Ethan Duckworth's web page

Links to classes

I'm teaching two courses this semester, Fall 2007. One is Abstract Algebra, and the other is Calculus I. The information for these classes is on other pages.

Here's the link for calculus
Here's the linkk for for abstract algebra .

Free Calculus Notes

I've recently posted some free calculus notes on web. The main information about these notes is here . They are free, licensed under the GFDL. Use them as you like. Spread them. Enjoy.

Emacs and TeXShop

Here are some tricks I've found useful in making Emacs (specifically Carbon Emacs with Auctex) interact well with TeXShop.

LaTeX Guide

I've been teaching my students to use LaTeX, the best mark-up language for producing beautiful documents, especially ones containing mathematics. Here's the introduction and guide and here's a one page symbol guide. (If you want the latex source code for these documents just contact me.)

Citrix on Safari at Loyola

Loyola is starting to put more and more applications on Citrix Metaframe, which is a web-based distribution. When it works, it's wonderful, and you can access lots of programs right through your web-browser. However, Technology Services doesn't provide much help how to set your Macintosh up for using it. It's quite simple to do, and here's how.

Download the Citrix ICA client at the Citrix webpage . Here's the link for the actual download

Open the disk image and drag the ICA client to your applications folder (or your home folder, or any folder that you want to put it in). That's it. You should be able to use Citrix now from directly within Safari. (Incidently, the manual that comes with the client contains something like these directions on the last paragraph of page 20, however, it's totally unclear from the manual if vast amounts of additional work are necessary, as it goes on to describe endless configuration details.)

Accessing the G-drive from a macintosh.

The G-drive is a networked file server at Loyola. It can be accessed from a web browser via netstorage. For Microsoft XP users it can be accessed as a mounted drive via the Netdrive application provided by Novell. This application mounts the G-drive and makes it appear on the users desktop like any other drive. The bad news is that this application does not run on the Macintosh.

The good news is that there are lots of ways to access the G-drive, besides netstorage (which is only suitable for moving files on an occasional basis). In particular, this drive can be accessed through the WebDAV protocol. In theory, the Macintosh can access WebDAV servers directly through the Finder command "Connect to server ..." but this doesn't seem to make the correct SSL settings to work with Loyola's G-drive.

The workaround is to use a third part WebDAV client. In particular, Goliath is a free, third part client, that works well.

Download and install this client, open it up, and it will ask you for a new connection. Enter

 netstorage.loyola.edu/oneNet/NetStorage

then your user name and password.

Once you navigate to the window containing your desired folder (actually the window showing you what's inside your desired folder) you can save this connection onto your local desktop (or any other location that you want). This will create a document that will automatically launch Goliath and open this window once again.

Information about Graduate Study

Here I've gathered some information about graduate programs at other schools that might be of interest to Loyola students.

educkworth "at" loyola.edu

Last modified: Thu Oct 4 15:35:43 EDT 2007