We started our final project last week: "Life After Computer Science 2013." We're using the StdDraw.java class from Princeton CS 101 to do some graphics. I want to develop some new graphics based projects to use through out the year next year. In a couple of years, the APCS Case Study will be a thing of the past, so I can do a lot more with my own labs once again! My Summer Project will include finishing some more of these lessons for next year! Stay tuned... Our Own Graphing Calculator (TI-83): FuntionMode.java Parametric Mode.java PolarMode.java
Life After preCalculus: SAGE and preCalculus
Last March, I was a guest speaker at LIMACON 2013. I spoke about using SAGE in preCalculus class instead of a Graphing Calculator. I will continue working on these SAGE worksheets for my EBay offerings.
I will make my preTEST SAGE worksheets public. I am also making worksheets for the TESTs. I will use these files to revamp my EBay offerings. I used to sell all my TBQs, TBSs and TBLs in print form. This involved a lot of printing, xeroxing and shipping hassles. I'm trying to make all this electronic so it fits on a few CDs or one DVD.
TBQ aka TechBook Questions, consist of all my preTESTs and TESTs. These are all in a workbook format extending traditional Calculus questions with technology.
TBS aka TechBook Solutions, consist of all my preTESTs and TESTs solutions. These used to be hand written and based on the TI-89 Graphing Calculator. This is what I'm working on in SAGE.
TBL aka TechBook Lessons, consist of all my ScreenCasts and SmartNotes from Calculus class!
Last week we ScreenCasted how to learn Calculus with SAGE! We ran out of time. So, I will continue UNIT3-UNIT12 over the Summer. I'm preparing these Calculus Units on SAGE for a presentation at T^3 Molloy College 11/1/13.
I will make my preTEST SAGE worksheets public. I am also making worksheets for the TESTs. I will use these files to revamp my EBay offerings. I used to sell all my TBQs, TBSs and TBLs in print form. This involved a lot of printing, xeroxing and shipping hassles. I'm trying to make all this electronic so it fits on a few CDs or one DVD.
TBQ aka TechBook Questions, consist of all my preTESTs and TESTs. These are all in a workbook format extending traditional Calculus questions with technology.
TBS aka TechBook Solutions, consist of all my preTEST and TEST solutions. These used to be hand written and based on the TI-89 Graphing Calculator. This is what I'm working on in SAGE.
TBL aka TechBook Lessons, consist of all my ScreenCasts and SmartNotes from Calculus class!
My Summer Project will include finishing UNITS 3-12 for my T^3 presentation at Molloy College next year. I will also update my EBay store with electronic copy on CD only based on this project! Stay tuned...
This was the year for a bunch of new preCalculus and Calculus Filks and Carols! Please enjoy these songs (listed in no particular order). Most are from this year, but I couldn't reset including some from prior years as well. Enjoy! For more filks collected from my classes over the years, please take a look here: cistheta2007 2012 Period 3 preCalculus Rap
2012 Period 3 preCalculus Carol
2012 Period 3 preCalculus Rap
2012 Period 3 preCalculus Carol
2011 Period 8 preCalculus Filk
2012 Period 1 Calculus Caroling
2012 Period 3 preCalculus Caroling
2010 Period 3 Calculus Caroling
UPDATE: 6/12/13 Here's an EMail I just sent to tech about stuff we are fixing in 429: "Recap of The GOOD, The BAD and The UGLY:
THE UGLY: 1st priority 1) I CANNOT install anything on the server at 10.5.254.244 (ftp server Caprica) 2) I CANNOT install anything on the server at 10.5.254.247 (ssh server Guardian)
THE BAD: 2nd priority 1) I CANNOT open http://mail.baldwinschools.org/owa on 10.5.129.25 (Teacher PC) 2) I NEED to add WiFi on 10.5.129.25 (Teacher PC) to connect to BWSDOT1X for my Droid Tablet replacing the Smart AirLiner Slate (aka Wacom Graphire 6x8) in addition to the wired LAN (still needed for ssh/ftp servers and DHCP for cluster) 3) I CANNOT use KVM - I need a new KVM or extra Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard combo for the servers (mouse pointer goes nuts after only a few minute's use)
THE GOOD: Thank you! I CAN edit ESchool Attendance and Grades I CAN edit Edmodo Assignments I CAN edit SAGE Worksheets I CAN edit Shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com I CAN upload to Slideshare.net I CAN upload to YouTube.com I CAN download from KeepVid.com I CAN record with Screencast-o-matic.com I CAN listen to Pandora.com I CAN install Software on all non server PCs I CAN login to the servers" UPDATE: 5/15/13 Wow, that was the quickest reinstall ever! The room is more or less back to normal (see masthead pic above). If you want to see preSandy pic goto http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 or https://twitter.com/calcpage to see it on my background!
