Resources
General
- Glue Research and Academic Computing Environment (http://www.grace.umd.edu)
- Unix tutorial
- GNU Make manual
- GDB and emacs tutorial
- GDB quick reference sheet, and manual
- POSIX Threads
- OIT UNIX system docs
- OIT computer labs
- OIT print accounts
- If you're using Windows, you can download a version of SSH, Tera Term SSH, from OIT's website.
There is also a link there to the WinSCP FTP client. If you prefer, you can download the putty
SSH client.
You need an ssh client to connect to the Grace systems for class use, and you need an ftp client to move files between your machine and the Grace systems. Note that you have to enter your University directory ID and password to download SSH or FTP (which is the ID and password you use to log into Testudo for instance, not your Glue login ID and password). - If you are connecting to the Linux Grace systems using a Windows computer, you may find it very useful to download and install Xming, a Windows X server. An X server lets you open windows from the Grace systems onto your machine.
Class Announcements and Associated RSS Feed
Class announcements are located at Class Announcements. You should check announcements often (at least once every day). Notice that this announcements page is made possible through the forum software and unlike the class forum you cannot modify/post to this page.
You can also receive the class announcements by subscribing to the announcements RSS Feed and receive announcements via your favorite RSS reader. Keep in mind that there might be a delay (20 minutes or more) in receiving messages via the feed. To subscribe to the feed:
- Make sure your browser/system has a RSS Reader. In firefox you may use several RSS Reader extensions (e.g., Simple RSS Reader (SRR))
- You need to import the Computer Science Department root certificate into your browser as described in http://www.cs.umd.edu/faq/rootcert/
- The announcements RSS Link is: https://forum.cs.umd.edu/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=240