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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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Robotics |
Spring 2009 |
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Course Announcements
The Computer Science EdLab is located in LGRT 224 and is open
starting February 2 at 9:00. The current hours are:
M-Th 9:00AM-10:00PM, Fri 9:00AM-5:00PM, Sat 1PM-5:00PM, Sun 1PM-10:00PM.
Of course you can connect remotely to these machines around the clock.
The EdLab includes Linux workstations (elnux0 - elnux34),
and Windows machines (edwin0 - edwin19). If you have trouble with the
edlab, see the edlab homepage for important information:
http://www-edlab.cs.umass.edu/
All students in the class have an account. Most usernames will be the first
character of your first name appended by their lastname (truncated to 8
characters). For example, I would be rgrupen (for Rod Grupen).
If this combination is not unique, you will need to get your username from my
class roster. If you registered late, then your account may be late as
well. Your initial passwords will be your 8 digit assigned Student ID
numbers (unless you had an account last semester, then it will be
whatever you set it to last semester).
Each student has a home directory on the grad partition.
Your login will source the course .login
(/courses/cs600/cs603/cs603/.login) and you will also have links to the courses
that you take. Type "cd cs603" to get to /courses/cs600/cs603, this is where
you should do all your cs603 work
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Your directory has group access
only (cs603). All the common course related material goes in
/courses/cs600/cs603/cs603 directory. If you have trouble getting files from
there it probably means that I screwed up the protection again - send me mail
and I'll fix it.
There is a mailing list for CMPSCI 603 that goes to everyone in the class.
You may send mail to cs603@edlab-mail.cs.umass.edu. There is also an
edlab broadcast mailing list for all accounts in the edlab -
broadcast@edlab-mail.cs.umass.edu - but use it with discretion.
Unfortunately, there are too many students and too few printers for
everyone to print all the notes (let alone the on-line text). Your accounts
have disk and printer quotas setup (300 pages initially + 200 pages per class).
If you have access to a good printer other than those in the EdLab, then you
may print to your hearts content.
The modem phone number is 545-3700 (or if on campus 5-4700).
If you have technical problems, send mail to system@cs.umass.edu.
You can also get software via ftp at edlab-ftp.cs.umass.edu. Log in as
anonymous. From there, "cd /pub/cs603." Get everything from there.
You may have to fix paths in the makefile that compiles the code. Directions
regarding other files that need to be altered will be given with each homework assignment. Don't edit files indiscriminately or you may break the simulator
and need to start over.
Have fun!
The EdLab
EdLab FTP site
We will use the edlab servers to distribute simulator software, etc.
To compile and run the simulators remotely, you will need
access to a Unix (Linux) machine with X windows.
grupen "at" cs "dot" umass "dot" edu