Fall 2008
For more details, and talks in past semesters, consult the
full schedule of talks.
Tentative talks:
- Math on a MAC
- How to deal with e-mail spam
- Scripting with Bash
- Power Point presentation using LaTeX
- GNU/Linux text editors
Interested in speaking?
Past topics can (and should) be repeated
occasionally. In addition,
here are some topics people might like to hear about:
- Femlab (PDE modeling environment)
- GAP (computer algebra software)
- Getting started with Maple (or Matlab, or Mathematica, ...)
- How to do math on a Mac
- How to filter e-mail spam
- HTML vs. XHTML (the new HTML standard)
- Octave (free Matlab-like system)
- PDAs (handheld personal digital assistants and much more)
- PHP (server-side webpage scripting)
- R (free statistics system)
- Remote access (SSH, VNC, dial-up, ...)
- Scientific WorkPlace (graphical front end to TeX)
- Setting up a dual boot system (DOS/Linux)
- TeX / LaTeX topics
- Using scanners efficiently
- Using the WINEDT editor (a front end to TeX, HTML)
- XML (extensible markup language)
- [your favorite topic here]
To give a talk, please contact
swig@math.arizona.edu.
A Macintosh OS (7.5.3 or 7.5.5) - PPP/Slirp Configuration
by Ricardo Martinez
***Note: I am making the assumption that you have correctly
installed the following components:
- Macintosh System Update 7.5 Update 2.0 or System Update
7.5.5 (recommended).
- Open Transport 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 (recommended)
- Open Transport PPP 1.0
- Netscape Navigator 3.01 (recommended)
Instructions To Configure PPP on your Macintosh.
If you have followed the above instructions successfully,
then you are ready to run Netscape Navigator from home over
your phone line using slirp.
- Open Control Panels.
- Open PPP (Open Transport PPP 1.0).
- Click "Connect" button.
- Enter the following at CCIT login prompt and press return
key: rlogin ame2.math.arizona.edu
- Enter username at login prompt and press return key.
- Enter password at password prompt and press return key.
- Press return key a couple times.
- Enter the following at command prompt and press return
key: exec slirplogin -P
- Click "Continue" button.
- Run Netscape Navigator once Status displays a
send/received indicator.
Open Transport 1.1.1 or 1.1.2
- Open Control Panels.
- Open TCP/IP (Open Transport 1.1.1 or 1.1.2).
- Select "PPP" under "Connect via:" menu.
- Select "Manually: under "Configure: menu".
- Enter "10.0.2.15" in "IP address" field.
- Enter "128.196.224.2" in "Name server addr.:" field.
- Enter "math.arizona.edu" in "Search domains:" field.
- Quit and save changes to the current configurations.
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Open Transport PPP 1.0
- Open Control Panels.
- Open PPP (Open Transport PPP 1.0).
- Select "Guest" under "Connection" options.
- Enter "6219600" in "Number:" field.
- Click "Options..." button.
- Click "Redialing" menu.
- Select "Off" option under "Redial:" menu.
- Click "Connection" menu.
- Select "Connect automatically when starting
TCP/IP applications" option.
- Select "Use verbose logging" option.
- Select "Flash icon in menu bar while connected"
option.
- Unselect "Prompt every 5 minutes to maintain
connection" option.
- Unselect "Disconnect if idle for 10 minutes"
option.
- Click "Protocol" menu.
- Select "Allow error correction and compression in
modem" option.
- Select "Use TCP header compression" option.
- Select "Connect to a command-line host:" option.
- Click "OK" button.
- Quit and save changes to the current configuration.
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