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cwverdun — 2009-05-21 16:34:18

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	+ ------ + ''2009-05-21 17:34:18'' [[nbsp]] It is extremely sad they shut this down. I am a new student Fall 09 and I was really looking forward to a UC Davis shell. Maybe we can start a petition to get this back up and running. --["Users/cwverdun"]

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WilliamLewis — 2009-03-24 18:12:07

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	+ ''I know that the student mail servers from 2005 until the Gmail switchover were named after colors... I just remember the ones I was on... purple and salmon.'' -wl

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CraigBrozinsky — 2009-03-24 17:49:39

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	+ There's also logan, sandman, and runner, but those might have been mailservers rather than hostnames. ["CraigBrozinsky"]

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WilliamLewis — 2009-03-24 13:15:07

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	+ At the time of the system's retirement in early 2009, the hostnames were veni, vidi, and vici. These hostnames date to at least 2005 and possibly before. --["wl"].

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ChrisLambertus — 2009-03-24 12:42:54

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	+ ------ + ''2009-03-24 13:42:54'' [[nbsp]] I don't believe any other systems used the permit name as the hostname. isun was actually a round-robin DNS record during my tenure, which pointed to an ever-shifting array of Sun hardware and hostnames. I'm sure someone with the interest could add the list here for posterity, but it'd have to be someone with more free time than I. :-) + --["Users/ChrisLambertus"]

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JabberWokky — 2009-03-24 12:10:18

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JabberWokky — 2009-03-24 12:09:40

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- isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service in February 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain, cf. ["UC Davis IRC Server"].
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- ISUN is an on-campus server that you can [wiki:WikiPedia:Secure_shell ssh] into to check your ["UC Davis E-Mail" mail] with [wiki:WikiPedia:Pine_(email_client) pine], [wiki:WikiPedia:Elm_(email_client) elm], etc. At one point, one could use [wiki:WikiPedia:Telnet Telnet] to access isun, but this was discontinued on May 18, 2005 in the ongoing effort to make the campus network more secure. [wiki:WikiPedia:List_of_email_clients Text based mail clients] such as pine are much faster than geckomail, especially at times of high network traffic. But you can do a lot more than just check your email with this server. It is a general purpose UNIX system that gives you access to many programming language compilers and interpreters such as g++, c++, perl (but not python), and several other command line utilities. Here's a modified description of ISUN from UC Davis' website:	+ ISUN was an on-campus server that you could [wiki:WikiPedia:Secure_shell ssh] into to check your ["UC Davis E-Mail" mail] with [wiki:WikiPedia:Pine_(email_client) pine], [wiki:WikiPedia:Elm_(email_client) elm], etc. isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service in February 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain, cf. ["UC Davis IRC Server"]. + + + At one point, one could use [wiki:WikiPedia:Telnet Telnet] to access isun, but this was discontinued on May 18, 2005 in the ongoing effort to make the campus network more secure. [wiki:WikiPedia:List_of_email_clients Text based mail clients] such as pine are much faster than geckomail, especially at times of high network traffic. But you could do a lot more than just check your email with this server. It was a general purpose UNIX system that gives you access to many programming language compilers and interpreters such as g++, c++, perl (but not python), and several other command line utilities. Here's a modified description of ISUN from UC Davis' website:
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- Beginning May 18, 2005, as part of an ongoing effort to maintain a secure campus computing environment, you will no longer be able to access the ISUN servers using the telnet or FTP protocols. You can still use ssh and scp, respectively. For ssh, on a Mac or linux, open up a Terminal prompt and type:	+ Beginning May 18, 2005, as part of an ongoing effort to maintain a secure campus computing environment, you were no longer be able to access the ISUN servers using the telnet or FTP protocols. You could still use ssh and scp, respectively. For ssh, on a Mac or linux, open up a Terminal prompt and type:

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IDoNotExist — 2009-03-24 11:54:44

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	+ ------ + ''2009-03-24 12:54:44'' [[nbsp]] Were there any other machines with similarly derived names? --["Users/IDoNotExist"]

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ChrisLambertus — 2009-03-24 11:50:49

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	+ ------ + ''2009-03-24 12:50:49'' [[nbsp]] The name came from the 4 letter role identifier (aka "permit") used to provision accounts in the Mothra account management system. The systems had been Suns since at least 1992, (there were also two DEC Ultrix systems at the time,) but at the time we implemented "isun" there were only Suns. The "I" prefix was used for a few different permits, I think it referred to the permit as being an "IT" service as opposed to some other departmental permit. --["Users/ChrisLambertus"]

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IDoNotExist — 2009-03-24 11:17:03

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	+ ------ + ''2009-03-24 12:17:03'' [[nbsp]] Does anyone know where the isun name came from? Is it an acronym? Was it originally a Sun system? --["Users/IDoNotExist"]

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IDoNotExist — 2009-03-24 11:16:20

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WilliamLewis — 2009-03-24 10:42:24

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- isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service in February 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain.	+ isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service in February 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain, cf. ["UC Davis IRC Server"].

