2015 notes

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Pre-installed 2015

EndNote

Ifi PCs come with MS Word and EndNote installed, and EndNote is pre-installed in MS Word as an add-in. This means that I only need to get my library and styles in place to be back in business.

To keep my libraries and styles when I change PCs, I keep all my customizations to EndNote as well as my bibliography library and custom styles in this the directory: M:\pc\Endnote\.

When you first start up EndNote on a virgin machine, you are given the option to select an existing library as the default.

EndNote also lets you specify a custom style folder through: Edit → Preferences → Folder Location → Style Folder. I keep my custom styles in M:\pc\Endnote\Styles\

MS Word like to disable EndNote, to re-enable, go to Add-Ins (Word Options), and enable it. Then use EndNote Configuration to remove, and then re-install the EndNote add-in. You need to tick Unified Cite While You Write to get the EndNote tab on the top menu.

The current version of EndNote is X4.

Firefox

Profile

After changing machines, you can get the message. “Firefox is already running, but not responding.” This may be caused by an old profile left behind. Fix:

  1. Start→[Run/Start search] type firefox.exe -P (starts profile manager).
  2. Delete profile→exit (delete old profile).
  3. Start Firefox normally and it will create a new profile for you.

Options

To make sure options have sensible values, do Tools→Options, and then:

Regressions

Usit seems to sometimes push botched installs of outdated versions of Firefox as part of regular maintenance. To fix: Login as gisle_adm and install latest version from scratch.

MS Outlook

Outlook comes pre-installed. In ifi, it stores personal folder data in outlookl.pst, in the M:\pc\outlook\ directory, where it will survive PC-changes.

I don't use Outlook for email. To stop Outlook from nagging about an email password, do: Tools→Options→Mail Setup→email Accounts, and remove the iMap account. Setting up the mobile device to not sync email may also be a good idea.

If you need to configure Outlook email: USIT: Outlook 2003 - konfigurasjon av epostkonto or Joakim Borger Svendsen: How to configure Outlook 2007 against UiO mail servers.

MS Remote Desktop / VPN

Microsofts remote desktop is also known as “MS Terminal Server Client”. To start, type mstsc in the Vista search field, or use: Start→All Programs→Accessories→Remote Desktop Connection. There are three servers, named windows, wind and windold, windows seems to take forever to log off. Log on in the UIO domain.

Tore Kristoffersen thinks Cisco's VPN 3000 VPN client makes machines unstable, and suggests to use remote desktop instead. This gives access to the M:-drive even when used from home. To be able to use drag & drop with local disks, click on Local Resorces→More… and tick local drives.

Tore Kristoffersen: Jeg installerte Adobe Framemaker 7.1 på windold.ifi.uio.no også nå. Windold kommer sikkert til å være i bruk fram til ifi2. Men man må bruke remote desktop fra UIO's nett for å komme til den. Dvs. at hjemmefra så bør du bruke remote desktop til wind.ifi.uio.no først.

X-Win32

Starnet X-Win32 is commercial software.

In 2015, it comes pre-installed, but you need to configure a Xterm window and install it on the desktop: USIT: Xterm via X-Win32.

If you need to install from scratch, at Ifi, it is located at winprog \\dist\site\kommunikasjon\x-win32\9.5\.

Can only update version while having Admin-priveleges.

Licenses seem to expire around April 1, and Usit seems always to wait a few days before getting a new license in place. Run a demo in the meantime, or try \\dist\gratis\winprog\Internettapplikasjoner\SSH_tectia\ (older free version of XWin32).

To install new license, select lisens129240.txt from above directory, and install as floating license.

[If you are only looking for an application to use emacs, etc. in an Unix shell, check out PuTTY (SSH and Telent client for Microsoft Windows.)]

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

PuTTY

Thunderbird

Mail servers

Main menu: Tools (top menu)→Account settings→Server Settings.

Instructions: USIT: Cyrus.

Setting up a mail account

Option changes

To send forwarded messages inline:

  1. Main menu: Tools→Options→Composition→General.
  2. After Forward messages:, select Inline.

To accumulate outgoing addresses in "Collected Addresses":

  1. Main menu: Tools→Options→Composition→Addressing.
  2. For Automatically add outgoing email addresses to my:, select Collected Addresses.

