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A Collection of How To Documents:

Maintained by: Hanz Makmur

This is a collection of HowTos created to help Computer Science users at Rutgers. These documents are grouped in categories to simplify access.

Account related

Obtaining accounts on systems maintained by LCSR Details of available accounts and what steps to follow to get accounts of LCSR Systems.
Creating a RUCS account Any Rutgers student, full-time faculty member, or full-time staff member can create an account for themselves using automatic account creation software.
Getting a Rutgers NetID In order to authenticate yourself for any number of services at Rutgers, you need a NetID and password.

Mail Related

Accessing CS Mail Server

Getting an Account on CS Central Mail Server (dragon.rutgers.edu)
This takes you to the main page where you can create an account on CS Central Mail Server.

More info: [What is it?] [Features] [What to expect] [Setting Up Mail Client] [FAQ]

Dragon WebMail User Interface Guide
This document explain dragon webmail features in detail.

Dragon Pronto User Guide (PDF)
This document explain dragon pronto interface in detail.

Mail Migration

Migrating Old Mail to CS Central Mail Server
This document explains how to migrate old mail from users's old mailserver to CS Central Mail Server.
Extracting Email From CS Central Mail Server
This document explains how to extract your mail from CS Central Mail Server (dragon). This is useful for people who are leaving Rutgers and wants to take his/her mail out.

Sharing Mail

How To Share Your Mailboxes With Others
This document shows you how to share your personal mailboxes with other users in our mail server. This feature is only available for users of CS Central Mail Server.
How Access Share Mailboxes
This document shows you how to access shared mailboxes made available by others to you. This feature is only available for users of CS Central Mail Server.

Mailing List

Utilizing Computer Science Mailing List
This document explains how to utilize CS mailing list and access the archives of the list.
Administering Computer Science Mailing List
This document explains how to administer CS mailing list.

Spam/Virus/Phising Handling

SonicWall Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz
Of course not every e-mail you receive is a phish. In fact you should expect your bank or e-commerce vendor to send you legitimate e-mail. But how can you tell the difference? Well that's what the Phishing IQ test is all about - give it a try.
MailFrontier Phising IQ Test
Think you can't get caught in the ?phishing? net of online fraud? Dive into our Phishing IQ Test and find out if you can avoid the hooks of the online crooks.
How to Get Rid of Virus Warning.
This document shows you how to get rid of virus warning by filtering them using Rules of the webmail interface.
How to Get Rid of Spam Email.
This document shows you how to get rid of spam email on your CS Mail accounts.
Hiding Your Email Address from Spammer
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How do spammers get people's email addresses ?
This comprehensive document show how your spammer get your email address. Use this document to help you avoid future spam.
Anti-Spam Techniques
A wikipedia article that shows you what common steps that are taken to reduce spam. Some of these steps are done centrally but as a user you need to learn End-user anti-spam techniques shown in this article.
How to Avoid Getting my Email Discarded?
All email addressed to user@cs.rutgers.edu, are checked for virus. We send warning to sender who send autoexecutable enclosure and discard the email.
How to Avoid Getting my Email Blacklisted?
All email addressed to user@cs.rutgers.edu, are checked against blacklisting service to reduce spam.

Signing Your Email using Digital Certificate

Get Free Email Certificate
Free Secure Email Certificates allow you to encrypt and digitally sign email and attachments keeping them secure and confidential
Using Apple Mail to Sign your email digitally
How to Get a VeriSign Digital ID and Install/Use it
Use this document to configure your email client but get the free certificate from Thawte.
How to Set Up Encrypted Mail on MacOS X A PDF file from O'Reilly - Shows you how to configure your MacOS X email client to send secure email.

Calendar Related

Sharing Calendar with Pronto interface
This document, courtesy of Loughborough University, shows how to share calendar with other users in Pronto.