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on every PC + IDLE + WINE + VTI. On the Teacher PC: I added openssh-server, chrome, chromium, VLC, SmartNotebook 11, libdvdread4, jdk and jre as well as avconv, a BlueTooth Tablet and a USB Mic for ScreenCasting. openjava-6-jdk (javac, java, javadoc, appletviewer) and icedtea worked great at home, but I could not get them to work at school. Also, I need jre/icedtea for KeepVid, Screencast-o-matic and Jmol. BTW, I needed libdvdread4 for our AP Math Movie Marathon! NB0 - Ubuntu has Python 2.7 installed by default
NB1 - to install turtle.py on Ubuntu 12.04
sudo apt-get install idle
NB2 - to install VPython on Ubuntu 12.04:
sudo apt-get install python-visual
sudo apt-get install libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev
NB3 - alternate NB2:
run vpythonxxx.exe under WINE!
I setup all the backgrounds, proxy servers and printers. On the Teacher PC, I point Firefox to Edmodo, Chrome to eSchool and Chromium to SAGE. We've been having networking issues of late. I set up automatic IPV4 over DHCP the first day we were back and all was well. If the networking issues of the past few days don't clear up, I may have to install openjava for APCS on every Linux box and not even use openssh. We already run Python/IDLE/turtle.py this was for CSH. Next week I start a SAGE project in AP Calculus BC. I may have to set up local SAGE servers too? I tried setting up static IPs with no joy either!
I finally broke down and installed jdk on every Linux box in the room so we could start LACS2013! (1) d/l from java.sun.com: jdk*.gz 32bit or 64 bit as needed (2) goto appropriate dir: cd /usr/local (3) copy jdk*.gz to this dir: sudo cp ~/Downloads/jdk*.gz . (4) untar jdk*.gz: sudo tar -xvf jdk*.gz (5) add /usr/local/jdk1.7.0_21/bin: sudo gedit /etc/environment (6) test with: source /etc/environment which javac (7) reboot: sudo reboot
I had to use 32bit Ubuntu on the Teacher PC for SmartNotebook to work. I also had to downgrade the right side of the room to 32bit and wine1.2 as wine1.4 was buggy!
Once the networking issues are fixed, I may setup openssh on every PC so I can control ifconfig remotely instead of using crontab to turn off Ethernet when I'm at the SmartBoard. UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE We are finally moving back to 429 Tuesday 5/7/13 just over a month after Sandy hit! Here's the new 429:
UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE (Wednesday 3/20) Tech decided to re-image some of my Student Stations last night, so I promptly got out my Unbuntu 12.04 64bit USB Drives and reinstalled everything. It's a very simple, bare bones install plus WINE for VTI and IDLE for Turtle Graphics. I also had to set up the ethernet proxy and printers not to mention some minor preferences. (Thursday 3/21) The Teacher Station was also reimaged. I booted that box up with a 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 CD and did the same installation . I have to use 32bit as SmartNotebook does not work well in 64bit. I also installed chrome for ESchool. (Friday 3/22) Also on the Teacher Station, I configured avconv for ScreenCasting and I installed SmartNotebook. I added drivers for playing DVDs and MP4s too including main sources, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get install ubuntu-restricted extras. (Monday 4/1 - after break) I will also add sshd, JDK and user accounts for APCS and maybe even JRE for jmol and keepvid to name a few reasons for JRE. (Thursday 3/21) In the mean time, I had to use WimpDoze all day! Period 1 5HBC and Period 9 4H was all about SmartBoarding. I used screencast-o-matic.com during Period 3 4R. I used interactivepython.org during Period 8 CSH to write and execute turtle.py code. Last, but not least, we used Programr.com to run our Chess960V3 and chessmaniac.com to play a Chess960 tournament in class! UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE:UPDATE
BUMP! I'm moving this post up to remind myself of things I still have to do to imporve our new room. See "Notes To Self" below. BUMP!!BUMP!! Before and after pictures below. The first picture shows the condition of our new room after about a week of clean up after we came back from Super Storm Sandy (11/14/12).
