details on a range of mechanical components see also the Mechanics section V 5 for further details for items marked Topics covered include e Design What is design constraints amp criteria feasibility creativ ity e Stress Strength
48. V 6 Civil and Structural Civil and Structural Engineering resources and databooks Soil Mechanics Open Text book originally written by the author Prof A Verruijt to compliment an introduction to soil mechanics course given at the University of Delft The book gives an introduction to the subject covering details including e Soil classification e Darcy s law groundwater wells e Stress Strain relationships Mohr Coulomb testing and pore pres sure Soil Dynamics Open Pope Based on a course on Soil Dynamics the book covers basic principles of M NEN elastodynamics of soils and the major solutions of problems of interest for geotechnical engineering F E F 5 1 Foundation element on soil Starting with a introduction to vibrating systems the topics covered in clude e Waves in Piles Consolidation Plane cylindrical and spherical waves Foundation vibrations Offshore Soil Mechanics Text book extending the coverage of the two books above and applying the principles to offshore engineering problems 70 Library Computing and Maths V 7 Computing and Maths Manuals and formulae books for Computing and Maths Linux Guides gpl 1 Introduction to Linux A Hands on Guide 2 Pocket Linux Guide 3 Linux Command line Tools Three guides generated as part of the Linux documentation project that have been included to give the user who wishes to investigate the Linux system some starting m
49. Windows and when the menu appears select the QEMU option 12 Run disc using the Qemu Emulator xi Boot media Physical CD DVD C MDP EDaL Disc iso C MDP EDaL Discald iso Image GM DP EDaL iso Browse M Emulator memory C 128MB 256MB 512MB C 1GB Enable display modes larger than 1024x768 Use reserved space file v Start local NFS server Launch Emulator Cancel Getting Started on the option screen see Figure 1 N B The more memory allocated to the emulator the better the performance of the emulated system at the expense of the MS Windows performance This will initiate the loading of a software emulator from the disk and then a booting sequence similar to that seen when booting directly from the disk see Section II 2 1 Depending on the speed of the system hardware configuration and the amount of memory available this may take a number of minutes typically gt 5 mins during which the user can still use the system but it may seem relatively slow At the beginning of the sequence the user is offered a few options by a wizard 1 The Image selection pane allows the user to select the required bootable DVD image Most users will only have one image typi cally on a DVD or USB which can easily be chosen by selecting Physical CD DVD If the DVD or USB is not seen immediately select Browse and navigate to the image MDP EDaL iso 2 The emulator speed i
50. _1220_USB_1 KPrinter B General Image Text HP GL 2 Driver Settings Pe e ES Output Control Common Brightness 1 0002 Brightness Fine Adjustment 0 000 Contrast 1 00027 3 Contrast Fine Adjustment 0 0007 Ellmage Type Mixed Text and Graphics E3Output Control Extra 1 Color Correction Default ElDensity None Density Fine Adjustment 0 0002 Dither Algorithm Default Output Control Extra 2 Composite Gamma None Composite Gamma Fine Adjustment 0 0002 Output Control Extra 4 Lele No Option Selected Save OK Cancel t KDE Print Configuration KPrinter El M CUPS Server Settings rant Server Information o E EEE Comman ds r e Port 631 Filter Accoun t Information User Password Xi Use anonymous access OK Cancel P4 The default printing system for most applications in the EDaL system is Jor the standard Linux printer system However this is a command line drive application and so a GUI has been included to access spe cific printer functionality If at a print prompt 1pr is replaced by kpr the kprinter interface will start The interface give the user access to set standard print options by 1 Printer Options e Properties direct access to the printer setup see 2 Files Add files to the printer queue delete and reorder files in the queue Copies Print range and number of cop
51. a good idea for the user to Set As Default the printer they Modify Printer Set Printer Options Delete Printer Set As Default Set Allowed Users a normally use If a job is printer incorrectly it can be stopped by selecting the Reject Jobs button from this page Print Options Kprinter GA Print KPrinter a Printer Name HP Laserjet 1220 USB 1 4 Properties State Idle accepting jobs Type HP Laserjet 1220 Location Local Printer Commen t HP Laserjet 1220 CUPS Gutenprint v5 0 0 Files Copies Advanced Options di Additional Tags Name Type Path a Jallaero ps PostScript Document file Home allaero ps t3 Print system currently used CUPS Common UNIX Print System Server localhost 631 C Keep this dialog open after printing Options lt lt SystemOptions Help Print ancel kprinter main window 2 Configuration of HP Laserjet 1220 USB 1 KPrinter General Image Text HP GL 2 Driver Settings p Page size A4 Iv Paper type Paper source Standard Orientation Duplex Printing Portrait o e None Landscape B B O Long side E D Reverse landscape E A Short side Reverse portrait Banners r Pages per Sheet el Start none y z O2 End none O4 Save OK Cancel Configuration of HP_LaserJet
52. an be added to any circuit design as a virtual PIC allowing complex micro controller based circuits to be created Y IHomeftesti asm Piklab EL xi File Edit View Bookmarks Project Build Programmer Debugger Tools Settings Help ES m d cu ARAA HG vevee RX p Project Manager Puestas SAS Wi 5 movlw 1 g Standalone File a Device 16F871 MS e Registers Sources 9 dub m eviews Gui OL ue eu ae ee te a Generated JHex File Compile Log YProgramLog 3Breakp er SUCCESS OFF Line 1 Col 1 Direct Programmer Parallel Port GPUtils Piklab is an integrated development environment IDE for applications based on Microchip PIC and dsPIC micro controllers similar to the MPLAB environment It integrates with several compiler and assembler toolchains like gputils sdcc c18 and with the GPSim simulator It supports the most common programmers serial parallel ICD2 Pickit2 PicStart the ICD2 debugger and several bootloaders Tiny Pickit2 and Picdem 50 Applications Electrical CAD DA File Edit Actions Help Input data E kl Frequency MHz 4 000000 Needed delay s 30 Ouput data Delay code generated by PikLoops Tue 2008 Oct 07 18 44 10 http pi kl ab SO u rcefo rge net xA 29 99993700s with Osc 4 00000000MHz G P L moviw D 153 movwf CounterC delay 30 sec loop call sub delay 30 sec decfsz CounterC 1 goto delay
53. and no permission has been granted for general re distribution in particular author No specific licence permission given by author to re distribute as part of the EDaL system creative commons Creative Commons licence see section VIII 10 GPL Documents distributed under the GPL documen tation licence see section VIII 10 MDP material developed as part of the MDP project permission where appropriate the copyright remains with Cambridge University of MIT but released for general distribution No specific licence permission given by copyright owner e g company government organisation to re distribute as part of the EDaL system Documents developed during and after the MDP project including A collection of useful design and resource data extracted from data books company information and datasheets catalogues and articles e g bolt strengths o rings electrical components Collection of engineering specific words amp definitions collated from web site company information etc and collated as a dictionary 61 62 Library Aerothermal V 2 Aerothermal Contains Aerodynamic thermodynamic and fluid mechanics resources and databooks including Aerodynamics for Students Author l E Interactive web pages covering most aspects of aerodynamics starting from simple concepts e g what is Lift What is Drag through to tutori als on aerofoil sections and wind tunnels Also included are a
54. arabic c se gt renewcommand thesection thepart gar renewcommand thesubsection thesection renewcommand thesubsection thesection EB renewcommand thesubsubsection thesubsectic renewcommand thesubsubsection thesubsectio al renewcommand theparagraph thesubsubsec renewcommand thesubparagraph theparagrapr renewcommand theparagraph thesubsubsec renewcommand thesubparagraph theparagraph newcommand part newcommand chapapp B E if noskipsec Vleavevmode fi E newcommand part E par if openright El Em addvspace 4ex _ cleardoublepage E E afterindentfalse else secdef part spart clearpage B iv fi ELT E PEN lt gt INS Ln 101 Col 2 24 Applications Accessories Meld is a visual application that allows the user to compare two or three files and edit them in place differences between the files are highlighted dynamically The system also allows the user to compare two or three folders and launch file comparisons r l galculator Bj x ii File Edit View Calculator Help galculator 1 93348728785 http galculator sourceforge net DER BIN DEG RAD ALG RPN FOI GPL galculator is a calculator with both algebraic notation and reverse polish notation modes a formula entry mode DEC HEX OCT number bases and different units of angular measure DEG RAD GRAD Gnu
55. art menu accessed via the icon at the left hand end of the task bar or by press ing the Right Mouse Button over an empty part of the desktop Four applications are directly available from the top of the menu Web Browser Iceweasel MDP Documentation a Programs Eb Settings A Find tel Run by Shut Down O a Terminal window See section 111 1 ij File browser See section Ill 1 EM amp Web browser see section III 3 e access to the MDP Resources below which are two cascading menus giving access to grouped pro grams and setup routines See below and the following sections The final four options have been included for similarity to other operating sys tems O a Find graphical search application to find contents names of files and directories See section 111 1 dl Help direct access to help about the MDP system Run Ability to directly run command line instructions a Shutdown Application Listings The following sections give a brief description of each of the main applications accessible on the system Each has an entry in a similar format e g N B See Section VIII 10 for more details on the licences under which the software has been developed and is distributed on the EDaL system 22 Applications Accessories 111 1 3j xfe http roland65 free fr xfe GPL Accessories 8 xterm http invisible island net xterm xterm html MIT X Consortium 9 emac
56. asma gate weizmann ac il Grace GPL xmgrace is included in the system as it combines well with Octave and can be used to produce publication quality B amp W graphs Wi g3data http www frantz fi software g3data php GPL g3data is a tool for extracting data from scanned graphs e g from pub lished in scientific articles where the actual data has not been explicitly given g3data simplifies the task of extracting the data with predefined support for problems like rotated figures and logarithmic axis E a x agnesi Loo ST tet ay En terreri um E Cr BEM c o e gperiocig T e AAA A http www frantz fi software sah tase on E Ss eee Com gperiodic php turn a fum d EE oe to ef os c re ao s RN RR ERI IN GPL mu E BEES e 00 00 ee e on ne oco jose tue uoo uus s ua Hp E ctroni Co ergue ration 10 ce er 06 em sm eu 04 m oy Ho m o xm re u nb raf amem ex 0 es rm we vo atc co onstart tA Lig d vel ight malleable silvery white metal 1808 En ngland Discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy Named after Magnesia ancien t city in n district of Thessaly Greece Px GPeriodic is a graphical interface to a database of 30 items for each element The database is also accessible from the command line giving 94 mq gonvert http unihedron com projects gonvert GPL dA wxmaxima http wxmaxima sourcef
57. aterial Calculus Creative Commons Y A permission Calculus starts with simple gradients and slowly progresses through differentiation integration complex numbers and double integrals It has been written as a gentle introduction to calculus Elementary Calculus Creative Commons Mathematical Tools for Physics Author A gt 400 page overview of mathematics suitable for physics applied maths engineering students book covering 1 Basic Stuff 10 Partial Differential Equations 2 Infinite Series 11 Numerical Analysis 3 Complex Algebra 12 Tensors 4 Differential Equations 13 Vector Calculus 2 5 Fourier Series 14 Complex Variables 6 Vector Spaces 15 Fourier Analysis 7 Operators and Matrices 16 Calculus of Variations 8 Multivariable Calculus 17 Densities and Distributions 9 Vector Calculus 1 Library Monographs amp General Textbooks 71 V 8 Monographs and General Textbooks etc Monographs on sustainable development entrepreneurship etc and textbooks on Physics and Chemistry How to Write a Paper author This brief manual gives guidance in writing a paper about the author s Ae research Most of the advice applies equally to writing a thesis or a pated ee es research proposal Materials project combining experiment with mod elling and computation to explain some aspect of material behaviour is 3 used as example Starting a Technology Company author Developed as part of a CM