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WilliamLewis — 2009-03-24 10:41:21

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- isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service February, 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain.	+ isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service in February 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain.

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WilliamLewis — 2009-03-24 10:37:59

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- isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service February, 2009. This was done because providing general unix login services is more easily done on desktops running Linux now days.	+ isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service February, 2009. This was done because the powers that be decided that providing unix shell accounts to the campus community was no longer that important and not worth the time and resources to maintain.

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DaveZavatson — 2009-03-24 10:22:35

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	+ isun.ucdavis.edu was retired from service February, 2009. This was done because providing general unix login services is more easily done on desktops running Linux now days. +

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CurlyGirl26 — 2008-12-04 21:43:44

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	+ *It's the end of an era. . .

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WilliamLewis — 2008-12-04 18:58:06

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- If you came to Davis after a given date (2000?), an ISUN account was not automatically set up for you. You can set up an account, using your current UCD kerberos username/login at the [https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi computing accounts website]. Best of all, it's ["Getting the most out of your student fees" free] if you're a student, faculty or staff member.	+ If you came to Davis after a given date (July 10, 2000), an ISUN account was not automatically set up for you. You can set up an account, using your current UCD kerberos username/login at the [https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi computing accounts website]. Best of all, it's ["Getting the most out of your student fees" free] if you're a student, faculty or staff member.

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BrentLaabs — 2008-12-04 17:59:44

the end of ISUN

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	+ + == The end? == + + IET claims it will shut down the service on February 27, 2009. That sucks.

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JasonAller — 2008-09-04 21:17:01

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- The IRC program installed on isun is quite old ({{{ircII version 2.9_roof (19960721)}}}) and still defaults to {{{irc.ucdavis.edu}}}, even if you specify a server. To solve this problem, run irc, then type: {{{/SERVER -DELETE irc.ucdavis.edu}}}, followed by {{{/SAVE -ALL}}}, and confirm that you would like to save the new configuration. (thanks to ["DavidReid" dreid])	+ The IRC program installed on isun is quite old ({{{ircII version 2.9_roof (19960721)}}}) and still defaults to {{{irc.ucdavis.edu}}}, even if you specify a server. To solve this problem, run irc, then type: {{{/SERVER -DELETE irc.ucdavis.edu}}}, followed by {{{/SAVE -ALL}}}, and confirm that you would like to save the new configuration. (thanks to ["Users/DavidReid" dreid])
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- The files that can be uploaded and accessed using the "MySpace" feature of ["MyUCDavis"] (click on "My Tools" in the toolbar, and then on "MySpace") are accessible on isun, under {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/}}}. This is useful when MyUCDavis is down or malfunctioning. Within the {{{home/}}} folder, there are ~925 directories with names like {{{a0}}}, {{{a1}}}, etc. Within these directories lie the user folders. To figure out which folder your user folder is in, type {{{pwd}}} when you first log into isun. For example, when ["ArlenAbraham" I] log into isun and type {{{pwd}}} it returns {{{/home/an/arlen}}}, I can then get to my myspace folder at {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/an/arlen}}}. Windows users who are not comfortable with using the Unix command line, might like [http://winscp.net/eng/index.php WinSCP] or [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net Filezilla](recently ported to ["linux"] too), these are graphical tools for mass file moving.	+ The files that can be uploaded and accessed using the "MySpace" feature of ["MyUCDavis"] (click on "My Tools" in the toolbar, and then on "MySpace") are accessible on isun, under {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/}}}. This is useful when MyUCDavis is down or malfunctioning. Within the {{{home/}}} folder, there are ~925 directories with names like {{{a0}}}, {{{a1}}}, etc. Within these directories lie the user folders. To figure out which folder your user folder is in, type {{{pwd}}} when you first log into isun. For example, when ["Users/ArlenAbraham" I] log into isun and type {{{pwd}}} it returns {{{/home/an/arlen}}}, I can then get to my myspace folder at {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/an/arlen}}}. Windows users who are not comfortable with using the Unix command line, might like [http://winscp.net/eng/index.php WinSCP] or [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net Filezilla](recently ported to ["linux"] too), these are graphical tools for mass file moving.