This Second picture is after 2 months of cleaning up, installing Linux, getting flat screens and losing external speakers plus extra wires, etc (1/7/13).
BUMP!!!BUMP!!!BUMP!!! All items in my ToDo list (note to self) below are finally complete!!!
BUMP!!!!BUMP!!!!BUMP!!!!BUMP!!!! The one thing in the ToDo list still giving me trouble is crontab. I'm trying to get it to block the internet during Math classes as I'm usually at the front of the room at the SmartBoard. During Computing classes I'm at the Teacher Station in the back of the room projecting what I type on the SmartBoard. When I'm in the back of the room I can see the students' desktops and know if they are on task. In anycase, Computing classes need internet access so I can share files with them! So, the problem with crontab is that I made it too complicated. It wasn't working at first as I made some entries in non-chronological order (see corrected file below ToDo list). Another issue is that some students have gotten wise to this and simply change the system clock to a different period!
Since Hurricane Sandy, I've been re-installing every PC I can find! It's been a really rough couple of weeks. Ever since we came back after Veterans' Day, I've been trying to fix our new room. This room used to be a resource room that was not really maintained by anyone and was a shambles when I first found it. BTW, it's really hard to re-install a lab when every period another class comes in! So, here's an updated version of http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2011/05/2-so-many-hard-drives-so-little-time.html
explaining what I did in my new room:
STUDENT BOXES (pc1-pc28 in Room 120) =
64bit Ubuntu + SAGE + WINE + VTI My students need SAGE for Computer Science Honors. Other classes can use SAGE as a calculator in addition to VTI83, VTI89 or VTI92.
TEACHER BOX (pc29 in Room 120) = 32bit Ubuntu + SAGE + WINE + VTI plus: JRE for http://screencast-o-matic.com and 3D graphs in SAGE, VLC and libdvdread4 to view *.mp4s and dvds, Chrome for https://esd.nasboces.org gradebooking and http://www.edmodo.com, and SmartNotebook for SmartBoarding! I had to down-grade the OS to 32bit since SmartNotebook does not work well in 64bit.
SERVER BOX (none in Room 120) = 32bit Ubuntu + JDK + openSSH (no more telnet or ftp - just ssh, sftp and scp) I don't have a dedicated server running 24x7 anymore in Room 120. Neither will the new server be available off campus. I'm simply adding jdk and sshd to the teacher box so my students can login to save their java files for APCS during class. I may add sshd to the student boxes so I can easily control their boxes remotely and copy files over the LAN.
Step 1) Live CD (32bit or 64bit Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS) Boot Ubuntu click install, answer on-screen questions and run install. Some of the PCs could not boot from CD, so we also used bootable USB. One machine will not boot either way. So, I wonder what I can do to install Linux on that box? Make sure to make Student Stations boot without a passwd (unlike Teacher Stations and Servers) since the user passwd is also the root passwd and I'm not giving that out! Also, make the box name and the userid the same so box name shows on top right of screen after boot up: -students = PC1-PC28 -teacher/server = shadowfax
Step 2) Partitions Most of these Phenom II Quad-cores had an open 50GB partition, so I did not have to re-partition the hdds. A couple of PCs did not have said partition, so I left them alone. I may re-partition those at a later date. I had to setup a dual-boot install as I'm sharing the room with several teachers using Windows. After install was complete I had to issue the following command lines to make Windows the default boot partition: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub sudo update-grub
Step 3) Ethernet -when the install process is done, reboot and remove the CD -once the PC reboots and you get to the desktop, I used to right click the vertical arrow icon on the top right and edit the Ethernet interfaces. However, static IPs with ipv6 were already configured. So, I left DHCP on automatic for a change! Here's what I sued to do for future reference: eth0 set to auto DHCP (proxy and passwd needed for internet on school LAN) eth1: ip = 10.5.129.x (private Linux LAN) mask = 255.255.0.0 gw = 10.5.0.254 dns = 10.1.1.19 -test intranet connections pinging to 10.10.100.45 (new server) -internet connections will be tested later (via proxy and passwd) when downloading jre*.gz, jdk*.gz, sage*.lzma and smart*.deb files.
