Lab FAQ

If you have any questions about our site, this page should help. Should your question not be addressed there, please feel free to email us. (NOTE: This is not the GVU Lab FAQ, which can be found at here.

This FAQ page answers questions about the GVU Web site:

1. How do I get a GVU travel grant?
2. Do you have WWW statistics on...(something not in the survey)?
3. Were any GVU WWW surveys published after 1998?
4. Can you send me information on GVU admissions?
5. How do I view a GVU Technical Report?
6. When I try to download a technical report, the ftp server says "access denied". What's wrong?
7. Can I get a web page?

1) How do I get a GVU travel grant?
The FAQ for travel grants can be found here.

2) Do you have WWW statistics on... (something not in the survey)?

If you don't see a topic in our survey report, then we don't have any statistics on the topic.

3) Were any GVU WWW surveys published after 1998?

No. The tenth survey published in October 1998 was the last survey. Unfortunately, the surveys ended when the students who conducted them graduated from Georgia Tech.

4) Can you send me information on GVU admissions?

GVU itself is not an academic unit that awards degrees. Instead it is a research center comprised of many participating academic units around campus. Other than the Master's Degree in HCI program, you can find Georgia Tech graduate admissions information at the following URL: http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/

To participate in the GVU Center, you will need to apply to an academic unit which will be your home department. GVU affiliated departments and faculty can be found here.

5) How do I view a GVU Technical Report?

Reports are available in both Acrobat (.pdf) and Postscript (.ps) format. Acrobat documents are viewable and printable using Adobe's free Acrobat Reader. Please note: Acrobat files require Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later!

> Click here to download Acrobat Reader 3.0.

> Click here to download ROPS, a Windows PostScript viewer.

> Click here to download Ghostscript, a Macintosh PostScript viewer.

The Postscript files are UNIX compressed and have a .ps.Z filename extension.
To uncompress and view them you'll need:

A UNIX-like uncompress utility

For Macs: MacGZip
ftp://ftp.amug.org/pub/amug/bbs-in-a-box/files/unstuff/%0Dother- compression/macgzip-1.0.sit.hqx%20

For Windows: GZip
http://www.winfiles.com/apps/compress.html

6) When I try to download a technical report, the ftp server says "access denied". What's wrong?

You are probably being denied access to our FTP server (ftp.cc.gatech.edu) due to security reasons. We don't allow connections from remote systems that don't have complete DNS (Domain Naming System or host name look up system) records on their name server. We can confirm this if you can tell us the fully qualified name or IP number of the system you are browsing from and the time you attempted the download. For example, "mysystem.cc.gatech.edu" would be a fully qualified hostname and "130.207.3.99" would be an IP address.

7) Can I get a web page from GVU?

We have recently stopped hosting personal web pages for GVU faculty, staff and students. In the past, GVU offered this service when other departments didn't have web pages or did not offer personal home pages. Since then, we have found that GT department web servers have caught up and are offering great web page services to their faculty, staff and students. We still offer official home pages for faculty and staff (not their personal home pages) and we will continue to support legacy faculty, staff and student personal home pages.

So, to answer your question, you should inquire about personal home pages from your home department's webmaster. If you are unable to obtain a home page from your home department, we will be glad to provide you with one. In cases where you need significantly more resources than the department can offer, the GVU web team will try to allocate them to supplement the department's resources (e.g. disk space).

If you are in the College of Computing, all you have to do is run mkwwwhome from a UNIX system (e.g. gvu1.cc.gatech.edu). This will create a directory named .www-home in your home directory wherein you can place your HTML files.

Let us know when your new web page is ready and we'll link to you from the GVU faculty, staff or student page.