The main computers for the course will be the machines of the
Undergraduate CS Labs in Hylan 301.
These machines are currently high-end Dell PCs running Fedora 9
(kernel 2.6.25) (i.e. Red Hat Linux).
Sign-up for accounts will occur the first day of class.
Click here if you were absent.
Remote X clients (WebTermX for PCs and eXodus for Macs) may now be
available on all public machines on campus, and are available free of
charge to all ResNet users. I guess you can talk to the IT people
in RRL about all this.
The cycle servers for remote access are multiprocessors named
If you are relatively new to Unix, you should read through the
introductory material on another page.
Students with accounts
in the CS research labs may elect to work there instead, but course
software will be maintained only on the CSUG network.
We use Blackboard for
general announcements, newsgroups and
programming assignment submission.
Often your questions or discoveries while exploring these various
software systems will be of interest to everyone, so using discussion
groups for questions
and answers is a great idea.
As of 8/23/09 the URL I'm using is
Blackboard Main Page.
Computers and Remote Access
cycle1.csug.rochester.edu
,
cycle2.csug.rochester.edu
,
and
cycle3.csug.rochester.edu
.
Please make connections to these, not to the machines with
displays.
Blackboard