E-tudes, the How-to Handouts

étude: A piece of music for the practice of a point of technique. 2. A composition built on a technical motive but played for its artistic value.

E-tudes

Our e-tudes are short articles with a specific theme or topic, and many describe how to accomplish a specific task. Many of these e-tudes as based on articles from Essentials, the CSS newsletter. New ones are added and existing ones updated regularly, so check this page often. Click on the desired link below to read or print an e-tude.

Here are the current e-tudes grouped by topic:

General Information

Connect2 VPN 9/09
File Backup 10/09
Disk Quota and How to Manage It 8/09
Elluminate for collaboration and e-learning 2/09
FileZilla, for file transfer6/09
Firefox, a browser 7/08
Using Home Directory Files Remotely 10/09
Home Directory Path Change 5/09
Using .htaccess 12/08
ICON course management system 7/09
How to Map a Drive 7/09
All about Passwords 5/09
Using the CSS Password Tool 5/09
Papercut: Print Account Software 11/07
Printers, Print Quota, and Printing  12 /07
Using the Public Ports in SC 6/07
Quick Start Guide 6/09
Reducing Disk Usage 7/09
Remote Connection to CSS 10/09
Running Remote Linux Sessions: NX (NOMACHINE) for Windows 9/09
Secure Remote Connection to Linux, Windows 7/09
Using a USB Key with VMware Player 10/09
Using a Virtual Linux Machine from Windows 10/09
Dealing with Viruses 5/08
Using the Wireless Network in SC 3/09

Email

Configuring Thunderbird 3/08
Using Thunderbird 3/08
Thunderbird: Filtering Mail 3/08
Outlook 6/07
Configuring Outlook 6/07
Spam, Helping You Deal with Spam Mail 8/08
Purge Email from Thunderbird 3/08
Dealing with Viruses 5/08
Using Webmail 8/08
Webmail News 6/08
Webmail Login Troubleshooting 5/09
Webmail: Filtering Email 5/06
Webmail: Purge Deleted Messages 6/08

Linux, Virtual Linux, and Linux Software

Linux Software Notes 10/08 Notes on using ABAQUS, Ansys, and Fluent on Linux.
Running Remote Linux Sessions: NX (NOMACHINE) for Windows 9/09
Using a USB Key with VMware Player 10/09
Using a Virtual Linux Machine from Windows 10/09

Windows and Windows Software

Finding the IP Address 6/08
Picasa for Photo Management 6/09
SecureCRT 5/08
Setting DHCP on Windows Computers 8/09
Setting File Permissions with Windows XP 2/08
WinRAR to Compress and Extract Files 1/06

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