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Keyword searches can serve as handy shortcuts. In recent versions of
 
Keyword searches can serve as handy shortcuts. In recent versions of
 
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Firefox, you can simply right-click in a search box and choose to add a
keyword for the search. See the [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords"]. This can be handy for databases like [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech People Search] (colloquially known as "Hokie Stalker"; to suppress information visit [https://my.vt.edu/navigate.jsp?channel=attribute-suppression Profile Visibility] after logging in via [https://auth.vt.edu/login?service=https://my.vt.edu/Login CAS]) and the library database [http://addison.vt.edu/ Addison].
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keyword for the search. See the [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords"].
  
 
==Commandline Hokie Stalker==
 
==Commandline Hokie Stalker==

Revision as of 18:18, 17 November 2009

Hokie Stalker is the name given by Virginia Tech students to the university directory.

Searching the University Directory

Searching with Firefox

Keyword searches can serve as handy shortcuts. In recent versions of Firefox, you can simply right-click in a search box and choose to add a keyword for the search. See the Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords".

Commandline Hokie Stalker

Privacy Settings

Managing via MyVT

Privacy settings can be controlled from MyVT: [1].

Computer Labs

In order to login at the Math Emporium, public visibility of ones PID was once required. This was fixed sometime in 2009 but as of fall 2009, to log in to OSX from computers in the Torgersen computer labs, listing your PID as public is still necessary.

See Also

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