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1. Taming the Password Jungle The ACCC Beat The A3C CONNECTION Summer 2003 5 The ACCC common password is a single strong password that is used for your ACCC accounts on argo icarus mailserv tigger and UICalendar if you have them for logging in the ACCC public labs for the Blackboard instructional classroom service for the ACCC dialin lines and UIC Wireless and Res Net networks and for logging in to use various secure Web services such as Nessie and library s online services and of course for changing your ACCC password Whew Set and change your ACCC common password on the Web at a new and easy to remember URL http passwords accc uic edu Of course there are convenient links on the ACCC home pages About ACCC Common Passwords Using one password for most of your UIC and U of I online services is a good thing It s a lot easier to remember just one password than a whole bunch of passwords so you should be able to make your one password stronger and less easy to guess and still be able to remember it without having to to write it down for someone else to find and steal But having a one password for all these services can also be a bad thing if you re careless with it If someone does steal your ACCC common password they will have access to all those accounts and services You must be more careful with this password because more is at stake if it is compromised And even a strong password is no2. 135 Room 124 Benjamin Goldberg Research Center 1940 West Taylor Street Chicago Illinois 60612 7352 About The A3C Connection The A3C Connection is published four times per year by the UIC Academic Computing and Communications Center providing news and information about the use of computers communications and networking at UIC It is edited by Judith Grobe Sachs with help from the UIC Office of Publications Distribution of the A3C Connection is free to UIC faculty staff and students and to other universities and not for profit organizations To subscribe send us your name and address UIC campus address if possible including your department name and mail code To cancel your subscription send us your address label or a copy of all the information on it Contact us by electronic mail at connect uic edu by telephone at the Client Service Office 312 413 0003 by U S Mail at The A3C Connection ACCC MC 135 Room 124 Benjamin Goldberg Research Center University of Illinois at Chicago 1940 West Taylor Street Chicago Illinois 60612 7352 or by fax at 312 996 6834 We welcome any comments suggestions complaints or requests you might have concerning The A3C Connection The Fine Print The use of trade firm or corporation names in this publication is for the information and convenience of the reader Such use does not constitute an official endorsement or approval by the University of Illinois of any product or service
3. allowed to change your password as usual Not prepared Then you must have your password changed to something temporary that you must change again immediately in person Go to the Client Services Office http www accc uic edu cso another ACCC consultant office or ACCC Network Operations room LL55 BGRC Be sure to take a picture ID UICalendar is a calendar and scheduling tool that does what no other calendar has ever done It s wherever you want it to be and you can access it pretty much however you want to on paper on your PDA on your PC and on the Web It even works with Microsoft Outlook UICalendar uses Oracle s CorporateTime clients and an ACCC central server to provide calendaring services similar to an Outlook Exchange server or the ACCC s Meeting Maker which it is replacing There s a UICalendar Web client that you can use from anywhere UICal will also work with your PDA if you wish and there are native clients for Windows Mac and Linux Because the calendar itself is kept on an ACCC server you don t have to choose one to use you can use all of them And you won t lose your calendar if your PC crashes or if the dog runs off with your PDA Any member of the UIC faculty or staff can use UICalendar at no cost We plan to add student access sometime during the 2003 2004 academic year Each person with a UICal account has full rights to control access to his or her UICal data By defau
4. defense against sniffing We urge everyone to use as many additional precautions as they can including sending their password in encrypted form as much as possible using secure email programs such as Eudora with SSL or WebMail using ssh to login to UNIX servers instead of telnet or using encrypted connections such as UIC Wireless What the Common Password Is The ACCC common password must be at exactly eight characters long and It must contain at least one uppercase letter one lower case letter one number or punctuation mark and no spaces It must pass a dictionary challenge it cannot match a word in a dictionary It cannot be based on your name or netid Nor can it be the same as any password that you have in the past year And finally it can t be a simple pattern such as Abcd1234 or Qwerty12 When the Common Password Expires ACCC common passwords expire periodically We will send warning email ahead of time and also give timely warning via authenticated Web pages and other services whenever practical If you don t respond to the warning and the password does expire you will still be able to log in to the password changing utility using your expired password and change your common password But you won t get any other services until you do change your expired password Setting Your ACCC Common Password You can set a new common password whenever you wish Anytime that you have re
