CSL Documentation

FAQs and HOWTOs

General

• Getting Started
• Account Security
• How To Change Your Password
• How To Choose A Secure Password

Email, Spam

• Electronic Mail (email)
• Mailing Lists
• Spam Filtering

Files, File Sharing, Directories, File Systems

• Backups and Restores
• AFS File System Docs
• Files, Directories, and Disk Quota Issues
• Project Space Sharing and CVS Version Control
• Project Space Sharing and Subversion Version Control
• Transfering Files From Remote Systems
• Secure Files
• How To Protect Web Pages
• Electronic Hand In System

Printing

• Printing FAQs
• How To use the Copier/Scanner

Software Packages

• Emacs FAQs
• Mentor Graphics
• Mozilla FAQs
• Firefox and Thunderbird FAQs
• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) FAQs
• SSH (Secure Shell) FAQs
  • Forwarding X11 on Microsoft Windows
• How To Use SSH (Secure Shell)
• Window Manager FAQs
• XEmacs FAQs
• XWindow FAQs
• GNOME and GDM FAQs
• VMware Server

Software Questions

• PDF Generation
• Unsupported Software (/unsup)
• Useful Home Software
• Compilers

OS Questions

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 FAQs
• Centos Linux FAQs
• Windows FAQs

Server Questions

• Public Servers
• Ftp Server
• Web Server
  • Running CGIs on WWW
  • CGI Not Found Message (cgi.cs.wisc.edu was shut off on July 1, 2005)

Network

• IP Multicast
• Unsupported Network FAQs
• Wireless Laptop Network
• Authenticated Printer Gateway
• Using Handheld Devices on the CS Wireless Network

Miscellaneous

• Writing CD-Roms in the Computer Sciences Department
• Removable Media HowTo
  • Mounting USB Key drives in Centos
• Multimedia FAQs
• Video Conferencing
  • 5331 Conference Room
  • Polycom Rolling Cart
  • Computer Science Accessgrid Node

Information And Announcements About Computer Systems Lab Facilities

General

• Account Information
• Condor Workload Management System Information
• Information for New Faculty Members
• Transition to Secure Remote Access

Facilities

• Crash and Burn Lab Information
• Instructional Facilities Information
• Laptop Station Information
• CSL Network Information
• Printing Facilities Information
• Projector Usage
• Whiteboard Usage In Rooms 3331, 5331 And 7331

Services

• IMAP Mail Server
• Kerberos Authentication Information
• PostgreSQL Database Service Information
• Secure SMTP (Authenticated SMTP Server) Information
• Software Installation (/s and its setup)
• Unix Orientation Session Information

Operating Systems

• Solaris Information

Software Catalogs

• Windows XP Software Catalog
• Unix Software Catalog

Computer Systems Lab Policies

• Computer Systems Lab Account Policies
• Graduate Student Accounts
• Instructional Accounts
• Privacy and Confidentiality of Files, Logs and Other Electronic Data
• Private Workstation Policy
• Privileged Account Access Policy
• Research Computing Facilities Chargeback Policies
• Supported Printer Configurations
• Undergraduate Major Accounts
• World Wide Web Policies