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AlexMandel — 2007-06-13 00:57:01

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- The files that can be uploaded and accessed using the "MySpace" feature of ["MyUCDavis"] (click on "My Tools" in the toolbar, and then on "MySpace") are accessible on isun, under {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/}}}. This is useful when MyUCDavis is down or malfunctioning. Within the {{{home/}}} folder, there are ~925 directories with names like {{{a0}}}, {{{a1}}}, etc. Within these directories lie the user folders. To figure out which folder your user folder is in, type {{{pwd}}} when you first log into isun. For example, when ["ArlenAbraham" I] log into isun and type {{{pwd}}} it returns {{{/home/an/arlen}}}, I can then get to my myspace folder at {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/an/arlen}}}. Windows users who are not comfortable with using the Unix command line, might like [http://winscp.net/eng/index.php WinSCP].	+ The files that can be uploaded and accessed using the "MySpace" feature of ["MyUCDavis"] (click on "My Tools" in the toolbar, and then on "MySpace") are accessible on isun, under {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/}}}. This is useful when MyUCDavis is down or malfunctioning. Within the {{{home/}}} folder, there are ~925 directories with names like {{{a0}}}, {{{a1}}}, etc. Within these directories lie the user folders. To figure out which folder your user folder is in, type {{{pwd}}} when you first log into isun. For example, when ["ArlenAbraham" I] log into isun and type {{{pwd}}} it returns {{{/home/an/arlen}}}, I can then get to my myspace folder at {{{/afs/home.ucdavis.edu/home/an/arlen}}}. Windows users who are not comfortable with using the Unix command line, might like [http://winscp.net/eng/index.php WinSCP] or [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net Filezilla](recently ported to ["linux"] too), these are graphical tools for mass file moving.

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ArlenAbraham — 2006-05-18 14:52:10

i'm a noob, is there a better way to do this?

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RaghavKrishnapriyan — 2006-05-17 14:52:45

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ArlenAbraham — 2005-12-21 14:08:09

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	+ == Text-based Browsing == + You can also use isun to browse websites using the text-based browser [wiki:WikiPedia:Lynx_(web_browser) Lynx]. This comes in handy when your ISP's webservice craps out, but other services (such as SSH) are still running. For general use, its all text interface is ideal for simple web browsing, especially on services such as [http://www.imdb.com imdb], where superfluous pictures and ads slow down browing on pictorial browsers. For modem users, lynx is a necessity. Note that the daviswiki is lynx compatible, both in terms of browsing and editing. + == IRC == + You can also use your shell account to connect to the ["Davis Wiki IRC" DavisWiki IRC channel]. To do so, follow these instructions: At the command prompt, simply type {{{irc your-nick irc.freenode.net}}}, followed by [enter/return]. After you're connected, type {{{/join #daviswiki}}}. (Note that you should replace "your-nick" above with a nickname that you chose for yourself.) [wiki:WikiPedia:Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] is a technology that has been around far, far longer than wiki. It allows you to chat in real time with people from around the world (or just in Davis) in a group or individual format.
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- You can also use isun to browse websites using the text based browser [wiki:WikiPedia:Lynx_(web_browser) Lynx]. This comes in handy when your ISP's webservice craps out, but other services (such as SSH) are still running. For general use, its all text interface is ideal for simple web browsing, especially on services such as [http://www.imdb.com imdb], where superfluous pictures and ads slow down browing on pictorial browsers. For modem users, lynx is a necessity. Note that the daviswiki is lynx compatible, both in terms of browsing and editing. - - You can also use your shell account to connect to the ["Davis Wiki IRC" DavisWiki IRC channel]. To do so, follow these instructions: At the command prompt, simply type {{{irc your-nick irc.freenode.net}}}, followed by [enter/return]. After you're connected, type {{{/join #daviswiki}}}. (Note that you should replace "your-nick" above with a nickname that you chose for yourself.) [wiki:WikiPedia:Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] is a technology that has been around far, far longer than wiki. It allows you to chat in real time with people from around the world (or just in Davis) in a group or individual format.	+ The IRC program installed on isun is quite old ({{{ircII version 2.9_roof (19960721)}}}) and still defaults to {{{irc.ucdavis.edu}}}, even if you specify a server. To solve this problem, run irc, then type: {{{/SERVER -DELETE irc.ucdavis.edu}}}, followed by {{{/SAVE -ALL}}}, and confirm that you would like to save the new configuration. (thanks to ["DavidReid" dreid])

