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CUED Frequently Asked Questions
This page is primarily about accessing the World Wide Web for reading.
Other pages deal with
producing WWW documents and
the WWW for admin staff. See the
WWW index for details.
On the central system Firefox is installed (which has a help menu). lynx is installed too, and
can be used on text-only terminals - a Computer Services
leaflet
describing its use is online (or type "?" withing lynx).
All browsers in the Department should be configured to use the
Department's
cache
(the Teaching System versions are set up to do this).
By default on the Teaching System, some features are disabled. Enabling
them (or, on other systems, ActiveX) may risk security
problems.
acroread and xpdf are installed
for
PDF (Acrobat) files.
Web Browsers (programs like Internet Explorer, etc)
have many options and features that you can choose to enable. The more
you enable, the more risk you're taking. It might be wise to disable
java, Javascript and especially ActiveX by
default, enabling them for the pages that require them.
Mail webadmin@eng if you can't
find the information you want online.
