Standard Application software available for the UCSC Economics Department

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All computers in the Economics Department, whether PCs or Macs, run a standard configuration. Windows and Office XP (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint) are standard on all but a handful of older PCs, which run Windows and Office 2000. Macs run a mix of Panther and Tiger, with Office X.

All XP machines run the standard Windows firewall. Older PCs running Windows 2000 use the basic Zone Alarm firewall.

PCs use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Macs use McAfee Virex. Microsoft anti-spyware and Ad-Aware are used for spyware protection.

Standard browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla for PCs, and Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla for Macs. Firefox is set as the standard browser on PCs. Macromedia plugins and Sun's JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) are standard.

Acrobat Standard is installed on all faculty, staff and grad machines, allowing all users to create PDFs.

Eudora is used by most of the department. Other mail programs include pine and the web-based component of UCSC's Cruzmail.

Faculty are setup to print to 2 HP Laserjet 2300dtn printers in the mailroom and a HP Color LaserJet 4650n in the department office. Staff print also print to the Color LaserJet and an HP LaserJet 2200dn. Grad students print on a multifunction Lanier LD122 (printer, copier, scanner) in room 410, the grad mailroom/kitchen. The Lanier is not an Econ printer, it is owned by UCSC Printing and Copying Services. Grad printing requires a print card, available from the UCSC Copier Program.

Almost all the computers are able to write CDs and read DVDs. Roxio CD creator is installed on the newer PCs and may be used in addition to the standard XP CD writing software.

SSH secure shell and file transfer program are standard for PCs. Macs use Fugu for secure file transfer and the built in OS X ssh for a secure shell session.

Media Player Classic is a package that will play a variety of audio formats. We have installed it as an alternative to using Real Player, which has always been problematic. Windows Media Player is also installed. CyberLink PowerDVD is used for DVD playback. Macs use iTunes and Quicktime.

Starting with the December 2005 version of our Windows software clone, we have installed GAIM IM, a multi protocol instant messaging client. It's hoped that this will eliminate the need for grads to install several different IM clients. GAIM supports AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr networks. Macs have a native chat program, iChat.