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'''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 [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].
==Commandline Hokie Stalker==
=Privacy Settings=
==Managing via MyVT==
Privacy settings can be controlled from MyVT:
[https://auth.vt.edu/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.vt.edu%2FLogin%3FuP_fname%3Dattribute-suppression].
==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=
* [[Searching]]
=Links=
* [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech | People Search]
* [[ud:Hokie Stalker|Urban Dictionary entry]]
=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 [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].
==Commandline Hokie Stalker==
=Privacy Settings=
==Managing via MyVT==
Privacy settings can be controlled from MyVT:
[https://auth.vt.edu/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.vt.edu%2FLogin%3FuP_fname%3Dattribute-suppression].
==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=
* [[Searching]]
=Links=
* [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech | People Search]
* [[ud:Hokie Stalker|Urban Dictionary entry]]
