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August 28, 2008 Here is
the website for the WSU ACM chapter. Also,
in yesterday’s lecture I failed you horribly, I forgot one key slide at the
end. Here
it is (lets hope that it is prophetic). Have a great Labor Day weekend, see you next
Wednesday. (Um, we
don’t have classes on Friday, as one person asked at the end. I even got a form letter from the marching
band director asking to excuse one student Friday, I guess Dr. Hower’s
software does not handle MW classes!) August 27, 2008 Today
in the first part of the lecture we will have a guest, Loren Hoffman,
President of the WSU Linux User’s Group (LUG). He will talk about Linux distributions,
dual booting Linux and Windoze, and upcoming LUG events. He will answer a lot of questions, and let
you know other places you can get help in getting a Linux setup going on your
laptop and/or home desktop. After
this, we will start on the Basic Commands in Unix/Linux. In the
first lecture I mentioned a little bit about my background. What I forgot to mention is that I have a
very active research program in distributed computing,
particularly publish-subscribe middleware for the power grid (GridStat). If you are curious, you can look at the
posters outside my lab, ETRL 309 (which is kind of behind Dana Hall; you get
to the 3rd floor of ETRL by a footbridge from the 1st
floor of EME). Note:
there is NO class next Monday (September 2) due the Labor Day holiday. Um, I hope you already knew that, but just
in case you have to be told here it is… if you do show up, enjoy the company
of the others who will share the sheepish look on your face. August 25, 2008 Welcome to the Fall, 2008 semester. Whenever there is an update to the site, an interesting item to link to, or any sort of news update relating to the class, it will appear on this blog. Today we will go through the course syllabus and Introduction. |
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