Introduction, Orientation and Disclaimers

1. Welcome to Daylight Summer School 2000 (3rd annual)!

2. About Daylight.

3. Why a summer school?

4. What this course IS:
   • Introductory
   • A survey of topics
   • A beginning
   • Hands-on, how-to
   • Student-centered
   • Compromise among end-user/administrator/programmer needs.

5. What this course is NOT:
   • Expert certifying
   • Comprehensive

6. Please:
   • Ask questions in class.
   • Ask questions in lab.
   • Tailor the course to your interests.
   • Take liberties with your workstation, but take care with shared resources (e.g., sun0, linux1, etc.)

7. Who are your classmates:
   • Scientists
   • Programmers
   • Sysadmins
   • Etc. Diverse skills and backgrounds.

8. Computer facilities:
   • Mick is our summerschool sysadmin.
   • Two lab partners per workstation (Solaris or IRIX).
   • Lab rooms:
     Room 102 (3 Sun Ultra-5's, 1 Sparc-20, printer, copier)
     Room 103 (2 SGI O2's)
     Room 105 (2 SGI O2's)
     Room 106 (2 SGI O2's)
     
   • Other rooms:
     Room 101 (classroom)
     Room 110 (Win/NT demo machine)
     Kitchen (Coffee, etc. Make yourself at home, but keep it tidy!)
     Lounge (Relax and chat.)
     Patio (Enjoy the view.)
     Rest rooms (1st floor)
     
   • Please use our workstation check-out system (cards).
   • Logins: mug/coffee, thor/cognition, root/(ask).
   • Webserver "www.daylight.com", a.k.a., "daylight".
   • Fileserver, Daylight-db-server "sun0".
   • Domain "daylight.com".
   • All workstations are directly on Internet.
   • Printing: lp (Suns), mugprint (SGIs)
   • DY_ROOT=/daylight/day471/v471 (pre-release version)
     Local copy of 4.71 on all workstations.
   • Files for labs at:
     1. mug's home directory
     2. thor's home directory
     3. URL: http://www.daylight.com/meetings/summerschool00/course/files/
     4. URL: http://www.daylight.com/contrib/
     5. sun0:/nalgas/Archives
     6. ASK...
   • C compiler on all workstations.
   • DayPerl on all Sun workstations (telnet if necessary).
   • Apache HTTPD can be installed/run by all workstations.

9. 4.62 vs. 4.71 (summerschool version) vs. 4.71 (final version)
   We will be using a pre-release version of the Daylight 4.71 software release for this course. It may change substantially between now and release time. So, we will be teaching 4.62, and mentioning likely new 4.71 features and programs. The reason for using this pre-release version is to demonstrate very-likely and nearly-ready new features of 4.71 (e.g., JavaGrins w/ SMARTS, the Linux port, new ClogP, Daliserver).

10. Fun stuff:
    • Banquet Wednesday night at 6:30PM, leaving hotel at 6:00PM.