Scanning from the the new Xerox Workcentre 7655 Scan to Email You start by pressing the "Email" buttom on the touchscreen of the unit. If the button is not ...

AFS Group Directory Every CSAIL research group is entitled to group space in the CSAIL AFS cell. Everyone is strongly encouraged to store shared files in their group ...

AFS Home Directory User home directories in the CSAIL AFS cell are mounted under /afs/csail.mit.edu/u/J/JRN , where JRN is the user's login name and J is the ...

Introduction to the CSAIL AFS Cell Scope This page is a general overview of AFS services at CSAIL. Instructions for configuring specific operating systems to access ...

AFS Kerberos And Firewalls Here is some information, in the format of Linux iptables save output, that may help you to understand what ports need to be opened on a ...

AFS Project Directory If it's not a research group and it's not an individual user, it must be a project! That's the basic distinction. Project directories live ...

AFS Protection Groups AFS Concepts AFS implements the concept of user administered groups. Any user may create a group; only system administrators may create groups ...

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 ...

Accounts and Security CSAIL Accounts New user setup/orientation Changing passwords, addresses, phone numbers, etc Choosing Good Passwords ...

Debian Admin Root access Users can grant themselves sudo access when the machine is first booted after installation. TIG can provide additional sudo access or ...

AFS Backups Help I just deleted my thesis! Most accidents can be recovered from the .snapshot directory in your home directory. This has a complete copy of your ...

Amd64 Support At this point, the amd64 architecture (including Intel's clone, em64t) is fully supported. No special steps needs to be taken in order to install on ...

nop Apple Mail nop/ Instructions for setting up Apple Mail Open the application by clicking MAIL in the dock. If message saying 'Would you like to import ...

Audio and Video Services Booking Calendar CD/DVD Duplication Automated Talk Video Recording Video Conference Room VHS / DVD Digitizing ...

Auth User File (From the Apache documentation) The AuthUserFile directive sets the name of a textual file containing the list of users and passwords for user ...

Automated Talk Video Recording Currently the Star and Kiva conference rooms are equipped with video recording and broadcasting equipment. We are in the process of ...

Automated Windows Installation And ADJoin using RIS This page describes the process of an automatic Remote Installation Services install (RIS) of Microsoft Windows ...

Backup Policy TIG managed AFS and NFS storage space is backed up on the following schedule Full backups (level 0) Taken Quarterly Archived permanently ...

CD/DVD Duplication We have a Primera Bravo Disc Publisher which can burn discs and print labels on them (provided the disc has a printable surface). The unit produces ...

CJK Support on CSAIL Debian This page documents support for the viewing and input of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) language in CSAIL Debian. If you just want ...

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 ...

Announcing CSAIL support for Debian 5.0 (lenny) The Debian Project has recently released version 5.0, codenamed lenny. 1 Lenny is a major upgrade from version 4 ...

If you are interested in having a poster of your research displayed in the Stata Center, please use the power point template below to create your poster. The template ...

CSAIL TV TV is CSAIL #8217;s new video distribution portal. It consists of two main parts: a system for viewing and recording live feeds from the Kiva and Star conference ...

CSAIL Windows Active Directory Environment TIG maintains a Microsoft Active Directory domain environment for automated centralized deployment, configuration, and ...

CSAIL Wireless The wireless network in the Stata Center consists of 71 Cisco Aironet access points operating at 54 Mbit/s with support for IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g ...

CUPS Printing Tips For Linux Unix This page provides a brief introduction to using the CUPS printing system; full user documentation can be found at http://cups.csail ...

Installing CSAIL Certificates in Google Chrome Google Chrome (Windows) Google Chrome uses the Windows read: Internet Explorer certificate store. Currently the ...

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

Getting CSAIL certificates in Internet Explorer under Windows XP The following step by step procedure will allow you to get CSAIL certificates in Microsoft Internet ...

Workaround for installing CSAIL Certificates in Internet Explorer The below applies to Windows Vista, Windows 7, and similar/later versions (eg Server 2008). (Using ...

