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Authenticating an Ubuntu machine using the CS Active Directory (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) Note that when setting up LDAP access for a host which happens to be running...
Integration of Macintosh Authentication and Management into Active Directory (OBSOLETE) This document relates to MAC OS X 10.6.8 and needs to be updated to reflect...
Main.ctucker 02 Feb 2006 Main.iturner 20 Apr 2006 Sept 2009 Binding a Macintosh Client Through Command Scripting During testing, it was discovered that it is...
Filesystem Group Definitions We want to document what each filesystem group we have is used for. That is to ensure consistent usage, and information for auditors....
MikeGore 30 Jan 2012 Advanced Format Drives 4k sector size drives Note many of the drive manufactures are created drives with 4k sector sizes. It is important...
Obsolete Backups for Macintosh using the Legato System or Snapshots or Apple TimeMachine For Faculty and Staff To verify that your Mac is being backed up by Legato...
See also: ST#50784. Cool: we can use hyphens in userids now. Bad: inetd support is even worse than before (so rsh is difficult to get working). It looks like it really...
Casper Suite (Obsolete) As of October 2016, JAMF Software has been renamed jamf and plans to rename Casper Suite to jamf Pro sometime in 2017 when the software reaches...
Barcode Creation For basic, background understanding of barcodes, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode In order to produce the following equipment is...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED Invitees Attendees Invited: Anthony, Adrian, Guoxiang, Clayton, Lori, Fraser, Nathan, Dave, Omar, Devon, Todd, Nick, Lawrence...
Linux Working Group Invitees Attendees Invited: Anthony, Adrian, Guoxiang, Clayton, Lori, Fraser, Nathan, Dave, Omar, Devon, Todd, Nick, Lawrence Review...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED 2022 04 06 Invitees Attendees Invited: Anthony, Adrian, Guoxiang, Clayton, Lori, Fraser, Nathan, Dave, Omar, Devon,...
The DHCP information system in Computer Science (OBSOLETE) Overview CSCF CSI provides a DHCP infrastructure for computers, printers and other devices on its networks...
Documentation Links that to learn more about Debian: debaday has interesting Debian packages posted (almost) daily. The Debian FAQ is always a good place...
This page is being proposed for deletion because it presents no information that is not easily visible by clicking the given link. The link to this page was replaced...
Deploy Studio Imaging and deployment links and notes. (Obsolete) Deployment Planning Template http://www.peachpit.com/content/downloads/peachpit/bookreg/DeploymentPlanningTemplate...
List of databases to be moved List of databases and the stakeholders to be notified if there are issues Stage 1 equipment : Inventory (CSCF and MFCF)...
Exam Seating This page is intended to document the aspects of the exam seating system that USG members are interested in learning about. With that said, anyone who...
Configuration for Mac use of FORE The following browser/plugin configurations have worked to allow PDF `drill downs`. Roloson, of MFCF, created a Down Test Page...
Faculty Recruiting System The Faculty Recruiting System is a web application and database used by applicants to CS Faculty positions and the SACA committee (chaired...
Title GPUInstallScripts These scripts installs Cuda, Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch, Pycuda and related packages Location of master repository This Document...
CSCF Git Repository This page is to document CSCF use of the https://git.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/ group of the git.uwaterloo.ca server, which has an easy to use Gitlab web...
OGSAS PDF Generation We use the iText library, written in Java, to generate, fill in, and manipulate PDF files. More information is at http://www.lowagie.com/iText...
CSCF Hardware Lab DC2560G (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) Documentation in process of being updated The CSCF HARDWARE LAB consists of four areas: storage, workstations...
MikeGore 14 Apr 2011 SuperMicro LOM IPMI See ClusterToolsIPMITOOL for the latest documentation for IPMIview,ippmicfg and ipmitool and scripts Documenation...
/ padding is used because IE tends to overwrite letters next to borders without padding. / div.comment { margin left: 3em; margin right...
Icinga Icinga is an open source computer and network monitoring system that originally started as a fork of Nagios in 2009. CSCF is working to migrate from Nagios...
Installing Perl Modules as a non root user in one`s homedir The problem, as identified: there wasn`t an xhier package for a particular set of modules; and a user would...
Inventory Database: Field Descriptions These are the field definitions for the CSCF/MFCF Inventory System. See InventoryUserDocs for more information. Note: These...
Lab Mac System Administrator Documentation The Mac Labs are lab rooms throughout the MC building dedicated to giving students access to Mac computers. In any of these...
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/macosx/conceptual/bpsystemstartup/chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html EdwardChrzanowski 2014 09 19
SGI Altix System Administration Dave Wright out of Egan, Minnesota daw #64;sgi.com 10.15.0.2 7 hostname: tng2 tng7 Course expects some amount of Red Hat background...
