From guide@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca Tue Sep 8 03:34:16 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 DAA18590 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:34:15 -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 DAA13519; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:34:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from guide@localhost) by lisa.cs.mcgill.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18585; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:34:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 03:34:13 -0400 (EDT) From: SOCS-Guide To: 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: 1180 Lines: 23 For the past month, a bunch of students have been putting together a reference guide targeted especially at first year ugrads, but designed to still be useful for veteran students. It's called "SOCS Inside-Out" and a lot of work has gone into making it as helpful to students as possible. If you can we'd appreciate if you could mention it in your classes. The guide is made up of two parts: a 20-page pamphlet and a website. The pamphlet covers certain basics that everyone here should be aware of and are handy to have on paper, such as getting a cs account, connecting to SOCS machines, available SOCS facilities, and basic security issues. It costs a cheap 50 cents and is available at several locations, including the departmental office (318), the consultant's office (104N), and the SOCS help desk (209N). The website goes into more detail, including Unix tips and a juicy "SOCS culture" section, as well as the entire contents of the pamphlet. It's at http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~guide. Thanks for any help you can give us in getting the word out. -- The SOCS Inside-Out Editors Nick Cabatoff, Jacob Eliosoff, Victor Lee, Vincent Stephen-Ong.