Secure Web resources generally don't accept Kerberos credentials directly. Obtaining Web Certificates (below) is necessary for authentication to CSAIL secure websites ...

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 ...

Changes to Stata Center wireless service Since the Stata Center opened, CSAIL has maintained two wireless networks, nop StataCenter and nop StataGuest . Effective ...

Choosing Good Passwords Rationale Automated password crackers can, and do, guess thousands of potential passwords per second in attempts to break into CSAIL user ...

Using client certificates for authentication in Exim This document describes the configuration changes necessary get the Exim MTA to use client side certificates to ...

Compute Clustering Current System Status http://condor view.csail.mit.edu/ has graphs of current and historic system utilization. JonProulx 30 Nov 2006 borg ...

Cluster Overview If your group is planning on purchasing dedicated compute resources please contact help #64;csail.mit.edu to see if your needs would be better served ...

Community Cluster Software Have some scripts for managing your jobs or a cluster application other people might like? Post it here. Either attach a tar.gz file or ...

Topics Cluster Overview Using The Queuing System If you want to use the cluster read this one Community Software got a cool cluster app other people ...

Workstations in the Condor Cluster Overview Workstations are a greatly under utilized computing resource. Though powered on 24/7 they are rarely used more than 1 ...

Communications Home CSAIL Publications CSAIL Publications FAQ How to submit a CSAIL Technical Report How to submit a CSAIL Work Product Historical ...

The CSAIL network connects all locations in the research areas of the Stata Center with gigabit Ethernet at a density of one port per 25 square feet of office space ...

Using The Condor Queuing System Please add content here For the gory details see the Condor site at UWisc External Links: Manual Tutorials Table of Contents ...

Queuing The queuing system is the highest level feature of our cluster plans and the level at which users will interact with the cluster. Condor is a very mature queuing ...

A partial listing of available substitutions for Condor submit files. "$" indicates the value is associated with the job "$$" indicate it is associated with the executing ...

Configuring Email Client Under MAC Choosing Email client at CSAIL. CSAIL Email uses IMAP protocol which keeps your active mail on the server so that you can easily ...

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 ...

Connecting to the CSAILPrivate wireless network Description of the CSAILPrivate network In addition to the public ( nop StataCenter) wireless network, we also ...

Contact Us Contact Information EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION E mail: help #64;csail.mit.edu TIG Hotline: ( 1) 617 253 8304 TIG Fax Line: ( 1 ...

1. To use the machine for copying, enter your code, which you can obtain from your group's Administrative Assistant or your PI, and proceed with copying in a usual ...

Creating a Mailing List TIG provides self service mailing list services for the CSAIL community. CSAIL affiliates can use this service to create mailing lists with ...

Creating Personal Web Pages TIG maintains a web server called people.csail.mit.edu for the purpose of hosting personal web sites. To create and manage your web site ...

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 ...

CSAIL/Athena Cross realm Authentication CSAIL and Athena have implemented cross realm authentication. This means that authenticated CSAIL users can access some Athena ...

I posted the following to workstations announce recently: The CSAIL Etch Release Announcement The "upstream" Etch Release announcement The Debian ...

Lenny is out, and should be used for new installs. Existing workstations should be upgraded by early 2010 at the latest. The release announcement The release ...

Main.tbuehler 21 Sep 2007 CSAIL TV is CSAIL #8217;s new video distribution portal. It consists of two main parts: a system for viewing and recording live feeds from ...

Official Cat Macro of the CUPS Printing System LaurenBurka 27 Jul 2007

Configuring DHCP (to register for static DHCP, try dhreg) Configuring DHCP in Microsoft Windows XP To configure DHCP in Windows, go to Control Panel Network Connections ...

DNS security @ CSAIL nop DNSsec is a technology for ensuring the authenticity of DNS information using public key signatures. Deployment of nop DNSsec is proceeding ...

The Darwin Project @ CSAIL The Project is a research collaboration involving CSAIL, CSBi, and Earth Planetary Sciences at MIT, along with the San Diego Supercomputer ...