Using OpenLDAP for Linux Accounts Management This document assumes you are using Ubuntu Server 6.06 (dapper) for both the server and client. It also assumes using...
The basic script is installed under /Library/Scripts and is run upon login. This currently contains the comment sections from the cleanbasic script #set xv; exec...
This logout script is found under /Library/Scripts and currently just contains comments #Update on June 27, 2006 added support for 10.3 clients and other improvements...
Obsolete Create a new userid under System Preferences/Accounts change icon picture if users requests Pay very close attention to the users short name...
This list of Macintosh error codes is erroneus as soon as it`s put up. There are new codes introducted all the time, but most of these should at least remain constant...
Obsolete There are a bunch of things that need to be done to make a Mac `lab worthy`. Hers is a list: It is currently in the processes of being revised. Disable...
Mac OS X Running a Command at Login and Logout One way to run applications at login time is to launch them using a LoginHook. Similarly, a LogoutHook can be used...
Mac Lab New Image Creation (OBSOLETE) How to create a new Intel image NetRestore has reached EOL from creator Mike Bombich, information on this page should be considered...
Obsolete The /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file on the Mac lab machines needs to be modified as follows: Note: There might not be an snmpd.conf file on the machine and so...
Setting up a BaseSystem (Obsolete) 1 Initial Account Set up administration Account need IPaddress temporary address or permanent address and port to the internet...
This page briefly describes the sequence of events that happen when Mac OS X boots. Power is turned on. Open Firmware code is executed. Hardware information is collected...
From time to time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods pressing the keyboard eject key; using the...
Mobile Device Management Procedures New Devices Before we give new devices to the library, we should: remove any earbuds briefly check for adequate (over...
MikeGore 16 Apr 2007 NTFS Read/Write utilities http://www.ntfs 3g.org/ The NTFS 3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux...
Nagios Systems Monitoring and Reporting CSCF uses Nagios to monitor and report on hosts. Our setup is described on this page, including extensions to Nagios to integrate...
NetBoot (Obsolete) NetBoot is deprecated and has been completely abandoned by Apple. Macs no longer have the ability to boot off of the network since the introduction...
Tutorial 2: Basic access and configuration display Roadmap for this tutorial: In this tutorial, the focus will be on the connectivity issues for attaching a serial...
Guide for new CSCF employees Q and A What should I do on my first day? The first three items were modified from the Faculty AdministrationNotes. Keys : See your...
New Faculty Onboarding (migrated to https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44441272325/New Faculty Onboarding) Here we list the many tasks that have...
Notes taken in Isaac`s briefing to Dawn, Lawrence, Daniel, Stephen, and Adrian on 1 December, 2008. 1) Contact info 2) RT Queue items that should be done before he...
Weekly Meeting: New day: Wednesday, 3pm 4:30. This time, developers only: Marlon, Vu, Ray, Tamir, Dawn, Daniel. (Jack hasn`t started yet). Subversion Discussion...
OFIS Notes from 3 June, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: fixing user info: replace `Department of` with blank; in display and in CV. Will move to Production. Today...
OFIS Notes from 9 December, 2010 Past Tasks Daniel: move expertise keywords live (done); WatITis talk done; Research Book: printing drafts for people...
OFIS Notes from 13 May, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: gave Noki a copy of a prof`s NSERC form 100 data as requested, for him to use as template....
Meeting with Marlon, Jack, Daniel, Ray, Alan Bell, and Colin Bell. Clarification on Library role: doing this solely to be useful to campus data availability:...
Ofis/RefBase meeting Marlon, Vu, Ray, Jack, Daniel met with Colin Bell, IQC; regrets from Allan Bell, Library. Colin explained further about his/library`s ideas...
Equipment Inventory Database See InventoryUserDocs The following information is obsoleted by the revised Inventory web interface and is preserved for historical purposes...
I went to OUCC 2005 in Kingston. I tried to balance what sessions I wanted to go with the sessions I felt I should have gone to. The complete list of sessions is...
(From an email to Ashif) cleaning up plg2`s xh maintenance output Unless otherwise marked, packages are only on sun560. So, there are about 25 xhier packages installed...
Professional Development The Approach The Approach describes how we allocate professional development resources as fairly as we can. DLP Collection of CSCF Books...
Programming Style Guidelines This page started life as a copy of man mfcf programming style (as of 2008/09/05). Updates are being made to reflect current practice...
Main.ctucker 04 Nov 2005 Procedure for Recovering a Domain Controller in the CSCF Active Directory from Backup Location of Backup Files As outlined in the Disastor...
Replacement of Setpw and Custom Login with Vendor software using Kerberos and LDAP Project Overview The goal of this project is to eliminate our dependence on a custom...