58. ation options may be available for your computer please see section VIII 7 QEMU Acceleration Option 10 in the main menu allows an accelerator for Qemu to be installed which offers a significant increase in the speed of operation of Qemu however administrator privilege is required to in stall the package Please see your computer support if you do not have administrator access to your machine Installation is automatic and the accelerator should operate next time the EDaL system is run using the Qemu emulator option Getting Started 13 Additional information about how to run the emulator without the CD installed and options to further enhance the speed can be found on the MDP website 1 2 4 Booting from an ISO image of the EDaL disk This option is very similar in operation to Booting from EDaL Disk The initial boot is from the EDaL disk USB or floppy but once the basic functionality is available the system loads the remainder of the system from an ISO image of the disk held on the host machine s hard disk The ISO image is effectively a single superfile which includes all the files held on a optical disk It is not possible to directly copy the EDaL disk to a hard drive however option 8 on the options menu gives a wizard based program which extracts the EDaL system and transfer it to the hard disc If possible save the files to the top level directory of your preferred drive and note the name of the file e g MDP reso
59. ation or maintenance issues The solution described here has been a development over a number of years being tested with students engineers and on a dis tributed computing network in Cambridge University Based on a Knoppix Linux bootable Live DVD distribution the system has been designed to try and satisfy a number of specific requirements raised in the study notably e Easily accessible engineering design and analysis software e Engineering data amp textbooks e Zero or Low ownership cost e Ease of operation e Standard Interface to simplify learning and generation of hand outs tutorials etc e Low overhead operating system and user interface to maximise the cpu power available to applications e Access to main stream management tools inc word processing presentation and project planning software 1 1 1 How to use EDaL system There are many ways the user may wish to use the resources and there are no prescriptive modes of operation however some of the possibilities are described below Dip in resources At the lowest level the system can simply be used to provide the user with an easily accessible library of engineering data text books and monographs The method of decompressing the data on the fly see section 1 1 3 combined with the data being held locally means that the data is quick to access and browse opecific analysis A user faced with a specific problem for which they do not have suitable software may wis
60. atting operations 3 2 Saving your mind map 4 1 Goto File in the menu bar Select Save As The Save As dislogue box opens The Save As option is preferred because you should assign a name and a location to store your map ERE O ey I d j Fa i e dl JD ope jala e es Latex Kile Xlatex Xdvi Scribus Inkscape Imagemagick Gimp Audacity Winff kdenlive Wink Supershow Xsane Xpdf Xdvi Ganttproject Jarnal Freemind Kdissert Document Preparation LaTeX TeX DTP Getting to Grips with Latex html LaTeX command reference html LaTeX for Word processor Users pdf The Not so short Introduction to LaTeX pdf Kile Hanabook html User Manual pdf User Manual pdf Simple User Manual pdf Tutorial pdf Manual paf keyboard shortcuts pdf ser Manual html ser Manual pdf uick Start pdf ser manual pdf ser manual pdf Quickstart html Tutorial pdf Tutorial html User manual pdf User manual pdf User Manual pdf Manual paf Manual paf Manual paf uickstart Manual pdf Documentation and Tutorials Desktop Applications IV 2 Engineering Applications Analysis Mathematical Tools Be Ede Yew Stretng Gre Po DRaBiht c uag ts esmas 4 Ini t Octave Introduction to Octave MATLAB pdf Octave manual pdf Reference Card pdf EE ES Octave FAQ online peius Taf ens List of
61. ba access but does allow SFTP Also useful if you internet connection is flaky as it allows automatic files transfer restart Encoding and Colour Level jv Auto select Full all available colours m fe ZRLE C Medium 256 colours Hextile Low 64 colours vnc C Raw C Very low 8 colours meum lr http www realvnc com Inputs M IT view only ignore mouse amp keyboard JV Accept clipboard from server _About Options OK _Cancel Y Send clipboard to server jv Send primary selection amp cut buffer as clipboard Misc Shared don t disconnect other viewers Full screen mode Y Render cursor locally v Show dot when no cursor A graphical front end for launching VNC sessions VNC is remote control software which allows you to view and fully interact with one computer desktop the VNC server using a simple program the VNC viewer on another computer desktop anywhere on the Internet The two com puters don t even have to be the same type so for example you can use VNC to view a Windows Vista desktop at the office on a Linux or Mac computer at home On some versions of the EDaL system location specific internet connec Additional Links tion applications and links may be added the bottom of this menu Em Connect to CUED graphical Connect to club text Connect to hermes text Access CUED files 30 Ill 4 Viewers i xpdf http www foolabs com xpaf GPL A
62. bution 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 mdp support eng cam ac uk We cannot guarantee that despite our best efforts we have not unwittingly i
63. c Word gt Writer 1 6 1 MATLAB gt Octave 1 9 Excel Calc 1 6 1 Origin SciDavis 111 12 Powerpoint Impress 111 6 1 Mathematica lt wxMaxima 111 12 Internet Media Internet gt Iceweasel 1 3 Photoshop gimp 1 5 Explorer Media Player VLC 1 5 Eudora Icedove TES In addition there are some teaching resources in the form of presentation slides etc to cover some of the material that may be needed for students undertaking multidisciplinary projects 1 1 3 How does it work The EDaL system is a extremely customised version of the Knoppix Live CD DVD developed by Klaus Knopper See VIII 9 The system contains a version of the Linux operating system that can be run on a Intel based PC or MAC without interfering with any of the existing operating systems installed on the computer The operating system is the base software that makes a computer use ful and the EDaL Knoppix gives you a full graphical desktop similar to Windows Mac OSX together with networking sound and a range of pre installed software As the software is already configured on the CD DVD disk or USB stick no installation is necessary and no access is required to be made to the existing disks In fact the system can run on a com puter with no hard disk at all However if the user wishes existing disks can be read and written to When the user is finished using the system removing the disk usb stick will allow the PC to boot into the original operating s
64. chanical components Aeonin aiie using as a base the MIT 2 007 course and the Design Fundamentals book see V 5 Lecture 1 Design is a Process Lecture 2 Creation of Ideas Lecture 3 Fundamental Mechanical Design Principles Lecture 4 Linkages Lecture 5 Power Transmission Components Lecture 6 Screws and Gears Lecture 7 Force Torque and Power Sources Lecture 8 Structures Lecture 9 Structural Interfaces Lecture 10 Designing with Bearings Additional Lectures x e Ethics e Screws Gears and Power Budget Example e Motor Calculations and Power Budget Example 73 VIII Advanced Setup amp Configuration VIIl 1 Startup Boot configuration Boot sequence Vill 1 1 CD DVD USB Boot order Some systems are set to to start directly from hard disk in preference to the CD or DVD drive or USB However it is possible to to change some boot fore s Current session ONLY Permanent boot order change settings on your computer s start up Sequence often called the sequence to ensure that it checks the optical CDROM drive be tarting from a hard disk Certain makes of more recent computers allow the user to change the boot sequence for only the session being started As described in section II 2 1 this is commonly accessed by pressing the function key f12 while booting Normally a message is put on the screen to indicate to the user the key to press while the initial processin
65. ckground joints degrees of freedom 2 4 6 bar linkages compliant mechanisms 5 amp 6 Power Transmission Pulleys capstans belts cables lead screws gears spur epicyclic differential cams and shafts 7 Power Systems pneumatics springs dc geared motors and power budgets 10 Bearings Linear rotary bearing systems sliding and rolling element non contact and flexural bearings mounting geometry and pre loading Design and Analysis of Machine elements author The spring characteristic Design Cookbook MIT CUED MDP Hair Trigger ee Fr Fy p E a E N SSS ZZ Trigger face radius above pivot Fe x L4 Fu XL Shoots when Fr gt ES 3 Note The magnitude of Lg controls the sensitivity The system become metastable as Fp L4 Fy L2 Ways to trigger a large force with a small one 1 Leverage lever increases pulling force Extensive HTML resource which covers the introduction and details on a range of mechanical components see also the design section V 5 for further details Topics covered include Springs Introduction spring characteristics materials and de sign calculations Threaded Fasteners types terminology thread mechanics as sembly and usage calculations Welded Joints Introduction forces and stress analysis Cylinders Load a stresses in typical cylinder configurations aut ofrettage and compound cylinders Pressure vesse
66. country depending on regulatory requirements What is most important is that filtering must be done correctly The ADSL modem must never be subject to filtering while every other device on the telephone line must be filtered VIH 5 3 Dial up Connecting using KPPP 83 The term broadband can also mean Internet provided by cable and other high speed Internet connections including wireless options These connections may or may not be usable by the EDaL depend ing on the interface being compatible and the star up scrpting being suitable to run from the system Dial up Internet is the older slower way to access the Internet To con nect this way you need an account with any standard Internet Service Provider and one of the following External serial modem This type of modem connects to the com puter s serial port called COM1 or COM2 under DOS No special driver is needed to operate this type of modem so compatibility with teh EDaL system is excellent For example the Sitecom Ex ternal V92 Serial Modem works perfectly PCMCIA Cardbus modem A PCMCIA Cardbus modem is effec tively an external serial modem In general the cheaper the card the better For example the Sitecom 56Kbps Fax Modem PC Card works perfectly with EDaL Internal ISA modem Like the external modem this type of mo dem needs no special driver to make it work That is why old ISA modems are useful Internal WinModem has little dedicated hardware and
67. ctronic Electrical Design I gEDA suite gEDA documentation index html paf ef Starting with gEDA pdf PN PCB Tutorial pdf PI cc ami a P CB M an ual pdf return to the postive plate thus 1 the capacitor s plates neutral or discharged However this action works differently when you discharge a capacitor through a coil When current is applied through a coil a magnetic field is generated around the coil This magnetic field generates a voltage across the coil that oppeses the direction of electron flow Because of this the capacitor does not discharge right l away The smaller the coil faster the capacitor dis Now the interesting part happens Once the capacitor is fully discharged through the coil th tie field starts to collapse around the coil The voltage induced from the collapsing magnetic field rec capacitor begins to discharge through the coil again generating i the capacitor is completely discharged due to resistance es the capacitor oppositely Then the magnetic field This process continues 2 14 Resistor Find the current through the resistance when connected in parallel and serial mode Connection re Electronics See Application Help F1 E Optimizer A RS Xoscope Manual paf Ktechlab Manual paf Piklab Manual Supported Devices 60 Programming 2D Drawing CAD Toolbar ries7iprograms S
68. ctronics Simulation and Analysis Electronics Optimiser http www damhave com Freeware Electronics Optimizer is a electronics design tool that lets you design and optimize some of the most commonly used electronics circuits The internal workings of the Electronics Optimizer program is based on for mulas for a library of standard circuits As such it can be faster than using Spice based tools when designing common circuits File Edit View Help Chart ees Loads Circuit Results n7 8B P e LinSmith anr http www jcoppens com GPL PO EP on oes J B 2 Zoom Q Q Recalculate Levels 59 5 LinSmith is a Smith charting program in which either discrete compo nents or transmission lines can be entered and the results displayed on screen and or generate Postscript output Component values can be changed numerically or using scrollbars a X transeale SERIE TES ra d Coaxial Line Component Parameters Freq xin Transcalc O http transcalc sourceforge net NN d GPL E eee O mem 1 v Tand 0002 a Calculated Results I Conductor Losses 0 01391 dB lan Dielectric Losses 0 06701 dB Transcalc is an analysis and synthesis tool for calculating the electrical and physical properties of different kinds of RF and microwave transmis sion lines The user interface allows material and operational properties to be adjusted and the component line
69. e e Extract files from the archive Applications Accessories 25 Supported file formats Read Write include Tar archives IZop tar Izo tzo uncompressed tar Lha archives Izh Compressed with Rar archives rar gzip tar gz tgz Zoo archives ZOO bzip tar bz tbz Arj archives arj bzip2 tar bz2 tbz2 AR archives ar compress tar Z taz Stuffit archives bin sit Single files compression Read Write gzip gz compress Z bzip bz bzip2 bz2 IZop zo Read Only Formats RPM archives rpm Debian archives deb iSO files ISO a 4 Komparator XA p Basic Search Options Extended Search Options TEE EON AREE default E Search Options Duplicate Files Search Options 2 ue a e J j x Include subfolders x Ignore empty files o X Include hidden items Xi Size comparison Search Use file index X Calculate MDS checksum m r r E ji i Left URL X Case sensitive search Binary comparison a Eind empty folders forfilessmaller T Ems http komparator sourceforge net Jte a a a r IB G P L w Duplicate files Missing files w Newerfiles Folder Name Size Modified Permissions Owner Group Name Folder size Modified Permissions Owner Group Referenci 57 o o itj i Reference folder Left Right a x 000 Ready 1 Ab
