Usually the laptop is installed in Room INR 113, but can be moved if needed.

The laptop is an “old” Apple PowerBookPro 12“, that use Apple Os X 10.4.x configured with the software needed for managing standard presentations files. The Preferred format is obviously the Pdf (simple to manage and to show), but the laptop can manage also files compiled with different languages.
To simplify the work for the presenter, we installed:

<note> With the laptop come also a remote radio device (ask for it to the Sysadmin), for controlling the presentation at distance. The radio device is very simple to use: it has 2 button for moving forward/backward the slides and provide also a red laser pointer.
This pointer must return to the Sys Admin </note>

To access the system, click on the “Other…” Icon from the Login menu and insert your linux login/password. Every user that has a Linux accreditation in our network can use the laptop. The first time you login the system take a little while, just wait. This authentication system work only when the laptop is connected to the local network. If you need to move the laptop to another Room, please use the general ipg account to access the computer.

The laptop is ready for use the Epson Projector attached to the roof of the room. When you first login on the system, the projector is configured as an extension to the monitor of the laptop. Use the System Preferences Applet if you want to change the disposition of the monitor. We suggest that you configure the two monitors in mirror mode.

In order to upload your presentation files to the laptop, you can use several different methods

If you're using the IPG account to access the computer, please copy your presentation file on the local disk from your file server on the Desktop and then close the remote connection. On the Desktop you will find an homedir icon, doubleclick on it and you'll asked for your login/password valid on the I.P.G. subnet.

If you don't have your personal key, we can provide one for you. At the moment the capacity of our keys is 512 Mbytes or 2 Gbytes.

If your presentation is really big, you can connect your external disk directly to the laptop using one of these 2 interfaces.

Of course you can also burn a Cd-Rom or a Dvd-Rom and use this for your presentation, but we don't suggest this, as the high speed of rotation of the disk will generate some noise. Better to copy all the content to the local disk of the laptop and start the presentation from there.

You can surf the net using a wired or wireless connection. In order to use the last you need an account for the EPFL Wireless Network.