5. from the PC to the PDA or vice versa The CorporateTime sync conduits sometimes get confused and you can end up with two copies of the same entry You can also sync your PDA with UICal through Outlook if you re using the Outlook Connector see above But don t do both I know from extremely unpleasant experience that that doesn t work UICalendar Download and Install Downloads for all the CorporateTime clients are on a single Web page http www accc uic edu softwa re uicalendar downloads html There are separate Web pages in the appendix of the UICalendar Web site that explain how to install each CorporateTime client Comments are welcome send them to Judith Grobe Sachs judygs uic edu 10 Summer 2003 UIC University of Illinois at Chicago UICal Sharing and Scheduling The ACCC Beat Thus far in our discussion of UICalendar we ve mostly been talking about the kinds of things that you would do with calendars and datebooks but UICalendar and CorporateTime is designed to do and be a lot more than that Meetings for example They aren t something that you just go to You schedule them invite people to them reserve meeting rooms or other resources for them send reminder emails about them and collect RSVPs for them UICal can do all of that If it s a recurring meeting you ll only have to set it up once and UICal can take care of everything for the repeats Do you often work with the same people Sche
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7. transfer Heavily used applications such as MPI Gaussian 98 and IMSL are already installed on argo other applications particularly those available on other ACCC platforms as well as those not suitable for a distributed memory system will be left behind The plan is to complete the transfer of software and clients by the start of the fall semester For more information go to the argo home page http www accc uic edu hardware argo To request an account on argo send email to systems uic edu Include your name netid and a brief description of how you ll be using argo Comments are welcome send them to Michael Homa systems uic edu A3CCONNECTION http www accc uic edu THE Academic Computing and Communications Center Summer 2003 Wireless at UIC and Odyssey The ACCC Beat 2 Summer 2003 UIC University of Illinois at Chicago The UIC Wireless network is a free wireless network that the ACCC is in the process of installing in the public areas at UIC Members of the UIC community may use it whenever they want as much as they want at no charge This means that soon you ll be able to surf the Web send email research your thesis whatever in the library the cafeteria the union on your own laptop without being tethered to a wire The boring but important details are UIC Wireless is an 802 11b network Unfortunately 802 11b networks are insecure as they are defined and don t have workable provisio
8. CONTENTS Hello Argo Goodbye Borg 1 Wireless at UIC and Odyssey 2 Taming the Password Jungle 5 UICal Your Calendar Wherever Whenever 7 UICal Sharing and Scheduling 10 Hello Argo Goodbye Borg The ACCC Post Since 1998 the mainstay of high performance computing HPC at the ACCC has been the borg server an Hewlett Packard V class computer Borg was home to a diverse group of computationally intensive software packages and libraries including Gaussian 98 ANSYS IMSL SAS and SPSS After a series of upgrades and one replacement the ACCC began to think about replacing borg again this time perhaps with a different type of machine Two factors dictated the direction the ACCC would take One the high cost to upgrade or replace borg with another shared memory multiprocessor machine as well as the fixed hardware and software charges for that type of machine Two the inverse relationship between the increasing performance of PC based machines and their declining cost The ACCC elected to replace borg with a PC based multicomputer system known as a Beowulf cluster The new system is named argo after the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts who according to Greek mythology embarked on a perilous journey to find the Golden Fleece Unlike borg which is a single machine with multiple CPUs all sharing the same memory argo is a multicomputer system with distributed memory it is currently is composed
9. Passwords Click Here before you forget your password Then choose one or both of the following 1 Set a Secret Challenge Question and Response This one everyone can use After you select a challenge response pair we ll allow you to change your ACCC common password if you can provide the right response for your recorded challenge The challenge is a question that presumably only you know the answer to and the response is the answer The Set Up Web page has the details of case punctuation spacing and length 2 Set an Emergency Email Address This you can only use if you have a secure email address that doesn t depend on your ACCC password When you forget your password we send your Emergency Email address a message with a special secret and a URL Paste the secret on the Web page and you ll be allowed to change your ACCC common password The New ACCC Password Changing Utility http passwords accc uic edu Obviously you don t want to use an email address that other people know about or that has an easily guessable password Your security in using these services is completely in your hands Anyone on the Internet can find out your challenge phrase and they can make as many guesses at your response as they have the patience to enter Thus challenges like What is my spouse s name or What is my favorite color won t do The first is too easy to find the second is too easy to guess And your eme