GnuPG/EnigMail

If EnigMail is not installed, Thunderbird will nag you about it. The wizard seems to do the job provided gisle_adm has admin rights.

When you generate a key pair with EnigMail, it's really GnuPG that does the work. The keys are therefore stored in the GnuPG home directory. In order to use the same key on another machine, you will need to copy the the relevant files (see below) from the old computer to the new.

On Windows the default keyring directory is below %appdata%. (echo %appdata% in cmd shell). On Windows XP, this is: C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\GnuPG. On Windows Vista and Windows 7, this is: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\GnuPG. Note that the AppData folder is by default hidden.

For Linux, I mirror the same files in $HOME/.gnupg.

I know of no way to relocate this completely. If you're going to relocate your keyring files, leave gpg.conf where it is, and just move the three *.gpg files. Then point gpg.conf to the location of the keyring files. E.g. (assuming the keyrings are in M:\.gnupg\): 

no-default-keyring
keyring         M:\.gnupg\pubring.gpg
primary-keyring M:\.gnupg\pubring.gpg
secret-keyring  M:\.gnupg\secring.gpg
trustdb-name    M:\.gnupg\trustdb.gpg
% gpg -a --export gisle@ifi.uio.no > public.asc

To activate EnigMail on a new computer, do:

There should already be a GPG on Gnu/Linux. You can use this (gpg --help, gpg list-keys, gpg --version) to list keys, etc.

Public key is in ~/www_docs/cache/ (files: ghpgp.html and ghpgp.asc).

WinSCP

Ifi licensed

Adobe

To automate update, login as gisle_adm and access Adobe Application Manager Start Photoshop, then Help→Updates…

Photoshop Plugins

Manual install

A-PDF.com

Purchased in May 2011. Registration key in Clipperz.

ExifTool

ExifTool home, ExifTool notes.

To install a new version of exiftool, do the following:

  1. cd ~/bin
  2. Unpack Image-ExifTool-#.##-tar.gz
  3. cd Image-ExifTool-#.##
  4. cp -R exiftool lib ~/bin

HTC Sync

To sync with a HTC SmartPhone you may need to install HTC syncing software. Please see Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade and HTC Support. If syncing software is not already installed, dowload latest version of it from HTC and install it.

The first time you synchronize the phone, the Synchronization Settings Wizard starts automatically to help you set up HTC Sync. The process is very simple compared to MS MDC.

MS MDC (or ActiveSync)

To sync with a Windows Mobile device, or SmartPhone you may need to install MS syncing software, i.e. MS Activesync (W/XP) or MS MDC (Vista). If syncing software is not already installed, dowload latest version of it from MicroSoft, install it as (as admin.), reboot, and log on again (as self).

When configuring Outlook on a new computer, you may have to create a new Outlook profile. In that case, select manually configure server settings. But usually you can keep your profile.

After a system upgrade or after deleting the local profile, it usually works to just restablish an old partnership. Click Set up your device. It may then prompt you for a computer to delete. Just delete it. Then sync.

To establish a new syncing partnership from scratch, do the following:

My i-mate Jasjar SmartPhone is currently named as follows: WM_gisle.

Flotsam

From an ifi computer, mounting \\dist\winprog let you install some licensed packages.

My setup should include the following that may or may not be Ifi standard issue (OK indicates that it came pre-installed in the upgrade in the year indicated).

Configuration

You should be able to do this without Admin-priveleges.

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To assign user UIO\gisle Admin-priveleges:

  1. Log in as IFI-EDWARDS\gisle_adm
  2. Click Start
  3. Right click on Computer
  4. Click on Manage (if Manage is blocked, you're not Admin).
  5. Click on Local Users and Groups
  6. Double-click on Groups
  7. Double-click on Administrators
  8. Add UIO\gisle to this group.
  9. Log off- and log in again as UIO\gisle

Remember to remove this privilege as soon as everything that is necessary has been done.

To change pw IFI-EDWARDS\gisle_adm:

  1. Make sure you're administrator (ask drift for temp. admin rights if necessary).
  2. Ctrl-Alt-Del → Change password.
  3. (Control panel → User accounts → Give another user access to this computer. Select gisle_adm → Reset password.)