The ADN Connection, 1996-1997

• New Dialin Lines and Grim Reaper Rule

  New Dialin Lines in Chicago ... Time-Based Grim Reaper Rule for Email on Icarus and Tigger

• Introducing the ADN Network Group

  A brief history of the Academic Data Network, the Computer Center's networking group, and how we got here. ... The ADN Network Group

• New and Improved ADN Seminars

  Free ADN Seminars ... Introductory General Seminars ... Email and the Internet ... Productivity: Office Suites ... Productivity: Statistical Packages ... Instructional Technology

• FirstClass Group Conferencing

  Sorry, FirstClass is dead!

• Delivering Audio/Video on the 'Net

  The Problem and The Solution ... What can you do with RealMedia? ... How do you do it? ... What does the future hold? ... Interested?

• Mallard Asychronous Learning on the Web

  What is Mallard? ... How Mallard Works ... Q&A on the Web ... Interested?

• About the ADN Connection

• The ADN Post

  Welcome to the 1997-1998 academic year! ... ADN Novell Accounts ... Bigger, Better, and Safer ... Dr. Solomon's Cure ... Instructional Technology News

• Getting in Touch with the World

  A Netid and an Account ... A Networked Personal Computer with the Right Software ... Learn How to Use Them

• Quick Index to ADN Services

  Information About the ADN

• Do-It-Yourself ADN Accounts

  Before Your Start: Get an i-card and a Netid ... Opening Your Accounts ... Now That You've Opened Your Accounts, What Do You Do With Them? ... And You're On Your Way

• The ADN Network Services Kit

  NSKit Requirements: ... Online Documentation:

• FormMail Version 2.0 

  FormMail Version 2.0

• Using SearchUIC

  SearchUIC Version 1.0 ... Notice to Web Authors: How to make your visitors' searches work.

• Free ADN Seminars for Fall '97
  
• Instructional Technology Services

  InfoTech Arcade ... Instructional Media Planning ... Instructional Technology Lab ... Office of Classroom Services ... Office of Video Communications

• ADN Free Public Micro Labs
  
• UIC Announce is Here!

  Figure 7: The UIC Announce Web Page: ... Dear Harried Email Reader, ... Dear Harried Publicist,

• About the ADN Connection

• Coming Soon to a Code Near You

  Codes and Ciphers ... Types of Encryption ... Zero-key schemes: ... One-key schemes: ... Two-key schemes:

• Some Practical Encryption Systems

  Security for Oncampus Services: Kerberos ... Security for Email: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) ... Security for Web Servers: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

• More Security for Web Service at UIC: Bluestem and Ness

  What's a poor server to do? ... How Bluestem Works ... Logging in with Ness ... SSL Secured Browser Displays

• Domains and Auth Methods in Bluestem
  
• Introducing Network Operations

  When the Network Goes Down ... Figure 2: The Network Operations Team: ... Network, Workstation, and Mainframe Monitoring, Maintenance, and Support: ... Printer Services and Computer Tape Registration and Mounting: ... Client Services: ... How and When to Get in Touch With Us

• About the ADN Connection

• Email: The Next Generation

  The Essential Email ... Your Maildrop and Email Address ... Your Email Program ... Comparing Eudora and Pine ... Using Eudora from Multiple Machines ... How Leave Mail on Server Works. ... Deleting Mail Left on the Server

• A Plethora of Words 
  
• How do I migrate away from CMS mail? (to Eudora or Pine)

  Who should migrate away from CMS mail? ... 1 Get a netid if you don't have one. ... 2 Obtain a UNIX account on tigger (faculty and staff) or icarus (students). ... 3 Get a copy of the Network Services Kit for your Mac or Windows system. ... 4 Duplicate your incoming mail so it's sent to your both CMS and UNIX accounts. ... 5 Convert your CMS NAMES file for use with Eudora or Pine. ... 6 Setup your new mail program. ... 7 Practice using Eudora or Pine without disrupting your CMS mail activities. ... 8 Resubscribe to listserv/majordomo discussion lists. ... 9 Switch over completely after you are comfortable with using Pine or Eudora. ... 10 Finally, change your generic "uic.edu" address to send to your UNIX account. ... How do I forward my email to my new email address?

• Netids, Userids, Aliases, Oh My!
  
• Introducing the CSO

  The CSO Team ... What the CSO Does ... Getting in Touch with the CSO ... You Can Help Us Help You ... To sum it up and add a few more while we're at it... ... And, in case you were wondering ...

