News for UCLA Computer Science 35L, Fall 2010

2010-11-29

• Assignment 10 is available. It differs slightly from its preliminary version.

2010-11-19

• A typo in Assignment 8 has been fixed by replacing "Use this key to clearsign your submissions as described below" with "Use this key to create a detached signature for your submission so that the commands described below can successfully verify it".

2010-11-11

• Assignment 8 and Assignment 9 are available. They differ from their preliminary versions.

2010-10-06

• Assignment 2's submission instructions have been corrected by replacing "fmv fmv2 fmv3" with "remdup".

2010-10-05

• Caleb's and Defeng's office hours will be in Boelter 3770 from now through October 12, due to office renovation. They will return to Boelter 4428 after that.

2010-10-04

• Dr. Eggert's Monday office hours have been changed from 12:50–13:50 to 11:50–12:50.

2010-09-29

• Brian's office hours are Wednesdays 13:00–14:00 and Fridays 16:00–17:00 in Boelter 3815.

2010-09-28

• Defeng's office hours are Fridays 12:00–14:00 in Boelter 4428.

2010-09-26

• We'll be handing out Ubuntu desktop 10.04.1 CD-ROMs (ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso, md5sum 9a95ed6f6ec38fb58c446dba1add6a08). We also have an image that would work better for CS 35L, except that it is too big to fit on CD-ROMs. If you want to create a USB stick (which is much faster than CD-ROMs) you will benefit from using this image instead of the standard Ubuntu 10.04.1 image, since you won't have to also download Emacs, vim, etc. You can get this image from the "Ubuntu for CS35L/CS111" entry of Keith Stevens's useful links page, or from our cached copy as of September 24 (md5sum 6833cffc59a938c02f1343ad738ab255). To install this image onto a USB stick, you can try UNetbootin, which Ubuntu has packaged and which you can download like any other package. We suggest using a USB stick that has at least 4 GB free.
• Caleb's office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00–12:00 in Boelter 4428.

2010-09-24

• The Fall 2010 Installfest of the UCLA Linux Users Group will be on Saturday, October 2, from 10:00 to 16:00, in Boelter 4760. The LUG also has a regular meeting Thursday, September 30, at 18:00, in Boelter 3820.

2010-09-22

• Tentative due dates have been adjusted in the assignments, to match this quarter's schedule better. The first assignment is due October 1.
• We'll be using a different distribution than the special one mentioned in the 09-20 news. Details will be supplied later.
• Caleb and Defeng are switching sections, so that Caleb is teaching Lab 3 and Defeng Lab 1. The registrar's listings have not been updated yet.

2010-09-20

• A download (735 MB) is available of the Ubuntu distribution we'll be using at first. We'll hand out a copy in the first lab. It'll be helpful (though not essential) to bring a USB drive to the first lab. Experts are welcome to use another recent Linux distribution.
• Assignment 1 is available. Please see Assignments for tentative later assignments.
• Check that your SEASnet account works right away, as there are occasionally delays before your account is activated.