CMSC 201 NEWS

  • Announcements

  • Change in Office Hours Thanksgiving Week

    • Please note that the TAs will be holding office hours earlier in the week than usualy. Below are the times they will hold hours and the times the earlier hours are replacing. Also, the Help Center will close on Wednesday at 2pm and reopen on Monday, Nov. 29 at 10am. 
    

  • "Programming At Home" Lecture
    •  
Dan Hood will be giving a talk next Wednesday, 11/17, during
free hour (1pm - 2pm) in Lecture Hall 7 about improving your
programming environment when working from home.  You can 
read more information about it 
here.  Hope to see you there!

  • Late Project Policy
    • 
There are absolutely no late projects accepted this semester.  This 
was stated very clearly in Lecture.  If you submit your project 
after the deadline, you will receive no credit for it.  This is 
now stated on the Project 
Submission and Grading Policy page to clear up any confusion.  As of 
Project 3, no exceptions will be made for late projects unless you have a 
valid reason.  


  • Linux Installfest 
    • 
From the Linux Users Group (LUG)......

Hear ye, hear ye!  There will be a Linux Installfest on September 12th
from 1 to 6 PM, at which the good geeks of UMBC's Linux Users Group will
be available to put Linux on your PC.  Linux can be installed on your
machine in place of Windows, or along-side it.  The following rules and
suggestions ought to be kept in mind:

* To save time, PLEASE DEFRAGMENT YOUR HARD DRIVE before you come.  This
will shorten your install time by several hours.

* Please, BRING YOUR OWN MONITOR.  We cannot provide monitors for 
everyone.

* The LUG will do all it can to preserve your data, but fubars do happen.
Therefore you should BACK UP YOUR DATA if at all possible.

* The last install will begin at 4:30 PM, so you should come before then.
On a slow computer, installation could take several hours.

Thanks very much, and we hope to see you there.


  • Your Quota 
    • 
 Keep an eye on your quota!!  Each user is 
given a certain amount of disk space (25MB) 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:


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:

linux3[17]% oitcleaner 
This is the cleaner that we want
Volume Name                   Quota      Used %Used   Partition
user.dforna1                  75000     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                  75000     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.  


    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   
   
    /afs/umbc.edu/users/s/b/sbogar1/pub

    
   To copy the file, 'cd' to your home directory and type 
   the command
    
   
    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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