Henrik in Seattle

Computer Account at UW

August 20th, 2005

After receiving a letter with a student number and some other info, I was able to create a computer account (called a UWNetID) at UW. It was really quick and painless. That means I've also got a new email address, namely jernevad.REMOVE@u.washington.edu. A nice feature is that I was able to choose username myself (I think "jernevad" is a little bit better than the "henrij2″ which it suggested as default value )

I am actually quite impressed by the computer system at UW. Almost everything seems to be configurable from a web interface. To name a few things, I can turn on/off different services such as e-mail forwarding, personal web page, an account which allows me to publish streaming media, remote access (ssh) accounts, dial-up account for off-campus access and much more. Everything has been very easy to setup and works just perfect. The mail server is encrypted (both incoming and outgoing). There is a LDAP directory server which makes the full University of Washington "address book" available to me in [Thunderbird->http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]. Within the [MyUW->http://myuw.washington.edu/] portal (counterpart to Chalmer's [Study Portal->http://www.student.chalmers.se/]) I can see my personal schedule and how much money I have left on my housing and food services card. There is even a weather forecast available.

Entry Filed under: Preparations, Studies