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PhilipNeustrom — 2005-11-27 00:29:46

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AndrewChen — 2005-11-01 16:22:17

+Windows; ECE/CSIF info

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- On the ["Shields Library"] website, there are hundreds of databases available to University students for research, containing the full text of millions of articles. Unfortunately, many of these can only be accessed from ["campus"] computers. You can use ssh to create a proxy server to run your web connections through the isun computers so that it looks like you're connecting to these databases from on campus.	+ On the ["Shields Library"] website, there are hundreds of databases available to University students for research, containing the full text of millions of articles. Unfortunately, many of these can only be accessed from ["campus"] computers. You can use ssh to create a proxy server to run your web connections through the isun computers (or any SSH server, such as the ["Electrical and Computer Engineering" ECE] or ["CSIF"] machines) so that it looks like you're connecting to these databases from on campus.
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- ISUN is an on-campus server that you can [wiki:WikiPedia:Secure_shell ssh] into to check your mail with [wiki:WikiPedia:Pine_(email_client) pine], [wiki:WikiPedia:Elm_(email_client) elm], etc. At one point, one could use [wiki:WikiPedia:Telnet Telnet] to access isun, but this was discontinued on May 18, 2005 in the ongoing effort to make the campus network more secure. [wiki:WikiPedia:List_of_email_clients Text based mail clients] such as pine are much faster than geckomail, especially at times of high network traffic. But you can do a lot more than just check your email with this server. It is a general purpose UNIX system that gives you access to many programming language compilers and interpreters such as g++, c++, perl (but not python), and several other command line utilities. Here's a modified description of ISUN from UC Davis' website:	+ ISUN is an on-campus server that you can [wiki:WikiPedia:Secure_shell ssh] into to check your ["UC Davis E-Mail" mail] with [wiki:WikiPedia:Pine_(email_client) pine], [wiki:WikiPedia:Elm_(email_client) elm], etc. At one point, one could use [wiki:WikiPedia:Telnet Telnet] to access isun, but this was discontinued on May 18, 2005 in the ongoing effort to make the campus network more secure. [wiki:WikiPedia:List_of_email_clients Text based mail clients] such as pine are much faster than geckomail, especially at times of high network traffic. But you can do a lot more than just check your email with this server. It is a general purpose UNIX system that gives you access to many programming language compilers and interpreters such as g++, c++, perl (but not python), and several other command line utilities. Here's a modified description of ISUN from UC Davis' website:

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ArlenAbraham — 2005-05-16 11:08:48

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CarlMcCabe — 2005-05-15 14:26:40

on isun it seems to be easier start with a nick

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- You can also use your shell account to connect to the ["Davis Wiki IRC" DavisWiki IRC channel]. Simply type {{{irc irc.freenode.net}}} at the command prompt, hit enter, and then {{{/join #daviswiki}}} after you're connected (someone with access to isun please confirm these instructions). [wiki:WikiPedia:Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] is a technology that has been around far, far longer than wiki. It allows you to chat in real time with people from around the world (or just in Davis) in a group or individual format.	+ You can also use your shell account to connect to the ["Davis Wiki IRC" DavisWiki IRC channel]. To do so, follow these instructions: At the command prompt, simply type {{{irc your-nick irc.freenode.net}}}, followed by [enter/return]. After you're connected, type {{{/join #daviswiki}}}. (Note that you should replace "your-nick" above with a nickname that you chose for yourself.) [wiki:WikiPedia:Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] is a technology that has been around far, far longer than wiki. It allows you to chat in real time with people from around the world (or just in Davis) in a group or individual format.

