Computer and Network Information

Security

• Please use Secure Shell (SSH) instead of Telnet or rsh/rcp/rlogin
• Using Public Key Authentication with SSH
• How to Choose a Bad Password

Network

• Network Configuration for Red Hat Linux
• Vassar TCP/IP Network Configuration Information
• Choosing a Name for Your Computer (Internet RFC 1178 by D. Libes)

Emacs

• Introduction to the Emacs Editor
• Brief Summary of Emacs Keys (just the most useful ones)
• The full Emacs Reference Card

E-mail

• Configuring Pine, Netscape, or Eudora to read your IMAP e-mail
• Using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) with Pine
• E-mail Software Links

Alpine Links:

• Using Pine E-Mail
• Alpine Information Center - University of Washington
• Pine Information Center (OLD)
• The Pine FAQ - University of Washington

Tutorials

• Fortran Programming for Physics and Astronomy
• A Quick Introduction to RCS (the Revision Control System)
• How to backup your data with tar

Linux

Linux Help Pages

• Scientific Linux CERN 3 (SLC3)
• [MOVED] Red Hat Linux Installation/Upgrade Checklist - details of what I usually do when I install or upgrade Red Hat Linux.

• Useful Linux Links
• Linux HOWTO's via the Web

• my "Staff" of Unix system administration tools
• Kickstart Installation of Red Hat Linux - instructions, boot disk image, configuration file, and some useful hints and scripts for automatic installation of Red Hat Linux via kickstart. And a more specific example:
  • Kick-me boot disk
  • Kickstart Installation for the UM ATLAS Grid Cluster
• Kernel Build Checklist
• Linux Hardware Installation Checklist - to check your hardware for planning an installation

• PPP configuration scripts for Linux (see the README file for details -- these are configured for the University of Michigan)