Here is a list of web addresses that you might find useful in your first few weeks in Edinburgh. If what you need to know isn't in these, ask any of the other students.
intra.roe.ac.uk/ -- main ROE homepage
intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/computing/ --
computing at ROE
intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/computing/docs/index.html --
ROE computing documentation
intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/computing/hardware/index.html --
hardware at ROE
intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/computing/software/index.html --
software at ROE
intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/computing/docs/lsun/lsun1.html
-- this page describes how to use `findme' and `showme' for obtaining
html versions of Starlink documentation (extremely useful)
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/ -- Physics and Astronomy Dept. homepage
www.ed.ac.uk/ -- main UoE homepage
xxx.soton.ac.uk/ -- Preprint archive
adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html -- ADS, scanned
and electronic versions of most papers