From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 21:02:04 PDT
[Resending with two corrections:
1) The room location for Thursday's Micronet meeting is 60 Barrows,
not 775 Tan Hall.
2) The feedback address for the C@B CD is simply feedback@cab.
(The cab-feedback@socrates address given in the original message
still works, but is deprecated.)
-- Mea culpa, Aron]
You are invited to provide your suggestions for the forthcoming
2004 edition of the Connecting@Berkeley (C@B) CD
<http://cab.berkeley.edu>. This CD is scheduled to be released
approximately four months from now at the start of the Fall 2003
Semester.
The C@B CD is the campus's in-house Internet connection kit for
users of Microsoft Windows, the Mac OS (Classic and OS X), and Linux
(to a modest extent). This CD makes it easy for campus people to set
up their computers to connect to the Internet through UC Berkeley's
dial-in modems, Ethernet ports, and wireless networks. It also
includes installers for popular Internet and anti-virus application
programs.
You can send your suggestions to: feedback@cab.berkeley.edu
(Or click this link: <mailto:feedback@cab.berkeley.edu>.)
You are also invited to give your feedback in person by attending
this Thursday's (4/10) Micronet user group meeting (see below).
Some topics you may wish to cover include:
- Are there any features you'd like to see added to the 2004 C@B CD?
- Any new applications you'd like to see?
- Any tools for configuring or adding value to these applications
you'd like to see?
- Any problems that you'd like to see fixed?
- Any documentation you'd like to have added or improved?
- Anything else you'd like to say to those of us who work on the CD?
Some potential changes to the 2004 CD are listed below, at the end
of this message. You might find it helpful to first scan these when
formulating your suggestions.
In addition, those of us who work on the C@B CD have been holding
feedback sessions with a number of campus departments and
organizations. As a MAGNet member, you are invited to give your
feedback during a meeting of MAGNet's sister user group, Micronet:
Date: April 10, 2003 (this Thursday)
Time: 10:00 am until approximately 10:30 am
(for C@B feedback specifically; followed by a UCLink
report until approximately 12:00 noon)
Place: 60 Barrows Hall
We're looking forward to receiving your feedback!
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
(on behalf of the Connecting@Berkeley Service Team)
P.S. Some background about the C@B CD's support for Mac users, as
well as prospective changes in the 2004 CD, is appended below.
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Support for Macintosh users of the C@B CD
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Some Internet connection kits at other universities support only
Windows, or provide minimal support for the Mac OS. In contrast, the
C@B CD has always treated campus Macintosh users as first class
citizens since its inception five years ago.
The current Connecting@Berkeley 2003 CD includes many
custom-written applications and installers that guide users of Mac OS
X and the "Classic" Mac OS through the entire end-to-end process of
setting up network connections and installing a collection of
Internet and anti-virus applications.
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Some changes being *considered* for the 2004 CD
---------------------------------------------------------------
Modems services:
- Reflect consolidation and phone number changes for modem banks
- Reflect charges for formerly no-cost modem services
Application updates:
- Norton AntiVirus
- CalNet Authentication (Kerberos)
- Eudora
- Support for SecureLink to protect UCLink users' passwords
and encrypt their messages over the network
- Support for routing 'spam' messages, identified by
upcoming UCLink and Socrates spam filters
- Custom configuration of Eudora for Mac OS X
- Web browsers
- Support Library proxy configuration
- Include Safari as an option
Assistance to those connecting through commercial ISPs:
In addition, we're considering adding documentation, configuration
assistance, or other help for campus people who are connecting to
campus services through third-party ISPs, especially via the
widely-used broadband services in the Bay Area.
Some items in this category might include help for users:
- Whose ISPs DNS servers occasionally have broken reverse lookups
(e.g. can send but not receive mail, can't establish SSH-encrypted
terminal connections, etc.);
- Whose ISPs may restrict sending mail to their own SMTP servers; and
- Who need to access campus resources which are available only
to members of the UCB community or to UCB network addresses.
(Example: Library proxy server)
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