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Operating Systems
- Basic technical assistance for Unix and Windows 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
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. A tip: use Reflection-X to get X-windows access to this cluster (or any other Unix machine) from your Windows desktop.
- X Window System — An introduction, along with a description of how it is typically used in the department.
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.
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.
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)
Web Services
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!.
Networking
- Wireless Networking in the Allen Center
- Connecting Privately Owned Machines to the CSE Network
- Network Access for Transient Visitors
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 what machines run Irix 6.2? or who administers Aji?
- Computer Services for Grants and Contracts
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