Deleting a Mailing List At the moment there is no self service mechanism allowing list administrators to delete their mailing lists. Please ask TIG if you need to ...

WINDOWS XP PERSONAL WORKSTATION SETUP PROCESS BEST PRACTICES FOR OS INSTALLATION: When possible perform installation and configuration while connected to a private ...

Distributed Computing with MATLAB Mathworks introduced a new feature as of Release 14, service pack 3, to the MATLAB product line: the Distributed Computing Toolbox ...

Dot Files bash, tcsh, and zsh are supported by TIG. Shell initialization is performed in the usual way according to your shell's documentation. To choose a shell ...

Dot Software $HOME/.software is a mechanism allowing users to make certain software packages available to their environment that may not be included in the default ...

Editing List Archives In the event that undesirable messages (spam or other off topic mail) get through to your list and are added to the web visible list archive ...

Please see EmailTopics . This page will be deleted soon.

Email Forwarding You have a choice of reading @csail.mit.edu email in a number of locations and formats. Most people choose to read email directly from the CSAIL ...

Email and Mailing Lists Jump to: CSAIL Email vs. MIT Email MIT students, faculty, and staff members receive an MIT email address and can read and send email via ...

Emergency Contact Information TIG offers computing, networking, and facilities support only. For medical, police, fire, and other life/safety issues, please contact ...

Enabling DoubleSided Printing For MACOSX To enable double sided printing in MACOSX. Open Printer setup utility from system preferences. Select the Printer go to ...

Enabling DoubleSided Printing For Windows Depending on the printer model , go to Start Settings Printer and Faxes select the printer Properties configuration ...

I posted the following to workstations announce recently: TIG is pleased to announce official support for the recently released released version 4.0 of Debian GNU ...

Eudora IMAP Client TIG no longer supports Eudora. We recommend using an alternate client such as Thunderbird or OutlookExpress. If you still insist on using Eudora ...

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

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

Published 8/11/09 in Mcafee knowledgebase Mcafee virusScan enterprise 8.7i is compatible with Windows 7 with the exception of Buffer Overflow Protection (BOP ...

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). ...

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 CSAIL Email MIT students, faculty, and staff members receive an MIT email address and can read and send email via MIT's Athena mailhubs. The Athena mail system ...

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 ...

The HP nop DesignJet 2500 CP is a wide carriage ink jet plotter. It prints on 36 inch roll paper. Because this printer is older, slower, and smaller than the ...

The HP nop DesignJet 800 PS is an wide carriage ink jet plotter. It prints on 42 inch roll paper; although plain paper is normally loaded in the printer, glossy ...

The HP nop LaserJet 4050n is a 17 PPM black and white laser printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. Printers: tbp Download ...

The HP nop LaserJet 4300 is a high speed black and white laser printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. Printers: image Download ...

The HP nop LaserJet 5Si MX is a high speed black and white laser printer. Toner cartridges for this printer are available from Geoff in the mailroom. Drivers are ...

Hardware Support And Purchasing Computing Hardware Support For advice on upgrades and/or new computer purchases please see TIG User Support in 32 276 or help #64 ...

Help! My CGI Stopped Working! A recent change in the CSAIL Web servers has caused some CGI scripts to stop working. We have identified two common causes for this ...

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

Cluster Hardware Architecture The current architecture specification calls for multi core 64bit CPUs with 4G of memory per CPU core. Local disk space requirements ...

CSAIL host registration policy All devices on the CSAIL network must use registered IP addresses. An IP address is considered registered if there is a host name ...

How Do I Add a Topic Be sure to Log in using your CSAIL Certificate (http://tig.csail.mit.edu/howto/certificates.html) and the https version of the URL . The wiki ...

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 ...

How To Remove Certificate Warning In Outlook And Outlook Express Go to http://ca.csail.mit.edu Click on Download Certificate Authority Certificate . ...

