Get Your Copy of Duckware 2002

It's fall, and time for a new edition of Duckware!

With the aid of a generous grant from Sony Disc Manufacturing, the Computing Center's Microcomputer Services group has created the Duckware 2002 CD, which is packed with the latest software and documentation to help you with computing at the UO.

Duckware 2002 is available for both Windows and Mac OS and is free to current UO students, faculty and staff. Among other useful items, this year's Duckware CD includes

• Norton AntiVirus 2002 to ward off computer viruses
  
• step-by-step instructions for using the UO's modem pool, wireless network, and VPN connections
  
• SSH secure shell for encrypted network connections
  
• IP/TV for viewing such multicast broadcasts as live news, computer conferences and conventions, prerecorded NASA flights, and Internet Radio
  
• Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla web browsers (among others)
  
• a newsgroup client (Free Agent for Windows, YA-NewsWatcher for Mac OS 8 and above, and MT-NewsWatcher for Mac OSX)
  

New this year: The Macintosh version of Duckware 2002 includes a freeware secure FTP client, Fugu, which had not been previously available for Mac OS X.

System Requirements

PC users: To use Duckware 2002 for Windows, you'll need Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP.
Mac users: The Macintosh version of Duckware is compatible with Mac OS 8.6, 9, and OS X.

Where to Get Duckware

Students, faculty and staff may pick up a copy of the Duckware 2002 CD at one of the following campus locations:

• Microcomputer Support Center (151 McKenzie Hall)
  
• Documents Room Library (175 McKenzie Hall)
  
• CC-McKenzie Lab (101 McKenzie Hall)
  
• CC-EMU Lab (22 EMU)
  
• CC-Klamath Lab (B13 Klamath Hall)
  
• CC-Millrace Lab (113 Millrace I)
  
• Knight Library Information Technology Center (ITC)
  
• Science Library Information Technology Center (ITC)
  

Campus Housing Distribution. Students living in campus housing can get Duckware at Residence Hall and Family Housing area desks in the University Inn, Carson, Spencer View and Westmoreland.

Reuse and Recycling

If you decide you no longer want your copy of Duckware 2002, please don't throw it away! We'll gladly take it back and give it to someone else. Just drop it off at the Microcomputer Support Center, or mail it via campus mail to Microcomputer Services, 151 McKenzie Hall.

Questions?

For more Duckware help or information, call the Microcomputer Support Center at 346-4412 or email microhelp@lists.uoregon.edu
You can also visit the Support Center in 151 McKenzie Hall on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or check out their website at http://micro.uoregon.edu/

A Special Thank-You to Sony

Spencer Smith
Microcomputer Support Specialist
spencera@oregon.uoregon.edu

For the third consecutive year, Sony Disk Manufacturing has very graciously donated CD duplication services for our annual Duckware CD-ROM.

Sony 's duplication of 15,000 Duckware CDs represents a contribution of nearly $10,000 to the UO campus community, and is of crucial importance to the university 's ongoing computing and networking support efforts.

We very much appreciate Sony 's donation of these services, and as always, it was a pleasure to work with Sony 's extremely competent, professional, and talented staff.

Thank you, Sony!