70. e a text box You can re size and move it later if you have text wraping around zn object such as the icon in this paragraph remember to make your frame a litte larger than the graphic and set the frame fil color to none or your text might gat clipped Youll discover several quirks not found in windows programs and a few nice windows features you l sorey miss 11 you cick the frame you get a move frame pointer a secon the move fame pointer Double cick the frame to edit tno text tar indows text selection eyboard Shift arro contant Windows style ext selection wih the keyboard Shin amow U ayia Lo 10 Fi K jo 10 keys avaiable wih the 1 16 aso Window syle Statsincon EEE Ay does nothing youll have to select Paste from the Edit or right click r cusem spacing Once you have your text in place you can format it Al the standard Kemna Joop formatino is in the Properties Dialog Mouse select the text you wart to work on right click the selection and ct Show Properties In Line Spacing 144 pt T Dick wi si saveu g iert E 100 order to get bold or italie yout hava to first but not bad once you get used to t ange the font lts a pain at Paragraph formatting IS also under the Style menu Forced means Justified here You ll notice the forced format leaves the last ne of the paragraph soanning the entire frame To fx this open the propert
71. e gEDA suite notably gschem2pcb schematic input to pcb design gspiceUl schmatic input to spice simu lation gattrib formatted bill of materials X test gsch2pch xgsch2pcb GU amp E x aa Quit New Open Save Close About Schematic pages Layout Choose project template Itest io sch Itest pcb Blank e From template test sensors sch Edit layout Update layout IDP Prototyping board IDP Line following board Add ns X Cancel ug Eorwan xgsch2pcb is a graphical project management tool for the gEDA suite in particular to aid the link between the graphical schematic capture and printed circuit design packages MDP Litesensor Board January 2886 B7 RE B5 B4 oy n afg 8 avaso le wur ES PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor which includes a rats nest feature design rule checking and can provide industry standard RS 274 X Gerber NC drill and centroid data X Y data output for Applications Electronic CAD DA p gerbv http gerbv sourceforge net GPL gspiceUl http gerbv sourceforge net GPL 47 use in the board fabrication and assembly process PCB also offers high end features such as an autorouter and trace optimizer which can tremendously reduce layout time 3 Gerber Viewer2 0 0 EIE File View Analyze Tools Help BeBe aaa 120 i O 100 Layers Messages Rendering Higt iv g
72. ecording of the presentation and combine them in a single small size Adobe Flash file which can be played from the net or downloaded to be seen locally 36 HI 6 OpenOffice DTP 11 6 1 OpenOffice REN dE OpenOffice Writer www openoffice org LGPL SA NN OpenOffice Draw www openoffice org LGPL ee OpenOffice Impress www openoffice org LGPL OpenOffice DTP EDal uses the OpenOffice suite http www openoffice org suite as the basis for it standard office tools and a full DTP option is offered using Scribus Support for technical writing is given via ATEX and Kile see section lll 6 2 and graphics support is also given a seperate section see IIl 7 although a direct link to Inkscape is given in this menu OpenOffice is being developed in the open domain with the support of Sun Microsystems and is now a mature product with excellent support on line from the website www openoffice org and the associated docu ment and tutorial sites opere ae Table Tools Window Help Ta Re PERES PE BE e 6 e ME dc ig Tex xt body 3 Freesa a eer ees MDP Micro controller Board in association with balloonboard org Description Writer is a fully functional word processor similar to many of the commer cial competitors including advanced features to aid the writing of reports etc It is compatibility with most other commercial word processors reading and writing native files inc doc and
73. ect contains contributed functions for GNU Octave which are not in the main distribution but is included in the EDaL system E Octave 00000 Columns 1 through 7 0 245177 0 034234 Columns 8 through 14 0 122724 0 922207 Columns 15 through 20 0 325365 0 375727 octave 18 gt c sin b cz Columns 1 through 7 0 242728 0 034227 0 793 Columns 8 through 14 0 122416 0 796937 0 476 Columns 15 through 20 0 319655 0 366949 0 018 Octave is by default a command line driven application and this option starts the octave in a terminal window Subsequent plotting etc will ap pear in auxiliary windows File View Analysis Data Equati ons Matrix Plot Sta 0x9 Hoea Su Variable List Bx Editor e nauaux Name size Bytes test1 amp 8 al E Local y amp Func Qtoctave is a graphical interface to octave similar to this supplied with recent versions of MATLAB and Scilab It gives a complete working en vironment in series of dockable re arrangeable panes Gnuplot window id 0 an 2 e eQ a Mixing pm3d surfaces with hidden line plots No such opt gnuplot gt set xyplane gnuplot gt set title ange gnuplot gt set colorbo 0 front bdefault invalid coli gnuplot gt f x y sit gnuplot gt splot f x y f x u with li 1 gnuplot gt gnuplot is a scripting program for the generation of tw
74. efore changing the order 74 to VIII 2 Screen and Power management configuration The EDaL system interrogates the computer as it boots and attempis to set up all the peripherals automatically In certain circumstances infor mation can be missed or incorrectly read leading to the system booting slowly or even hanging To overcome some of these problems it is pos sible to enter one or more commands called cheat codes at the boot prompt that force particular setup options to be chosen The list below takes the user through a sequence to maximise the functionality avail able to the system 1 No Boot from CD DVD Change boot sequence section VIII 1 1 or boot from floppy see on line information available from windows environment 2 Interrupt Controller problems On some systems there can be problems with the APIC Reboot and type knoppix noapic at the boot prompt 3 PCI bus problems Interrupt Controller problems Reboot and type Knoppix pci bios at the boot prompt 4 Hangs after searching disks Reboot and type Knoppix noscsi at the boot prompt N B Stops access to USB memory sticks 5 Multiple problems Laptops it is possible to combine Cheat codes e g an common solution is Knoppix acpi off pnpbios off noapic pci bios knoppix acpi off pnobios off noapic noapm of ten works with problematic laptops 6 Failsafe mode If none of the above cheatcodes enable booting try the option knoppix failsafe This will
75. energy work power Fundamentals Handbook Chemistry Public Release Permission l l l Two volumes covering the basics of physical inorganic and organic chemistry including modules on Characteristic of atoms chemical bonding acids bases salts separation water treatment UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ARM Mau Department of Engineering VI Microprocessor As part of the MDP a joint project has been undertaken with the Balloon Board org to develop an Open Hardware Design low cost microproces sor controller system The system has been designed to enable univer sities colleges etc to use a single platform for in a range of applications from microcomputer fundamentals through system control and program ming for embedded processors to fpga programming and serious data acquisition systems Included on the EDaL system is e Information on the microprocessor system inc specifications e Details on the currently available add on boards with ECAD docu ments for the borads that have been used in student projects e Information on the software libraries and ARM assembler simula tor see section 111 13 2 Note also the web based introduction to microprocessors and ARM based varieties in particular found in the library section V 4 72 Vil Teaching resources Design Fundamentals Author Permission l Slides covering an introduction to design and me
76. ents The project has had a long genstation and a large number of people have contributed however as Pl s we would like to thank them all In particular e The Research Teaching assistants that have worked directly on the project Tim Froggatt Paul Fidler Patrick Willoughby Jaime Werkmeister Hong Ma Gareth Wilson Nicholas Caldwell e Dick Fenner Sandy Cambell Mike Brown Richard Christmas Stephen Tebbot and all the staff associated with 2 007 at MIT and the IDP at Cambridge e The computer support staff at Cambridge in particular Patrick Gosling Peter Benie e he many students who have help develop and trial ideas systems Above all the Pl s would like to thank the many companies software and teaching material developers who have kindly given their time and resources to help improve the project The authors would also like to thank Phil Jones for permission to use his Knowing KNOPPIX as a basis for this manual The MDP Engineer s Desktop and Library The Multidisciplinary Design Project MDP Engineers Desktop and Library EDal system is derivative of a Knoppix Linux Live DVD that has been cus tomised for use by students and engineers working on cross discipline projects It gives a standard working environment with a wide range of software tools useful for a practicing engineer or student together with a selection of text books data sheets and technical resources The system was developed as part of the MDP
77. erver parameters have been entered see section VIII 4 EDaL USB The disk access when using a USB memory stick booted environ ment is very similar to that available when using the CD DVD boot Desktop EDaL QEMU ISO image Boot 19 option However the users home area Home is by default saved to the spare space on the USB stick This means that the files are automatically stored and available to the user at the next boot When shutting down the computer it is important that the USB key remains in the machine until the power is off to ensure no data is lost When running in the Qemu emulator there is no direct access to the host machines disks unless the Run NFS server option is se lected during the start wizard see section 11 2 3 Once the NFS server has been started any disk seen by the windows machine can be accessed via the directory Drives C Drives Z corre sponding to drives C Z If a new drive is attached to the host machine while Qemu is running the links will need to be rechecked by Settings Discs Rescan Host Drives The disk access when using this option is identical to that found when using the C DVD boot option 20 Desktop 11 3 5 Network Internet Access 2 Configure the network Bi x Please select the network card to configure ethi NetwordCard 1 eth2 NetwordCard 2 X Cancel 2 Configure the network Bl x You need to enter some basic information t
78. expand x ix 2X 015 300000 E a 2 016 3x 6 200000 il7 factor x x 2x 38 0 11 1 1 1 100000 017 i18 solve x 018 x2 435 5i 1 x2435 5i 1 x20 i19 tex left x sqrt 35 i 1 x sqrt 35 i 1 x 0 right 55120 INPUT Simplify simplify P Factor Expand Solve Plot2D Simplify tr Expand tr Reduce Rectfort Solve ODE Plot 3D wxmaxima is a GUI for Maxima http maxima sourceforge net which is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions including differentiation integration Taylor series Laplace transforms ordinary differential equations systems of linear equations polynomials and sets lists vectors matrices and tensors wxMaxima can also plot results in2d and 3D and export expressions in ITEXand HTML format gpiv consol S Ol xh File Settings Help gpiv display 0 View Background Piv Scalar Scale Color e O x A Open Save Execute Stop Close Quit El image Y piv gradient residu validate sub pixel scale averag B Image Process Interrogate Validate Postp d Piv image int al acess imag n errogation iran 7 ral iM sl LY programs skel gpiv gpiv demo gpiv is a graphical front end to the gpiv to
79. f the simplest methods of starting the system running and accessing the applications Details and links to further information are also given to enable the user to set up connections to external devices and overcome specific hardware issues ll 1 How to start the system If the disk is placed in a drive while the computer is running Microsoft Windows the disc may auto start and present the user with an option screen that gives links to more information about the project and meth ods to run the software see Figure 1 If your optical drive is not set to autorun and the menu has not appeared view the disk in a Explorer window and click on the MDP menu or MDP menu exe icon MDP Multidisiplinary Design Project 1 About the MDP Project 2 How to use this disc MDP Engineer s Desktop and Library 3 Run the disc using a PC emulator 4 Reserve space on hard disc 5 View and save network settings B View reserved space with Explore2fs 7 Browse the contents of the disc 8 Copy disc image to hard disc 3 Make a boot floppy 10 Install accelerator for PC emulator 11 Exit Read all about the MDP Project Figure 1 MDP Option screen seen in Microsoft Windows desktops 1 Access to additional information re the MDP Project 2 Additional information re running the EDaL CD DVD 3 Running the system under a basic emulator QEMU l Section 11 2 3 4 Setting up MDP Reserved Space Section VIII 4 5 View and
