On Tuesday May 14th, the VPN software will be updated. Users will be prompted to download the new client the first time they attempt to connect to the VPN. If you have any problems with the upgrade, call the IST Helpdesk at x37070. Please review the University of Waterloo policies, procedures, and statements relating to information security. I'm more than a bit backlogged at the moment. If you are waiting for something from me, thanks for your patience. My motto: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. Want to see me juggle? old

Tidbits

• Psychology SharePoint (login with your userid as 'nexus\youruserid')
• REG - SONA
• Web Form Templates for Surveys/Questionaires by bee ---- UW Psych Qualtrics Login
• Laptop/Projector Bookings - Troubleshooting the Data Projector Setup
• Local Scholarships Info
• Psychology Absence Records
• FORE - Financial Systems Project - FSP Accounting Flexfield Value Lists
• BookIt (Oracle Calendar)
• Penelope - VOD (IE only) - time2track (clinical students)
• Heather Smith's WIKI for the tentantive midterm schedules

UW Psychology Lists, Notices and Announcements

• Here's the latest Psych Phone List in Word format.
• Always use your UW email address for all UW-related emails. We have separate lists including email addresses, office numbers and telephone extensions for Faculty, Staff, Grad Students and Visitors, Post Docs, etc. in our department. Check UW Psych for more departmental information. I'm also in the process of creating this web page to our various Psych mailing lists This is somewhat restricted - it's only available from Nexus stations in Psychology, plus a few other office machine (not wireless).
• Upcoming seminars in the Psychology Department: CN, Clinical, Cognition, Developmental, I/O, and Social
• Contents of the Test Library (accessible only from machines in PAS)
• GASP ---- GASP Survival Guide ---- GASP Facebook page ---- GASP Calendar ---- GASP First Year Forum

REG - UW Psychology Research Experiences Group

• REG Homepage
• Login to SONA
• Participants Information
• Office of Research Ethics (Human) - Guidelines/Policies - Past Term regf Numbers
• Waterloo Copyright
• Psych Web Form Templates by bee
• The department has purchased a license (5 years to Aug 2017) for the Qualtrics Survey Research Suite.
  • UW Psychology Qualtrics Login
  • Online Training Programs
  • You will need an access code for your account which you can get from your advisor, Bill or Carlos.

Also of interest to Researchers

• UW Office of Research
• NSERC --- SSHRC --- MRC --- NRC --- AUCC --- Community of Science

Bill's Answers to Occasionally Asked Questions

...about local stuff:

