UO Secure: How To Bypass UOwireless Login

Image via Wikipedia Open wireless.uoregon.edu and run the setup process to enable "XpressConnect" to UO Secure.

• No more daily logins. Log in once with your Duck ID and password when you set up UO Secure on your device, then only twice a year when you change your password.
  
  
• More efficient wireless connections. If you are experiencing more and more dropped connections to UOwireless, then run this setup process (XpressConnect).

Details: https://it.uoregon.edu/uo-secure

Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers

Help Wanted, '94:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mi.jobs/poXLCW8udK4

(Click on the name, Jeff Bezos, to expand the post.)

Now Hiring: CIS/CIT Tutors for UO TLC

The University of Oregon Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) is now hiring qualified students to tutor students in CIS 105, CIS 110, CIS 111, CIS 122, CIS 210 and CIS 212.

To tutor students in one or more of these courses, you are welcome to submit an application to the TLC. The application form is available as a PDF file online at the UO TLC website.



Eligibility Requirements

• Grade
 of 
A
 in
 the
 course(s)
 you
 wish 
to
 tutor

• 3.0
 or
 higher
 cumulative UO 
GPA
 
• Two 
faculty 
recommendations 
from
 the 
subject 
area(s) 
you 
wish 
to 
tutor

 
• Tutor 
application
 including 
an 
unofficial 
transcript

Hourly Rate

• $9.25/hr for tutoring small groups (up to five students)
• $9-$11/hr for private tutoring

CIS Faculty Contacts

For CIS 
recommendations
, contact the following CIS faculty:

CIS 105: John Conery and Kathleen Freeman.
CIS 110, CIS 111: 
Michael Hennessy and Eric Wills.
CIS 122, CIS 210: Michal Young and Kathleen Freeman.
CIS 212: Eric Wills.

Application Procedure

1) Complete the UO TLC application form.
2) Schedule your interview with the two CIS faculty listed for the course.
3) Print an unofficial transcript from DuckWeb.
4) Submit application packet to 68 PLC.

For Futher Information

Contact any of the CIS faculty listed, above.



A Mother's Day story for Unix command-line hackers (& Toy Story fans ;-)

Here's a short story about how Toy Story 2 was almost erased before the film could be rendered for theaters.




From Kottke.org.

Unix Shell Skills for Scientists and CIT Students

The Unix Command Line Interface (a.k.a. Shell, or CLI) for Web Developers

1. Your CIT GTF will be your Unix Drill Instructor (DI) and run you through basic training: Unix for Web Developers, which is a Reader's Guide to the University of Surrey's Unix for Beginners tutorial, parts 1, 2, and 5.


2. For more practice:
   
   • The Command Line Crash Course: Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal.
   
   This free online mini-book teaches you Unix or Windows command line skills, in a few hours to a few days. It has little explanation and focuses more on doing a small set of commands until you remember them.
   
   • Software Carpentry Project's Video Lectures on the Unix Shell.
   
   The Software Carpentry project's mission is "to help scientists be more productive by teaching them basic computing skills", including the Unix shell. All of their content is available at the Software Carpentry website.

How do I get into the 111 lab I want if it is full?

Image by wsh1266 via Flickr

If you are unable to enroll in the course or any lab because the course is full, your only option is to wait until someone drops the course.

Since some students are "shopping for courses" during week 1, you should see spots start to open up at the end of the first week.


If you are already enrolled in the course and a lab, but would like to switch to a different lab that is already full, here's what to do:

Go to the lab you want and ask the GTF if there's room for you. If your GTF says Yes, make sure that s/he has your name removed from your original lab and added to the new one. If the GTF says No, you will have to attend a different lab.

For labs that are full, two names may be added beyond the max on the condition that the added students bring a notebook computer or watch over someone's shoulder on days when the lab is full.

Students actually registered for the lab are guaranteed a workstation if they need one.

The Tilde (~) in Unix and URLs

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UNIX

In the Unix shell, the tilde (~) is an abbreviation for the path to your home directory. (It has other expansions but this the meaning when the tilde is used as a separate word.)

Tilde expansion is the process of converting the abbreviation to the path to the user's home directory.

Example (not using ~)

/home4/susanQ/public_html/111/ is the Unix path to Susan Queue's 111 folder on shell.uoregon.edu.

Example (using ~)

~/public_html/111/ is the Unix path to Suzie's folder on shell.uoregon.edu

Example

$ pwd
/tmp

$ cd ~

$ pwd
/home4/susanQ/

$ echo $HOME
/home4/susanQ/

(~ is a synonym for the value of the shell's HOME variable)

URLs

In a URL, the tilde (~) has a related but different meaning: it stands for the path to your public_html folder on the web server.

Example: 

URL:
http://uoregon.edu/~susanQ/

Corresponding Unix path on the server:
/home4/susanQ/public_html/

Example: 

URL:
http://uoregon.edu/~susanQ/111/
Corresponding Unix path on the server:
/home4/susanQ/public_html/111/