Welcome to the Computer Labs of the Departments of Computer Science

And Theoretical and Applied Mathematics

We would like to welcome you to our computer labs, and hope you find them useful and pleasant to use. The labs are available to students taking any course offered by Computer Science or Theoretical and Applied Mathematics. There have been many changes and improvements over the summer, so please read this carefully.

The labs are physically located in the Arts and Sciences Building in the following rooms:

• Rooms 231 and 241 – Teaching Lab. Available to students for general use when classes are not being taught there, but students not in the class must leave before a class begins. Machines are Pentium 4 2.4 ghz which can dual boot between Windows XP and Redhat Linux 9.

• Room 254 – This room will be changed over to a public work area for students with laptops. The UNIX machines are now only accessible remotely via SSH. For using a Linux machine locally in X Windows, please reboot a machine in 231 or 241 into Linux.

The account you have received logs you into both the UNIX and Windows machines. A recent improvement is that when you log into Windows, you get a Z: drive, which is your home directory in UNIX. This gives you a place to store files which will be routinely backed up. Storing files on the Windows machines other than on Z: is done at your own risk. They are formatted routinely. There are no longer separate accounts for Windows and UNIX.

The Arts and Sciences Building is closed on Sundays. To get Sunday access to the labs, please bring a $10 deposit to Jason or Anj during business hours. If you cannot come during business hours, please email us to make arrangements. You will be given a key card for the semester to get in the building on Sundays.

For much more help on using UNIX and working on our systems from home, please see:

http://cs.uakron.edu/unix

Lab information and updates will be posted at:

http://cs.uakron.edu/labs

You are responsible for reading and abiding by the lab rules posted in the labs and at http://cs.uakron.edu/labs/rules.

In the event of problems with lab machines, please let us know – we can’t fix them if we are not aware of them. Please contact:

Jason Bowling (330) 972-7130 jbowling@cs.uakron.edu

Anjanette O’Rourke (330) 972-8127 anj@cs.uakron.edu

Thank you, and we hope you enjoy using the labs!