The MBC information booklet - RMIT University
The MBC information booklet - RMIT University
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Chapter 14: Frequently asked questions<br />
14.56.3 How do<br />
international<br />
students pay?<br />
14.56.4 When should a<br />
commencing<br />
international<br />
student<br />
arrive?<br />
14.57 System Help<br />
14.57.1 Are there any<br />
user<br />
<strong>information</strong><br />
sheets?<br />
14.57.2 Is there any<br />
other <strong>RMIT</strong><br />
documentation<br />
on the use of<br />
email or<br />
electronic<br />
news?<br />
14.57.3 Is there a<br />
tutorial on the<br />
use of<br />
electronic<br />
mail?<br />
100<br />
See “International Students Summer School Fees” on page 85.<br />
Note that summer courses normally start in early January and continue until mid-February.<br />
Exact dates will be announced at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/timetables/.<br />
International students who wish to commence in summer should aim to arrive in Australia<br />
no later than the end of December. This will allow adequate time to find accommodation<br />
and settle in before the holiday period commences.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a series on the Web in https://inside.cs.rmit.edu.au/support/docs/ that includes<br />
online manuals and documentation. If you cannot find what you are looking for, you should<br />
go to the Duty Programmers (see “Duty Programmers” on page 81).<br />
Students should attend three Unix and CS&IT Networks sessions (see “What activites are<br />
run for Newly Commencing Students?” on page 89) prior to commencement of their first<br />
classes for assistance on any of the following.<br />
<strong>The</strong> topics covered include:<br />
• Installing Moveable Type Web Logger.<br />
• Creating self signed SSL certificates for use with Apache web servers.<br />
• Using Mutt to access student NIMS email.<br />
• Using fetchmail to access student NIMS email.<br />
• For pine, nmh and elm users.<br />
• SpamAssassin Setup.<br />
• Accounts Overview.<br />
• Student WWW pages and CGI access.<br />
• Using Dial-in modems. PPP access.<br />
• Using SSH instead of Telnet.<br />
• Using SCP on Unix, Windows & MacOS X.<br />
• Reading news from behind a firewall using SSH.<br />
• Printing. NT and Unix.<br />
• Recovering Deleted Files.<br />
• elm Quick Starter.<br />
• nn Quick Starter.<br />
• vi Quick Starter.<br />
• pine manual.<br />
• Tomcat 4.1.18 Setup.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a web page regarding student mail at: http://www.student.rmit.edu.au/.<br />
Access to student news is via http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/news.<br />
For your <strong>RMIT</strong> web email, you should go the following link:<br />
http://www.student.rmit.edu.au/help.html.<br />
For instruction on using Unix programs (tin, nn) to read email, attend the Unix and CS&IT<br />
Networks Sessions (see “What activites are run for Newly Commencing Students?” on<br />
page 89) - or ask the Duty Programmers to show you!