• Pictures of the CSO Team Team
  
• About the ADN Connection

• UIC Networking: Faster, Bigger, Better

  Improving Our On- and Off-Campus Connections ... Other Network Upgrades

• Building the Data Highway

  In the Beginning ... ATM Fixes Everything ... Why ATM? ... Routing vs. Switching ... Using ATM with LANs ... What ATM Means to You

• ATM Data Types and Quality of Service
  
• The New UIC ADN Network
  
• An ATM and Network Glossary
  
• ATM and Network References

  ATM and Network Glossaries:  ... General Information on LANs:  ... The ATM reference; I recommend it only for the dedicated!

• About the ADN Connection

• Public Labs Require Passwords (and Other Important Changes)

  Passwords in the Labs ... Don't Panic Yet ... What This All Means ... The Benefits ... The Gotchas ... OK, enough jargon. What does this really mean to you? ... No, no, not quite enough jargon. What is really going on here?

• Making Email Talk with MIME

  Fancying Up Your Email ... What MIME Does ... How MIME Does It ... How You Do MIME ... Sending a File with Eudora ... Receiving a File with Pine ... A Sample MIME Message ... More on Content-Types ... More on Transfer Encoding ... Configuring MIME ... File Transfer with MIME ... The First: a Question ... The Second (and it's a big one): Viruses

• A Brief Email History (or why MIME does what it does)
  
• File transfer is more complicated if:
  
• Getting Ready for Fall Semester

  Construction and Upgrading in the ADN Public Labs ... Borg is Ready for Prime Time ... Extra Help at the Start ... Announcing Dialin-6 ... Windows 95 Anyone? ... The ITL is Nearing Completion

• Netscape's Mail and News Setup
  
• borg Update

  About Borg ... Software on borg: Now and Coming Soon

• About the ADN Connection

• The Faculty Computer Camp

  The First Camp ... Faculty Camp Field Trips

• The ADN Post 

  Thank you for trying Pine 3.92! ... A Good Deal -- UINet//Connect ... Want up-to-date info on computer viruses? ... Alas, Poor BITNET ... The Grant Getting Page

• Choosing the Right Tool

  Choosing the Right Tool ... Making UNIX Easier: Symbolic Links ... Making UNIX Easier: Shell Profile and Environment Files: ... Making the Email Switch Easier ... To convert your CMS names file: ... To forward mail sent to your CMS account:

• Wanted -- FILELIST for UNIX
  
• THE -- The Hessling Editor

  Are You an XEDIT Fan? ... Entering and Leaving THE ... The .therc Profile ... The Bad News ... Important Differences ... The little differences you need to know about... ... THE has something for vi fans too...

• About the ADN Connection

• Research-Super Computing on The Fast Track
  
• Just What is a Convex Exemplar?

  A Big Machine ... Supercomputer Architecture Today ... Sharing Everything ... Sharing Nothing ... The Bottom Line ... The Convex Hybrid

• ADN Construction Update

  Instructional Technology Lab ... Digital Classroom News ... Coming Soon to BGRC: Macs! ... New Lab in SEL

• Faculty Computer Camp 

  No fire ants or poison ivy! ... Seeking a Few Good Women and Men ... Coming Soon -- How to Register

• Keeping Up With Your Students: Part 1. Old Files
  
• Keeping Up With Your Students: Part 2 UNIX
  
• Does Email Have Teeth?

  The Short Answer: ... And Now for the Caveats. ... What's this strange punctuation?

• The Zen of Parallel Programming

  "Many hands make light work" ... Cooperation has its Limits ... The Future of High-end Computing ... Different Ways to Split the Pie ... The Parallel Office ... The Functionally Parallel Office ... The Data Parallel Office ... One Lump or Two?

• About the ADN Connection

• The ADN Post

  Update on the ITIP ... Dialin-5, the Speed Demon ... uic.edu and uicvm.uic.edu Are Not the Same ... Tigger Is Bigger

• FTP, the Protocol
  
• A Quick Introduction to FTP

  Copying Files ... Anonymous FTP Servers ... FTP GUIs ... What about FTPing on the Web? ... Getting Help in FTP ... When You're FTPing to CMS SFS Disk Space

• A Real Life FTP Example: Web Publishing Without UNIX

  Want to Publish a Web Page? ... Setting the Stage ... Step 0. Test your Web page on your desktop machine. ... Doing It ... Step 1. Begin FTP. ... Step 2. Move to the correct directory. ... Step 3. Set UNIX file permissions for the files you're going to transfer. ... Step 4. Transfer the files. ... Step 5. Leave FTP. ... More About get and put

• UNIX World Wide Web Tools

  Do-It-Yourself Hot Maps ... Do-it-yourself Web Forms ... Keeping Track of Your Web Pages

• Departmental Web Pages
  
• About the ADN Connection

The A3C Connection provides news and information about the use of computers and computer networking at UIC. It is published four times per year by the UIC Academic Computing and Communications Center.