Athena Minicourse: Emacs
IS&T Staff
Wed Jan 12, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Emacs. An hour-long session that teaches the use of the Unix system's most widespread text editing utility.
Contact: IS&T Staff, marilynm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Athena Minicourse: HTML
IS&T Staff
Wed Jan 12, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
HTML. Athena gives you space for your own Web site; learn the Hypertext Markup Language that will help you make effective use of that space in this one-hour class.
Contact: IS&T Staff, marilynm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Athena Minicourse: Introduction to Athena
IS&T Staff
Mon Jan 10, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
Introduction to Athena. A one-hour class that covers:
Athena services: software for classes, daily backup, security, Web publishing, and more
Athena clusters, quickstations, departmental labs, connecting from your computer
Logging in: your password
Tour of the Athena screen
Your Athena locker
Software you can use
Printing
Accessing floppy disks, CDs
Stellar, MIT's Web-based course management system
MIT e-mail
Instant messaging
Getting help
Contact: IS&T Staff, marilynm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Athena Minicourse: Introduction to Unix
IS&T Staff
Mon Jan 10, Tue Jan 11, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Introduction to Unix. An hour-long class designed especially for those who are new to this powerful but unfamiliar computer operating system. Covers:
Passwords
Working with directories
Working with files
Printing
Using floppy disks and CD-ROMs
Getting help
And more
Contact: IS&T Staff, marilynm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Athena Minicourse: LaTex
IS&T
Thu Jan 13, 07-08:00pm, 5-234
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
LaTeX. An hour-long session in which you can learn how to use the document preparation and typesetting system that has become the standard for publishing technical and scientific documents.
Contact: IS&T, marilynm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Athena Minicourse: Latex Thesis
IS&T Staff
Thu Jan 13, 08-09:00pm, 5-234
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Using the Latex text formatter to produce a fully- featured thesis that meets all MIT format requirements.
Contact: IS&T Staff, marilynm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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Sawfish: Configuration, Customization, and Control
Isaac "Ike" Feitler
Tue Jan 25, 05-06:00pm, 2-132, NOTE DATE CHANGE!
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This lecture will focus on the Sawfish window manager program for the X window system, the default window manager on Athena. After an introduction to and overview of the program, topics covered will include how to change the look and feel of sawfish, how to add in additional customizations (a.k.a hacks) that other people have written, and how to write such customizations.
Contact: Isaac "Ike" Feitler, 3 Ames Street Box #74, 225-6354, sipb-iap-sawfish@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Zephyr: Introduction, Customization, and More
Natan Cliffer
Tue Jan 25, 08-10:00pm, 1-150
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come learn how to maximize both your punting and tooling with the help of Zephyr! The first hour will be a general introduction to this messaging system, where we'll cover some basics and hint at all the fun customizations you can do with this program. We'll take a break, and then launch into the second hour with more tricks, hacks, and glimpses of alternative Zephyr clients.
Contact: Natan Cliffer, W20-557, x3-7788, sipb-iap-zephyr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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