FAQ

Welcome to the gsrc FAQ.

• Getting started on the web-site
  • What is this site?
  • How do I get a login?
  • I forgot my password, what do I do?
  • Who can get a login?
  • OK, I got a login. Now what?
  • How do I post files to this server?
  • How do I add a publication to the publications database?
  • How do I modify a publication?
  • How do I join a group?
  • How do I alter my group memberships?
  • How do I remove myself from a group?
  • How do I join the "foo" mailing list?
  • There's no answer to my question here? Who'mIgonnacall?
  • Email attachments are not archived.
  • Why can't I use my yahoo (gmail, aol, ...) email address?
  • How do I set up a proxy account so I can register a VIP?
• How to effectively use this site
  • How should I use this site?
  • How can I use the site to hold meetings better?
• General questions about the web-site
  • Who do I contact if I have problems with the site?
  • Is the site address gigascale.eecs or gigascale.org?
  • What is "https"?
  • Who developed this site?
  • How big is the website?
  • Menus are missing/Javascript is disabled?
  • What if I change companies?
• About authoring and posting publications
  • How do I handle prepublication of papers?
  • About Powerpoint Slides
  • The Powerpoint template has the wrong date.
• Questions about the forums and FAQs
  • How do I add an article to a forum?
  • How do I attach or upload a file to an article?
  • How do I edit an article in the forum?
  • How do I delete an article or task from a forum?
  • Why are the URLs of forum articles numbers, and not something more meaningful?
  • I don't have time to check the forum every day! How can I get the server to notify me when a new article is posted?
  • How do I create a "task"?
  • How do I update a task?
  • Hey, these tasks are pretty lame! What's the point?
  • How do I add to my group's FAQ?
  • How do I reorganize my FAQ?
  • Can I get a printable version of a FAQ?
  • When I use "Fully Expanded", not all of the text is visible
  • How can I share a FAQ item between websites?
• Editing group pages, and other forms of rocket science
  • Some of my group's pages don't show up properly. Why?
  • My remote subsite doesn't work! Why?
  • How do I customize my margins and footers?
  • How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option?
  • How do I update cvs-authored pages?
  • How do I learn more about CVS?
  • How do I find bad links in my group web page
  • What is download logging?
• How to do group administration
  • How do I start a new group?
  • What is a group admin anyway?
  • How do I set up my new workspace?
  • My new group is not listed!
  • How do I control access to my workspace?
  • Warning: incorrect default access permissions
  • What do the HTML Authoring options mean?
  • What is the "override" option?
  • How do I add members to a group?
  • How do I reset a member's password?
  • How do I disable someone's account?
  • How do I rename an account?
• Mail list administration
  • How do I create mailing lists?
  • How do I create a mailing list with a non-standard name?
  • More on mailing list configuration
  • Why do I get messages about "Implicit destination" from the mail manager?
  • How do I send email to all the GSRC Principal Investigators?
  • I sent a message, but it did not go out!
  • How do I see who is on a mailing list
  • Why doesn't the GSRC Mailman system handle large attachments?
  • What mailing lists are available?
  • How do I fix 'Post by non-member to a members-only list'
• Hardware Software Infrastructure
  • What can I do to improve the quality of the video captures?
  • Tell me about telephone conferencing.
  • How do I get access to commercial CAD Tools?
  • How do I use ICQ?
  • What camera do I use for desktop videoconferencing?
  • How do I use NetMeeting?
  • What about DSL?
  • What hardware is available for loan to GSRC faculty?
  • What about Wireless Ethernet?
  • Troubleshooting DSL
• GSRC Workgroup Calendars
  • How can I create and configure a calendar for my workgroup?
  • How to use the calendar.
• Intellectual Property Issues for GSRC Participants
  • How do I release software?