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The Fall 2002 semester is over.

Computer Lab

Overview

  • Location: 111 Cory: Multimedia Lab. It's across the street from Soda Hall.
  • Open Hours: 7:30 am – 6:30 pm weekdays. To gain access after hours, you will need a cardkey.
  • Equipment: Six Apple PowerMac G4 computers (each with 1.5 GB RAM, SuperDrive, 867 MHz CPU, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics card, 80 GB hard drive, and a 250-MB ZIP drive, running MacOSX 10.1), Eight Windows 2000 computers (each with Pentium III 931-MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM, and a 9GB hard drive), an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 photo-quality printer, and scanners (more details).

Each student will gain access to an EECS account, allowing them to log into the UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows 2000 computers in the lab. (For Windows 2000 systems, make sure the "EECS" domain is selected on the login screen.)

In http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html, there is a lot of information about logging into the UNIX systems and connecting to the UNIX home directory while logged into a PC. Information about the software is also available.

Cardkey Information

111 Cory is unlocked when the building is unlocked (7:30am-6:30pm weekdays). The students can get a cardkey from 391 Cory or 387 Soda for access at other times. The card-keys cost $20 ($15 deposit + $5 non-refundable fee). For more information, see the EECS documentation.

Logging In

All students receive instructional account forms containing your username and password.

  • On Macintoshes: Type in your username and password, and click "Log In."
  • On Windows 2000: Type in your username and password. The domain should be "EECS."

Note about Web Storage

There is now a public_html subdirectory in every UNIX/MacOS home directory. Each of these directories is now accessible via the web, for example: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-7ap/.

This page explains how to set up web pages. Students should read their account forms for references.

There is now a directory called public_html/group-share in cs294-7, that is, a directory called ~cs294-7/public_html/group-share . It is accessible on the web as http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-7/group-share. All CS294-7 students can read, write (and delete) files in it.

'group-share' is connected to Win2K logons as "S:". There will be automatic connection when logging into MacOSX, but that may or may not be ready.

Some information about this is available here.

When logging on to Win2K, you will now find 3 directories:

  • the U: drive = your Win2K home dir
  • the M: drive = your UNIX/MacOSX home dir
  • the S: drive = the ~cs294-7/group-share dir

This may or may not yet be enabled for the MacOSX accounts yet. If not, in the meantime, you can use the instructions in "MacOS".

You each have 60MB quotas on Win2K and 40MB on UNIX.
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