Restricting access with .htaccess The below formulas can be included in an .htaccess files on any of the CSAIL standard Web servers (people, groups, projects, courses ...

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 ...

Certificate installation for iPhone and iPod Touch Installation of certificates as described below has been possible since iPhone OS 2.0. Step 1: Install authority ...

Accessing CSAIL IMAP from an iPhone or iPod Touch The below instructions assume iPhone OS 3.x or later, which is a free upgrade for active iPhones. 1. Install the ...

The INQUIR Database INQUIR is the central CSAIL user account database. It is currently implemented as a nop PostgreSQL database though its history dates back through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installing Kerberos For Windows 3.2.0 Distribution You can download the CSAIL custom KfW 3.2.0 package from our distribution site. Kerberos Installation Instructions ...

Configuring Kerberos Kerberos support is already part of the base OS X system. However, you do need to use a custom configuration file. 1. Download the CSAIL version ...

System Requirements for AFS You must be running Microsoft Windows XP; mail us if you need installation media. You should have MIT Kerberos for Windows 2 ...

NOTE! TIG is no longer recommending that people use Microsoft Services for Unix! All services that previously required SFU are now available using native Microsoft ...

Installing The VPN Client For MacOSX Here are the instructions for installing VPN under MacOSX Download VPN client for MACOSX from software ditribution website ...

Installing VPN Client The current version for CSAIL VPN client is 5.0. Users can download the VPN from SOFTWARE link to the left. You need a CSAIL client certificate ...

Installing WindowsXP Following are the IS T recommended Hardware Requirements for Installing Windows XP on Desktop or Laptop 1.2 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or later 1024x768 ...

An introduction to Kerberos and AFS In just about any enterprise computing environment, there are common needs that all users have. Among these needs are authentication ...

Overview CSAIL now has a private Jabber server. Jabber is also known as XMPP, the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. The server allows participating Lab ...

Keeping your login session secure Generally, we want to make sure that: 1. A username and password are required to log into your computer (contact TIG if turning ...

Kenya Project Laare Computer Center in rural Kenya: Laare Community Technology Centre, Kenya The Laare Community Technology Centre in Kenya was founded by ...

Kerberos And OpenAFS For 64Bit We are still updating this topic. Please visit later.

Debian Kerberos Configuration The following /etc/krb5.conf is used on CSAIL Debian workstations and should be appropriate for any UNIX like system running MIT Kerberos ...

LCS Publications Scanning Project The goal of this project is to create a complete database with electronic files of the entire LCS Publications Technical Report and ...

LDAP Service (Address Book lookup from CSAIL) TIG operates directory.csail.mit.edu primarily as a back end service in support of other core services. Thus, this ...

Loaner Laptops Available configurations: Dell Inspiron 8600 (Intel Pentium M 2.0 GHz, 2GB ram, 15.4" display) Operating system: Windows XP SP3 ...

Laptop Battery Recall Information Below is a list of affected manufactures links to their respected sites for the recall. These sites will provide you with the information ...

Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) at CSAIL MIT has created a Release Notebook you might want to take a look at in addition to this page for notes about 10.5 specific issues ...

List of Public Printers Here is the list of printers in the lab. You can directly download the drivers here. There are special drivers for 64bit, 7 32bit, 7 64bit ...

Public Login Servers TIG maintains a public login server, login.csail.mit.edu, for the convenience of the community. The system is a dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 2G RAM ...

nop MEET MEET is an innovative educational initiative aimed at creating a common professional language between Israeli and Palestinian young leaders. Working together ...

MIT Kerberos and OpenAFS for Windows issues When getting Kerberos tickets using MIT Kerberos Leash Manager you get error saying "Ticket Initialization failed. Clock ...

Wireless Network: Stata and MITnet Interoperability We have made an arrangement with MIT IS T so that CSAIL members can register their laptop for wireless access ...

DVD/CD sharing from nearby Macs or PCs ("Remote Disc") Remote Disc is intended to allow a MacBook Air to use the optical drive of a nearby computer, either Mac or ...