80. functions online Scidavis Users Guide pdf Figure 1 1 A typical SciDAVis session There are numerous commands available in SciDAVis depending on the element which is selected Therefore the main menu har changes when you select a particular element of the project Moreover you can access to the set of commands relevant of an element by activating the context menu with the right button of the mouse J 3 cxt derives pee ary race sers Guide p A Table A table is a spreadsheet which can be used to store the datas you are entering It can also be used to do some calculations and statistical analysis of datas In s each table columns can be labelled as X values or Y values for 2D plotting or Z values if you plan to build a 3D plot A table can be created by the New gt New Table command Then there are several ways to fill the table with your data If you want to read a table from an ASCII file you can import the data from the file to a table with the Import ASCII gt Single File command Youcan alsoenter each value from the keyboard The Gnuplot Manual pdf Quick Reference Card pdf LaTeX Gnuplot Tutorial pdf wxMaxima Introduction pdf Manual pdf Simulation Ele Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help da E 3 0 tesmoricorenaa ja Aster See Application Help F1 FlightGear Overview Tutorial html Manual paf O erste E Hotkeys pdf full laps deployed make the plane b
81. g bar is being shown Once pressed the screen will normally change to show a numeric list of options enter the number most appropriate and the system should then boot from that device How you permanently change the settings depends on your com puter but this can normally be done by holding down one of the function keys or Delete or Esc at the prompt that appears just af ter the computer has turned on or been reset This should present you with a menu of various options You now need to find where your computer specifies its boot op tions and change them so that it tries to boot from a CD before it boots off the hard disk How this is achieved varies considerably from computer to computer so it may be a good idea to consult your computer s manual if it s available A suitable boot order might be 1st Device Floppy Disk If the system has one 2nd Device USB If the option is available 3rd Device CDROM 4th Device Hard Disk Drive Once you have made the changes make sure that you save them before you exit the setup menus It may be necessary to reboot the machine again to ensure the changes are actioned N B The process is reversible by selecting the option at a sub sequent re boot and returning the boot selections to the original order Warning Changing you boot order can effect the way your system behaves in the event of a hardware failure If concerned please con tact your computer administrator b
82. gfront vj lt gt lt 55 E gt 2883 1 3945 6 mil Click and drag to pan Right click and drag to zoom Gerber Viewer gerbv is a viewer for Gerber files which are normally generated from PCB CAD systems e g pcb and sent to PCB manu facturers as basis for the manufacturing process The different layers of the PCB are separated into different files gerbv can load all files at the same time and allows the user to browse through the different layers with the radio buttons on the left side Ta GNU Spice GUI Version 0 9 33 Alpha 04 07 2007 Home test sensors sch Bl Fille Simulate Options Help amp amp so amp O e Nodes Components Quiescent DC AC Transient Fourier i DC Sweep Parameters Start Value 0 00 2 units 2 Y Voltage Current Stop Value 100 00 Units Power 2j it al Step Incremen t 10 00 j Units Resistance r Step Scale e Lin Log Dec OPTIONS Sweep Source None e Temperature E 2700 DegC 4 Console Circuit Simulation GNU Cap NG Spice pir DUNE Pa Renaming nets f DONE Resol g hie h ONE ONE Sta b Y v lt Error The schematic file s test sensors sch couldn t be converted to a net list file Simulation Engine GNU Cap GNU Spice GUI provides a GUI for two freely available electronic circuit simulation engines GNU Cap and Ng Spice included in the gEDA suite 48 Applications Electrical CAD DA 1 10 2 Ele
83. ground and the active window in green Desktop Mouse Operations The system has some general operations accessible from the mouse while it is over the desktop or individual windows in partic ular Action Operation program Over the Desktop Left Opens start menu at the mouse location Middle Opens a list of all the open minimised windows subsequently selecting an entry with the Left but ton causes the system to change to the virtual desktop containing the application Over a Window Left Select Selecting and highlighting a section of text allows it to be copied to a new location by setting the cursor and pressing Middle mouse button Desktop 17 1 3 2 Setting Screen Resolutions 1 3 3 Printing During booting the EDaL system interrogates the system hardware and attempts to discover the correct graphics card type and screen resolu tion Unfortunately not all graphics cards and or monitors inc laptop screens return the correct information when probed The EDaL system will err on the side of safety and default to the highest screen resolution indicated by the hardware The screen resolution can be reset by either using the Start gt Settings Display Settings Change Screen Resolutions then selecting the desired screen resolution If this does not change the resolution a more advanced option can be selected by using Start gt Settings Display Settings Advanced Display Settings Force Resolution change
84. gs option allows the user to save specific windows and application setup data to a file help on a writable disk The system will initially search all available disks to check if there is a pre existing ver sion and then prompts the user as to where to write the file or which to overwrite N B This option is not normally used with the USB booted option as the data is automatically stored on the USB key 88 VIII 7 Emulators Vill 7 1 Qemu VIII 7 2 Virtual PC VIll 7 3 VMware VIII 7 4 Virtualbox VIII 8 CoLinux Running the EDaL system in an emulator is non ideal as there no uni versal solution for the problems encountered There are a number of options available see below each with their own particular issues with respect to speed sharing files hardware resources and interfaces Qemu is the default emulator supplied with the EDaL system and is dis tributed under the GPL with a home page at htto bellard org qemu lts GPL license and ability to run without installing anything on the host ma chines means that it is ideal as an initial test experimental system for a user However it slowness means that for any serious work the acceler ation extension kgemu needs to be installed see section 11 2 3 As distributed it has limited access to the host filing systems especially when the host is Windows The addition of the NFS server which can be initiated during the Qemu startup gives the most flexible solution Currently Now
85. h to use one or more of the pre installed packages and documentation to solve a problem Main working environment The EDaL system has been constructed to have all the standard software required for an engineer or student s day to day work Thus it can be used as a replacement for the more standard com mercial operating desktop offerings Introduction 7 Transportable System Especially when installed on a USB stick the system is easily trans ported and while giving a user access to all their standard applica tions and certain amount of data at the reboot of a normal PC see section II 2 2 Network solution In the situation were a number of computers need to run the EDaL system they can be setup to download the operating system and applications across a network from one image of the EDaL system thus simplifying updates and minimising hacking virus issues 1 1 2 What can it do As noted above the EDaL system has been assembled to give a fairly complete working environment for a engineer It has a relatively standard user interface giving menu access to desktop multimedia applications engineering design analysis packages and a library of useful data The table below shows some of the applications that have been included that give similar functionality to those found in Microsoft Windows more details on individual applications and resources are give in sections III IV V MS Windows EDaL Section MS Windows EDaL Section Office Scientifi
86. he one to configure once selected the system prompts for automatic DHCP or manual 1 DHCP capable networks oome networks can provide information to automatically configure your computer s network settings This is known as DHCP capabil ity Many educational establishments offer DHCP as standard and if you are connected to broadband via your computer s Ethernet port then DHCP is probably available N B Some networks may only allow DHCP access to predefined machines please see your network manager if this is a problem 2 Manual setting of network settings If you need to configure a network without using DHCP and you are unwilling can t run the save network parameters option from the MDP options menu section 3 you ll need the following infor mation Example 192 168 128 10 IP address DOR a NEN Subnetmask Default Gateway Table 3 Additional copies of this table to record data of commonly con nected systems is available on the last page of this document Each of the pieces of information will be a sequence of 4 1 2 or 3 digit numbers separated by dots e g 192 168 123 100 You could ask your network administrator for the information or alter natively use Desktop 21 a the automatic method outline below b Find them yourself see section VIII 5 on how to obtain them from a windows session 3 automatic recording of network settings Selecting option 5 from
87. hragm and methods of actuation Mechanical components Description and Operation of vari ous mechanical components systems including air compressors seam traps boilers Fundamentals Handbook Material Science Public Release Permission Inah packed HCP arrangement of atoms the unit cell consists of three exagonal close p layers of atoms The top and bottom layers contain six atoms at the corn and one atom at the center of each hexagon The middle layer contains three atoms nestled between the atoms of the top and bottom layers hence the name close packe aD HEXAGONAL CLOSE PACKED Wood Handbook Public Release Permission Wood Handbook Wood as an Engineering Material Five modules in 2 volumes total 200 pages covering the basics of the areas 1 Structure of Metals Atomic bonding lattice structure alloys de fects Properties of metals Properties of Metals Stress strain relationship UTS Heat treat ment Corrosion embrittlement 3 Thermal Shock Brittle Fracture mechanism fracture toughness 5 Plant materials Description and Operation of various mechani cal components systems including air compressors seam traps boilers Published by the US Dept of Agriculture the book contains detailed information on Commercially used woods Physical and mechanical properties of many species of wood Lumber grades and design properties Jointing techni
88. ies dialog and look at the text alignment buttons There youl fnd an Larg Enoh option for Align Text Block Multimedia Graphics Ima J Xodi IMDPICDideskoppsigimplgimp pdr zB x Ay 2 GIMP Concepts 2 1 Main Windows in GIMP igus Zh The creer Muara We Sana Windows OF bea Dlel aleLa ie E eri aut s NES cinto njajal a sJjojo s s Teses above cs the root isc range E GIMP ido bat cn e id ee tidy ing 1 Tue Matu Tce This the ear ofthe GIMP tontas the highest evel mea phis ase of can Talore tutus bet pi Kb ede 2 Tal options Docked bala the main Toolbar Tool Options dialog showing options for ho current secte col nc the Rectangle Set toa 3 An reg ndo Each image pen io GIMP is splayed ina separate window Many im Be opa at lho sumo ime the itt an nly bythe emou aliens metn Ti pe mo CIN witout haring ui ter leisure red y E Tj e 4 4 gt 9 jose form cm 8 2 Gut File Viewers Project Management dr Xpdf IMDPICDIengappsiprojectifreemind pdf El 9 Compare your mind map with the map given below rang an aie Figure2 The Article mina map Deleting nodes 1 Place your mouse pointer over the grey area ofa node 2 Press Delete Right clicking a node and using the node context menu can also be used to perform most of the editing inserting and Form
89. ies required Advanced Options Printer scheduling Aaditional Tags Labels for print jobs 2 Printer Properties Selected by the Properties but at the top left of the menu this initially gives access to the General part of the printer options Here the page size orientation number of pages sheet etc can be selected 3 Driver Settings More detailed printer settings where available can be set via the other tab options However the most used is probably the Driver Settings tab which give access to the detailed printer settings in cluding finishing options on more complicated devices e g folding stapling etc 4 System Options The System Options button at the bottom of the main menu gives the user access to the main KPrinter configuration menu Although most options should be left as default it can be useful to change the CUPS Server when access is available across the network Select the CUPS Server option from the left hand menu and then enter the host address e g print server acme co uk Normally the port number is 631 Should it be needed to rest it to the local machine enter the Host as localhost 78 VIH 4 Setting up Disc Access amp Access Hard Disks and USB Drives amp 9 Access CD or DVD Drives amp Access Reserved Space X Unmount Drives Access Floppy X Unmount Floppy amp Rescan Host Drives Emulator Only Access Local Network Drive 8 5 Access Network Drive SSH remote f
