Introduction, Orientation and Disclaimers

1. Welcome to Daylight Summer School 2001 (4rd 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 workstations, but take care with shared resources (e.g., sun0, linux1, etc.)
   • Lab partners optional.

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

8. Computer facilities:
   • Mick is our summerschool sysadmin.
   • One or two students per workstation.
   • Logins: mug/coffee, thor/cognition.
   • Webserver "www.daylight.com", a.k.a., "daylight".
   • Primary server: "day0" (web-, Thor-, Merlin-, FTP-, DNS-, NFS-).
   • Domain "daylight.com".
   • Printing: to be announced
   • DY_ROOT=/usr/local/daylight/v472
     Local copy of 4.72 on all workstations.
   • Files for labs at:
     1. mug's home directory on day0
     2. thor's home directory on shared workstations
     3. URL: http://www.daylight.com/meetings/summerschool01/course/files/
     4. URL: http://www.daylight.com/support/contrib/
     5. ASK...
   • C compiler on all workstations.
   • DayPerl on day0.
   • Apache HTTPD can be installed/run by all workstations.

9. Fun stuff:
   • Banquet Wednesday night at 6:30PM at Daylight office (next door to Radisson).