10. ary see page 5 Then select UICal from the New Accounts section UICal Clients Take Your Pick s You can use any or all of the UICal clients in any combination A change you make in one client will be reflected in your calendar as displayed by the other clients The sync conduits have time delays of course changes are transferred to or from PDAs only when a synchronization is performed UICalendar on the Web UICal on the Web http uical uic edu This is the simplest way use UICalendar it s a good way to check it out to see whether you want to use it seriously it s easy to use and nearly full featured And of course because it s available anywhere that you have access to a Web browser and an Internet connection it s great when you re on the road Finally its Global Agenda feature allows anyone you want including people who don t have UICal accounts to see your calendar with the times that you re busy marked off see Sharing on the Web page 11 UICalendar CorporateTime Clients Native CorporateTime clients are available for Windows Mac and Linux They are very similar to the UICal on the Web interface but are a bit easier to use and have the fullest complement of features UICalendar CorporateTime Outlook Connector The CorporateTime Outlook Connector is useful for people who already use Microsoft Outlook s calendaring features The Outlook Connector allows you to use the familiar O
11. ason to think that your current password might be compromised it is an excellent idea to change it just to make sure To change your ACCC common password either go directly to http passwords accc uic edu or go to the ACCC home page http www accc uic edu or any ACCC Web page click the purple Accounts button then select Password Changing Utility 1 Login with Bluestem using your UIC netid and an ACCC password An expired password will work here Changing Your ADSM TSM Backup Password The ACCC common password is not used for ADSM TSM backup accounts There s a link to the ADSM password changing page on the Choose a New Common Password page and also on the ACCC Accounts page http www ac cc uic edu home A CCTS html 6 Summer 2003 UIC University of Illinois at Chicago 2 On the ACCC Password Changes page type your new password twice once in each box The text at the bottom of the window explains the requirements 3 Click Change Password 4 If the password changing utility doesn t like what you ve selected it will return an error message and put you back in the password changing screen to allow you to choose another new password Don t be discouraged if the first few things you try don t work out This is a strong password it s reasonably picky 5 After you successfully choose your new ACCC common password you will be given a chance to create a new ACCC account in case that s w
12. cess points per floor Lincoln Hall vending area first floor available soon West Side Library of Health Sciences available soon System Icons The Internet and the World Wide Web Apple Macintosh MS Windows Linux Readership Icons Everyone Novice Expert N N N N E E Odyssey Software Funk Software s Odyssey client is the software that you need to connect to and use the UIC Wireless network The Odyssey client does three things for the wireless user Initiates and supervises the wireless connection Odyssey does what is needed to keep your wireless connection going after you ve logged in allowing you to ignore it if you want to But it also allows you to monitor your connection See Using the Odyssey Client Manager on page 4 for an overview of the services that Odyssey provides in managing your wireless connection Authenticates both the user and the network Odyssey asks you for your UIC netid and ACCC common password page 5 and passes them off encrypted to the wireless access point and then to the ACCC s Odyssey server which checks your netid and password and vouches that you are who you say you are It also does the reverse the ACCC s Odyssey server provides your client with its credentials to prove to you that it s legit This is extremely important in wireless networks where it s easy for anyone to set up rogue servers Encrypts the wireless connection An Ody
13. da Viewing and click OK Now you ve turned on the global agenda and properly set its time zone When you get back to your UICal daily weekly or monthly view you will see a link on the left side above the tool bar saying Email Agenda to a friend which opens a Web page that allows you to do just that Your friend will receive an email message with a long strange URL that will give them a read only look at your busy times To the left are an email message that Ada sent to colleague and the Web page that that colleague will see Type the URL in and you ll see Ada s global The A3C CONNECTION Summer 2003 11 To turing uic edu From adabyron uic edu Date Thu 19 Jun 2003 13 04 23 0400 Subject Global Agenda Ada Byron Lovelace has sent you the following Agenda link https uical uic edu 443 fcgi bin swc lexacal fcgi go gbl amp viw b6 bc b8 b8 a2 ae b2 b0 amp xen e6 e9 e0 ec f4 ed ed ee ef amp server a2 b1 ba bb b7 b9 b3 ba be 92 cf 81 80 ca 90 8f 84 c6 8c 8e 9e c0 dc de df c0 Hi Alan I d like to meet with you next week to talk about your machine When is convenient Ada UICal Global Agenda The top is a sample of the email messages that UICal sends Ada supplied the text below the URL The bottom is Ada s global agenda The link the hand is pointing to opens an email message addressed to Ada University of Illinois UICat Chicago The A3C Connection Academic Computing and Communications Center MC