90. is USB2 compatible If the USB is large enough the user can store their own files on the same stick and have a truly portable system To start insert the USB memory device into a socket on the PC and restart the machine As with the CD DVD booting option older systems may not automatically boot from USB and therefore it may be necessary to either change the boot sequence options to USB rather than Hard Disc or CDrom If your system does not have an option to select USB as a boot media it is possible to start booting from a EDaL CD DVD which will automatically detect the USB device and swap A standard EDaL CD DVD can be used for this and once the desktop is active the disk can be removed freeing up the optical drive for other uses Alternatively there is a option of using a small or credit sized format CD for the initial boot sequence N B Some computers have multiple USB sockets not all of which are identical If your PC fails to boot from the memory stick try the alternative sockets 1 2 3 Booting under QEMU emulation Windows 200 NT XP Vista only There are a number of ways of running the MDP Desktop under em ulation however all but the disk usb QEMU method described here require additional programs to be installed on the users hard disc De tails of the alternative methods are available on the EDaL disk help area and from the MDP forums To operate in this mode insert the disk in to a suitable drive while running Microsoft
91. l Knoppix net Firefox Home atout MDP EDaL Library Microprocessor Resources fLinks Eorum Contact CMI MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN PROJECT fap Cambridge MIT S Institute Welcome to the Multidisciplinary Design Project MDP Engineer s Desktop and Library EDaL DVD which has been e to generate resources to enhance undergraduate a developed as part of a Cambridge MIT Institute CM programmi The MDP project is a teaching Cambridge MIT ns e funde e experimental EDaL disk offers users a suite of free or open source programs and resources aimed at helping them lo undertake cross discipline engineering projects before using this disk and the resources included N B Your About The MDP Information about the CMI funded MDP initiative the team working on the project and how you can become involved Iceweasel is the Debian Linux version of the popular browser Mozilla Firefox but without the Mozilla branding and trademark As a direct derivative the system will accept standard Firefox extensions etc xd T Elle Edit View Go Message Tools Help Get Mail Write Address Book Reply Reply Al Folders View All e Subject or Sender t Local Folders elo Subject Sender lo Date e 3 Inbox 45 Unsent A Draft 3 Sent Welcome to Icedove Mail News E rc i news cli Iced Mail News is a powerful open sou mail and lient Features Adapti
92. lp F1 Icedove Online help only See Help F1 Text Editor Emacs Emacs Beginner s Guide pdf Reference Card pdf 57 98 Documentation and Tutorials Desktop Applications IV 1 1 Wrapping figures Although not normally the case in academic writing an author may prefer that some floats do not break the flow of text but instead allow text to wrap around it Obviously this effect only looks decent when the figure in question is significantly narrower than the text width The package wrapfig was developed for this very task To use wrapfig you must first add usepackage furanfig to the preamble This then gives you access to the begin wrapfigure alignment width command Aligemene can be either for left or for right The wiath is obviously the width of the figure An example begin wreptigure r 40nm begin center includegraphics toucan eps end center caption the Toucan end wrapfigure Note thet the weapfigure environment is in fact non floating This means that it may require some cere in ensuring that your inserted figure doesn t run over page breaks Subfigures A useful extension is the subtigure package Unfortunately only version 2 0 is Installed on the Soc network but anewer much improved in terms of extra features version 2 1 4 is available so be careful if you see examples o this package that use the latest version Anyway this gives the author the ability to have figures withi
93. ls Design corrosion welded joint efficiency pipes and flanges inspection openings and supports Motors Introduction to squirrel cage motors torque speed char acteristics couplings V belts usage mounting geometry drive selection and traction mechanics Brakes and Clutches introduction to common types linings brake dynamics and use on vehicles Spur Gears Discussion of common types involutes design of gear trains Collection of notes describing for use by students undertaking mecha nism Robotic work in a workshop topics covered include Machine Elements Pivots Sliding Bearings Trigger Mecha nisms Wheel Designs Pulley Drives etc manufacturing Safety Tapping and screwing machining rigid plastics 64 Library Materials and Mechanical Joining and Fastening techniques Adhesive riveted stapled joints quick disconnect fasteners Calculations Tips for Doing Calculations examples Fundamentals Handbook Mechanical Science Public Release Permission Five modules in 2 volumes total 250 pages covering the basics of the areas Diesel Engine Fundamentals basic operation of diesel engine and associated computer e g governors injectors Heat Exchangers Terminology types of exchangers and appli cations Pumps Description of types of centrifugal and positive displace ment pumps and their usage Valves Operation type e g Gate Ball Plug Diap
94. m 100 0 vjs 5 Diagram modified Dia is similar in operation to the commercial program Visio but with less functionality It is particularly good at constructing relationship diagrams UML diagrams flowcharts network diagrams It has a substantial library and can export diagrams to a number of formats including EPS SVG XFIG WMF and PNG http www ribbonsoft com qcad html GPL Drawing CAD blender http www blender org GPL SALOME T Salome http www salome platform org GPL 41 a m DIMENSION a DIMENSIONS NOTES a 107 100 x Loaded document IDrives hda7 proeng coombs rotor1 dxf 1 Command Ed 2752727 192 3636 752727 pa Entities 21376 206 5666 lt 21 370 E Qcad is a fast and easy to use 2 D Cad package with libraries for me chanical architectural and electronic parts components lis default file format is dxf Drawing eXchange Format which enables it to read and write to most of the commercial CAD packages 1 Circle j Blender is a free 3D modelling animation application that uses Virtual Reality Modelling Language VRML as its core file format It has a wide range of input and output formats allowing it to interchange models with other CAD packages and output models to the web and rapid prototyping applications
95. mati ns oon ophel engines span in rogi pi the commercial w orld a r proi Late TeX is used because of the qu aoe sl 2n me pena tite e by TeX The types sti ng syste ide ui cca a able ds sktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automatin po mosta spects o pes etin a and des stc publishing N su mbering referencing ti and figures page sa ut and bi B phis Xlatex B http www tug org IB LPPL esa mama 0 ESSES EI xdvik is a fast viewer of dvi DeVice Independant files as generated by TEgXand ATEX and is used as the default previewer for xlatex and Kile Applications Viewers 31 i File pdfsam 1 0 0 b3 Plugins pdfsam http www pdfsam org opt optan G P L Burst split into single pages Split after these pages O Split even pages Split every n pages O Split odd pages Split at this size I Destination folder O Same as source v Overwrite if already exists v Compress output file files Output document pdf version Version 1 5 Acrobat 6 v A 8 split EH PDF Split and Merge pdfsam allows the user to modify existing pdf files e g split into chapters single pages etc merge pdf documents or subsections extract sections single pages It also has the ability to automate recurrent operations 9e Applications Multimedia 1
96. mproves with memory however do not select all the host machine s memory Typically select up to 128MB or 256 MB less than the host machine s total memory 3 By default the emulator s maximum window size is 1024x768 how ever if the host machine has a large screen resolution this can be increased by selecting he tick box 4 N B The Use Reserved space file is currently deactivated 5 NFS Server if started this gives access to any drives e g C Z mounted in the host system e g hard drives CDs USB sticks network drives etc Access is via the folder Drives X where X is the drive letter in the host operating system In some cases the system sees empty drives e g card readers which cannot be mounted immediately The host system e g Win dows may give a Security Alert This can be ignored by selecting unblock At the end of the booting phase the user is presented with a normal window adjustable in size containing the basic EDaL Desktop see Fig ure 2 N B When operations are carried out in the Qemu EDaL window the system locks the mouse to the window to release it and allow operations on the Windows desktop press the Ctrl and Alt keys at the same time It should be noted that the basic unaccelerated version of the QEMU emulator can be very slow depending on your system setup and mem ory and graphic intensive applications tasks may be awkward to use Alternative and potentially faster commercial emul
97. n figures Subfigures have their own caption and an optional global caption is also allowed An obvious application watid be to illustrate the before and after effects of a given operation An example vill best illustrate the usage of this package beginifigure thtp begin center sub igure Original image Label fig edge a includegraphics scale 9 75 toucan eps subfiguretAfter Laplace edge detection label fig edge b includegraphics scale 0 75 Asubfigure After Sobel edge detection label fig edge c includegraphics scale 0 75 s end center Aception Various edge detection algorithms lebeLifig edge end rigure ES 0 Origimlimage O Aler laps Go Alter Sobel edge Figure 1 Various edge detection algorithms tg Creating and editing text frames One of the first things you ll discover is that Scribus is definitaly not a good taxt editor or word processor I yours going to have largo sections of body style text use a separate word processor io create the text then copy and paste i into your Scribus text frame The thinking here is why make a bloated publisher program when there are nice text edtors already available on nearly ux distributi When you paste text into Scribus it needs to be unformatted Scribus ess does not handle formatting from cutside sources well Create a text frame by clicking the text frame button on the tool bar Then click and diag the mouse pointer to creat
98. nd digital inputs outputs to enable simple control programs to be developed IV Documentation and Tutorials A large number of the programs included in the EDaL system have em bedded help files however some have been found to be limited or do not work well with the EDaL system In addition feedback has been shown that most users prefer to have option to read documentation and tutorials in paper format Therefore wherever possible PDF copies of the standard and extended application help documents have been included on the system allowing them to be accessed quickly from the EDaL tab on the local MDP documents web page see item 4 on the start menu Following the links to Desktop Apps and Engineering Apps gives access to the database The listings below give an indication of the documentation and tutorials that are available N B Some documents are large 800 pages so while browsing is fast as the documents are held locally the user may wish to limit the range of pages printed should hard copy be required IV 1 Desktop Applications Wordprocessing Spreadsheet Presentation OpenOffice a Microsoft Office Open Office Migration Guide pdf O E A Writer Getting Started with Writer pdf 2 Calc Getting Started with Calc paf O Predefined Engineering Spreadsheets O Migration Guide Impress Getting Started with Impress pdf Draw Getting Started with Draw pdf Web Browser Mail tool Mozilla Iceweasel Online help only See He
99. nfringed someone s copy right In the event that such infringement occurs involving material on our CD DVD USB website we will remove the materials from the website and CD DVDs USBs following notification and restore the materials to the website and future CDs DVDs USBs only after receiving written permission to do so from anyone with a valid claim as the owner of copyright in the materials Reference to any products services or other information by trade name trademark supplier or oth erwise does not constitute or imply the endorsement sponsorship or recommendation by us The University of Cambridge MIT and CMI can accept no liability for any goods or services provided to you by third party suppliers The suppliers will be supplying you on their own terms and conditions and you should check that you agree to those terms and conditions before placing an order with them Contents MDP Engineers Desktop and Library 1 1 Introduction MMB LL 299 1 1 1 How to use EDaL systeM e 11 2 What can it d0 sara o lara a Cx 1 1 3 How does work Getting Started 11 1 11 2 1 3 How to start the system TM 1 1 1 Notes JW ee Booting methods x 39 3 i ee See ete a see ee waeeeee 1 2 1 Booting from the EDaL Disk CD DVD 1 2 2 Booting from an USB Memory device ee 1 2 3 Booting under QEMU emulation Wind
100. o and three dimensional plot It can be used as a standalone application or as a helper application for other programs e g Octave and wxMaxima on the EDaL system gnuplot can produce output directly on screen or in many formats of graphics files including PNG EPS SVG JPEG and many others It is also capable of producing LaTeX code that can be included directly in LaTeX documents 46 Applications Electrical CAD DA Ill 10 Electronic CAD and Analysis 1 10 1 gEDA E gscheme http geda seul org GPL xgsch2pcb http geda seul org GPL pcb hhttp pcb sourceforge net GPL The disk contains a range of ECAD related packages including schematic capture pcb layout simulation and analysis The gEDA gnu Electronic Design Automation suite offers most gEDA is a suite of electronic design automation EDA tools Currently the project offers a mature suite of free software applications for elec tronics design including schematic capture attribute management bill of materials BOM generation netlisting into over 20 netlist formats analog and digital simulation and printed circuit board PCB layout g g File Edit Buffer View Page A Hierarc Attributes Options Hel BEBE Selom gschem is the schematic capture program tool part of gEDA It can be used on its own to produce high quality schematics or as the primary input to other packages within th
