Essentials is the CSS newsletter that puts current news and topics, as well as helpful tips and computer information, all in one place. The tips and information are centered on what CSS is currently doing to upgrade the computer network, or help with current issues or problems. Listed below are the table of contents of each issue, all of which are in PDF format. To view these files, you must have a PDF reader installed.
September 09 June 09 April 09 February 09
December 08 August 08 May 08 January 08
November 07 August 07 May 07 February
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November 06 August 06 August 06 student edition May 06 February 06
December 05 June 05 May 05 February 05
December 04 November 04 September 04 February
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December 03 November
03 August 03 April
03 March 03
December 02 October 02 April
02 January 02
November 01 August
01 May 01 February 01
November 00 August 00
September 2009 376K PDF
Connect2 VPN Service; Student Abaqus Download; 2301 Lab Opens; NX Connection to Linux Policy Change; MATLAB Seminars at UI
June 2009 272K PDF
Patching Policy; July 3 Downtime; New Password Tool; Home Directory Path Change; Training on Campus; Conference Room Computers; IE8; Wolfram|Alpha
April 2009 343K PDF
2301 Lab; Engin and Vista; Quota Reminder; UI Wireless in SC; Map Drive in Linux; Changes to Linux Workstations in Labs; Hands-on Start to Mathematica; Power Down; NOMACHINE at Home; New Email Quotas
February 2009 779K PDF
UI Wireless Coming to SC; New Pro/ENGINEERING Student Download; photos from John Deere Plaza Netcam
December 2008 484K PDF
Vista and What It Means; Anti-Virus Software; Password Checking Tool; ANSYS Training for Faculty; Training at ITS; Retorspect Backup: Returned; Indentity Finder: Use It Now; Workshop Requests; Removing Nero Scout; Software Changes; College IT Infrastructure Changes; public_html; Virtual Machines for Students
August 08 1256K PDF
Using Altiris; Previous Version (Backup); Linux Laptops in 2217, 2219, 3505; Firefox 3; Classroom Card Access; FileZilla; NExTT Workshops at ITS; Papercut Upgrade; Microsoft Vista in SC; Updated Software; Refugees from the Flood; IT Survey Results; Course Tools
May 08 352K PDF
New Symantec Endpoint Protection; Reminder about College Kiosk Displays; Having
Only a Single Copy of a File; Password Checking Tool; New Screens in 1245;
Room Access; Matlab Download; Eudora Mail Client; SSN Project Warning; New
SecureCRT 6.0.1; Duplex Printing; CSS Described; COE Web Page Extensions; Change
to SSH
January 08 295K PDF
New College Web Site; Quick Launch Bar, Altiris, Mail Speed
and Reliability, IT Training on Campus, Using the Display Kiosks in the Seamans
Center, Where the Student Computing Fee Goes, and Google Analytics and the
College Web Site
November 07 417K PDF
Understanding Papercut; Papercut Details...; No Downtime in December; Software
Listserv; New Screens in 1245 SC; Linux - Leave On; Keyserver Top Ten Applications;
Mathematica 6 Player
August 07 537K PDF
Papercut: Print Accounting Software; CSS Welcomes Travis; Change to login.engineering.uiowa.edu;
Revised College Web Site; Web Pages Read Only; reminder about Card Access; Classroom
Computers Upgraded; New Computers in 1245, Labs; New Software in Labs; MSDN
AA; Microsoft Antitrust Settlement; Mathematica 6 Demonstrations; PTC (Pro/ENGINEER)
Forum
May 07 504K PDF
New Computers Coming to Labs; File Converters for Office 2007; Staff Additions; ICON Courses; Increased Quotas; Public Port Change; Software Changes; Grade and Login-PA Leaving; Windows Vista
February 07 1541K PDF
Computers in Engineering; Grade Program; RefWorks; Security Camera; Spring Break Shutdown; Videoconference Room Use; Wireless: Use Hawk ID
November 06
Information Displays; Network Attacks; Download Limit; Software of All Sorts; Spam: More False Positives; December Downtime; Matt at Speil; Hering Lab South; IE 7: Improvment; Matlab License Server; SSNs Not Downloaded
August 06
Retrospect Backup Software; New Color LaserJet; Smith Donation; Virtual Desktop (Citrix); More Linux; Keyserver; Grade Program; MATLAB Training; Virtualization Gets Real; Simplified Mail Server Names; Hardware and Software Upgrades; Used Computers and Their Data; Print Quota; Matt Going to Germany; SC Conference Room Equipment; Access Card Addition
August 06 Student Edition
Hardware and Software Upgrades; More Linux; New Color LaserJet; Smith Donation; Virtual Desktop (Citrix); Print Quota; Access Card Addition; Keyserver; Simplified Mail Server Names; MATLAB Training; Virtualization Gets Real; Used Computers; Matt Going to Germany; SC Conference Room Equipment
May 06
More on Handling Spam; 2228 Videoconference Room; Elluminate Live; Webmaster/Data Manager Bill; Authenticated On-line Forms; Pandora's Box Updated
February 06
New Color Printer; Email Backscatter; PADS Circuit Software; Voice Mail; Mentor SupportNet; USB Devices: Use Safely Remove; EES: What Happens in the Electronics Shop; Firefox and Spam Tips; SUSE Linux
December 05
New Procedures for Unix Local Storage (/var/tmp); Meet the CSS Staff; Wireless Access; New 30MB Limit for Email Messages; System Downtime on Thursday, 22 December 2005; 20 Years of ICAEN/CSS; Cost of Additional Storage Space
June 05
New Equipment, OS in Labs; System Downtime 3/7/05; Newer Version of Webmail; Red Hat Linux; On-line Forms; Changes to Spam, Junk, Deleted Items Folders in Email
May 05
UI Moving to ICON, New Course Management; Instructor ID Going; Matlab HP-UX Support Retiring; Computer Power Use & Conservation; Picasa2 to Find, Edit, Share Photos
February 05
Update to Wireless Network, Software Updates and New Installs, Access Card Reminder:
Come to CSS, Firefox: Browser, Working from Home with Remote Desktop, Quotas
Raised, Turnitin Plagiarism Detector, Thunderbird Email
December 04
System Downtime, New Disk and Mail Quotas, Hours, Access Control Changes, Change
Email Routing, Read the Gartner Reports, Sarah Williams, M.S.