RESEARCH SUBSCRIPTIONS DEVELOPMENT SETTING UP DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT OVERVIEW This section is made to guide new developers through the process of setting up a development...
RT 4.4 Training Jim Brandt jbrandt@bestpractical.com Day One (Training) 4.4.1 current; 4.4.2 will be out in a few months.new: assets integrated (Reed College contributed...
Security Procedures Responding To Incidents Support Staff 20 Nov 2013 Issues to consider: 1 Notify IST IST They are likely the ones who told us something...
DanielAllen Monday 26 Sep 2005 Step by Step Setting Up New Ubuntu Arch Masters (64/32 bit) This document assumes familiarity with xhiering process; might want to...
Dave Gawley wanted me to help him set up watcher202.cscf as a FreeBSD system. So here`s what I did. watcher202 is a Sun Fire V60z server with a pair of Xeon...
SGI Altix System Administration course June 6 10, 2005 Instructor: Dave Wright (daw at sgi.com) Course notes LawrenceNotes Reference Materials SGI...
SGI L1 and L2 Controller Software User`s Guide might be useful. See also: notes on SGI power on/off First, shut down the OS (you will need to login as root). Next...
Mac Lab Software Problems (Obsolete) neo office Intel version not available until September epson perfection 2450 photo scanner driver does not support...
Sun Software Package Management (OBSOLETE) Introduction Notes on how to query the status of sun software packages. This includes the vendor software Sun provides...
# Sponsors Data Overview This is a `backup` copy. The original is currently available at http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/MFCF/info/overviews/resource.shtml Please...
Bios Upgrade for Sun Machines (eg., w1100z workstation) Related to ST #50668 and SunHardware#Warranty procedure on Sun Hardwa Before the BIOS can be upgraded, boot...
MikeGore 15 Nov 2010 SysPrep Windows 10 We assume you have a fully loaded version of windows and it has been activated Activation https://cs.uwaterloo...
Tablet PCs (OBSOLETE) (Updated March 2008 to add latest models) Overview PCs PCs Selecting a Tablet PC slides on selecting a Tablet PC (from WatITis...
Thinking Ape Mobile Devices 2012 As described in ST#86622, the SCS has acquired 60 mobile devices, as shown below. Ongoing support and maintenance of this set of devices...
Thinking Ape Mobile Devices 2013 As described in ST#91712, the SCS has acquired 100 mobile devices, as shown below. Ongoing support and maintenance of this set of...
Do Not Migrate to Confluence Thunderbird troubleshooting steps Note try each solution based on the symptoms you are seeing Are you seeing a certificate warning...
Troubleshooting Lab Macs (Obsolete) General Publications http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/student/maclabs2006 Recovery of files: BackupMacs Caution Do NOT login...
Twiki notes for CSCF and MFCF staff TWIKI Add On Products Add On Products TWIKI Editors and Plugins integration Edit Plugin Java 1.1 applet text...
MikePatterson 22 Jan 2005 1 shut down apache so nobody can make changes post backup. 1 cd /usr/local ; mkdir tmp ; tar zcf tmp/www20050122.tgz www/ wow,...
The CSCF User Support Group Meetings User Support Group Meeting Notes (in CFPrivate) Operations Resources for PoCs which should aid them in managing software...
MikeGore VMware Workstation setup Downloads Workstation Downloads look for `Get Free Trial` you will be prompted to enter the license key in the...
Windows Vista Setup and Applications (obsolete) System Default Browser and Email applications Notes MicroSoft has yet again changed the way you access default...
VMWARE VMWare licenses Computer Science maintains a license key for Research and Teaching purposes. See VMwareLicense for details VMWare is pre installed on...
WATITIS 2016 Panel Session: The Road Ahead: IT Renewal at Waterloo Over the past few years, a number of key departments have taken a hard look at the services they...
CF Home for CSCF technical notes Welcome to the home of TWiki.CF . This is a web based collaboration area for CSCF. Anything that belonged in http://www.math...
Web Notices ical Feed CSCF Master ST Item ST#96332 Project Overview In Fall 2014 the CS Director (mwg) requested that CSCF install a small application written by...
MikeGore 2016 03 02 This page is intended for general links specific images should be documented under https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/CscfGradImageNotes...
MikeGore 2016 03 04 Microsoft Surface UEFI booting How do I use the BIOS/UEFI https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en ca/support/warranty service and...
XForms A standard for web UI encapsulating the UI elements with data validation and submission. As of 2007, browsers require an add on to handle XForms. to XForms...
So we started again. Dave lied to debian30 and told it that it`s the archmaster for freebsd5. Try just a plain xh first time. Dave found the same stuff I did. Dave...
Meeting time 6 April, 2005, 1430h 1600h Initial notes by DanielAllen 07 Apr 2005 Today Dave showed us the draft of his new script to automate ray`s instructions...
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