101. o configure your network connection Press Help if you want more information Your IP Address 123 163 0 1 The Network Mask 255 255 255 0 The Default Gateway 129 169 56 250 A OK xX Cancel Help N B The next section can be skipped over if the user does not require Internet access immediately If you wish to use network facilities e g view web pages check email connect to your organisation s main computer system and the system is not running in an emulator then you may need to configure your network settings N B When the EDaL system in an emulator the external connections of the host system typically Windows are automatically used Wired Internet If your computer has a a single wired Internet connection which is con nected at boot up then the EDaL system will attempt to make a auto matic connection to the Internet using DHCP see 1 below If this fails or there are a number of interfaces in the computer it may be necessary to manually select the interface and or set the network settings see 2 amp 3 below If problems still exist see section VIII 5 for more information Access to the main network setup routines is via the menus sections gt Start Settings Network Network Card N B Start Settings 2 Network Network Interface Info gives more information on the individual interfaces At this point if there is more than one network card the user is prompted to select t
102. ols which have been written to obtain analyse and present the data from PIV experiments Primarily developed for the measurement of fluid flows PIV can also be used to measure any small displacements in 2D provided there are enough markers avaialble in the image Applications Programming Languages 55 11 13 Programming 1 13 1 Development Environments Emacs Emacs has been included as a all encompassing editor IDE with editing modes for most languages see section lll 1 for more details http www gnu org software emacs GPL E Geany http geany uvena de GPL dA Xcc http www eng cam ac uk GPL 111 13 2 Languages C http gcc gnu org GPL C C http www gcc gnu org GPL untitled c Home qq Geany Bux File Edit Search View Document Project Build Tools Help 3 E D amp l d U x amp O Y o New Open Revert Close Compile Stop Color Symbols Openfiles untitled c X Y Functions 15 d a q 16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License main 25 17 long with this program if not write to the Free Software 18 Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston 19 MA 02110 1301 USA 20 21 22 23 include lt stdio h gt 24 2 int main int argc char argv 26 27 printf Hel world 28 return 0 29 30 v lt gt Status 07 41 14 This is Geany 0 12 Compiler 07 41 14 Project qq opened Messages 07
103. orge net GPL amp gpiv http gpiv sourceforge net GPL Applications Scientific Tools access to data items and also the ability to display element phases at a user selected temperature BA gonvert 0 2 17 Unit Conversion Utility DI x File Tools Help Density UK gallons per minute 54 5530833839 gpm UK Electrical Capacitance litres per minute 12 Ipm Electrical Charge Unit Name Value Units Electrical Current UK gallons per minute 54 5530833839 gpm UK Electrical Inductance UK gallons per second 0 909218056398 gps UK Electrical Resistance amp Con US gallons per minute 45 424941408 gpm US Electrical Voltage US gallons per second 0 7570823568 gps US Electromagnetic Radiation litres per minute 12 0 Ipm Energy Work litres per second 0 2 Ips Flow dry T Flow liquid Force Fuel consumption Illumination Length Luminance Luminous Flux gonvert is a conversion utility that allows conversion between many units schemes e g SI CGS Imperial with over 50 categories like length mass numbers etc All units converted values shown as you type 4 wxMaxima 0 7 0a unsaved El Gnuplot window id 0 File Edi ima Equations Algebra Calculus Simplify Plotting Numeric amp rasa wu eg Ha amp xttxog mw 1 12 Du 55014 500000 i15 factor 2 2 36 400000 i16
104. ort jarnal http www dklevine com general software tc1000 jarnal html GPL 9 28 506 eo gt algia ale ma 4 ie T m 7 5 2 41414 1 1 i siis 4 e 7 D x V Porc we The MDP Engineers Desktop and Library Cambridge CB2 1PZ January 2008 IIl mc z Page 1 of 49 Vera 20 0pt black Medium black pen 7 08 X 10 02 mem 4 43 Jarnal is a cross platform general purpose application for note taking sketching keeping a journal making a presentation annotating a doc ument including PDF or collaborating across the intra internet using a stylus mouse or keyboard It has similarities to Microsoft Windows Journal and One Note but has much better facilities for embedding doc uments and revisiting previous decision points i ganttproject http sourceforge net projects ganttproject GPL Ganttproject is a simple project management tool similar to MS Project There is a import export function for MSP files as freemind http freemind sourceforge net GPL P file usrishare docifreemind freemind mm lt 3 gt FreeMind Browse Mode File Edit View Insert Format Navigate Tools Maps Modes Help Elala 100 Sl URLfile fusr share doc freemind freemind mm
105. ory device the EDaL system uses a RAM disc as the users default Home directory This means that any saved data will be LOST when the system is shutdown unless it is transferred to alternative storage media see section 11 3 4 for details on how to access discs 1 2 1 Booting from the EDaL Disk CD DVD This is the standard method of operation To operate in this mode place the EDaL disk in your optical drive and restart the machine Power down and switch on N B Please ensure that you are using a suitable drive if using the DVD version alij ty After a few seconds a splash screen should appear offering the user the SER option to set some specific machine settings Initially leave these empty as the system should automatically set up your machine Depending on the speed of the host machine the total boot time will take typically 2 4 minutes during which a series of diagnostic messages will appear on the screen These can be ignored unless the system hangs in which case please refer to section VIII 2 Problem System Reboots into Windows Some machines particu larly older systems are not automatically setup to boot from an optical drive In these cases the system will reboot into windows when restarted and possibly display the MDP options menu Many new machines now allow the user to select the boot media for the current session often accessed by pressing f12 during the initial boot sequence If your com puter accepts
106. out What sthis Help Komparator is an application that simplifies the task of synchronizing two directories e g for backup or copying to from USB stick The copying options include copy newer or missing files together with removal of du plicate files folders and empty folders oO x W File Edit Clean Up Treemap Report Settings Help I a O z q f Name Subtree Percentage Percentage Subtree Total Own Size Items Files Subdir E3 Home 19 2 MB 210Bytes 949 499 2 e mozilla EE 0 52 396 10 0MB 13kB 63 56 Es kd l rstat e thumbnails 19 0 36MB 10kB 78 76 e E3 lt Files gt ED 15 1 2 9 MB 32 32 a e 0penoffice org2 W 1 9 196 1 7 MB 13kB 191 104 http kdirstat sourcefo rge net a E3 gimp 2 2 L 3 18 3471kB 195Bytes 106 87 e blender E 0 596 92 3kB 819Bytes 222 7 G P L e kde M 0 496 782kB 13kB 49 26 ES o Alza 0 3 _ 66 8 kB 13 kB 43 30 ap 4 Finished Elapsed time 00 00 00 497 KDirStat is a powerful graphical disk usage utility that allows the user to easily see disc usage Easy access to displays for individual directories and auto launching of individual files b 1 K3b The CD and DVD Kreator B File Project Tools Settings Help LEM Ed yd B rvesmda7 al3 du x x Bdyv m s 3dev Be ed x Finales ly k3b o Drives li fengrid dxt E thermal lag engine pdf Ehda1 XJ free_flow_area pdf Ehda2
107. ows 200 NT XP Vista only 1 2 4 Booting from an ISO image of the EDaL disk Desktop and initial setup Wa Mm 2 2 ee ee ee 1 3 1 Desktoplayout Ma 1 3 2 Setting Screen Resolutions eee ee 1 3 3 Printing q Na 1 3 4 Disk Access WEE 00202222 e ee 135 Network lnternet Access 000 eee ee ee a a Applications 111 4 111 2 1 3 111 4 IRS 1 6 Mee Accessories MM Dc Admin 9BHB ee Inte NEN LLL oll RR RS m rm Viewers O 2222222 eel lr RR RR eB RRRRnaRea Multimedia WH a a OpenOffice DTP s MS owe ea Ghee eee ea ee wee Ligo a LG6 1 OpenOffice g lll Sm SIE lee Bn n B Bn rrBM Rye9 MED Mc e a 10 10 10 11 11 13 14 14 17 17 18 20 22 23 21 28 30 32 36 36 39 40 4 MDP Engineers Desktop and Library Il 8 Project Support sans 43 ME WOGIAVE Gossip EE 9 en 5 sx M Em ARA ee AE 45 111 10 Electronic CAD and Analysis 2 0 0 0 ee a 46 MAGA GEDA ccoo carr Ge bS eee eed ere RE 46 111 10 2 Electronics Simulation and Analysis eee eae 48 111 14 Simulations 427 QN o sss 51 111 12 Scientific Tools 49 Sih 7 59 111 13 Programming 4J934 amp 2 55 1 13 1 Development Environments rrr 55 Who Languages sss seses ek a eRe AD PEA RA 45x 55 IV Documentation and Tutorials 57
108. people with knowledge of the language and it speed of learning operation make a very functional language for scripts Also a number of the underlying formatting and web scripting programs used in the MDP project were based on old BBC Basic scripts Bash is the GNU Project s Bourne Again SHell which is a super set of the Bourne Shell sh As such bash can process most shell scripts with out modification while giving offering a number of powerful extensions Run in a standard xterm it offers simple emacs editing commands com mand history and completion iX The Rolecks Arm Simulator testi backup s testlbackup bin Ls i MOV PC R14 Rolecks Hardware Interface re Panel 0 bm ao ne Hardwai e Hx a bef Roa ther sbc R2 RO R1 k d gogg mov RO 0x0 reset RO a gu mow R1 0x0 0 0 00 0 0 O O BL sysreadsliders read slider O now Rl 0x0 invert pz Y BL syswriteleds write value of slider O in leds EN E mov Ri 0xX1 Hardware Pai pe 1 gt a k nel 1 R10 0x 00 00 00 00 E Vr Vr Arii qi R11 Ox 00 00 00 00 k Q e e R12 0x 00 00 00 00 00005000 R13 Ox CA FE 00 00 R14 0x 00 00 00 48 Inven foi Standard Input Based on Rolecks developed at the University of Massachusetts the program gives a simple ide that can be used to develop ARM assembler Access is given to simulated analogue inputs a
109. plications ermission p Introduction to operational amplifiers and descriptions of most of the standard circuits and usages Introduction to Microprocessors An web based introduction to microprocessors that is designed to match a corresponding set of lecture notes and practicals based on the MDP Balloon microprocessor system see section VI 66 PCB Design Tutorial author www alternatezone com PCB Design Tutorial by David L Jones Transactions Permission http www omega com Library Electronic Electronics amp Instrumentation Short form design manual for PCB construction covering aspects of Schematics Design rules for PCB layout tracks vias Details for ground planes auto routing and track loading Design for manufacture Panelisation tooling and testing Four volume monograph by Omega Engineering on standard instrumen tation techniques Each measurement topic is covered in detail dis cussing the underlying physics sensor ranges accuracy repeatability e Vol Non contact temperature measurement Vol Il Data acquisition Vol Ill Force related strain gauge pressure vacuum force acceleration load cells Vol IV Flow and Level measurement Fundamentals Handbook Instrumentation and Control Public Release Permission http www energy gov Four volumes total 540 pages covering the basics of the areas e Temperature Detectors
110. plish a statically determinate system the program will indicate that the system is inconsistent 52 Applications Simulation alculation Addi a Cem Jem 2 Pala fackwerk3d http fachwerk berlios de GPL o um Similar in operation to Fachwerk see above the program allows the analysis and visualisation of 3 dimensional strut and tie models Flightgear http www flightgear org GPL Flight Gear is a flight simulator that can be used for simply understanding flight controls or as the underlying simulation code is opensource for direct simulation of flight parameters See the manuals for more details Applications Scientific Tools 59 111 12 Scientific Tools SciDAVis untitle File Edit View Scripting Graph Tools Analysis Format Windows He nbs gsnBssalm R Results Log Lin n fit of dataset Table1 2 using function A x B fei Method No weightin Fri ltox 7 t 0 681818181818182 1 12845304638151 SciDavis Sm http scidavis sourceforge net rm GPL SciDavis is a interactive application aimed at data analysis and publication quality plotting It combines a shallow learning curve and an intuitive easy to use graphical user interface with powerful features such as scriptability and extensibility nm m zl SSS oe O mm Test Plot for Handbook xmgrace http pl
