If there are any resources you would find helpful but are not currently available, or if you are having trouble using any of the available services, please let us know (contact Astro Postdoc Committee).
IoA Computing information: https://local.ast.cam.ac.uk/computing (IoA Intranet login required)
Remotely accessible machines
For up-to-date information, see https://local.ast.cam.ac.uk/computing/resources/shared-machines (IoA Intranet login required)
University and IoA managed VPN: https://local.ast.cam.ac.uk/computing/remote-access-security/university-and-ioa-vpn (IoA Intranet login required)
Details on setting up VPN available at https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/network-services/remote-access/uis-vpn.
University IT services: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service
Online library resources:
IoA list of E-Resources for astronomy: https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/node/6430
List of some key astronomy texts in e-book form: https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/node/6429
University Library e-book catalogs: https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/cambridgeebooks
Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/core/
If you have suggestions for particular titles, you can contact the IoA Library: ioalib@ast.cam.ac.uk
astrocambs.slack.com is run by the Astro Postdoc Committee (but open to non-postdocs). There are separate channels for science, general communication, and requesting/offering help.
The IoA personal web space is an excellent way to share data with yourself and others. Instructions for accessing this facility are here: https://local.ast.cam.ac.uk/computing/online-services/personal-web-pages
(IoA intranet login required), but it might be useful to augment those based upon personal experience.
First, you might want to share (very) large amounts of data -- ie larger than your allocated /home disk quota. To this end, I have put my own public_html directory on a /data disk (NB: this will *not* be backed up) and have soft-linked it to my /home directory:
$> mkdir /data/USERNAME/public_html
$> ln -s /data/USERNAME/public_html /home/USERNAME/public_html
This will automagically create a web space at https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~USERNAME/
If you want to create an actual webpage (ie that describes yourself and your research), do consider putting the public_html directory directly in your /home disk space (so that it will be backed up) and then soft-link directories in /data to sub-directories of public_html. The IoA's system is 'smart' -- anything on /data can be accessed via the web by soft-linking to public_html.
Second, anyone in the world with the correct URL will be able to see all of your shared files by default. To `hide' them (also from google) you must create an index.html file (ie a `real' webpage). An example of an open directory is this:
https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mauger/SHAOLens/
but files shared in my top-level public_html directory are hidden by a very simple index.html page:
https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mauger/
(but note that individual files in the top-level directory can still be accessed if the full URL is known, eg https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mauger/J1059_HST.png).