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How do rebuild my
desktop on my Mac? |
Restart your Mac holding down the Command and Option keys
until you get a dialog box that says, "Are you sure you want to rebuild the desktop
file..."
Click OK. |
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How do I change my
University network authorization account password (Unix, e-mail)?
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Go to http://accounts.pitt.edu.
Enter your username and password.
Click Connect.
At the Accounts Management Menu, click Change Account
Password.
Enter your current password under "Enter your old password."
Enter the password you want to use under "Enter your new password"
and again under "Confirm your new password."
Click Change Password. |
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How do I forward my
University e-mail? |
| By default, your University e-mail is
forwarded to your IMAP mail account. You can add up to four
additional forwarding addresses. Unless you are only accessing
e-mail from a third party provider, we suggest you leave the first
e-mail forwarding address as username@imap.pitt.edu. Go to
http://accounts.pitt.edu.
Enter your username and password.
Click Connect.
At the Accounts Management Menu, click Edit Forwarding
Addresses.
Enter the address(es) you wish to forward your mail to and click
OK. |
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How do I set my default printer
on UNIX? |
These instructions assume you are using
the default shell, bash. To find out what shell you are using, log into UNIX and type at
the prompt, (1) unixs1 $ echo
$SHELL. If you are using the /bin/bash, Log into UNIX and follow the instructions below.
Change the protection of your .bash_profile to read, write and execute with the following
command: (2) unixs1 $ chmod +rwx .bash_profile.
Edit .bash_profile with the pico editor: (3) unixs1 $ pico .bash_profile. Page down until
you find the following section:
#################################################################
# ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE: PRINTER
#################################################################
#
# The PRINTER variable is used to set your default printer. If you
# do not select a printer below, your default printer will be set
# to the system-wide default. A list of printers available is in
# /etc/printcap
#
# In the commented line below, the printer is set to be the LPS-40 in
# Old Engineering Hall. If you want to chose a specific printer to be
# your default, uncomment the line below and change "oeh" to be the
# printer you wish to select.
#
# export PRINTER=oeh
On the line, # export PRINTER=oeh, delete the # and change oeh to lrdc, (hpon5, hpon6,
hpon7 or hpon8), so the line reads, export PRINTER=lrdc.
Save file with Ctrl o, hit return at the message: File name to write: .bash_profile. Exit
the editor with Ctrl x. To make the change take effect, log out and log
back in.
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What is spam? |
Spam is generally defined as
unsolicited and unwanted e-mail messages, the electronic equivalent
of junk mail. Although they are a nuisance, e-mail messages,
newsletters, and advertisements from legitimate businesses to
whom you gave your e-mail address, or
their affiliates, are not considered spam.
Neither are chain letters most often sent by the innocent victim of
a hoax.
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How can
I prevent spam? |
The best way to
prevent spam is to:
- Never
respond to an unsolicited e-mail message.
Responding to
spam verifies the e-mail has reached a
"real person." The spammer can use
this information either to continue sending you
spam (possibly under different
aliases), or sell your e-mail address to other
spammers or even legitimate
businesses.
- Never
sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from
spam lists.
There are two kinds of
these sites: sincere sites and spam
address collectors. A sincere site is ignored (or exploited) by
the spammers, and the second type of
site is owned by them. In either case, sending an e-mail only
verifies your e-mail address.
- Take
meaningful action to stop spammers.
You can filter messages, write to government representatives, and
even report spam.
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What should I
do if I get spam in my e-mail? |
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There are only two appropriate
ways to handle spam:
1) Delete it.
2) Report it.
If you would like to report
the spam, you can forward it
to Spamcop,
a free service that works directly with network administrators to
help stop spam messages.
Pitt's Computing Services and Systems Development Department (CSSD)
uses this service. See
How do I
register for Spamcop and report individual messages? for
instructions.
Note:
spam must be reported within three days
of receipt.
Additional sources of
information are available on-line at
http://www.emailabuse.org
and
http://www.abuse.net.
Please contact Computing Services for help filtering and/or
reporting spam, or
unsubscribing to legitimate electronic mailing lists.
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How do I register for Spamcop and report individual messages? |
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To register with
Spamcop:
1. Open the URL,
http://spamcop.net
in your web browser.
2. Click on the link that says
Free Reporting Service.
3. Enter your e-mail address in the appropriate block and click
Verify Email
Address.
4. An e-mail will be sent to you with an authorization URL—save this
URL.
To report
individual e-mail messages:1. Open and copy the message
with full headers to your clipboard. The full, unmodified header
will need to be sent (click the
Blah, blah, blah
button in
Eudora to expand the full header).
2. Go to the authorization URL and paste the entire message into the
box.
3. Click
Process SPAM.
4. After a short wait, click
Send Spam Report Now.
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