• Nexus
  • Psych Nexus Notes - including where to store things, how to setup printers (printer drivers), recovering stuff from backups, and reminders to not store things on your desktop. Here's some links to some of the sections:
    1. Storage Space
    2. Printing (printer setup and default)
    3. Printing Problems (w/ delete/re-add a printer)
    4. Printing from wireless
    5. Backups and Restoring Files/Folders
    6. Avoid storing files or folders on the Desktop
    7. No Recycle Bin
    8. Accessing Your Nexus Files From Elsewhere
    9. Quick Fixes
  • Nexus passwords can be changed at the WatIAM page (WatIAM and Nexus passwords are now synced). I'd recommend to do the password change while not logged into your account so feel free to stop by my or Carlos' office. If you do change your password, remember to update smartphones, tablets, laptops which might be logging in automatically to Eduroam - potentially, if they have the wrong password, you may be locked out of your account due to failed password attempts against your userid (a safety feature to prevent people from breaking into your account by trying a large number of passwords on your account).
• Finding People
  • Here's the UW Departmental Telephone Directory and UW White Pages. WatIAM also allows you to quickly find email addresses, phone numbers, etc. of faculty, staff and students at UW.
  • Canadian Universities - US University Pages - North American University Phone Books
  • YellowPages.ca
  • IAF - Internet Address Finder
  • InfoSpace
  • Canadian Postal Code Lookup Service
• Library Resources
  • UW Library Web Site.
  • Tim Ireland (tireland@uwaterloo.ca, x35061) is the Liaison Librarian for Psychology and will be available for consultation every Wednesday morning in PAS 2048. from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PsycINFO
  • e-Journals
  • Lib of Congress
  • Libweb
  • Scholarly Societies Project
  • Here's a link to do a Medline Search and a link to Medline Plus
  • ERIC (login as 'ERIC').
  • Other libraries can be found at Libweb.
  • UW booklook
  • NACSIS Webcat
  • RefWorks resources: login -- Guide -- Tutorial -- Importing -- Download Write-N-Cite (already installed on all Nexus stations)
• Course Related and Marking
  • LEARN ---- Learn Help Site ----iThenticate FAQ
  • UW Undergraduate Studies Academic Calendar
  • UW Graduate Studies Academic Calendar
  • Use Exambook for Marks Management or ExamProc OMR Exam Scoring - Jan Willwerth (jan@uwaterloo.ca, PAS 2021, x32376) will be able to answer all your questions.
  • UWaterlooPsych's YouTube Channel
• UW Computing, Hardware and Software
  • Please peruse: University of Waterloo policies, procedures, and statements relating to information security --- Policy 8 - Information Security FAQ --- Policy 8 - Information Security --- Information Security for Research --- Statement on Use of UW Computing and Network Resources --- ACO Account Usage Policy --- Computer Security Incident Response Procedure
  • Here's some information about upcoming IST Training. Be sure to take advantage of the IST Online Course Materials.
  • UW Software Licensing includes information on SPSS, and Symantec EndPoint (SEP, antivirus) Additional local software sources (free SEP, free Win7 for students, etc) can be found at Software for Students and IST Available Software. One copy of MS Office is also available for grads to purchase for a personal machine (with some restrictions, primarily that it must be the same version as what you have in your office) for $15 - just stop by the IST Chip in MC 1052 for the DVD and a unique license code. Alternatively, you can also purchase MS Office licenses directly from MS.
  • IST Software Application Contacts.
  • Dell - UW pricing page
  • Changing your campus passwords:
    • WatIAM - passwords for Quest, Nexus, Connect (OWA), mailservices, HRinfo, Learn and watarts.
    • artsservices and a few other servers on campus - login to the Server where you want to change your password, then click 'Password' at the left.
  • BlackBerry Purchases and Plans
  • Campus Tech Shop
  • Media.doc is apparently what used to be UW Graphics and might also be known as "New Media Services". This used to be UW Graphics - I'm not sure why they decided to change the name. Anyway, they handle posters, flyers, colour laser printing, theis binding, etc.
  • Here's info on the UW Campus Network.
  • To connect to the campus wireless network, use Eduroam (here's some troubleshooting tips - be sure to login with "youruserid@uwaterloo.ca"). Eduroam will also allow you to use wireless at other universities.
  • Campus Wireless Guidelines and Wireless - what you need to know - contact Carlos or myself for problems in the department so that we can coordinate the reporting of problems.
  • UW VPN Service
  • Sendit is a service for transferring files when email is not appropriate, whether because of file size, file type or concerns over security.
  • What to do in the event of a power outage.
• Additional UW Info
  • Undergraduate Students - Important Dates
  • List of University Holidays
• E-Prime
  • We have a site license for E-Prime and MEL from Psychology Software Tools which allows us to install the packages on any dept owned machine.
  • Resources: E-Prime Product Info -- E-Prime Knowledge Base -- E-Prime YouTube Channel -- Jake's E-Prime Tutorial -- E-Prime Google Group -- Archives of E-Prime -- E-Prime Resource Page -- E-Prime Scripts -- Video on Creating A Simple Experiment In E-Prime (among other things) - you may need to right-click and Save Link As..., and double-click. -- How to Import E-Prime Data into SPSS -- Advice on how to use E-Prime in time-critical experiments
  • Alternatively, you might also consider purchasing SuperLab or PsyScope.
  • The Dark Side of Overdrive contains some useful display time tests.
• Misc
  • Waterloo Copyright FAQ
  • UW's Audio Visual Centre allows you to search for film/videos available on campus among other things.
  • Using Campus Voice Mail (i.e., how to work the phones) and UW Telephone Services. Also, how to set up E-mail notification of new voicemail messages.
  • How to solve Windows 7 crashes in minutes
  • How To Encrypt a Folder Using TrueCrypt

...mostly about computer stuff:

