Spring 2012
- Fri, Feb 3, 2pm, Math 102, Making a Professional Website, by Joseph Dinius
- Mon, Feb 13, 3pm, Math 102, Introduction to Mathematica, by Stuart Kent
- Fri, Mar 2, 2pm, Math 102, A Brief Introduction to CUDA, by Matthew Pennybacker
For more details, and talks in past semesters, consult the
full schedule of talks.
Tentative talks:
- 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.
Term
by Anu Rao
Helpful Hints/Notes
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| INSTRUCTIONS FOR term-2.3.5 |
| no guarantees, but it works for me. |
| WYSIWYG |
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Preliminaries
- READ THE INSTRUCTIONS/HOWTO'S, etc. They contain
useful information.
- You need to have term at each end (on your local
Linux machine, and on your remote network account).
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Local End: Often term is installed with your
Linux distribution. If not, you will have to
download and install it on your machine at home
yourself.
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Remote End: You will need to download and
install yourself term in your own account.
Click
here to download the gzipped tar file
term-2.3.5.tar.gz (252081 bytes).
After gunzipping and untarring the file, be sure sure
to read the documentation before attempting
installation. Note that the term-2.3.5 installation
will, by default, create a directory in your home
directory called "term", and place some essential
libraries (needed at runtime) in it. Moving or removing
the libraries from this directory may disrupt your
ability to run term.
- Some versions seem to work better than others.
Versions that people seem to have (consistent) success
with: term 1.11 and term-2.3.5.
- You may want to run the linecheck program to make
sure your set-up is ok.
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Running term via Kermit
- Logon to remote machine (say obsidian) with kermit
- Once on obsidian, type
term -r
- Then ctrl-\ c back to the kermit prompt
- Now at the kermit prompt type crtl-z to get back to
the Linux prompt
- At the Linux prompt type
term -v/dev/modem &
- The Linux prompt will return. Then type
trsh
- an obsidian prompt should appear. this is your term
shell.
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Running term via Minicom
- Logon to remote machine (say obsidian) with minicom
- Once on obsidian, type
term -r
- Then hit "ctrl-a j" to suspend minicom and return to
the Linux prompt
- At the Linux prompt type
term -v/dev/modem &
- The Linux prompt will return. Then type
trsh
- an obsidian prompt should appear. this is your term
shell.
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Running term via Seyon
- Logon to remote machine (say obsidian) via seyon
- Once on obsidian, type
term -r
- Then in an xterm on your local Linux machine, type
term -v/dev/modem &
- In your seyon command window there is a button called
"Shell". Hit this button, which pops up another menu in
which you can enter a command. Enter
trsh
- now in your seyon window you should have a term
shell.
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Setting the Display
Hopefully you now have a shell via term. In order to pop
up windows on your local machine you need to set the
display. To find out which terminal number to send your
local display to, from your term shell type
txconn
This will return something like
obsidian:n
or
:n
where "n" is an integer. again from your term shell, type
setenv DISPLAY obsidian:n
(if you are using csh)
typeset -x DISPLAY=obsidian:n
(if you are using ksh)
You should now be able to pop up X application windows, etc
on your Linux machine at home.