This page is out of date, please refer to our other page HERE.

Computer Login Name

• Katy Elliott has the form for you to complete to choose your login name. Most of us use our first names. This gets sent to the School of Engineering (soe), and they set up your login name (and emails address) there. Expect this to take a couple of days. You need an account from ITS before SOE can activate your login. See ITS FORM

• The local computer admins will now we should see something set up your access to the computers here (with the same login name and password). Expect this to take about a week, hopefully less.

Desk, phone, etc.

• Choose a cubicle to squat in. This is a new sentence. Be sure to tell your manager which cube you have chosen so that she can set up your phone, add you to the seating chart, etc.

• Add your name to the campus directory

• Request your name be added to the SOE directory by emailing them

Computers

• The local computer admins (Jorge, Erich, Victoria and Alex) will set you up with a computer workstation. This can take a couple of weeks. Until then, feel free to use the 'guest' computers in the corner of room 515.

• Choose a machine name. Names in use include pigpen, eieio, oink, squawk, growl, oow, hoot, whinny, bleat, coo, cheep, cluck, squeal, croak, purr, roar, screech, bark, peep, caw, croak, crow, heehaw, quack, squeal, woof, snort, honk, meow, pfft, baa, gobble.... There are few off-theme: bumpy, cueva, fanp, okazaki, sparkle, steelhead, yall.

Mailing Lists

• Sign yourself up for the genecats mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genecats

• Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser discussion) list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome

• (optional) Sign yourself up for the School of Engineering (SoE) Staff mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/staff

• Ask Donna and Bob to add your email address to the following alias lists:

  • browser-qa

  • browser-staff

  • push-request

ID Cards

• Get your temporary ID card from Baskin Engineering Building Room 217. This is a key card that will give you access to Engineering II and to the browser rooms on the fifth floor (515, 514, and 505).

• Get your photo taken at the Bay Tree Bookstore. This is the photo that will eventually appear on your UCSC Staff ID card. They are open from 9-4, except for lunch hour. Then take your ID to Al McGuire in Baskin (3d floor) for activation.

• You can get your paper UCSC Staff card (that you were given from HR on your first day of work) laminated at the Science or McHenry Library.

Parking & Busses

• Get your parking permit and/or your scratch permit and/or all of your other parking and transportation needs satisfied at TAPS. The TAPS office is at the base of campus, just north of the Bay & High entrance. Carpools cost less tha a regular permit costs, split between the two of you. Bus passes are extra if you also have a parking permit. Sign up online at TAPS

• There are two kinds of busses on campus: campus shuttles, and Santa Cruz Metro busses. The shuttle is free and you do not need to show any ID to ride. It goes in a loop around campus. The Metro is free if you have a metro pass (see bullet above), and you must show this pass every time you ride. These busses go to various neighborhoods off campus and end up eventually at the downtown Metro Center.

Printing & Copying

• The name of the printer in room 515 is “oops”.

• The copier that you can use, for browser business, is located down the hall, just past room 599. You can get a copy card from Bob.

Office Supplies

• Generic office supplies are located in the small cabinet in the corner of room 515. You can take what you need from there. You can order anything else you need from Katy Elliott. She orders from Palace Office Supplies. You can browse the catalog online and send her your 'cart'. Get the details from Katy for logging on. Katy will make the order and bring you your supplies when then come in.

Who People Are & What They Do

• Bob will introduce you to everyone.

• Ask Branwyn for a copy of her organizational chart.

• See this list of subject matter experts.

• Use the UNIX 'finger' command to find contact information for others. Edit your own '.plan' file to add your own info.

Getting Paid

• You must complete a time card (online via CruzPay) by the 1st day of the month.

• You will be paid on the first. If you want your paycheck to be deposited directly into your account, contact the Payroll Department down on Mission Street Extension (in the building nest to where you had your HR introduction day).

• Your pay stub will be posted online a few days later here: https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/ayso/

Some helpful links:

• QA tech setup (START HERE!!!)

• Genome Project Orientation: http://hgwdev.soe.ucsc.edu/eng/

• UCSC Genome Browser: http://genome.ucsc.edu

• Browser FAQs: http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ

• UCSC Campus Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu/

• UCSC A-Z Websites: http://www.ucsc.edu/about/alpha_index.asp

• UCSC Directory: http://www.ucsc.edu/about/find_people.asp

• QA Portal: http://hgwdev.soe.ucsc.edu/qa/

• CBSE Home Page: http://www.cbse.ucsc.edu/

• SOE Mail Help: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/administration/computer/facilities/mail.html

Our Location

• Mail Stop: CBSE/ITI

• Mailing Address: 501 Engineering 2 Building, UC Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

• FAX Number: 831-459-1809