14. duling meetings with them would be a lot easier if you make yourselves a group UICal supports three kinds of groups which are named for the people who have access to them public private only the person who created it can see or use it and members only Individuals can only create private or members only groups Groups can be very useful for departments and other well groups Using meetings and groups together with CorporateTime access rights which you use to give other people access to your UICal data more about them in the next section gives you one of UICal Group View Ada Byron Lovelace has opened Alan Turing Charles Babbage and Grace Hopper s agendas in group view so she can schedule a meeting Today doesn t seem to be a good day The first column is all four combined with the times that anyone is busy marked off in red unless everyone is an early riser this might not be the best day for a meeting with these four people The next four columns are each person s agenda for that day separately Charles s only has the times that he is busy marked off because he gave Ada view only access rights to his agenda Grace gave Ada view entries access rights to her agenda so hers includes the title and location of her busy times If this screen shot were in color you d see that Ada s Lunch with Ada is blue because Grace just put the invitation in her agenda and Ada hasn t answed it yet I expect she i
15. hat you needed an ACCC common account for or to change the place that email sent to your netid at uic edu email will be delivered in case you re in the process of switching your email to mailserv for example Or of interest to everyone is Password Recovery Options which we talk more about in Before you forget your password below Other ACCC Passwords The ACCC common password is not used for ADSM TSM backup accounts for on campus personal computers or workstations but there is a link on the ACCC Choose a New Common Password Web page to the page that you use to change your ADSM password Nor is it used for ACCC Server Services or ACCC Lotus Notes accounts those passwords you change in the usual way Any Chance You Might Forget Your Password Sure If you haven t yet you will someday I learned the hard way never to change my password on Friday because I won t be able to remember the new one on Monday So after you select your ACCC common password take the time to set up a way for you to change your password yourself when your someday comes Before You Forget Your Password Your password identifies you as you So what you need is another way to identify you as you that doesn t depend on your password There are now two different ways to do that which don t depend on your knowing your current password Click on the purple Accounts button at the top of the ACCC Home page or any ACCC official Web page then
16. ireless network Go to the Funk Software compatibility guide page http www funk com radius enterprise co mpatibility asp Then click the blue triangle beside Wireless LAN devices and again beside WLAN Adapter Card Installing Odyssey Odyssey requires Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 5 or higher A suitable version of IE is available in the ACCC Network Services Kit http www accc uic edu software nskit nskit5 or look on the Microsoft IE download site you should be able to find what you need in the Most Popular Internet Explorer Downloads page http www microsoft com windows ie downloads Top10 asp Install and set up Odyssey as described in the instructions in the UIC Wireless Web pages which are included on the Odyssey CD Logging into Odyssey 1 If your laptop also has a hardcoded IP address or uses DHCP remember to take out or disable your ethernet card NIC out before you start Odyssey 2 The Odyssey Client Manager should automatically open whenever you boot your laptop with your wireless card inserted if it doesn t click Start Programs Funk Software Odyssey Client Odyssey Client Manager 4 A dialog box will open if this is the first time you re logging in after installing Odyssey check that the Login name is your UIC netid then type your ACCC password in the Please enter your password box and click OK The A3C CONNECTION Summer 2003 3 Using the Odyssey Client Manager Once you ve c
17. ke sense You can set UICal to give you reminders at specific times via popup messages in which case UICal has to be running or email Having trouble setting up a meeting with someone Have UICal email them a URL for your UICal Global Agenda see page 11 which shows when you re busy and when you re free And since it s just a URL they don t have to have a UICal account to see it And it s up to date it displays your current UICal data changing as you change it If you can t find a time to meet that way there isn t one Or better yet if you both have UICal accounts then you can open your agendas up in a group calendar together That s on page 10 And the CorporateTime native client or the Outlook Connector can even suggest suitable times 8 Summer 2003 UIC University of Illinois at Chicago A Sample of UICalendar the UICalendar Agenda Pane This is the UICalendar Windows client the Mac client looks very much the same as does the Web page displaying Ada Byron s agenda in the weekly view You can see that the icon for week view has been clicked the depressed button in the center of the third group on the toolbar under the menu bar The task pane which is at right of the agenda pane in the daily view isn t displayed in the weekly or monthly view The connected plugs at the end of the status bar bottom right mean that Ada is working online i e she is connected to the UICalendar server Co
