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Web proxies You may wish to configure your Web browser to use a proxy. Using a proxy provides a small increase in privacy, because your real IP address will not appear ...

Instructions for configuring Thunderbird. Download and install the latest version of Thunderbird from Thunderbird website. At the Account Wizard New ...

AFS File System Services CSAIL uses the AFS distributed file system, invented at Carnegie Mellon, commercialized by Transarc (now IBM Pittsburgh labs), and maintained ...

Accessing NFS from Windows All NFS servers at CSAIL also run Samba services to serve their volumes to Windows clients as well. Thus, to access NFS mounts, your machine ...

Windows XP Windows XP with SP3 is Microsoft's latest operating system. TIG recommends and provides full support for Windows XP Professional. Services are also provided ...

TIG Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the TIG web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be overwritten ...

Hidden Folders While IMAP allows multiple email clients (see EmailDetails#Mail Clients ) to share your inbox and mail folders, sometimes folders created in one ...

EMAIL and Mail Lists at CSAIL EMAIL at CSAIL CSAIL Email vs. MIT Email MIT students, faculty, and staff members receive an MIT email address and can read and send ...

Configuring an Email Client Under Windows If you set up your CSAIL account to use the CSAIL IMAP server, you should use the following instructions to read email on ...

Microsoft Outlook 2007 Instructions for setting up CSAIL Email Start Outlook for the first time, or go to Tools Account Settings New IMAP, Next. at "Auto ...

Using Subversion at CSAIL What is Subversion? According to the Subversion home page, it is "a compelling replacement for CVS." Subversion is a version control system ...

Meet TIG Administrative Jack Costanza Adwoa Gyimah Brempong Director Office: 273 Phone: 3 6703 jackc@csail.mit.edu ...

Getting Certificates Instructions Mozilla Firefox Installing Authority Certificates CSAIL has three certificate authorities, but you will most likely only need ...

Generic Mail Configuration Info Make sure your client supports at least one of CRAM MD5, DIGEST MD5, STARTTLS, or SSL (pretty much every modern IMAP client does). ...

Web services Web server architecture Web hosting Creating Personal Web Pages Security recommendations for course directories Granting ...

How do I install Matlab? If you're running CSAIL Debian, simply use the .software mechanism to add "matlab" to your enabled applications. If you're running Mac or ...

Restore Requests How To Request Data Restore Send mail to help #64;csail.mit.edu including Full path to the data you want restored Range of dates that would ...

VMware On CSAIL Debian Installation of vmware is relatively straightforward and should be done according to the vmware documentation. Install the module assisstant ...

Kerberos support is already part of the base OS X system. However, you do need to use a custom configuration file. Create the following file: /Library/Preferences ...

Setting up Your iCal Directory If you'd like to put your iCal format calendar file in a globally accessible place, the first step is to create a subdirectory in your ...

Before you Begin In order to get a CSAIL certificate, you need a CSAIL account. If you do not have one already, aren't sure if you do, or can't remember your password ...

Public Computing General purpose shell access login.csail.mit.edu is available for general purpose access. It should be used for computationally non intensive tasks ...

Loaner Laptops Available configurations: Dell Inspiron 8600 (Intel Pentium M 2.0 GHz, 2GB ram, 15.4" display) Operating system: Windows XP SP2 ...

Printing and Scanning This page provides information on how to configure your computer to use the CSAIL printing infrastructure. Print spooling is handled by a software ...

Certificate installation for iPhone OS 2.0 Personal and custom root certificates can be handled as of the iPhone 2.0 software, which ships on new iPhones as of July ...

Running Matlab Linux Additional software paths are available through your DotSoftware file, for Matlab add a single line containing the string "matlab" to ~ ...

Htaccess Hints Some useful bits you might include in .htaccess files on any of the CSAIL standard Web servers (people, groups, projects, courses): Requiring certificates ...

Issue When navigating personal certificate protected CSAIL websites, Firefox stops repeatedly, asking you to manually "choose a certificate to use as identification ...

Thunderbird for Mac OSX Open Thunderbird. Go to Tools Account Settings Add Account. Following are the screenshots for configuring Thunderbird as IMAP client. ...

Thunderbird Address Book lookup from CSAIL Follow the following steps to configure Thunderbird 2.0 so that it auto completes the To:, CC:, etc fields from the directory ...

Getting Certificates Instructions Apple Safari HEY, YOU DON'T REALLY WANT TO DO THIS! Safari is a great web browser, but it is fundamentally broken with regard ...

Install Firefox and use it to get your certificate. Then open "View Certificates" (in Preferences Advanced Encryption), select your CSAIL certificate, ...

FireFox 2.0.0.1 Certificate Bug Several people have noticed that Firefox version 2.0.0.x has a problem when viewing CSAIL web certificate protected sites, which ...

Creating Your Own Wiki TIG provides support for two wiki platforms: nop MediaWiki and TWiki. TWiki is what powers the TIG web site. nop MediaWiki powers popular ...

Get an Account Access to just about everything TIG has to offer is granted via your CSAIL Kerberos name and password. You obtain a user account which includes a Kerberos ...

Get Started and Connected This is the place for new users to quickly get started with your computing needs, as well as connected to the CSAIL network. There are many ...

What is Kerberos? The following section was excerpted from the MIT Kerberos release page. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide ...

Microsoft Windows Vista OS Support Windows Vista General Info Joining AD on Windows Vista Printing Instructions for Vista Windows Automatic ...

Mac OS Leopard OS X 10.5 If you are an Apple enthusiast, you'll be glad to know that you are not alone at CSAIL. The number of Apple users has been ...

We have recently been experiencing an increase of password Phishing attempts. As always, TIG is working to make sure these people can't get such requests through to ...

Debian Installation Installation of CSAIL Debian typically requires a fresh install on a given machine; there is no mechanism for converting an existing Debian machine ...

Printing Instructions For Macs Mac OS 10.4 or higher Open up the Printer Setup Utility, which is in Applications...Utilities Click on "Add Printer" ...

CSAIL Debian CSAIL Debian is TIG's custom GNU/Linux distrubution. It is the standard Linux system used in the lab and supports x86 and amd64 (x86 64) hardware . It ...

Creating a NFS connection and desktop shortcut. Open /Application/Utilities/Directory Utility.app (by double clicking it in Finder) Click ...

Accounts and Security CSAIL Accounts user account signup Changing passwords, addresses, phone numbers, etc Choosing Good Passwords INQUIR ...

First, note that none of this is necessary on TIG's supported flavor of Linux, CSAIL Debian , which comes with Kerberos and nop OpenAFS already configured and ...

List of Public Printers Here is the list of printers in the lab. You can directly download the drivers here. Location Printer Name Model Speed and Notes Windows ...

nop OpenAFS on (k)Ubuntu Linux (and possibly other (non athena) Debian linux dists) 1) Install the required packages: sudo apt get install openafs krb5 openafs client ...

Microsoft Office 2007 Office 2007 Compatibility Windows The default 2007 Microsoft Office file format is a new, Open XML format (docx), and incompatible with all ...

Software Downloads, Licensing, and Support Get Software CSAIL's Software Distribution Center Access CSAIL's software Mirror Page Software Support MATLAB ...