Mounting NFS volumes under Mac OS 10.5 Note: these instructions are valid only for Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard". 10.6 instructions are under development, but may involve ...

Mac OS Mac OS X provides CSAIL users with polished native applications as well as BSD derived unix internals (accessible through Terminal). We recommend all Mac users ...

Mail Relaying SMTP Authentication Authenticated relaying is supported for people using off campus computers. There are a couple different ways to authenticate, with ...

Mailing List Spam Filtering Filtering senders There are a few things you can do to address the spam problem on CSAIL mailing lists. Lists can be configured such ...

Mailing Lists at CSAIL CSAIL uses Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager for mailing lists. Mailman is self service. As long as you have a CSAIL web certificate, ...

Manual ADJoin Instructions This page describes the process of connecting an existing Windows XP system to the CSAIL Active Directory domain. Prerequisites Install ...

Meet TIG Administrative Jack Costanza Adwoa Gyimah Brempong Director Office: 32 272 Phone: 3 6703 jackc@csail.mit.edu ...

Microsoft Office Formats Office 2007/2008 Compatibility (Microsoft's Office Open XML format: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, ...) Windows The default 2007 Microsoft Office ...

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 ...

Microsoft Windows Installation Installing Windows Vista/Info Installing Windows XP Kerberos and AFS/NFS Support Installing Kerberos For Windows ...

Mozilla IMAP Client We do not recommend using Mozilla Client for Email. TIG recommends using Thunderbird, Ms Outlook, Outlook express for Email. Following instructions ...

Instructions for configuring Thunderbird. Download and install the latest version of Thunderbird from Thunderbird website. If presented with an "Import ...

Mutt IMAP Client These are the only entries you really need in your .muttrc to begin reading IMAP mail. The first time you try to read your mail, you will be presented ...

Name Servers The TIG maintained DNS resolvers for use within CSAIL are ns0.csail.mit.edu through ns3.csail.mit.edu. /etc/resolv.conf should typically contain the ...

CSAIL Network The CSAIL network connects all locations in the research areas of the Stata Center with gigabit Ethernet at a density of one port per 25 square feet ...

We are in the process of installing 10 new copier machines throughout the lab. All ten have arrived now The Xerox Workcentre 7655 is a wonderful machine. It has ...

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

OpenAFS And MacOSX Prerequisites Mac OS 10.4.7 or greater Kerberos configured properly Installing Kerberos First install/configure kerberos, then continue ...

nop OpenAFS nop/ and Windows Known Issues 1. If you need access to Athena AFS and/or to use Athena Kerberos tickets (eg for SAPgui) at the same time that you ...

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nop OpenAFS on nop RedHat Linux Note: The following instructions are provided by dcm, not tig, so contact him with questions or comments. Fedora Core 3 Instructions ...

nop OpenAFS on (k)Ubuntu Linux (and possibly other (non athena) Debian linux dists) These instructions are for: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (version 8.10) Install ...

Operating Systems Support By far, the most common operating systems in use at CSAIL are Debian GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple OS X. We provide some level ...

Outreach Efforts Several members of The infrastructure Group (tig) donate their spare time to the collection of older/used, but serviceable, computers for reuse by ...

Outside Communication Efforts TIG is working on several efforts to better publicize our research to people outside the lab. Our goal is not only to expose our research ...

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 ...

Physical Locks Laptop theft is a real and unfortunate threat. Many crimes happen when the laptop is left unattended for just a moment. To help prevent laptop theft ...

Using Pine with CSAIL IMAP On CSAIL Debian systems, PINE is already installed and configured for use with the CSAIL IMAP server, and should not require any further ...

Placing ink blocks into Phaser8400 and 8550 When your local Phaser 8440 or 8550 says it's low or out of ink... Caution: Use ink made for the Phaser 8500/8550 Color ...

Popular Lab Mailing Lists You are automatically subscribed to several mailing lists: Important CSAIL announcements. #csail all examples Announcements ...