• World Wide Web
  • Start with Google for searches or to search by categories, go to YAHOO! or YAHOO! Canada.
  • Peruse -- W3Schools -- HTML Goodies -- HTML Code Tutorial -- HTML Reference -- Introduction to HTML -- Web Authoring FAQ -- HTML Dog -- HTML converters -- YAHOO's WWW index -- What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
  • On-line editors: -- Online-HTML-Editor.org -- Quackit Online HTML Editor -- Real Time HTML Editor -- Online HTML Editor -- Real-time HTML Editor
  • Validate and test with: -- W3C HTML Validation Service -- Weblint Gateway -- Test your web design in different browsers -- WebWait
  • A few other search engines aside from the ones listed at the top: Excite, Ask Jeeves, WayBackMachine, Internet Search. Check also Search Engine Watch for others.
  • Other useful tools: -- WooRank, WebMasterEyes.com, aboutURL, ColorJack
  • Locations from: Sam Spade, Geobytes IP Address Locator Tool, WhatIsMyIPAddress.com, IP Location Finder
  • Check for dead links with W3C Link Checker or Link Validation Spider.
• On-Line Tools
  • FlockDraw - share a text pad, draw and chat
  • Hackpad - easy twiki thingy
  • Age Calculator
  • SnipShot - Edit pictures online
  • PDF Online and ExpressPDF - to convert Word documents to PDF
  • PDF on-line form filler
  • convert XPS to PDF
  • Writely - The Web Word Processor
  • Media Converter
  • Online converter - convert video, images, audeio and documents for free
  • Pixlr - image editor
  • Free OCR
  • timeanddate.com - format and print a calendar
• Archives and Help for UNIX, Mac, DOS and Windows
  • Here's Microsoft and Apple
  • Microsoft Windows Update is an easy way to update your Windows system software, but be sure to use only IE 4 or later (not Netscape). Here's additional details on WindowsUpdate and how to get up to speed.
  • Learn UNIX in 10 minutes -- Introduction to UNIX for Web Developers -- Unix Tutorials -- Unix Toolbox -- Linux-Unix cheat sheets . And I have my own The Quickest and Dirtiest Introduction to UNIX Ever.
  • Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes
  • Perl
  • PHP Programming Basics
  • JavaScript Guide JavaScript Source
  • The Pico text editor is a pretty simply editor for people just getting started with UNIX, but if you have more serious file editting to do, you might want to use vi. You'll need to read documentation for vi before you start, so peruse: Mastering the VI editor --- Vi Lovers Home Page -- vi survival guide -- vi/vim cheat sheet -- Vim Tips Wiki -- Best of Vim Tips -- 100 Vim commands
  • Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - Gimp Complete Tutorials - Gimp Tutorials
• Virus Info
  • Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
  • VirusTotal allows you to upload a file and it is checked against a bunch of visrus checking programs.
  • Computer Virus Information and Resources Page
  • F-Secure Virus Info
  • Sensible Security Solutions
  • Sophos Virus Information
  • Getvirushelp.com
  • IST's Virus Info Page
  • Java 0day countdown - ceck if Java enabled in your browser.
• Hoax Info
  • If you are reporting spam or phishing attempts, in addition to the body of the email, please also include the internet header lines which won't be included if you simply forward the message. What can you find in an Email Header?
  • Everyone should read How to Spot an Email Hoax.
  • Then there's snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Page and Vmyths.com and HoaxKill and Hoax News and Virus Busters and Quatloos Cyber-Museum of Scams and Frauds My personal favourite is the Honour System Virus.
• Email and Fighting Spam
  
  • Official Student Email Address
  • Recognize and chuck phishing emails.
  • To set up whitelists/blacklists or adjust your spam settings on mailservices Home, click "Spamassassin" then "Update your preferences". Entering "*@uwaterloo.ca" would include all userids from uwaterloo.ca.
    • You can also check for message to you that were chucked.
  • Dealing with Junk Email.
• Fighting Spyware and Other Annoyances
  • Dealing with Malware
  • A Quick Guide for Eliminating Spyware and Hijacker Software
  • Browser Hijacking & How to Stop It
• Home Networking
  • Setting up a home network
  • Share files and printers across your network
  • The Digital Home - Networking Two PC's
  • Changes to Rogers email setup
  • Email Security - set your email up like this at home.
  • speedtest.net
  • 10 tips for improving your wireless network
  • Local Computer Recycling Donations (personally owned stuff only, UW owned equipment must go thru the UW Surplus process)
  • Eco-Tech Recycling Waterloo - drop off, free of charge
• Security
  • How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords
  • Password Checker
  • The Password Meter
• Stats
  • Don't ask me about stats - I don't know nutin' 'bout no stats... Erin Harvey is the Arts Faculty Stats Consultant and can be reached at epharvey@uwaterloo.ca, x36505, MC 6093. The IST Data Analysis and Decision Support person is Jennifer Keir of IST (jkeir@uwaterloo.ca, x33055, MC 2019) who will help you will using any of the various stats packages used on campus.
  • UW has licensing which allows SPSS and AMOS to be purchased on UW owned machines on a yearly basis (licenses expires the end of December each year). IST also offers a SPSS Student Pack, but I'd stay away from that since it doesn't inlcude the Advanced Modules which folks around seem to require. The grad pack can be purchased from http://www.onthehub.com/spss/ for various time periods. This is for students personal use only and it can't be purchased by faculty members and can't be installed on UW owned machines.
  • IST's Math & Statistical Page
  • UW Stats Consulting Service
  • SPSS Inc.
    • selected articles from the SPSS Keywords magazine
    • for patches, etc, login to SPSS Tech Support using the userid/password guest/guest.
    • SPSS Handouts
    • Video of SPSS Techniques (among other things)
  • free alternative: R Project -- Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R
• Misc
  • AltaVista Translations - FreeTranslation.com - Applied Language
  • The Original World's Cheapest Optical Mousepad
  • Screen Cleaner
  • Here's a Computing Dictionary and the useful whatis.com.
  • And if all else fails, you might want to look at the List of USENET FAQs.