111. ques inc fasteners glue Finishing and preservation techniques Fire safety considerations Usages of wood as structural elements in buildings Library Electronic Electronics amp Instrumentation 65 V 4 Electrical Electronics and Instrumentation Electrical Electronic and Instrumentation resources and databooks Lessons in electric circuits Design Science mE A six volume total 2300 pages introduction to electrical electronic cir cuits 1 DC Circuits AC Circuits Semiconductors A common collector amplifier Digital Circuits Reference Information o 0 FR wD Experiments Fundamentals Handbook Electrical Science Public Release Permission Four volumes total 540 pages covering the basics of the areas e Basic Electrical Theory Atoms forces Terminology Electrical units Electrical generation magnetism electrical symbols e Basic DC Theory DC sources DC circuit calcs Kirchoff s law circuit analysis e DC Circuits Inductance Capacitance e Batteries DC Motors Terminology theory battery types e AC theory Components and generators e AC Motors transformers and distribution systems Op Amps for Everyone ermission l l p Detailed analysis of the internal structure of operational amplifiers to gether with analysis of the noise levels input output impedances and bandwidths Handbook of Operational Amplifiers Ap
112. rake You plunge towards the runway to land of course but also to keep the speed at 70 knots s Decrease the engins power 1 4 the maximum is often fine The Cessna 172p needs even less 1 tend to decrease the engine power throughout the dive to end with almost no power The I possibility to add engine power is necessary for your safety and for the precision of the landing but also the possibility to decrease the engine power So I try to make my dives a way that I keep the engine at some decent power level throughout the dive If a dive obviously begins with the need to decrease the power to minimum there is a risk you touch a the runway far beyond its start Watch the speed indicator like it if was your heartbeat Control the speed using the el O yl lal IC I O e I lal Ua p yokelelevator The dive makes you head towards the runway You will soon become aware that the plane is going towards a point of the runway much further than the start of the runway There is nothing wrong with that on a long runway Yet you should train to land on short runways In order to correct the dive and head towards tho start edge of the runway decrease the engine power On the Cessna 172p this often leads to power to minimum while on most other airplanes you keep some power tuned in The picture below is a snapshot from a good v ccce xii REDTools Function Guide pdf Reference Card pdf Ele
113. relies on the host CPU to do the signal processing Typically these systems work with windows only drivers and will therefore not work with the EDaL system The recommended way to obtain an connection with the above modems is is to use K Point to Point Protocol KPPP 1 2 3 4 Select Settings Network Ext Int Modem will start KPPP Selecting Configure Click the Device tab If your modem is plugged into the serial port called COM 1 in Win dows set Modem device to dev ttySO If it is plugged into the port called COM in Windows select dev ttyS1 If you have a PCM CIA Cardbus modem select dev modem If you have an internal ISA modem select dev ttySO first if that doesn t work try up to dev ttyS3 N B on some recent systems the modem may appear as dev ttyUSBn where n is a number between 0 3 5 Click the Modem tab 6 Click Query modem 7 You should see a response from the modem If not go back to step 7 and try another modem device setting 8 Click the Accounts tab 9 Click New Click Dialog setup 84 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 In Connection name enter a name for the connection eg test Beside Phone number click Add Enter your Internet Service Provider s dial up access number If you don t know ask your Internet Service Provider Click OK Click OK This will take you back to the account
114. ress Port Somn Protocol p U tty y Raw y Telnet y Rlogin SSH Load save or delete a stored session http www chiark greenend org uk sg m t th tt Default Settings Close window on exit A Always wv Never y Only on clean exi Putty is a powerful SSH Telnet and Rlogin client which allows easy remote access to systems E gFTP 2 0 18 ax i ETP Local Remote Bookmarks Transfers Logging Tools Help h E p AAA j a Y Host eng cam ac uk Port User Pass e ssu22 Home v homes users c pigl2 i y E p Local All Files gate eng cam ac uk SSH2 All Files E Ot Filename Size User Group w 0 Filename Size User Group X 1 024 root E 16 384 0 http gftp seul org amp dbus 60 us acrobat 1 024 13079 13000 2 E a C3 adobe 8 192 13079 13000 2 anjuta 8 192 13079 13000 M IT G beagle 8 192 13079 13000 codeblocks 1 024 13079 13000 C3 config 8 192 13079 13000 cued desktop 1 024 13079 13000 fa dbus 1 024 13079 13000 Mi lt E lt d gt CHIC USTI Je UL DES AU UL EVE UI AL UIC ISE CUIDAD 7 Uu u TA 20 File handle 22 Close 22 Open Directory 22 OK gFTP is a Graphical front end to ftp which allows a simple method of transferring file between computer systems It is particularly useful if try ing to access files on a remote system that does not allow Windows file sharing Sam
115. rive c Host Optical Disc D Drive d Host USB Stick E Drive e 81 VIII 5 Internet access The main ways to get connected to the Internet are e Direct ethernet connection via local area network e Ethernet gateway router e External serial modem e PCMCIA serial cardbus modem the EDaL system is designed first and foremost for wired Ethernet net working This gives you the best chance of success Meanwhile the following connection methods may Most internal PCI dial up Most external USB broadband modems Most wireless 802 11 PCI and PCMCIA cards Some PCMCIA modem network combination cards e AOL and Compuserve The above methods tend to rely on proprietary software that requires Microsoft Windows Even if the proprietary software were available for Linux which it sometimes is these days it cannot be distributed with EDaL due to licence constraints VIII 5 1 Obtaining Internet information from windows The following procedure roughly describes how to find internet informa tion on Microsoft Windows Note that the names that you should select may vary slightly on different versions of Windows Local Area Connection Properties 21 xl General Connect using 8 Cheap Network Card Configure Components checked are used by this connection v Client for Microsoft Networks v a File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks UY Internet Protocol TCP IP Open
116. s http www gnu org software emacs GPL meld http meld sourceforge net GPL 23 ATE jJ Xfe ivesihdaz databook Eile Edit Bookmarks View Leftpanel Rightpanel Help noso OM m xcd nmmim ssts w Location Es Drives hda7 databook e Folders IDrives hda7 interestingpicsvideos cancrush files Drives hda databook aE bugs al Name Size Type EJ cad lt a 4KB Folder aE cdio EJ siderived files 4KB Folder ey Era gr horzbargif Tankerview1 jpg B conversion data pdf 18 0KB PDF File amp 3 cmifinalreport A DC drives harmonics pd 157 2 PDF File ey cmt o A ENGINEER PDF 20MB PDFFile EJ computer ue E By Esaving_air pdf 611 6 PDF File mf courseweb F nskbearing pdf 852 7 PDF File aE courseworkcomm bckgrdbumpd4 gif Slime gif Tankerview2 jpg O robustglossary sty 19KB Document sf CPlusPlus E C robustindex sty amp 8KB Document sf 0v247 pee fe robustsample tex 9 1KB TeX File i um Ej siderived htm 409KB HyperText Ej Ss databoo A sizing formulae pdf 7174 PDF File Dr gif limelabs gif Tankerviews join Eg debs rg Simeaosgi AME E SP pocket gudepdf 23MB PDF File 23 downloads world power systems pdf 122 9 PDF File af drawing y a 1g A 4 16 7 MB 4 3 Items lt 14 Items Xfe is a lightweight and fast file browser which has similar capabilities to Windows explorer but in addition has the ability to have multiple panes and
117. s and a set up wizard accessed from the Aaministration tab T Administration CUPS 1 2 7 Iceweasel File Edit view History Bookmarks Tools Help re Se 1 Select Printer G Google MDP Document ts About this CD amp Engineering Dept Hermes Webmail o andas The initial gives access to a number of sections of the CUPS sys tem but the area at the top left under Printers is the area of interest Any attached printer will be shown in the New printers rae Found list Select Add This Printer corresponding to the printer m you wish to use F Share published connected to this s r not just their own F Save debugging y 3l dl Add Printer CUPS 1 2 7 Iceweasel Dl x File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools He elp lt amp e a http localhost 631 admin op add printe i Es oca A n n its ogle MDP De ocumeni ts Abo ut this cD En agin ring De pt 1 He ermes Webmail 2 Select Printer Driver The user is then presented with a long list of available printer drivers scroll to the appropriate one for the selected printer and TT 3 press Add printer Normally the system selects the correct driver HP Lase ares dece mh intv5 0 0 e m HP Laserjel a CUPS Gutenprint v5 0 0 en a E H rase 1012 Creme Ya 00 1em automatically and the scroll selection process can be omitted HP Laserjet 1100 CUPS Gutenprint v5 0 0 en E HP Laserjet et 1100A CUPS Guten nprin in
118. s gallons per second Spe Msi ath Text Effects Whiteboard Help Hew rro d LoxdecsGcument Drive Electromagnetic Radiation litres per minute 12 0 Ipm sb aaa nam su l4 E z Es Ed EM energy work tres per second 02 ls m al car pL y b Flow dry component a cara Multidisciplinary Design Project Rum Flow liquid O Sources 20 ia 150 200 1a 1 1 20 as DN Pe pen lor a i Battery ov A Cumbridge MIT stitule fu ip 2bzsin a Force S Fixed Voltage A 3c b trand Fuel consumption mn f E Ground OV m 4 plot c llumination e Current Source g k 5 Ss 6 B o Length o Voltage Signal n L E rent Signa iminance 6 Current Signal Dis Rb 5 lt E ska rth o t Luminous Flux LA Trg o v n gt Find Shorti 5 1 Terminal E a E EIS o 3 o Passive 9 u bs meeretor Magnesium Capacitor Name e Inductor symbol 2 Resistor DIP Potentiometer f Variable Capacitor amp Variable Resistor Discrete P Diode Atomic Number Atomic Weight u m Density g cm Melting Point K Boiling Point K Atomic Radius pm Covalent Radius om Engineer s Desktop and Library n ettings Help a m eis e at CU gt 5 A i Ge ce As Br PRP Timeline Monit Clip Monitor kK PNP File Edit View Insert Format Tools Slide Show win 2 n eic WFD o weed oa a EH BR E gt SO Prep D 1 Oe 0 e cs BRI IER 5 Ere 501 Tc o k NPN aed200
119. s screen Click OK again Enter your login ID and password Again if you don t know what they are ask your Internet Service Provider Click Connect You should hear the modem work In a few moments the KPPP window should shrink down to the Taskbar It should then read 00 00 on the Taskbar This indicates your time online in hours and minutes Congratulations you have connected to the Internet successfully To disconnect click the KPPP button in the Taskbar The KPPP window will come back up Click Disconnect The phone call will be ended Vill 5 4 Setting up Email News feeds Icedove This section can be ignored if the user collect their mail via a web mail site e g HotMail various university company systems The EDaL system uses Icedove the Debian version of the Mozilla mail client If the user wished to use it as their standard email reading system it will need to be set up to collect the mail from the correct server The first time Icedove is selected from the menu it will start a wizard with the following steps which are similar to those used to set up most mail accounts It should be noted that some items marked may need information that needs to be obtained from the organisation supplying the mail service 1 Import Settings and mail Folders From It is suggested that this option is declined until the user is sure they wish to move mail clients New Account Setup Icedove allows the user to setup news
120. sages 4 Output im Konsole 3 pe siaqe7 49819 gt Normal mode Line 607 Col 19 INS NORM Kile is a fully featured development environment for the production of ATEX documents with a simple to use user interface that gives a click and place functionality to ATEXformats 40 111 7 Drawing CAD e inkscape http www inkscape org GPL xfig http www xfig org userman frm introduction html GPL dia http www inkscape org GPL Qca Drawing CAD JHome suspension svg Inkscape File Edit View Layer Object Path Text Effects Whiteboard Help BB S PTE E Deus Bb se WRA QQ xD 3528 IB SLAG ESSE 100 ee 150 200 Inkscape is vector graphics editor that uses Scalable Vector Graphics SVG file format as it s base format and allows the use of many of the standard SVG features e g markers clones alpha blending etc It has a wide range of export formats and is similar in operation to Illustrator CorelDraw or Xara X Xfig has a slightly old style of user interface but once mastered gives a very powerful 2D drawing package with low end CAD functionality It has a range of predefined drawings including circuit and structural force diagrams E Diagram1 dia O x File Edit Diagram View Objects Select Tools Input Methods Help 10 15 20 a 1 lt gt Zoo
121. t system accessible Access Local Network Drive will take the user through a wizard to access local typically on the same network disk systems ac cessible via Samba The users is first prompted for the Network drive e g fileserver acme co uk another1 and then the username and password of a users who is permitted to access the directory files A subsequent menu prompts the user to enter and then select the name of the directory under which the network drive will become accessible user through a Access Network Drive SSH remote This option is similar to the option above but uses the SSH en crypted protocol to route the traffic between the EDaL system and the remote server SSH is often used on systems that are ac cessed via the public Internet to improve security Access Default Network Share samba In organisations that have a default Samba server the EDaL sys tem enables users to automatically access their remote files by only having to enter their username and password the remote system will appear in a directory with the name of the individuals username in the Home directory Configure Server Connections This option allows a system to be preset connections In particular access to the users home network system default samba server and if used license server This last option is normally only used if commercial software is used e g Pro Engineer 19 MDP reserved area for NTFS discs Windows NT 2000 XP Vista