Port filtering The following ports are filtered on traffic coming into the CSAIL network: 179/tcp (BGP) 135/tcp (loc srv) 135/udp (loc srv) 137 ...

We have set up a poster hanging system along the bank of windows looking in on D429 and D433 to showcase some of the lab's research. A template has been created ...

The printer driver files for windows are located at \\afs\csail.mit.edu\group\tig\printers\Printer drivers\windows.

Printing Instructions For Macs Mac OS 10.5 or higher 1. Apple Menu System Preferences Hardware Print Fax If the lock in the lower left is closed ...

Printing Instructions for Windows Vista Click Start Control Panel Printer On the top toolbar, click "Add a Printer" as shown highlighted below /Capture ...

Printing Instructions For Windows Printing via Windows XP through HTTP PRINTING Follow the screenshots below for a graphical description of how to install the printer ...

Printing to Conspirator (located near the G Tower entry to the 2nd floor) So lets start by saying that we have found there is no one correct way to print to conspirator ...

If printing from your laptop or make sure the Conspirator printer has been added to your profile under System Preferences Printers. https://tig.csail.mit ...

Printing to Conspirator (located near the G Tower entry to the 2nd floor) So lets start by saying that we have found there is no one correct way to print to conspirator ...

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 ...

PuTTY (Windows SSH client) with Kerberos support Why use a customized build? We can't use Tatham's PuTTY because its current Kerberos support (nightly builds as of ...

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 ...

CSAIL Publications FAQ Publications Office Contact Information url: email: mailto:publications@csail.mit.edu publications@csail.mit.edu telephone ...

Machine Learning in Computer Systems, 09/09/2005 1 (Kaelbling) 2 (Jaakkola, Collins) 3 (Sollins, Teller, Madden)

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 ...

The Ricoh Aficio Color 6513 is a 40 PPM b/w, 10.5 PPM color copier and printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. Printers: betty ...

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

Security recommendations for course directories Some faculty like to use their course directories and courses.csail.mit.edu Web sites as collaboration tools to aid ...

Security Tips For Windows Machine Windows XP has better security features than previous windows versions.Following are important tips for securing your Windows XP ...

Why send HTTP redirects? It is frequently desirable to direct Web clients requesting one URL to another. For example, if you maintain a Web site for a course that ...

Setting up SSH By default, ssh is disabled on CSAIL Debian machines. There are five steps you need to take to enable it: First, ensure that your machine has a ...

The CSAIL IMAP server allows you to assign various access controls to your mail folders. This function is very similar to the access controls available in AFS. Unfortunately ...

Mac OS 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") Licensing and availability IS T now has OS 10.6 Snow Leopard available for new installs and upgrades for MIT Owned Machines. 1. First ...

Software Mirrors TIG provides these software mirrors as a service to CSAIL and the Internet community in general. Beyond providing access to this software, we don ...

Software Downloads, Licensing, and Support Get Software CSAIL's Software Distribution Center Packaged software installers available for use at CSAIL Access ...

Spam filtering at CSAIL with SpamAssassin: technical details Content based spam filtering is done using SpamAssassin augmented with some third party and custom rule ...

Configure Windows not to print a trailing blank page Go to printer properties device settings send ctrl d after each job select no.

Support for East Asian Languages Instructions Got Control Panel Regional and Language Options Select the "Languages" tab and check "Install files for ...

How To Submit a CSAIL Technical Report Any current CSAIL lab member may submit a document to the CSAIL Technical Report Series. Each document will receive a technical ...

TWiki Reference Manual () This page contains all documentation topics as one long, complete reference sheet. Doubleclick anywhere to return to the top of the page ...

.TWikiRegistration NoahMeyerhans 20 Jan 2004

Taveuni Fiji Taveuni (pronounced Tah vee ew nee), the garden island of Fiji, is rugged, wet, verdant and pristine. It lies only seven kilometers off the southeast ...

The Tektronix Phaser 740 is a 16 PPM b/w, 5 PPM color laser printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. Printers: geb Download ...

