Clue Topics Clue TopicsWe don't have any times scheduled right now, and these are in No Particular Order, but we're considering having them after meetings on Monday nights. Again, send me your comments, or mention them to other Weenies.
ClueDump 1 - March 15, 1994
How to Build Random Software
NOTE: The link is at this time incomplete.
Run by: mkgray, yandros, ghudson
In this session we will talk about finding and building `interesting' programs on the net. We may touch on some issues involved in installing and maintaining programs as it's normally done in the sipb and outland lockers.
Run by: mkgray, rjbarbal
This session will talk about various ways to read discuss: how, where, when, and why.
Run by: jweiss, yandros, mhbraun
How do the AFS servers work?
What is a PTS database? A VLDB? A primary? A `sellsurfdeebee'? A bos/vos/pts/ka server?
Do I care? Why?
We will endeavor to answer these questions and more, since we're bound to generate more. :-)
Run by: mkgray
this session sounds like something related to how the protocol works for athena and how you can make it work for you, rather than a `how to hack zephyr clients to do Truly Grotesque Things' session, but I could be wrong (and Richard and Abbe could be doing one of those as a seperate thing anyway. :-)
Run by: eichin, marc(?)
How Kerberos works; what's in the server, what the different clients do and how, some of the math involved, etc.
This is not the kerberos usage class run by that weird short-haired guy.
This session will cover how you can use kerberos to do things remotely (login, transfer data) while never sending your password over the net in the clear.
Run by: mkgray, yandros, bert, sorokin
How to set up and run your very own pet WWW server (please don't call it `George', though. That's so cliché).
Run by: ghudson, marthag, mhpower
Care and feeding of one of the largest timesinks on campus.
Run by: mkgray(?), ghudson(?), mhpower(?), yandros
How all these computers are connected together and why it's useful to you and to us.
Run by: srz(?), eichin(?), cent?, fuzzy?
Lofts.
Student access to computers.
Science Fiction.
SpinWriters.
UA funding.
Building 39.
Building 11.
Corby.
give meaning to these words and learn why we still have a working (?) microfiche reader in the office.
For more info, see the History section of the SIPB Office Manual
Run by: mkgray, yandros
This session will talk about how everyone can (and should) learn to write HTML code, for the betterment of all mankind.
Run by: yandros
This session will cover the basics of RCS, the Revision Control System. In about 30 minutes you can learn more than enough RCS to get you through the rest of your life..