18. lor plays an important part in the UICal display By default meetings you ve said you re going to attend are colored green ones you re not attending are red and meetings that you ve been invited to and haven t responded to yet are blue Need to find something Searching is easy in UICal You can search for people by any part of their name or by their initials You can also search your agenda or someone else s if you have permission by attendees meetings titles notes words whatever And there s lots more that UICal has to offer Add rooms and resources to UICal which allows it to keep track of their scheduling An individual acts as the designated administrator of the resource By choosing who he or she gives permission to invite the resource to meetings the administrator can control who can schedule the use of the resource Publish events and departmental calendars Publish departmental address books Keep track of contacts Open Your UICalendar Account For now UIC faculty and staff can open UICalendar accounts we hope to have the resources to allow students to use UICalendar sometime during the upcoming academic year You can open your UICal account using the ACCC Account Creation Web page go to the ACCC Web page http www accc uic edu Click the purple Accounts button then select Accounts Open an ACCC Account Click Login login with Bluestem select an ACCC common password if necess
19. lt The A3C CONNECTION Summer 2003 7 The ACCC Beat UICalender Your Calendar Wherever Whenever You Want It only you can see your data but you can give other individuals the right to view the times you are busy or even manage all or parts of your calendar for you See UICal Sharing and Scheduling on page 10 for more information What Does UICalendar Do UICalendar has four type of entries that you can create meetings tasks daily notes and day events What might you use them for Classes In UICal they would be recurring meetings because they occur on specific days at specific times and you re busy when you do them Doctor s appointments Again meetings Birthdays They would be recurring day events in UICal because they occur on specific dates they re recurring but they don t necessarily take up your time The tasks you ve completed in the course of a day at work or a daily journal Daily notes are for you A work or class project Enter this as a task which may either be ongoing or have a specific start or end date Tasks are also labeled by priority by whether they ve been started yet and by what percent completed they are Need a reminder You can set reminders for any type of UICal entry meeting day event daily note or task except for tasks on Macs If you just want to set a reminder and a time is involved then use a meeting otherwise a daily note would ma
20. n idea what went wrong 3 The key graphic gives you the encryption status of your connection When the graphic is blue which you should always see when you re connected on the UIC campus data will be encrypted with dynamic keys You should never see the other two possible key colors when you re connected on the UIC campus transparent for no encryption or black for static key encryption Printing on the UIC Wireless Network Your wireless laptop can be configured to print to the ACCC public computing lab printers using the same printing system that is used in the dorms You will need to install the Res Net Printing System client to use it See Res Net Printing http www accc uic edu lan res net resprint html for links to pages with detailed instructions Wireless at Home after Odyssey Odyssey is compatible with wireless networks including the one in your home After you install Odyssey add a second Odyssey profile for your home network put in a few bits of information about it and save it Then just switch Odyssey to this profile when you want to connect to your home network Details are on the Odyssey Web page 4 Summer 2003 UIC University of Illinois at Chicago Odyssey Client Manager The three icons in the bottom right give the status of your wireless session The four bars indicate the signal strength the Odyssey sailboat the connection status and the key the encryption status They re described above
21. ns for limiting access to groups of authorized people members of the UIC community in this case For that reason we are adding a connection and security solution to the mix Funk Software s Odyssey 802 1x client server software provides authentication to ensure that only authorized users can connect to the wireless network and to assure users that they are connecting to the correct network and encryption to provide private data transmission for the UIC public wireless network To get started see the UIC Wireless Web site http www accc uic edu network wireless What You Need for UIC Wireless There is a bit of fine print indicated by the asterisks which comes at end of this section You knew there would be some fine print didn t you A laptop running Windows with 1 A supported wireless network card Not all common cards will work so be sure to check the list of supported wireless network cards provided by Funk Software there s a link on the UIC Wireless Web page http www accc uic network wireless 2 Odyssey client software for connection and security The Odyssey client is free too Get it on CD from the CSO 2267 SEL or 181 BGRC or download it from the UIC Wireless Web page above where you ll also find installation instructions A UIC netid and ACCC common password page 5 for user authentication To be close enough to an ACCC public wireless access point There are just a fe