# TWiki Text Formatting Working in TWiki is as easy as typing in text exactly like email . You don't need to know HTML, though you can use it if you prefer. Links ...

Theory of Computation Migration to CSAIL As many long time holders of Theory accounts have noticed, all of TOC's resources, services, and files are being migrated ...

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

Trac is a software development oriented content management system, which includes a wiki, a bug tracking system, a Subversion repository browser, and some glue to ...

Changing passwords, addresses, phone numbers, etc Changing your CSAIL Kerberos password Run passwd on any CSAIL Debian machine. Note that /usr/local/csail/bin/passwd ...

nop Updating your Matlab PLP in Microsoft Windows nop/ N.B. As of version 2008a (7.6), the PLP no longer applies to Matlab installations. The document remains posted ...

Useful KDE Hints You can find most of the settings and applications you need by clicking on the K button on the lower left of your screen. /kde.png If you are looking ...

Contents Overview The "definitive" CVS manual is the Manual, if you're looking for detailed information look there. CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a version ...

Using PHP 5 on the CSAIL Web servers The standard CSAIL Web servers support both PHP 4 and PHP 5. For backwards compatibility, PHP 4 is the default. To use PHP 5 ...

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 ...

Changing the video on the public monitors Currently there are three public monitors available for displaying videos: one in the D4 hallway, one on G4 near HQ, and ...

Changing the Crawl Message on CSAIL TV 1. Go to tv.csail.mit.edu/tools 2. Click on the VFMBS icon 3. "Trust" any certificates you get presented ...

Metadata Conventions Video Furnace allows for a bunch of metadata to be attached to assets, although the only required entries are Name and Description. In order ...

Monitoring Conference Room Feeds For privacy reasons, the video feeds from Kiva and Star only appear on CSAIL TV when a recording is scheduled. However, if you need ...

Scheduling a Video Furnace Recording in 28 Easy Steps 1. Go to tv.csail.mit.edu/tools 2. Click the VFEditor icon 3. After the VFEditor window launches ...

Verifying a Video Furnace Recording is Scheduled If you're paranoid about whether a event is actually going to be recorded or not, this is how you double check. ...

VHS / DV Digitizing And Copying Capture and Duplicate: And How to Make It Work Digitize (From VHS or DV) 1. Open iMovie or iMovie HD 2. Select "Clips ...

VMware On CSAIL Debian Setup on Debian 5.0 (lenny) Install the module assisstant package ( sudo aptitude install module assistant ) Run sudo module assistant ...

How to set up VNC to be accessed from outside CSAIL First, be clear about the problem you're trying to solve. Is VNC (originally for "Virtual Network Computing") ...

VOIP Pilot at CSAIL The Infrastructure Group has been involved for over a year in a pilot rollout of a voice over IP (VOIP) initiative that is headed by MIT IS T. ...

Printing via Windows 2000/ Windows XP through LPR PRINTING Follow the screenshots below for a graphical description of how to install the service (the process is the ...

Video Furnace Instructions Scheduling a recording Verifying a recording is scheduled Changing the video on the public monitors Changing the crawl ...

Joining AD in Vista This page describes the process of connecting an existing Windows Vista system to the CSAIL Active Directory domain. Prerequisites Install ...

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

nop VisualStudio nop/ Installation Issues While installing Visual Studio 2005 on a laptop after the first screen finishes, installation just locks up, using 0% CPU ...

Voice Over IP (VOIP) at CSAIL TIG has been working with IS T since the spring semester during their pilot programs for moving the campus over from ISDN phone service ...

Voiding Your Warranty In order for TIG to properly manage CSAIL Debian machines, we need to depend on some basic packages and configuration settings. We do our best ...

Scanning with Vuescan Instructions for Mac OSX In Mac OS X, select the Vuescan icon and open the application. The mode is flatbed and will already be selected. ...

How To Submit a CSAIL Work Product Any current CSAIL lab member may submit an artifact (or a collection of artifacts) as a CSAIL Work Product to be placed in DSpace ...

