Fall
2003
New Services and Changes at RUCS-Camden for FY2003/2004
Below is a list of new services, that the Rutgers Camden Community will see this year, regarding computer systems and applications provided by RUCS (Rutgers University Computing Services). There are many important changes and new services listed below.
Secure Services
Rutgers University Computing Services (RUCS) is improving the security of services on all student, faculty and staff systems across campuses to protect passwords and other confidential data during online sessions.
To use an email program like Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express,
Netscape Messenger, or Mozilla with your account, you will now need to
connect with a secure
connection (SSL
box/button checked in your mail server preferences).
To use telnet to connect to your
computer account or Pine to access your email, you will now need to
connect with a secure connection (SSH client/program installed on your
system).
If you currently upload or download files through an FTP (file transfer protocol) program such as WS_FTP in Windows or Fetch on a Macintosh, you will now need to substitute a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP), found in most SSH clients.
If you use Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or GoLive to publish web pages on clam, we recommend that you now use WebDrive for Windows, available at http://mssg-ftp.rutgers.edu/webdrive, or Interarchy for Mac OS X, available for purchase at http://www.interarchy.com.
For more information, visit:
http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/RUCS-Camden/Announce/secure-services-announcement.html
RUCS is
taking steps to filter spam on our campus email servers (email.clam and
email.crab) for the start of this fall semester using a new anti-spam
tool. A web tool
is available that will allow you to enable this service for your email
and to control
its features.
More information on this can be read in the below document:
http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/HELP/Documentation/Email/virus-spam.html
Wireless Networking
This fall, RUCS will be adding the Robeson Library open areas as an additional location where you can access the Internet with a lpatop computer with wireless capabilities. Wireless access was established in the Campus Center open room and open dining seating areas last year, along with the Law's installation in the Law School. Visit http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/RUCS-Camden/S50-4320_wireless.html for more information. To learn more about wireless policies, visit http://rucs.rutgers.edu/wireless-policy.html.
Obtaining IP Information Online (for Residential Students)
Residential students can now obtain their network configuration numbers and IP address online. Visit http://resnet/rutgers.edu and click on Get Your IP Address.
Log in with your NetID and password and follow the instructions on the web page.
All faculty, staff and students are required to have a NetID (Computer Account) at Rutgers. This is needed for emailing of official notices, access to various administrative web pages (access to grades, transcripts, schedule of classes, register for class, access to class rosters, etc.). To create your NetID (computer account), please visit: http://rucs.rutgers.edu/services/account/index.html
Information on this new NetID policy can be found at: http://rucs.rutgers.edu/netid-policy.html
All
faculty, staff and students are required to also keep up to date their
email addresses in the Rutgers directory and regularly read email sent
to that address. Information on this policy and how to keep your
email address current, can be found at:
http://rucs.rutgers.edu/netid-policy.html.
Residential Telephone Service
Residential phone service is changing for the
fall. All residential students will be able to use their phones
to make free calls to local exchanges (this is an improvement from the
past). Long distance calls will have to be made by use of a phone
calling card. More information on this will be distributed to the
residential students by Housing as they move in. We believe that
all residential students will also receive a free 10 minute Verizon
pre-paid calling card at move in.
Mcafee Antivirus software is available for free, for Rutgers students, staff and faculty for use at home, offices or dorm rooms. RUCS highly recommends that everyone installs this software along with the latest DAT file (signature file) and setup auto updating. Further we recommend a new method of keeping your anti-virus software up to date using a process called RADS (Rutgers Antivirus Delivery Service). For more information on this, please see: http://mssg.rutgers.edu/software/downloads/mcafee.asp
In the
RUCS-Camden public computing labs there has always been a policy of no
more then 30 pages printed at a given time. Now this policy is
going to be enforced
automatically on every PC in our labs. The systems will only
allow you to print 30 pages at a time, and no multiple copies. If
you have a document to print that is more then 30 pages long, you will
have to print out 30 page segments at a time. For printing out
multiple copies, one should use a commercial photo copy service or a
photocopy machine. This change in service is being implemented at
the request of many students who use the labs and have asked for
improved access to print jobs, especially when printers are being tied
up by large print jobs. This will allow for more fair access to
print services for everyone.
Mozilla in the Labs
Mozilla is a web browser very similar to
Netscape. In fact, they are almost identical. As support
for Netscape diminishes by its vendor, users of Netscape are moving
towards Mozilla. At RUCS-Camden we are making the same move in
our public labs. On all of our PCs and Sun systems, we are
removing Netscape and using Mozilla instead for the fall
semester. IE will still also be available as a browser on our PC
platforms. On our Mac systems in the labs, as we upgrade the Macs
to Mac-OSX over the fall semester, we will be doing the same
change. Mozilla can also be used as a web page composition tool
as well as an email package (the same as Netscape).
RUCS is
rolling out a web portal for all first year students and transfer
students, that will make access easier for students to access Rutgers
web pages and applications. This web portal is called
my.rutgers.edu and will be rolled out during the fall semester.
More information on this web portal will be forthcoming.
Webmail
RUCS-Camden is installing a new version
of Webmail this summer on the campus email servers, that works the same
as the previous version of Webmail but also has some new features
including better support of address books. Webmail is a method to
easily read email via the web using any web browser, from our Rutgers
email servers. to use Webmail please go to: http://webmail.camden.rutgers.edu
A new tool called WebDrive is available and can be very useful to transfer files between a local PC with an account on clam or crab. This provides a nice replacement for ftp and can also be used with web publishing tools. WebDrive can be setup to transfer all files securely by encrypting all data. WebDrive will be available in all RUCS public labs in Camden this fall. Rutgers students, faculty and staff can also obtain copies of WebDrive to install on home computers, offices, or dorm rooms by going to: http://mssg-ftp.rutgers.edu/webdrive
More information on using WebDrive can be
found at:
http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/HELP/Documentation/Windows/webdrive/S50-4335_webdrive.html
New Lab Systems
1/3 of all PC and Sun systems in RUCS public labs have been replaced for the start of the new semester with the latest technology. All the new Dell PC systems (found primarily in the Campus Center Lab and BSB 117 Instructional Lab ) will come with 512meg of RAM, 18 inch flat panel monitors, 80gig hard drives, cd-rw-dvd combo, and 2.4ghz processors. The new Sun workstations come with 18 inch flat panel monitors, 512meg of Ram, 40gig hard drives, cdrom and 650mhz processors. 5 new Macs will be moving into the Campus Center lab during the fall semester to replace the older macs located there. These new macs will be running the new MacOS-X. Eventually, all Macs on campus in the public labs will be converted to MacOS-X. Also, the number of Mac systems in the Campus Center has been decreased by 5 (from 10 systems to 5) and 5 additional new PC systems were purchased and installed in this lab. This move was made to reflect usage patterns and by requests from students who use this lab.