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• Locate other chapters.
• Learn about UPE history and By-laws.
• Order graduation cords/stoles.

• Parent organization for UPE.
• Find other ACM chapters
• Join ACM
• Regional and World programming contest results.

• Notepad++: Free open source text editor with syntax highlighting and coloring. Especially useful for script and code development.

Information about price discounts on software, computers, and accessories.

• Departments
• Faculty
• Grades

• Semester course rotation.
• Faculty

• (ITS) Information Technology Services
  • Webmail (username@umd.umich.edu)
• (ECS) Engineering Computer Services
  • Webmail (username@engin.umd.umich.edu)

• College of Engineering & Computer Science courses typically use this.

• CIS Department - MSDNAA Download Site

This allows any CIS student who has registered for the site to download and install academic licensed versions of Microsoft software products. Windows Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, you name it, it's probably in there for you to access.

For information on how to register, please contact the CIS Office and/or the current CIS System Administrator.

• Distribution for new linux users:
  • Ubuntu (Based on Debian, simplified for the end user, tends to include a lot of feature that you may not necessarily use.)
• Distribution for experienced/advanced users:
  • Debian (Less bloated than Ubuntu, because you control what is installed.)
• Distribution for bleeding edge users:
  • Gentoo (Uses the "emerge" system to custom compile everything to your hardware. Can be compiled onto virtually any set of hardware.)
• Cheat/Reference Sheets
  • Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet
  • All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets
  • Linux Commands (A Practical Reference)
  • Our Favorite Cheat Sheets
  • Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux/Unix Cheat Sheets