UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference
The UMBC Game Developer's Club is hosting a special, free
event in LH5 from 11-5 this Saturday, April 29, on careers in
the interactive entertainment industry.
Sid Meier, the founder and creative director of Firaxis, will
be a featured speaker. Meier is the programmer and designer
of some of the most commercially and critically successful
computer games of all time including Civilization, Pirates and
Railroad Tycoon.
In the morning you can learn how to create a job winning
portfolio from Seth Spaulding, the Art Director of Firaxis. In
the afternoon, hear speakers from Baltimore area game
companies on all aspects of game development, art,
programming, production and game design. The presentations
include
- Iterative Design: Finding the Fun, Early and Often, Sid
Meier - Creative Director, Firaxis
- Creating an effective portfolio, Seth Spaulding - Art
Director, Firaxis
- Game Production: Herding Cats, Dan Magaha - Producer,
Firaxis
- Game Production: Herding More Cats, Barry Caudill,
Executive Producer, Firaxis
- Tools for Game Development, Katie Hirsch - Programmer and
Artist, Breakaway Games
- Software Engineering, Ryan Mcfall - Programmer, Day 1 Studios
This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in
getting an insider's view of the game industry. For more information,
visit the UMBC Game Developer's Club
Linux Installfest
The UMBC Computer Science Council of Majors is sponsoring
a Linux Installfest on Saturday March 11. If you have a
laptop or computer that you would like to install Linux
on and are unsure what to do, you can bring it to the
installfest and get lots of help.
The Installfest will take place on Saturday, March 11th, from 1 PM to
6 PM in the ECS Atrium. If you're hoping to do a dual-boot together with
Windows, please defrag your hard drives and make a backup of the most
important data (since foobars do happen). Also, it's a good idea to show up
before 4:30 PM because otherwise we might not have enough time to finish the
installation.
Your Quota
Keep an eye on your quota!! Each user is
given a certain amount of disk space (100MB) on the GL
network. If you exceed this disk space, we cannot send
you email (i.e. project grades) and you can't create files (i.e. project files)
To check your quota, at
the linux prompt, type:
<![CDATA[
linux3[16]% quota -v
Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition
user.dforna1 75000 55198 74% 69%
]]>
This will show how much disk space your are using.
If the percentage used is approaching 100%, you
need to clean up your account. This can be done
by typing the following at the linux prompt:
<![CDATA[
linux3[17]% oitcleaner
This is the cleaner that we want
Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition
user.dforna1 250000 55198 74% 69%
**** Start Quota ****
**** Start: Cleaning Internet Files ****
find: /afs/umbc.edu/users/d/f/dforna1/home/.2kprofile/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles: No such file or directory
**** Done: Cleaning Internet Files ****
**** Start: Cleaning Misc. Files ****
find: No match.
rm: remove `/afs/umbc.edu/users/d/f/dforna1/home/file.c~'? y
rm: No match.
rm: No match.
rm: No match.
rm: No match.
**** Done: Cleaning Misc. Files ****
**** Finding Large Files ****
rm: remove `/afs/umbc.edu/users/d/f/dforna1/home/cs104FA01.tar.gz'? n
rm: remove `/afs/umbc.edu/users/d/f/dforna1/home/gifs/menu3.gif'? y
rm: remove `/afs/umbc.edu/users/d/f/dforna1/home/gifs/menu3.bmp'? y
**** Finished ****
Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition
user.dforna1 250000 52913 71% 69%
**** End Quota ****
]]>
This script will clear out some unnecessary files in your
account. It will also ask you if you want to delete any
large files it finds. You must answer either y or n
when it prompts you to remove. Make sure to remove any files
named core.[followed by four digits].
For more information about your quota,
visit the following OIT Web site:
http://www.umbc.edu/oit/sans/helpdesk/afs/afs_disk_quota.htm
.emacs
EMACS -- when emacs (or xemacs) begins, it looks for
and reads a file named .emacs in
your home directory to obtain configuration information.
Save the CS201 recommended version of the .emacs file (note
the leading "dot") in your Unix home directory to get the
following features:
- Automtic formatting in accordance
with the CS201 coding style standard
- A working backspace key. Backspace
will now delete to the left of the cursor instead
of invoking "help". It also remaps CTL-X? to be
the new "help" key.
The .emacs file is publicly available in the directory
<![CDATA[/afs/umbc.edu/users/s/b/sbogar1/pub]]>
To copy the file, 'cd' to your home directory and type
the command
<![CDATA[cp /afs/umbc.edu/users/s/b/sbogar1/pub/.emacs .]]>
Don't forget the dot (.) at the end... it means copy the
file to the current directory.
Enjoy!
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