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• Research Data Base of ETH Zurich
  
  
• Literature:  
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Our servers:

• SysEcol Server:  se-server (afp)   or   Description and access hints: Mac hints
• Sun Unix Hosts:   atitlan.ethz.ch   huron.ethz.ch   biwa.ethz.ch   malawi.ethz.ch   erie.ethz.ch   inawa.ethz.ch   (access restricted, use ssh or afp (Apple Filing Protocol))   Description and access hints: Unix hints
• Systems Ecology simulation server cluster:     superior.ethz.ch   michigan.ethz.ch   ontario.ethz.ch   (access restricted, use ssh or afp (Apple Filing Protocol))   Description and access hints: Unix hints
• On-line references:   Dictionary (with audio)   Translate   Ultralingua Onlinedictionaries   Guide to Grammar and Writing   EURODICAUTOM (European Languages)   Leo (German/English)   Idiome übersetzen   translate block of text (Yahoo! Babel Fish)   Abkürzungen   hyperdictionary   babylon   Merriam-Webster (NOTE: We have on CD electronic versions of all main Merriam-Webster reference books. Install them on your machine!)
  Wikipedia   Open Source Encyclopedia   Encyclopedia Britannica (includes a Thesaurus)   SciFinder (Chemical American Society)   ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)   Pronounciation of biological names   Project Gutenberg   How stuff works

Organisation & Administration

• Online-Dienste für Angestellte ETHZ     Dienstleistungen für Mitarbeitende     Informatikdienste im Überblick     Kommunikation ETHZ  useful URLs at ETH
• Setup your E-mail client (configuration hints) as soon as you have got your nethz password.
• D-UWIS Knowledge Base (All IT Services:     ID (Informatikdienste)
  
  
• D-UWIS Internals     Gebäudebereich AU (Agrar, Umwelt)     Belegungsplan CHN P12 (Reservation)     doodle
  
  
• ETHZ Personalabteilung     Formulare     Our contact: B. Erzinger, 2-0631 (erzinger@pa.ethz.ch, Turnerstrasse 1 / TUR D 17 8092 Zürich)     Mutation von Adressen und Personalien
  
  
• ethis
  
  
• Finanzdienste   Unser Betreuer - Raffael Walter, 2-2099 (raffael.walter@fc.ethz.ch,   Finanzreglement   Infos, documents, and forms
  
  
• Studienadministration   eDoz   Important edoz hints   Semestertermine   Plagiate   Ethical conduct

Setting up & maintaining your working place

• Computer Ergonomics (working long hours on a computer can damage your health!)
• Setting your passwords (nethz)
• UTP connections in your office
• Software for system ecologists all needed hints and links including those to the corporate design of ETH Zurich
• How to hookup to the NET (helps you to setup and configure the connection of your machine to the local area network (LAN) and Internet)
  The Trouble-shooter Kit, copy it to your machine, it BOOTSTRAPS you in case of troubles :-)
• Network Access to the ETHZ e.g. via VPN (public, private), WebVPN, AirPort (W-LAN), IPASS (while you're on the road), Cablecom (Hispeed)
• Printing: CHN E19 (black&white), CHN E34 (color) (both printers are VPP printers; Installation hints)
• Proxy services (use it to access papers freely)     private vpn into VPZ UWIS (VPZ - Virtual Private Zone, D-UWIS - Department Umweltwissenschaften)
• All ides services
• Using from Address Book LDAP to retrieve ETH Zurich staff data
• Courses offered by ides.ethz.ch    
  
  
• Personal literature data base software (SE starter kit: FileMaker & EndNote)
• EndNote  (Updates, User's contributions etc.)   BibDesk (Andreas' Tutorial)
  
  
• ETH Mail lists
• DataQuest  main partner of ETH for Macs (Boehmer: 044 360 3913 - Computer Takeaway)  letec  ArchiTronic (Kd.-Nr. ?)  ARP DATACON Versandhandel (Kd.-Nr. 1002642)  ETHZ Occasionsbörse  Reperaturen Mac  Reparaturstellen
  
  
• Backup: netbackup   report

"How to" Hints

• How to hookup to the NET (see above)
  
  
• How to maintain a web site   (start here to learn html, for general hints, and to learn how to maintain this one)
  Web Content Management der ETH Zürich
  
  
• How to write  
  
  
• How to send a fax or SMS from your computer
• Our anonymous ftp site for outgoing large files (> 2 MB, for some recipient even > 1 MB is too much) (don't attach to E-Mail, use sftp instead)
  To upload or delete files use this URL: sftp://atitlan.ethz.ch/FTPRoot/pub/docs/se/. E.g. paste the underlined text into a Fetch dialog when you ask for a new connection. Note, the access is restriced and requires to be a registered systems ecology member.
  
  
• How to archive your data and files   kost-ceco (Koordinationsstelle fŸr die dauerhafte Archivierung elektronischer Unterlagen)   KaD (Katalog archivischer Dateiformate)   Archives of ETH Zurich
  
  
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• Informatikdienste im Überblick (graphisch, Liste)
• Mac hints     Unix hints     Sun administration hints     Standard extensions     Mac FAQs    
• SafeIT (Please read this, it is a MUST!)   On passwords (Please read hints on what is a good password!)   Virus protection and general security hints for You   ETHZ network security   Security contacts   Guidelines to enhance security   Check your Mac Symantec Sygate
• On-Line Dienste ETHZ   ditto (not yet fully functional new site)   Netzwerk ETHZ   CableCom and ETHZ
• Trouble Shooting or UniMac or Ultimate Mac or MacFixit or Mac Managers or Mac About or Mac Web Sources may know an answer or offer help to your current problem