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You can read your email on Oregon, Darkwing or Gladstone via your web browser. To find out more, see https://webmail.uoregon.edu/
We encourage all WebMail users to take advantage of the program's ability to run in a secure (encrypted) mode. You can toggle between secure and regular mode by clicking on the key link near the bottom of the initial login screen.
Note: We generally recommend that you pick--and stick with--a single email client. For example, those who attempt to use Pine and Eudora and WebMail are asking for trouble because some mail clients move messages around as they're read.
The UO has a new online directory service. To locate the email addresses and phone numbers of people on campus, see http://directory.uoregon.edu/
Do you ever wish you could save a copy of your data or your documents on CD-ROM? You can! A workstation equipped to create CD-ROMs is available in Room 202 of the Computing Center. Blank CD-ROMs are also available for $2 each.
Remember that copyrighted materials (e.g., commercial software and copyrighted musical CDs) cannot be reproduced without written permission from the copyright holder. The CD-ROM burner is also not intended to be used for making multiple copies of material.
You can speed up your web browsingÑand help us conserve network bandwidth at the same timeÑby using the university's proxy server/web cache. For more information about how to use it, see http://proxy.uoregon.edu/
Did you know you can create a mailing list for your class or group at the UO? For more information, see http://cc.uoregon.edu/mailinglists/
Many of you are already in the habit of using ssh ("secure shell") instead of Telnet when you connect to Darkwing, Gladstone, the Alphacluster or the VMScluster--that's great!
However, if you're using FTP to transfer files to those systems, you're still vulnerable to password-sniffing because FTP transmits your password openly, just like Telnet. To avoid this hazard, begin using SCP instead of FTP to transfer files.
For example, assume you're user jsmith and you want to copy the file xyz.dat from your field data subdirectory on Darkwing to your current directory on your UNIX desktop. To do that, you'd type At the password prompt, type in your password. The file will be copied and you'll get some information about the speed of the transfer. You can also copy files from your current UNIX desktop directory to your Darkwing account, e.g.,
% scp abc.txt jsmith@darkwing:archives/abc.txt
Did you know you can watch TV-quality video on your networked Windows PC?
The UO has obtained a site license for Cisco's IP/TV product and distributes it on the 1999 PC Duckware. If you're on a PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII PC running Windows 95, 98 or NT and you're directly connected to the network (not dialing in from home over a modem), install IP/TV from Duckware and give it a try.
(Sorry, no Macintosh version is available at this time.)
@HOME cable modem service isn't available in all neighborhoods yet, but it 's coming soon. For more information, see the ATT/TCI web page at http://www.tci.net/home.html
Do you ever feel your web site isn't showing up as well as you'd like in the campus search engine? If so, here's a checklist of dos and don'ts to help you correct the problem:
As you've probably noticed if you dialin to UOnet via modem, the UO has a limited number of modems--and a large number of users who need to use them.
Please do your part to make that limited resource serve as many users as possible. Limit your use of the university dialin lines to no more than a couple of hours a day, or 14 hours over the course of a seven-day period.
If you routinely need more dialin time than that, you should obtain a dialin account with a commercial Internet service provider, or work from on campus. For a list of Internet service providers, see http://www.thelist.com/
While you're away, you can set up an automatic response to incoming email by using the "vacation" program on Darkwing/Gladstone. To set it up, type
% vacationand answer the questions that appear.
Note: On Darkwing, the default editor is vi. If you'd prefer a simpler editor, you may want to set your editor to pico before initiating the vacation program. To do this, type% setenv VISUAL pico % setenv EDITOR picoand then enter the vacation program by typing:
% vacation
Note: There isn't a supported vacation program on Oregon.
If you lose or misplace your copy of our newsletter, you can read it online at http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/ Each issue is available in PDF format, and you can also reference back issues at http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/backissues.html