Frequently Asked Questions at the Natural Language Systems Divison

The FAQ at NATS is a collection of problems (and solutions to these problems) that may be interesting for more than just a single user. In order to make out lives easy all the tricks should be collected and shared among the users.

NatsWiki FAQs

1. Changes are not visible. Answer...
2. How do I create a new web for a project on the NatsWiki site? Answer...
3. Can I write colored text? Answer...
4. How can I write fixed font text? Answer...
5. How do I create a heading? Answer...
6. How do I make a separator? Answer...
7. How do I create tables? Answer...
8. How do I delete or rename a topic? Answer...
9. Why does the topic revision not increase when I edit a topic? Answer...
10. What do BTW, FAQ, FYI, IMHO, RTFM, and other acronyms mean? Answer...
11. TWiki has a GPL (GNU General Public License). What is GPL? Answer...
12. Can I include images on a page? Answer...
13. Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is? Answer...
14. I've problems with the WebSearch. There is no Search Result on any inquiry. By clicking the Index topic it's the same problem. Answer...
15. What happens if two of us try to edit the same topic simultaneously? Answer...
16. Text enclosed in angle brackets like <filename> is not displayed. How can I show it as it is? Answer...
17. I would like to install TWiki on my server. Can I get the source? Answer...
18. So what is this WikiWiki thing exactly? Answer...
19. Everybody can edit any page, this is scary. Doesn't that lead to chaos? Answer...
20. What is WikiSpam? Answer...
21. Some words appear highlighted, with a "?" link at the end. How can I prevent that? Answer...

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Security FAQs

1. How do I change my password? What kind of passwords should I use? Answer...
2. How can I access the NATS cluster from the internet? I want to TELNET to a NATS computer and don't know how. Hey, FTP used to work but not any longer! Answer...
3. Why are the system administrators so picky about passwords? My data isn't that secret anyway! Answer...
4. What is the POP3 protocol? How can I improve the security while still using the POP3 protocol? What is APOP? I want to use Eudora, Netscape etc. to read my mail at NATS. What do I have to consider? I want to read my mail for a remote host (home, holiday, research stay, etc.). Is there anything I have to thing about? Answer...
5. Who can read my files? Who can write them? How do I allow another user to access my files? Answer...
6. How do I use GPG? Answer...

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Printing FAQs

1. How do I get rid of my print jobs? Answer...
2. How to print large A0 format posters? Answer...
3. How to print large format postcript files on A4 printers? Answer...
4. How can I print buffers from XEmacs without a header? Answer...
5. I want my documents (e. g. slides) printed single-sided! And I want to use the manual feed! Answer...
6. How to print from applications (eg. netscape) in KDE? Answer...

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LaTeX FAQs

1. What are the common entry types in bibtex? Answer...

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Sound FAQs

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EMail FAQs

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WWW & Html FAQs

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Coding FAQs

1. What's the difference between subversion and CVS? Answer...
2. How do i use DMalloc? Answer...

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Misc FAQs

1. How do I create a screen-shot? Answer...

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