I just discovered that you are no longer required to keep 100MB of your quota allocated to the Novell System. This means that you can allocate up to 300MB to your email. For most users, this is a 50% increase and can give you some much needed breathing room.
NCSU students, faculty and staff can change the quotas allocated to their different Information Technology Department (ITD) accounts. You are given 350 MB of file space to allocate as you see fit between your email, AFS and Novell quotas.
To change your quota allocations, go to: http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/ Click on "login now" under the User Info tab if you are not logged in.
After you have logged in, the "User Info" section has your ITD Account Quotas listed. Click on "Quota Manager" to make any changes. You have 350 MB available for you to allocate. You are required to keep at least 50MB in AFS, so that leaves 300 MB for you to allocate between AFS and Email. If you aren't using Novell or more than 50MB in AFS, put all 300MB in your Email account. Enter the amount you want to allocate to each account and click on the "Submit Change Request" button. Your new allocation will be put into effect by the next morning.
For details about the different quotas, see: Changing Your ITD Account Quotas on the NCCE Intranet.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Browse securely from public WiFi's
There's a new Firefox extension named Firesheep that makes it "rediculously easy" to get HTTP login cookies from Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Dropbox, Twitter, WordPress and others. With this extension ANY ONE can connect to any of these sites that you are logged into via a public wifi connection - regardless what browser or operating system you are using. Unless you actively log out of a site, they can post messages or do anything else that you can.
Where do you use a public wifi? If you use the internet provided by a hotel, airport, coffee shop, public library or even a friends house that has an open wireless network and even your own home. If you can connect to the network without having to enter a password for the network, then it is insecure. Even if you have to enter a password on a web page, it is insecure. A secured wireless network that encrypts all traffic (WEP, WPA 1 & 2) requires a password when the wireless card connects, or the network has to be setup to recognize the wireless device. The NCCE County wireless networks and NCSU wireless networks are this way (open and insecure) because it would require posting the passphrase publicly or signing up non-trusted devices. The user/password required is to limit who is on the network. You can tell if you are on a secured network because the network name will have a lock by it when you select or view it from the network places listing window on both Macs and Windows.
What should you do when you are using a public wifi? NCSU has a Virtual Private Network (VPN), but it only encrypts what is bound for NCSU. This is called a "Split Tunnel" VPN and is the most commonly used on university and corporate networks. So, establishing a VPN connection with NCSU only encrypts data destined for NCSU sites.
One good option is to install and use HTTPS Everwhere and Firefox. This redirects any sites to the secure version - if there is one and if HTTPS Everywhere knows about it. These include Google Search, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, most of Amazon, Wordpress.com blogs, Paypal and more. Just note that it may slow down the loading of Firefox if you have many tabs open at once.
Look for sites that have https:// rather than http://. The "s" stands for secure and any information sent to that site is encrypted.
If you are on your own wifi at home, secure it. Get out the manual and read how.
Safe browsing...
Where do you use a public wifi? If you use the internet provided by a hotel, airport, coffee shop, public library or even a friends house that has an open wireless network and even your own home. If you can connect to the network without having to enter a password for the network, then it is insecure. Even if you have to enter a password on a web page, it is insecure. A secured wireless network that encrypts all traffic (WEP, WPA 1 & 2) requires a password when the wireless card connects, or the network has to be setup to recognize the wireless device. The NCCE County wireless networks and NCSU wireless networks are this way (open and insecure) because it would require posting the passphrase publicly or signing up non-trusted devices. The user/password required is to limit who is on the network. You can tell if you are on a secured network because the network name will have a lock by it when you select or view it from the network places listing window on both Macs and Windows.
What should you do when you are using a public wifi? NCSU has a Virtual Private Network (VPN), but it only encrypts what is bound for NCSU. This is called a "Split Tunnel" VPN and is the most commonly used on university and corporate networks. So, establishing a VPN connection with NCSU only encrypts data destined for NCSU sites.
One good option is to install and use HTTPS Everwhere and Firefox. This redirects any sites to the secure version - if there is one and if HTTPS Everywhere knows about it. These include Google Search, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, most of Amazon, Wordpress.com blogs, Paypal and more. Just note that it may slow down the loading of Firefox if you have many tabs open at once.
Look for sites that have https:// rather than http://. The "s" stands for secure and any information sent to that site is encrypted.
If you are on your own wifi at home, secure it. Get out the manual and read how.
Safe browsing...
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