From guide@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca Tue Sep 8 03:37:35 1998 Received: from oliver.cs.mcgill.ca (root@oliver.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.1.5]) by lisa.cs.mcgill.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18691 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:37:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lisa.cs.mcgill.ca (guide@lisa.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.51.241]) by oliver.cs.mcgill.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA13544; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from guide@localhost) by lisa.cs.mcgill.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18686; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:37:32 -0400 (EDT) From: SOCS-Guide To: ugrads@cs.mcgill.ca, grads@cs.mcgill.ca, profs@cs.mcgill.ca cc: SOCS-Guide Subject: SOCS Inside-Out -- http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~guide Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 1660 Lines: 47 Do you feel a pang of fear or insecurity every time you sit down at a workstation in the CS labs? Are you frustrated with things that don't seem to be working properly if at all? Do you feel like strangling all those consultants and Unix geeks who respond to your innocent questions with "read the man page"? A solution exists, and it's called SOCS Inside-Out. Specifically written for (and by) McGill CS students, it features information about SOCS facilities, a guide to surviving Unix, and plenty of tips and tricks that will come in handy elsewhere. The guide is made up of two parts: * The SOCS Inside-Out Website * The SOCS Inside-Out Website is a dynamic student initiative which aims to reduce frustration and raise the level of computing competency at McGill. It can be found on the web at http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~guide. * The SOCS Inside-Out Pamphlet * This introductory pamphlet is there to help you get started with your SOCS account, as well as covering some basic issues like: - how to connect to SOCS machines - available internet services - available SOCS facilities - basic security issues You can find the pamphlet at: - the consultant's office (104N) - the help desk (209N) - the departmental office (318) - Copie-EUS (basement of McConnell) - SOCS Unix seminars It will also be distributed at certain ACM and CSUS events. The cost is 50 cents and it runs about 20 pages 2-upped and double-sided (a real bargain!). It is also available from the webpage, though it will probably cost you more to print it out from there. -- The SOCS Inside-Out Editors Nick Cabatoff, Jacob Eliosoff, Victor Lee, Vincent Stephen-Ong.