Hokie Stalker
Hokie Stalker is the name given by Virginia Tech students to the university directory.
Contents
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". This can be handy for databases like Virginia Tech People Search (colloquially known as "Hokie Stalker"; to suppress information visit Profile Visibility after logging in via CAS) and the library database Addison.
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.