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 user account signup Changing passwords, addresses, phone numbers, etc Choosing Good Passwords INQUIR ...

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 ...

Apple iPhone This wiki page contains our working notes about the Apple iPhone and various interoperability/usability issues. The iPhone is still bleeding edge and ...

nop Apple Mail nop/ Instructions for setting up Apple Mail Open the application by clicking MAIL in the dock. Go to Mail Preferences /Picture1.jpg ...

Apple Mail Removing Annoying SELECTCOMMANDFAILED Error As of March 3, 2005, Apple Mail has a known bug that causes it to misbehave if you have an IMAP account configured ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Choosing Good Passwords Rationale The object when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possible for a cracker to make educated guesses about what you ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Email and Mailing Lists All about CSAIL email Mailing Lists

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 ...

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 ...

Emergency Contact Information A pair of TIG staff members remain on call and reachable via voice mail and pager to respond to emergency computing/networking issues ...

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 ...

Following is the Email from IS T: Here is a link to the article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2188504,00.asp Excel 2007 Contains Serious Multiplication ...

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

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 ...

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

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 Support Laptop Battery Recall Purchasing Computer buying advice.

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 EmailDetails#Mail Clients ) to share your inbox and mail folders, sometimes folders created in one ...

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 perform an unattended scheduled local backup of a Windows XP machine to AFS. Because Kerberos tickets are not indefinite and are set to expire, you must perform ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Migrating to CSAIL IMAP Mail Service Overview NOTE This requires a web browser and a a web certificate 2 Open the https://imap.csail.mit.edu/cgi bin/create ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Mac OSX Please Update JasonDorfman 18 Nov 2006

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 4.6. Users can download the VPN from SOFTWARE link on TIG website at http://tig.csail.mit.edu/twiki ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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. Location Printer Name Model Speed and Notes Windows ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Spam filtering Content based spam filtering is done using SpamAssassin augmented with some third party and custom rule sets. We also maintain some local blacklists ...

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 There are a few things you can do to address the spam problem on CSAIL mailing lists. Lists can be configured such that only list members ...

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: 273 Phone: 3 6703 jackc@csail.mit.edu ...

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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 ...

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 Windows XP Windows Vista

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. At the Account Wizard New ...

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 ...

Network and Data 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 ...