22. ntends to say yes lt g gt the glories of UICalendar group agenda views Or if you d rather give UICal a list of people either one at a time or a proper CorporateTime group whose UICalendar accounts you have proper access rights for and it will suggest times that you can meet Can it get better than that Part 1 Sharing in UICal By default you are the only person with a UICalendar account who can see or change your UICal calendar data and you are the only person who can invite you to a meeting This is a good thing because you really don t want just anyone looking at your calendar agenda notes or tasks or inviting you to a meeting But the best part of the online scheduling software is your ability to share information with colleagues who need to know it So UICal allows you to change the access rights to your UICal data to allow freer access to people with UICal accounts who need it And CorporateTime gives you lots of choices in freer If you just want to allow specific people to invite you to meetings you can do just that If you d like someone to know when you re busy but not what you re doing you can do that view only access That s what Charles Babbage did for Ada in the group view on page 10 If you d like them to know what you re doing too like Grace Hopper did for Ada then you set view entries access Do you work closely with enough with one or two people that you d like them
23. of nineteen PCs Each computer has a Athlon 1 4 GHz processor running Linux OS with 768 MB of DDR EEC memory a 40 GB hard disk and an Fast Ethernet NIC The machines are linked by both hardware and software connections that permit the separate machines also called nodes to function as a whole Users log into a single entry point the PC known as the master node All jobs submissions programs written by users or jobs using software packages are initiated for batch processing from the master node The batch system sends those jobs to one or more worker nodes for execution Worker nodes have been configured to run multiple jobs simultaneously multitasking The architecture of the cluster allows for obsolete nodes to be removed and replaced with more powerful machines or new nodes may be added without decommissioning the current ones A node that is not functioning can be removed without bringing the entire cluster down In the coming months 16 additional worker nodes machines running 2 8 GHz Xeon processors will be phased in Another feature of the ACCC cluster is the internal high speed Dolphin Scali interconnect which is used to satisfy the heavy network demands involved in parallel programming Parallel programming permits a large program to be divided into smaller units with each of those smaller sections executing at the same time on different processors nodes All of the packages on borg are being evaluated for
24. onnected and authenticated Odyssey should do whatever is necessary to keep your connection going including re authenticating if your connection times out and moving your connection from one access point to another if you re walking around So you can pretty much ignore it once you get logged in If you want to keep track of how your wireless connection is going Odyssey will allow you to do it Double click the Odyssey sailboat in the Windows Systems Tray to open the Odyssey Client Manager below The three icons in the lower right of the Client Manager window tell you the status of your wireless connection 1 The four vertical bars represent the signal power the more bars that are colored green the stronger the signal Click on the icon to see the actual signal strength 2 The color of the Odyssey sailboat gives the status of your connection and authentication It is Transparent when you re not connected Red when your connection failed due to an authentication error Most likely you entered your password wrong Blue when you re connected and authenticated You should always see this when you re connected on the UIC campus Black if you re connected but not authenticated You shouldn t ever see this on the UIC campus Click on the sailboat in the Odyssey Client Manager window to see the results of the last authentication attempt If you re not connected the error message should give you a
25. rgency email address is only as secure as you keep its existence and password If you advertise its existence you re asking for someone to try it out and see if it works When You Forget Your Password Now let s say your someday has come you don t remember your password Maybe you haven t logged on in a while or you changed your password and you don t remember what you changed it to Not a problem you re prepared You go to the ACCC home page or any ACCC Web page and click on the purple Accounts button at the top of the page The select Passwords Help I ve Forgotten My Password Type your netid in the Netid box by the rescue option that you want to use and click the button beside it If you re using the challenge response method you type your response in the box below the your challenge make sure you have case and punctuation right and your new password in two boxes for conformation and click Submit Response If you re using the emergency email method we ll send you an email message right away This one is easier to do than it is to explain After you receive the email message go to the URL in the message and cut the secret don t get any extra blanks at the beginning or the end from the email message and paste it into the box in the Web page and click Submit Secret In both cases if everything matches up you ll be transferred to the standard ACCC password changing Web page and will be