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JessicaLuedtke — 2005-05-15 14:01:28

elaborated IRC instructions, other minor changes

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- You can also use your shell account to connect to the ["Davis Wiki IRC" DavisWiki IRC channel]. [wiki:WikiPedia:Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] is a technology that has been around far, far longer than wiki. It allows you to chat in real time with people from around the world (or just in Davis) in a group or individual format.	+ You can also use your shell account to connect to the ["Davis Wiki IRC" DavisWiki IRC channel]. Simply type {{{irc irc.freenode.net}}} at the command prompt, hit enter, and then {{{/join #daviswiki}}} after you're connected (someone with access to isun please confirm these instructions). [wiki:WikiPedia:Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] is a technology that has been around far, far longer than wiki. It allows you to chat in real time with people from around the world (or just in Davis) in a group or individual format.

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CarlMcCabe — 2005-05-15 13:28:14

irc

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CraigBrozinsky — 2005-04-14 15:44:41

telnet go bye bye on May 18th

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CraigBrozinsky — 2005-04-05 23:50:55

added virtues of lynx/pine (and made comment using lynx browser)

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ArlenAbraham — 2005-04-05 22:59:02

fixed lynx link

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ArlenAbraham — 2005-04-05 22:52:19

i am a 1337 haX0r!

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BradCuppy — 2005-04-02 12:49:27

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ArlenAbraham — 2005-04-01 18:14:34

python is not available. or it's not anywhere i can find it. let's demand python

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PhilipNeustrom — 2005-04-01 05:31:29

-ed conflict

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JabberWokky — 2005-04-01 05:25:08

Leave the tips-those that can use them will appreciate them. Dumbing down is bad

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JabberWokky — 2005-04-01 05:24:41

Leave the tips-those that can use them will appreciate them. Dumbing down is bad

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KenBloom — 2005-03-31 22:49:34

this tip is way too technical. help fix it, or delete it if it's just impossible

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	+ + + = isun Tips = + On the ["Shields Library"] website, there are hundreds of databases available to University students for research, contianing the full text of millions of articles. Unfortunately, many of these can only be accessed from campus computers. You can use ssh to create a proxy server to run your web connections through the isun computers so that it looks like you're connecting to these databases from on campus. + + To do this, (in Linux or on the Macintosh) run the command {{{ssh -d 7700 isun.ucdavis.edu}}}. This creates a proxy server on localhost:7700, and you can configure your web browser to use localhost:7700 as a SOCKS 5 proxy server (directions vary by browser) and all of your web connections will be tunnelled through campus. + + When you disconnect from isun.ucdavis.edu, be sure to set your web browser's configuration back to what it was, otherwise you won't be able to connect to any websites.

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CraigBrozinsky — 2005-03-31 20:45:10

added ssh tips

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	+ If you came to Davis after a given date (2000?), an ISUN account was not automatically set up for you. You can set up an account, using your current UCD kerberos username/login at the [https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi computing accounts website]. Best of all, it's ["Getting the most out of your student fees" free] if you're a student or faculty member (probably staff too).
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- If you came to Davis after a given date (2000?), an ISUN account was not automatically set up for you. You can set up an account, using your current UCD kerberos username/login at: [https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi here]. Best of all, it's ["Getting the most out of your student fees" free] if you're a student or faculty member (probably staff too).	+ + = Using isun = + + Telnet is not a secure medium and someone can easily acquire your password if you use it. Instead, you should log in via ssh. On a Mac or linux, open up a Terminal prompt and type: + + ssh isun.ucdavis.edu -l my_login_name + + when it prompts you for a password, type your kerberos password at the prompt. + + If you are on Windows, download an ssh client such as [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Putty]. Its very user friendly.

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CarlMcCabe — 2005-03-31 19:32:17

little more info

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- Go [https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi here] to add the isun service to your Kerebros account	+ '''ISUN -- IET Unix Systems''' + * Description: ISUN allows general access to Unix systems for email (Pine), WWW, Usenet news, and other Unix services. The ISUN service is a group of SUN/SPARC servers, accessed using the service name, isun.ucdavis.edu. + * Department: Information & Educational Technology + * Email: ithelp@ucdavis.edu + * Location: accessed via campus computer labs and internet + * Web Site: http://it.ucdavis.edu/fsg/gcr_ca.html + * Restricted Access? No + * UCD LoginID Accepted? Yes + * "Old Style" Easy Access Account Accepted? Yes + * UCD Kerberos Password Required? No + + + If you came to Davis after a given date (2000?), an ISUN account was not automatically set up for you. You can set up an account, using your current UCD kerberos username/login at: [https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi here]. Best of all, it's ["Getting the most out of your student fees" free] if you're a student or faculty member (probably staff too).

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ArlenAbraham — 2005-03-31 18:02:46

yay?

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