Operating Systems

• Windows at UW CSE — Getting the most from your Windows system
• Unix at UW CSE — Everything you want to know about local Unix conventions
• Basic technical assistance for Unix systems
• Lab Virtual Machines — take a CS Lab workstation home with you.

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Remote Cycle Service

• Windows Cycles — Hydra provides an MS-Windows window on your Unix desktop, or a Windows platform that is inside the CSE network when you are outside.
• Unix Cycles — A cluster of Unix machines for general research use. For course work, use the attu cluster, or the Instructional Project servers.
• X Window System — An introduction, along with a description of how it is typically used in the department.

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Email & News

• Email Basics — A tour of the departmental email services.
• SpamBuster — Rid your inbox of (most) spam!
• Authentication of CSE Email Services
• Mailing Lists for reaching Faculty, Students, and Staff.
• Mailing Lists related to Instruction and Research.
• Reading news — Information on how to read CSE news, including the student bboards, where official departmental announcements are posted.
• About Mailing Lists — Everything and more than you ever wanted to know about mailing lists. How to subscribe, how to create, how to manage.
• Support Email FAQ — Questions and answers about Email.

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Printing

• Printing – From Unix; from Windows; with color; and more.
• Large Format Printer – This large ink-jet printer can be used to produce poster-size prints (up to 36" wide and arbitrarily long). Special treatment is required. Large prints take the better part of an hour to produce.
• Display Printer Queues
• Document Scanning Services – Use the main photocopier in CSE 103 to convert hardcopy documents into pdf (or tiff) files, delivered to your email inbox.

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File Services

• NT Dfs — Microsoft's Distributed file system — the preferred way to map your Windows network drives.
• Samba — for Windows ⇔ UNIX file access.
• Backups — CSE backup policies and procedures
• AFS — is gone. (The deprecated Beginners Guide)

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Web Services

• Web Services
• Anonymous FTP Service

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Remote Access & Security

• Remote Access — including important security issues for remote access.
• Computing Security — Protect your computer, your latptop, your data, your colleagues, your very identity!.
• Kerberos Project — Objectives of the Kerberos Project -->

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Networking

• Wireless Networking in the Allen Center
• Connecting Privately Owned Machines to the CSE Network
• Network Access for Transient Visitors

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Misc

• CD-ROM Burning — for Unix and Windows.
• GrpAdmin — A tool to manage the Unix groups you belong to, the groups you are associated with upon login, and membership of any groups you "own".
• Host Info — A webified interface to the hinfo command-line tool that can be used to answer such questions as who administers barb?
• Computer Services for Grants and Contracts

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