26. ssey initiated connection scrambles the parts of your Internet connection that are wireless from your PC to the wireless access point and from the access point back to your PC including when you enter your netid and password so that bad guys can t eavesdrop to steal your identity or other information The Odyssey client software runs on Windows 98 98 SE Me 2000 Professional or Server or XP Home or Professional where applicable you must have administrative privileges to install the Odyssey client It comes in two varieties one for Windows XP and 2000 and one for Windows 98 and Me There is also a new version for PocketPCs Where to Find out about Odyssey Odyssey has an online help system in the client window select Help Help Topics or get context sensitive help by pressing F1 and also on the Web In the Odyssey client window select Web User Page or go directly to http www funk com odyssey user odyssey client There s a link to the Odyssey user manual about 100 rather strangely sized pages as well as links to other Funk Software Odyssey technical info on the Web at Odyssey Tech Support http www funk com subsections tec_ody asp Supported Wireless Cards Using Odyssey requires a supported wireless network card Check Funk Software s list of supported wireless network cards before you buy a wireless network card for your laptop not all common wireless cards will work with Odyssey and the ACCC public w
27. to be able to create view edit and reply to entries in your name You can do that in UICalendar It s called Designate rights and you can assign them very specifically too separately and at different levels for each type of entry meetings day events notes and tasks The UICal Web pages explain how to do set access rights on the Web in the native clients and in Outlook http www accc uic edu software uicale ndar getstart html Access Part 2 Sharing by URL A friend or colleague doesn t need a UICal account to see an up to date copy of the your busy times in your UICal calendar All you have to do is turn on UICal global agenda viewing on the Web and send them its URL First you have to turn it on Login to UICal on the Web https uical uic edu click the gold wrench Tool icon on the right side of the UICal Web toolbar and select the Edit Preferences link from the small box that opens On the General tab link select some time zone other than the right one say Mexico s and click OK Yes you read correctly It s bug Oracle knows about it this is the official fix for it Now go back and click the Tool icon again select Edit Preferences and on the General tab link select the right time zone which for now is CS6CDT Central Daylight Time If you don t know what time zone to choose click the question mark beside the pulldown box and look it up Then click the Security tab link click Allow Global Agen
28. utlook to display and manage your UICalendar calendar database The first step in the installation of the Outlook Connector is to export your current Outlook calendar note and task data and the last is to import it back into UICalendar The CorporateTime Outlook Connector also supports synchronizing PDAs with most types of third party Outlook PDA sync software Please note that the ACCC does not support the use of Outlook either for calendaring or email and does not at this time support the UICalendar CorporateTime Outlook Connector The Outlook Connector can also provide the groupware scheduling services of an Outlook Exchange server provided that all the people and resources in your groups have UICalendar accounts and have given you proper permission to access their data See UICal Sharing and Scheduling on page 10 CorporateTime Sync Conduits for PDAs CorporateTime sync conduits for PocketPCs Mac Palm and Win Palm PDAs allow you to use your UICalendar on your PDA along with any or all of the other UICal clients The ACCC does not at this time have much experience with using the CorporateTime sync conduits if you decide to use one we would appreciate hearing how it worked We strongly recommend that you back your PDA up before trying to use a CorporateTime sync conduit We also recommend that you designate either the PC or The A3C CONNECTION Summer 2003 9 the PDA as being definitive and generally sync
29. w now but more are being added each week Visit the UIC Wireless Web page for an up to date listing The Fine Print What about Macs Apple is working on client software that will work but no release date for it is currently available What about PDAs Funk Software has just released a version of Odyssey for PocketPCs There is nothing available for PalmOS yet Supported Wireless Cards By supported we mean 802 11b wireless network cards that support 802 1x authentication 802 11b is an IEEE standard for data transmission on wireless networks 802 1x is an IEEE standard also for authentication ensuring that only authorized users can connect to the network and assuring users that they are connecting to the right network and encryption providing private data transmission 802 1x works on 802 11b wireless networks and also on wired networks Does all this seem like number and letter soup to you Visit the UIC Wireless Web site there are links to online technology dictionary Web sites that explain all of them What about Wi Fi 802 11b wireless networking is sometimes called Wi Fi but there s the 802 1x requirement too Stick to a card that s in the Funk Software list Where UIC Wireless Is Current locations as this newsletter is being written hopefully to be obsolete by the time it s published East Side First floor BSB in the cafeteria lounge area including faculty lounge Richard J Daley Library two ac
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