CMSC 201 NEWS

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Project 4 Update

Project 4 was updated at 8:40 a.m. on Wednesday, November 8, to correct some typos. If you downloaded the project and .h file before this, you should get the latest versions.

Talk: Who Wrote This Document?

Dr. Charles Nicholas, the CSEE Department Chair, will give a talk in the Humanities Forum on using information retrieval techniques for authorship attribution problems. This talk is very relevant for our Project 3! The talk will be at 4pm on Wednesday, November 1, in the Library Gallery.

Linux Installfest

There will be a Linux Installfest on Saturday, September 16th in the ENG Atrium from 10 AM to 5 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, KEYBOARD & MOUSE. We cannot provide this equipment.
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 4:00 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 (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: 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 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

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

Don't forget the dot (.) at the end... it means copy the file to the current directory.

Enjoy!

last modified on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2006 08:39:38 EST