SSC News, May, 1993 =================== Contents: Summer Consulting Schedule Dan Popowich to Present Special Tape Brownbag Marcia Hazen to Present PATHWORKS Brownbag New SSC publications CDE2S Upgraded to Sparc 10 FAQ on UNIX This is the SSC News. This monthly electronic newsletter will keep you informed about recent changes on the SSC computer networks. We hope this new source of information will help improve communication between the SSC computing staff and all of you computer users out there. TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS NEWSLETTER, just reply to this mail message indicating you want to unsubscribe. We will remove you from the distribution list for future electronic mailings. If you ever change your mind, just notify the SSC Consultant or send mail to SSCNEWS asking to get back on the list. -------------------------- Summer Consulting Schedule -------------------------- This summer, the SSC will be testing out some changes to the Consulting services we offer. There will be fewer staff consulting hours offered in room 2470 each week. The new schedule will have staff in the consulting office from 10 am until 3 pm daily. One reason for this change is to allow the consulting office (not the entire terminal room) to be reserved by instructors or teaching assistants to hold office hours during the day to provide support to students who use the SSC computers as part of their class work. The consulting service has always been used in large part via electronic mail. The new staffing arrangement will still allow users to send e-mail at any time of the day. Late in the workday (between 4 and 5 pm), a staff member will monitor any outstanding mail messages so that questions requiring an immediate answer will not be left until the following day. You may make appointments with any SSC consultant for help on specific problems which require their expertise. Nancy McDermott holds regular office hours in Soc. Sci. 4406 for statistical consulting from 2-4 on Tuesdays and 9-11 on Fridays. Note also that the 11-12 time period in 2470 is staffed every day by our tape experts: if you need help using tapes, that is an excellent time to come to Consulting. If you are an instructor or teaching assistant for a Sociology class which requires work on SSC computers, you are encouraged to reserve the consulting office between 8-10 am or 3-5 pm in order to provide computing help to your students. Please contact Nancy McDermott to reserve the room and find out about procedures for using it. CONSULTING SCHEDULE - SUMMER 1993 | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | ============================================================================ 8:00-10:00| CONSULTANT'S OFFICE AVAILABLE FOR RESERVE USE | ============================================================================ 10:00-11:00| Nancy | Janet | Beth | Janet | Dan | | McDermott | Clear | Wiebusch | Clear | Popowich | ------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|-----------| 11:00-12:00| Anne | Anne | Cindy | Cindy | Cheryl | | Cooper | Cooper | Lew | Lew | Knobeloch | ------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|-----------| 12:00-1:00 | Jeff | Marcia | Jeff | Bruce | Jeff | | Hayes | Hazen | Hayes | Ruzicka | Hayes | ------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|-----------| 1:00-2:00 | Jeff | Stephanie | Jeff | J. | Jeff | | Hayes | Fassnacht | Hayes | Dixon | Hayes | ------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|-----------| 2:00-3:00 | Jeff | Stephanie | Jeff | Elliott | Jeff | | Hayes | Fassnacht | Hayes | Long | Hayes | ------------|-----------|------------|------------|------------|-----------| 3:00-5:00 | CONSULTANT'S OFFICE AVAILABLE FOR RESERVE USE | ============================================================================ Note that Consulting, offices and libraries will be closed for the following upcoming holidays: May 31 (Monday), July 5 (Monday), and Sept 6 (Monday). --------------------------------------------- Dan Popowich to Present Special Tape Brownbag --------------------------------------------- Dan Popowich will hold an informal brownbag session for users to ask UNIX questions. This will be an excellent opportunity for users new to UNIX who were unable to attend Dan's four-week training session earlier this semester. The seminar will be held Monday, May 17, 1993 from 12:00-1:00 in Soc. Sci. 8101. See you there, and don't forget your lunch! ------------------------------------------ Marcia Hazen to Present PATHWORKS Brownbag ------------------------------------------ Marcia Hazen will once again present her ever popular brownbag session overviewing PATHWORKS. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions. The seminar will be held Wednesday, May 26, 1993 from 12:00-1:00 in the IRP Conference Room (Soc. Sci. 3432). Mark your calendars because this is definitely an event you won't want to miss! -------------------- New SSC publications -------------------- The following new publication is available for SSC users: Using GLIM on UNIX. Copies are available in 2470 Social Science. -------------------------- CDE2S Upgraded to Sparc 10 -------------------------- The old cde2s (a sparc 2) was swapped out for a new cde2s (a sparc 10/30) April 26. Theoretically, there should be no difference between the two except performance. The new box has the same ip and decnet addresses and is serving all the same disks. Users can still use cde2s to run all the same software. However, at some point in the near future when we upgrade to a sparc 10/52, we will be forced to go to a new version of the operating system (from Solaris 1.1 to Solaris 2.1) at which point no software we have now will operate without recompiles or new versions. Hopefully, the time between upgrading the OS and receiving new versions of sas, spss, etc., will be minimal. cde2s currently has 128MB of memory and has the potential of hosting 20 disks. In the future it will host the optical disk juke box system which can hold 20GB! ----------- FAQ on UNIX ----------- Many FAQ (answers to Frequently Asked Questions) from various News groups are installed on UNIX. Look in /usr/global/doc for these FAQ: Anonymous-FTP.FAQ Anonymous-FTP.files Anonymous-FTP.sites Emacs.FAQ Email-addresses.FAQ Unix-QA TeX/* Also in this directory are helpful factoids about using our UNIX computers. Peruse this directory from time to time for new goodies.