Configuring a WebDAV share on https://webdav.csail.mit.edu Background WebDAV, for Authoring and Versioning, is a protocol for performing arbitrary edits/modifications ...

nop WebDNS is a system developed at CSAIL to allow Lab members to manage entries in the Lab's Domain Name System namespaces. See the WebDNS Users' Guide for more ...

WebDNS Users' Guide WebDNS is a system developed at CSAIL to allow Lab members to manage entries in the Lab's Domain Name System namespaces. Currently, WebDNS serves ...

HOT TOPICS Copiers Accounting Wireless network changes effective June 1 CSAIL Debian 5.0 (lenny) released Laptop Security ClusterComputing ...

/tigcsail.png Latest News Hot Topics Laptop Battery Recall Information EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION and System Status (CSAIL web certificate ...

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HQ Wiki TIG Wiki Computing Home Operations Home Communications Home New User Setup/Orientation Accounts Certificates Email ...

Web Notify This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this TIG web. This is a convenient service, so you do not ...

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 ...

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 ...

TWiki's TIG web /view/TIG The web for users, groups and offices. TWiki is a Web Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate World.

CSAIL Web server architecture There are five main CSAIL Web servers: courses , groups , people , projects , and www . In addition, there are a number of special ...

Web Server Statistics Web server logs for most CSAIL Web servers are available to Lab members for analysis by logging in to the appropriate Web server (courses, groups ...

Granting the web server write access to a directory Remember that your web document root is hosted in AFS, so AFS access controls are important. Unix file modes are ...

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

Webmail WebDNS DHCP registration

Statistics for TIG Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads ...

See also the verbose WebIndex.

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 ...

What services does TIG provide? Infrastructure Summary The CSAIL network connects all locations in the research areas of the Stata Center with gigabit Ethernet at ...

Why AFS? A Little History If you were previously affiliated with the AI Lab, you are used to a particular centralized computing resource model. Many of you have voiced ...

A Little History If you were previously affiliated with the AI Lab, you are used to a particular centralized computing resource model. Many of you have voiced concerns ...

Will my CSAIL account go away when I leave? We understand that many CSAIL alumni continue to collaborate with their colleagues at the Lab after they graduate (or retire ...

Windows 7 Release Notebook Windows 7 provides many minor tweaks to Windows Vista. From a first glance, those tweaks should make Win7 a viable alternative to Windows ...

Windows Vista On Tuesday, January 30th, Microsoft has released their latest operating system, Windows Vista. Vendors will soon start shipping PC's with Vista pre ...

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 ...

Virtualization currently in production, Jan '07 The TIG maintained cluster resources will be hosted as Xen virtual hosts. Virtualizing compute resources is a somewhat ...

The Xerox nop DocuPrint N4525 is a high speed black and white laser printer. Toner cartridges for this printer are available from Geoff in the mailroom. Printers ...

The Xerox Documnet Centre 425 is a 25 PPM black and white copier and printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. Printers: twd ...

The Xerox Document Centre 470ST is a high speed black and white copier and printer. Toner cartridges for this unit are kept on the shelves next to it. If you cannot ...

The Xerox Document Centre Color 50 is a 50 PPM b/w, 12.5 color copier and printer. Toner cartridges for this unit are kept on the shelves next to it. If you cannot ...

The Xerox Phaser 8200 is a 16 PPM color laser printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. Printers: set Download drivers: http ...

The Xerox Phaser 8400 is a 24 PPM color printer using a wax based solid ink system. All of CSAIL's 8400s are the DP model; when installing the drivers, make sure ...

The Xerox Phaser 8550 is a 30 PPM color printer using a wax based solid ink system. Most of CSAIL's 8550s are the DP model (ham and bean are DT ); when installing ...

The Xerox Work Centre C2636 is a 36 PPM b/w, 26 PPM color copier and printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. PLEASE NOTE: this ...

The Xerox Work Centre Pro 255 is a 55 PPM b/w copier and printer. TIG for all problems related to this printer, including supplies. PLEASE NOTE: this machine is ...