November 04
Windows Service Pack 2; Open House Winners; Survey: U.S. Computer
Users Unaware of Security Risks; Home Computer Security
September 04
Email TLS, Authentication; Meet Sarah at CSS Open House; Outlook Arrives; Campus
Software Program; CSS Password Tools; Look for Information on Web; Lab Hardware
Update; Skillsoft Works with Mozilla; Hard Drive Backup; Local Email Delivery
Sped Up
February 04
New Password Policy; Email Quotas Increased; Login or Login-pa?; New Itanium
Workstations in Labs; Within CSS; Office 2003; New, Big Monitors in Labs
December 03
Semester Break Down Times, Students: Use 1245, Itaniums in Labs, Bash Shell,
Class Lecture Notes Request, Print Accounting Change
November 03
ACE Surveys Electronically, Home Networking (CSS Information Seminar), Mozilla
1.5 and Other Improvements, Bash Shell (Unix), New Webmail, Use SFTP, Getting
the Word Out about CSS Information Seminars, Software Showcase, Mailings Made
Easier, Big Ten Engineering IT Centers Conference, CISC to RISC to EPIC (new
Unix hardware), Down Time at Semester Break 2003, Wireless?
August 03
Elder Lab Update; Printing Improvement; Unix Software New Releases; More Windows
Software; Pro/E Certification; Changes in 1245 SC; Voice Mail; Windows Security
Breach; Bogus Email: Windows Security Patch; Dealing with [***SPAM***]
April 03
Conference Phone Call; Videoconferencing; Wireless Upgrade; Windows Screen Lock
Software; New Windows Software; Email Server Fix; SSH2 (SecureSHell); Fluent
Contest; Windows Quotas View; MATLAB Courses; CTime Offline?
March 03
Disk Quota and Disk Space; How Software Gets There; EASY Improvements; LISTSERV;
Class Accounts Archive; Software Funding; Increased Mail Quota
December 02
Winter Break Schedule; Database Break Schedule; ICAEN Dies; Print Accounting
Returns; What CSS Will Do over Your Vacation; Software News; Linux.engineeering
Site
October
02
Windows XP in Labs; Account ID/Hawk ID and Passwords; Virus_Quarantine Folder;
User Forum Response; Public Port Cables; New IDL Student Edition; VIP News
April 02
Whaaassuuup [with CSS]; Lab Software Update; XP to Replace NT This Summer; Looking
for Patents?; You Asked. We Gave. Network Drive Mappings; DNS Change; Electronic
Access Control for Seamans Center; Disk Usage
January 02
Wireless Network Working, Acceptable Use,CSS at Work, Ansys Update, Look for the Green Dots (Public Computer Ports),
Pro/E Survey Results, Software Acquisition, Saving Outgoing Email Messages, CSS User's Guide,
December Software Survey
November 01
Virus Fact; What's Keeping Us Busy; New Anti-virus Email Service: Attachment
Renaming; Disk Usage Graph; Registrar's Data; Disk Quota Increases Coming; New
File Server and What It Means; Nimda; Charge Printing to U Bill; It May Not
be Beautiful (new web pages); HP Web Sites; Desktop Services; Jargon Definitions;
X-WinPro Update; Public Ports; New Scanners and More; User Forum Results; Spring
Software Requests
August 01
Technology Update; Survival Tips; Recent Virus Outbreak; ITS
Modem Pool Gone; What’s New in the Labs?; Susan Beckett, graduate; Where
to Find CSS; telnet out, SSH in; Another Resource; It’s So EASY; Software
Usage Survey; Unix, Windows, SAS Software News; Reducing Disk Usage; Incoming
Only
May 01
Books 24 x 7; CSS Main Office; EASY Course Software Survey; End
of telnet, rlogin; Remote Access Service; Unix Software News; More Mail Storage;
Disk Usage Graph
February 01
Disk Quota Upgrade; Color Laser Printing; EASY - Evaluation &
Assessment Tool; New Mail Bell; Student Dial-in Service; Tape Backup: Price
Reduced, Services Expanded; Matlab Toolbox Reorganization; Lab Unix Workstations
X-termed; No Food/Drink in Lab; Firewall Service; Conference Phone for Computers;
Using ssh; Upgrades to Classrooms
November 00
Embrace the Change; New Rating System; 1245 SC Classroom; Black
and Gold Labs; WebMail Lookup; Download Area; Unix Updates; Electronic Whiteboard;
Lab Printing Notes; No LDAP; Multiple Mailboxes?; New Windows Apps; Disk Usage;
What You Using; Xerox Machine
August 00
What is Essential; New Name, Location, Facilities; Class
Communication Pilot Project; Going on Vacation?; Authenticate First; Summer
Unix Software Upgrades; Ask Diana; Room Numbering in SC; Use These Resource
Names Now