There. I guess the above items effectively makes the consulting portion of my job obsolete...

Remote Psychology Links

• Psychology links in YAHOO!
• Psychology in Canada
• Psychology Departments Worldwide
• APA - APS - CPA
• Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS)
• CSIOP - Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• TENNET - Theoretical & Experimental Neuropsychology
• Electronic Journals and Periodicals

Local UW Information

• UW Psychology Home Page
  • WORC
• UW Graduate Studies Office
• Faculty of Arts
• Arts Computing Office (ACO) - Guidelines for Appropriate Use of Computing Facilities
• UW News
• UW directives and other computing-related documents
• Official and unofficial UW documents concerning things like storm closings procedures, computing policies and general continuing interest documents can be found on the UW Docs page.
• The Centre for Teaching Excellence
• UW Co-operative Education Dept
• UW Centre for Career Action
• Daily Bulletin - Current Campus happenings.
• Computational Epistemology Lab
• The Warrior Wiki

Newsgroups

Stuff

Test files: Long mpeg ---- short mpeg ---- Fred gif ---- .mp3 Sound file ---- .au Sound file ---- .wav Sound file ---- .mov QT file ---- .avi file ---- Real Audio ---- PDF file ---- PS file ---- fillable PDF file ---- Flash Examples (bottom of page)

Hey Roxane, James, Myra and Mathieu!!! Renew or purchase your Matlab user licenses here. Licenses are for the calendar year with a grace period extending into the following April.
Hey Walter!!! ---- Outlook setup
Hey Bob E!!! ---- sci.electronics.repair FAQ ---- sci.electronics.repair Computer and Video Monitors FAQ ---- Interfacing to the IBM-PC Parallel Printer Port ---- Interfacing the Parallel Port ---- Serial Port Central ---- fixyourownprinter.com
Hey Christine!!! Use this password generator and tell people to add a couple punctuation marks in the middle of what is given - eg. -_=+@#:;. Also, here's a Password Checker.
Hey Dept!!! ---- Departmental Listing of Support Staff Position Descriptions ---- Word mail merge: A walk through the process ---- Zenbook Launches: Does It Beat the MacBook Air? [VIDEO] ---- Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
Hey Louise!!! OnBase
Hey Ori!!! Here's your UW Child Cognition Lab WIKI.
Hey Heather and Theresa!!! Here's WatIAM and something to help Forward Class Lists.
Hey Carlos, Waleed and Affan!!! Here's psychdb ---- Twiki ---- ONA ---- some install notes ---- Nexus List ---- Nexus List by room ---- Nexus Rooms ---- Printer List ---- error-list ---- last seen on network ---- ONA Status ---- Last Known Machine OU ---- Retrospect Summary ---- network test ---- Computer questions and answers ---- Computer Hardware Chart ---- password generator ---- VirusTotal ---- SEP Tech Notes ---- beeHive Flash
Hey me!!! ---- InfoBlox ---- Infoblox Help Page ---- IST RT ---- audit ---- Tuque ---- Arts mailing list ---- jazz SEP Manager ---- whereami ---- Reset Nexus Profile ---- CDW ---- HP LaserJet 4M Printer - How to Prevent Multifeeds ---- FORE ---- Green Form ---- msicuu2.exe ---- Matlab License Info ---- Nexus Documentation Project ---- show .forward files ---- WhatIsThatFile.com ---- Check Flash Player version ---- Artsfaculty password change ---- ONA port errors ---- How to get files off an unfinalized DVD-Video disk using free software ---- move windows with keyboard ---- PSR - Problem Steps Recorder ---- 10 Windows 7 commands every administrator should know ---- Holy Mackinaw ---- Champs 2011
Hey Nadine!!! Convert video to MP4
Hey Poolsters!!! Here's the Past beeHive Pool Winners.

P.S. Most people in our department use this as a starting page for their web browser - it's a little long because its designed as an OSAUTFBAL (One Stop And Use The [Find] Button A Lot) resource :-).

Contact

Bill Eickmeier Computer Systems Manager and Research Programmer University of Waterloo Department of Psychology 200 University Ave. W Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 bee@uwaterloo.ca Room: PAS 4008 Voice: 1-519-888-4567 x36638 FAX: 1-519-746-8631 URL: http://beehive.uwaterloo.ca/

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