122. t the disk in the Drives directory of xfe and and use the mount option on the menu accessed by pressing the right mouse button The precise method of accessing disks varies depending on the mode in which the EDaL system is being run The table below gives some details and section VIII 4 1 gives more details on the naming conventions EDaL CD DVD The default users space Home is a RAM disk i e its contents are held in the main memory This mean that f large files are written into this area the computer can run out of memory and the EDaL system may become VERY slow When the user shuts down the computer any files directories will be lost The data needs to be transferred to permanent storage if the user required it to be saved N B A warning window is displayed if data is remaining in the RAM disk at shutdown The CD DVD drives and existing disks in the host computer are visible via the Drives directory or directly from the desktop but may need to be mounted before they can be accessed Any external drives or USB drives will normally be detected when they are connected however they will normally need to be mounted before they can be accessed Network drives will need to be setup using the wizard accessible via Start Settings Discs Access Local network Drive N B If a secure SSH link is required to access the remote file server the Access Network Drive SSH Remote can be used pro vided the correct network s
123. t v5 0 0 en HP Laserjet 1150 CUPS4 Guten nprin int e oris n HP Li If there is no suitable driver the option is given to browse for a user supplied PPD Postscript Printer Definition file NB Even non postscript printers need one Once selected the screen will indicate that the printer has been added and after a couple of second the printer options page will appear if the notice is selected the Printers Control page will be shown see below d St Printer Opens CUPS 1 12 lesweasel aa zax Help eh ee T E 3 Printer Options Glsoogle MDP Do cuments Abo utt this CD En gin ring Dep pt he rmes ss Wel bmail il 3kn oppix net Fire refox a p E x m ES As Set Prin fer tic ns UN j d pets This page allows the user to set up the default printer configura tion e g paper size print resolution esolution 50 Double Sided Printing Off set Printer Opi HP LaserJet 1220 USB 1 Control Common Brightne Brightness Fine Adjustment 9 000 s param 4 Printer Control amp El Ge mp localhost 631 printers xL EE ClGoogle MDP Documents About this CD EB Engineering Dept Hermes Webma il 3knoppix net Firefox semis itm Accessed through the Printers tab the page shows all the con UEM Mw nected printers and their type printing status network address etc ERES m and access to a number of direct control features to each printer a o A It is
124. this option choose the CD DVD drive option Alternatively please refer to the information in section VIII 1 1 and the additional in formation accessible from item 2 in the options menu with regards to setting the boot sequence N B on certain machines it may be necessary to initially boot from a floppy disk this option is also described in the on line information Getting Started 11 At the end of the boot sequence the user is presented with the default MDP desktop and a open web browser containing a page describing some of the standard resources contained on the disk File Edit View Go Bookmarks Tools Help 4a d 8 O A O fiewmor cojusinghtm v co EL GlGoogle MDP Document ts Aboutthis CD Engineering Dept Hermes Webmail Home f About MDP ED amp L i Library f Microprocessor f Resources f Eorum etc I Contact 1 UTS HOW TO USE THE MDP RESOURCE CD This page it you Figure 2 Initial desktop layout The EDaL system can be exited using the Shutdown option accessed via the start menu Ensure the system has fully closed down before removing the power to the computer or data may be lost 1 2 2 Booting from an USB Memory device This option is almost identical to Booting from EDaL Disk except that the program is held on a USB stick rather than a CD DVD However the system tends to run faster than a CD DVD mounted system especially if the USB port
125. to that particular application and will cease as soon as the application is exited Important As with other Linux distributions and computer systems it is best to use the user account for all your everyday tasks Only use the root account when you need it For example when you are logged on as root e g Superuser you have the power to instantly delete every file on every disk with one simple command When you are logged on as a user the system will not let you do that This helps you to protect yourself against accidents Get into the habit now and it will save you later 86 VIH 6 Desktop Configuration VIII 6 1 Desktop Settings y Bel ey Mouse 3 Click To Focus 3 Focus Follows Mouse Cl Animation On X Animation Off Screen Grab Fwwm Console VIII 6 2 Desktop Themes MDP Theme default MDP Theme 2 MDP 95 MOP XP Fywm Old Style Funky Blue Theme Button Menu Styles VIII G 3 Paging As indicated in section II 3 1 the general configuration of the user inter face has been restricted to try and ensure compatibility with documenta tion and maximum CPU power is available for applications However a few standard interface features can be changed and these are accessed via Start Settings e Bell Set the volume pitch etc of the system beep e mouse Set the acceleration handiness of the mouse e Click to Focus Select active window by clicking brings window to the top
126. ty of losing these files on shutdown Task bar The other main area of pre defined desktop architecture is at the bottom of the screen which contains the main Taskbar which gives direct access to the application menus and the list of active win dows as is common on a number of standard windows environ ments Start menu At the left hand end of the taskbar is the start button S Start which gives direct access to all the major applications from a set of cascading menus The main applications areas are described r in the table below with links to the sections which give more details co on individual applications Menu title Applications Programs Accessories General purpose tools e g text editors calen dars disc utilities Section 111 1 Admin System administration tools e g process moni toring application killer Section 111 2 Internet Internet access applications browser email FTP etc Section 111 3 Multi Media Applications and tools to process sound photo graphic and video files Section 111 5 Viewers Text file format viewers and manipulation e g pdf postscript Section 111 4 Openoffice Access to the Openoffice suite of programs and other DTP related applications Section 111 6 Desktop About m Display Settings gs Printer Settings Disks Network G Desktop Settings Desktop Themes ES Paging Settings Access CUED files Save settings
127. urces ISO To use this copy of the EDaL system the user has to type the following command at the boot window prompt knoppix bootfrom dev xda Y MDP_resources ISO where the xdaY refers to the drive the ISO is stored on typical val ues are hdai drive C on standard PCs hda2 drive C on older Dell systems sda2 drive C on new Dell systems Once the booting has finished the CD can be removed and the drive used for alternative pur poses 14 Desktop 11 3 Desktop and initial setup The desktop used as standard with the EDaL system is based on FVWM CF Virtual Window Manager which is lightweight but functional window ing manager It has been selected to minimise the computational load and therefore enable the EDaL system to operate even on old hardware Direct modification of the user interface has also been limited to ensure that tutorials etc match the look amp Feel the user will encounter Unfortu nately these restrictions mean that some of the more graphic extensive enhancements that can be found in recent desktops environments are currently not available 1 3 1 Desktop layout Desktop Icons As with many modern operating systems the EDaL system allows access to a number of commonly used devices applications filing systems from icons on the desktop However because the system is often only temporarily installed on a system files are not allowed to be dragged amp dropped onto the backdrop so as to minimise the possibili
128. ve Junk Mail Controls q RSS Reader e v Global Inbox Support Saved Search Folders e ove More Information EEE Icedove is a simple e mail newsgroup and news feed client derived from the popular Mozilla Thunderbird iceDove supports POP and IMAP and LDAP address completion The built in RSS Atom reader can also be used as a simple news aggregator Ly balloon 1 Conversation Options Buddies Accounts Tools balloon ey Buddies g Balloon ARM open hardware dev board http balloombo i 12 17 15 The topic for balloon 6 people in room O colin is Balloon ARM open hardware dev board http wookey balloonboard orq wookey jamesmck colin Iwithers pjgl2 rid Available AJEont Insert E smile Pidgin is an instant messaging program that works with most of the stan dard Internet messaging systems e g AIM ICQ Jabber XMPP MSN Messenger Yahoo Bonjour Gadu Gadu IRC Novell GroupWise Mes senger QQ Lotus Sametime SILC SIMPLE MySpacelM and Zephyr Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simulta neously e g you can chat on AIM talk on Yahoo Messenger and sit in an IRC channel all at the same time Applications Internet 29 PuTTY Configuration BI x al e gor Basic options for your PuTTY session Specify your connection by host name or IP address oggin Host Name or IP add
129. which has been activated for ADSL An account with a ADSL enabled Internet Service Provider This means any ISP that offers a standard broadband service A microfilter for each standard analogue device such as tele phones fax machines and dialup modems Asupported Ethernet adapter in your PC or laptop see the section Connecting to a local area network An ADSL router These popular inexpensive devices combine a broadband modem with an Ethernet router and gateway giving in stant Internet The single port variety is for one computer Multi port versions let several computers share the same broadband In ternet connection Ethernet cable Telephone RJ45 wall socket mi SP Router Modem Gateway Microfilter To make the connection ite Note Make sure the Ethernet cable from the ADSL router is connected to the computer s Ethernet adapter Start EDaL It should detect the network card and then obtain an IP address automatically from the ADSL router If you have not already done so use a web browser to visit the ADSL router s configuration page Enter the necessary information on the configuration page to make the connection to your ISP see the information from your ISP As long as the upstream connection to the Internet is working you will be connected to the Internet The diagram instructions above shows a typical setup for the UK It may vary from country to
130. worked Windows printers When using the emulator networked printers are not available Networked printers are automatically mounted if the servers address e g printserver example co uk is entered at the prompt accessed via Configure printer Connect to Unix Print Server 18 Desktop S Print KPrinter z E moro E Configuring a printer State Idle accepting jobs Type Workshop Offices Copier Printer By default most applications on the system are setup to use the default printer options and print via the command Ipr If more control of the printing operation is required e g double sided printing multiple pages etc the user should erase Ipr and replace the command with kpr which will start the print system with a gui kprinter Further information on the use of kprinter can be found in section VIII 3 1 113 4 Disk Access N B The next section can be skipped over if the user does not require disk access immediately The default operation of the EDaL system is not to give the user imme diate access to the host machine s disks However the EDaL system monitors attached disks and all disks that are accessible to the EDaL system can be selected via the desktop icons or the file browser xfe However when not running in an emulator the disks will normally have to be mounted before they can be accessed Selecting the icon on the desk top will prompt the user to mount the disk Alternatively selec
131. ystem as normal The files on the CD DVD USB are stored in a compressed state and de compressed on the fly when required This means that the enhanced version of the EDaL system which typically has gt 7GB of software doc umentation and reference materials can easily be contained on a DVD or 4GB USB stick and still have 1 5 GB of space available for user files Introduction N B Although the disk and the included software has been chosen to enable it to be run on low old machine while still maintaining a reason able speed it is suggested that a minimum specification for a PC should be System Requirements Processor gt 400MHz standard apps gt 1GHz for computa tional and graphic intensive applications Memory gt 128M for standard apps gt 256M for large appli cations Optical drives gt 24x CD 2x DVD if running from CD or DVD USB ideally USB2 USB1 1 will work but can be slower than CD DVD The more memory and higher speed your system has the better it will perform especially when running in an emulator see section II 2 3 NB Currently the EDaL system will only run natively on INTEL based Macs using a CD or DVD or under third party emulation software Currently there is no native solution for the Mac Airbook due to the absence of a optical drive ll Getting Started As indicated in the Introduction there a a number of ways of using the resources included on the EDaL disk The following sections outline four o

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