Accessing your calendar with MacOS X iCal
This document, courtesy of Loughborough University, shows how to access your calendar using MacOSX iCal. To make it work with our mail server, simply change any references to staff-mail-lboro.ac.uk to dragon.rutgers.edu

Instant Messaging Related

Setting Rutgers Instant Messaging (RIM) with Pidgin (Windows/Unix) or Adium (MacOS X)
This document shows how to use Rutgers Instant Messaging (RIM) server with Windows/Linux/MacOSX client.
Note:

Currently RIM only allows you to communicate with other RIM users.
Questions related to RIM should be addressed to helpdesk@nbcs.rutgers.edu.

Using Computer Science Instant Messaging Server
Unlike RIM, CS Instant Messaging server allows you to communicate with other public Jabber (XMPP) server in the world, example: gmail.com, jabber.org, etc.

To use and setup your Instant Messaging client for CS IM server, follow instruction described for RIM above and change any references to rutgers.edu with dragon.rutgers.edu

Printing Related Documents

Show All CS Printer Queue and Jobs Status
This page shows you the status of CS printer queues.(software)
Nagios Printer Status at Hill & Core
This page shows you the status of all our printers and its queue. (hardware)
Printing to CS Printers from Windows, MacOS X, and Linux Operating Systems
This document shows you how to print and setup printer queues on MS Windows/Mac/Linux OS.
How to Distill Postscript file to PDF
This document shows hot to covert Postscript file to PDF.
How to Create a FASTLANE PDF file
This document shows how to avoid incompatible PDF, by creating PDF files according to FastLane requirements.
How to Create a FASTLANE compatible PDF Job Option for Acrobat
This document shows how to avoid incompatible PDF, by creating PDF files job option according to FastLane requirements.
FastLane PDF Instructions for Proposal Preparation and Project Reporting If you are submitting proposal to FastLane, this document will explain to you how to create proper PDF formatted proposal.
Using TeX and LATEX with NSF FastLane
This FastLane document shows how to use TeX or LATEX to create FastLane acceptable proposals.
Embedding Fonts
This document describes why embedding fonts into your documents is important. Many people are not aware that document they write will not look as they intend to if they dont embed proper fonts into their document.
Creating quality Adobe PDF files from TeX with DVIPS
This document explains how to configure DVIPS program to use device-independent, scalable fonts in a PostScript language file or PDF document to achieve optimal font quality.

Firewall and Broadband

Using SSH Tunnels as VPN to Run Services Behind Firewall
This document shows you how to use SSH Tunneling techniques as VPN to access services behind firewall thus overcoming the block on NON Secure services.
Securing and Sharing Your Home Broadband Connection
This document explains how to secure and share your home broadband connection.
Choosing Broadband
This document shows available options on broadband connection for your home.
Using Temporary Public Key Authentication with OpenSSH
This document shows how to use Public Key Authentication with OpenSSH with Computer Science system .

Filesharing Documents

Mounting RCI Disks Remotely on your Computer via Samba protocol
This NBCS document explains how to setup a convenient way to transfer files between a local computer and Rutgers RCI account.

Microsoft Windows - How-To

Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional How-To. Official Microsoft How To for Windows XP Pro.
Using Microsoft Windows XP Home How-To. Official Microsoft How To for Windows XP Home.
Microsoft Solutions How-To for IT Professionals. Official Microsoft How To. Complete Resources from TechNet.

Office Tutorials

MS Office 2007 Tutorial
This document was created by Wilkes University through the generosity of Microsoft and Lynchburg College. It has quite complete collections of Office 2007 tutorial including some Video Tutorials which were developed by doctoral students at Wilkes University to meet project requirement in our Instructional Development & Delivery (ED 641) course.
Microsoft Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Excel 2007 Tutorial
Use this tutorial to get up to speed with MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2007
Get Started with the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Use this page to learn more about the new MS Office 2007 changes. The site has many tutorials that can help you master the new Office 2007.

Video Tutorials

A Collection of Video Tutorial
A collection of video tutorials of computing related information. This collection of Video are grouped in the following Categories: Office2007 Tips, Online Threats, Support and Repair, SecurityTalk, Vista related materials.
A Collection of Video Tutorial from Expert Village
A collection of video tutorials of computing related and other information.
Phising/Scam/Misleading Info? See Videos from the FTC
Collection of common sense video which describe all kind of phising/scam/misleading stuff you get in your mailbox.