Step 4) System Preferences and System Administration (minimal)
set appearance (as desired)
set brightness (as desired)
set network proxy (10.0.0.125)
set network printer (10.10.10.1)
Step 5) SAGE I had the students download the SAGE *.lzma file http://www.sagemath.org. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with this in mind, as I saw a precompiled compressed SAGE folder for that version of Ubuntu. Then I showed them how to move the file to their home directories and extract it. To use sage all they need to do is open a terminal, cd to the sage directory and run ./sage -n. Now, we won't have to crash every SAGE server online anymore. We may need a bash script on the desktop for this!
Step 6) JRE - optional (see NOTE below) Install jre1.7.0_09 as a Firefox plugin -use firefox to download latest jre*.gz file (either 32bit or 64bit) from http://www.java.com to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins -open a terminal and cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins tar zxvf jre*.gz -then cd ~/.mozilla mkdir plugins cd plugins ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/jre1.7.0_09/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so or ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/jre1.7.0_09/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so -test firefox with "about:plugins" as the url to see that jre was plugged in!
Step 7) WINE + GAMES -install WINE from Ubuntu Software Center or http://packages.ubuntu.com using dpkg -install games from Ubuntu Software Center -sudo chmod 700 /usr/games/* -add VTI folders to Desktop
Step 8) XTRA APPS -install optional software like VLC, handbrake, sshd, Chromium and games via Ubuntu Software Center, aptitude+proxy, synaptic, http://packages.ubuntu.com or author sites (such as http://www.smarttech.com *.debs) -on the servers, sudo chmod 700 /home/* to secure user files. Careful, if you install vsftp, you need to undo that for the ftp files: sudo chmod 755 /home/ftp or noone will be able to use anonymous ftp! -on the servers, install openssh (sshd) and, optionally, vsftp (use vsftp.conf from pastebin.com). I don't use anonymous ftp servers much anymore as I backup everything on a USB drive and share files on youtube, blogspot, slideshare, pastebin, programr and sage. -on the servers, install the jdk in /usr/local and add the directory containing java, javac, javadoc and appletviewer (/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_09/bin) to /etc/environment as per instructions from http://java.sun.com -on the server, addusers!
Notes To Self: I have everything more or less done except (todo list in bold):
(1) (done) SAGE needs an executable bash script on the desktop for every PC so students can easily start up a notebook(). UPDATE (12/1/12) I added an executable BASH script on each desktop called SAGE with the following contents (after simplifying the name of the sage dir):
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/sage
./sage -n
(2) (done) I still need to add WINE. UPDATE (12/1/12) WINE is on all student PCs. (3) (done) I still need to add VTI. UPDATE (12/2/12) VTI is on all student PCs.
(4) (done) PC2 did not have a free partition. UPDATE (12/3/12) I repartitioned these since we needed more stations. (5) (not doable) PC19 did not have a free partition. I could not repartition this hdd. UPDATE (12/4/12) Partitioning tool cannot read how much space is used on the WIN7 partition, so I can't repartition this drive.
(6) (done) PC6 won't boot via CD or USB. So, how do we install Ubuntu on that machine? UPDATE (12/7/12) I tried a different USB port and all was well!
(7) (done) So, I have SAGE, VTI83 and VTI89 on each desktop. I need to add the unit circle background too! UPDATE (12/14/12) I have 4 calculators on 1 desktop. Must be a record of some kind!
(8) (done) What about Game Day???
UPDATE (12/21/12) We just set up a Tremulous server again! We lost February Break due to Super Storm Sandy. So, we'll set up BZFlag or OpenArena or StarCraft I (under WINE) for the break in March.
(9) (done) I need to figure out why Screencast-O-Matic (SOM) records and plays back screencasts, but will not render *.mp4 files.
UPDATE (1/2/13) Firefox in Ubuntu 12.04 is doing something weird with JRE that's messing up encoding *.mp4s. IDK, what the problem is. Maybe I have to install some restricted Linux apps? So, I finally broke down and installed RecordMyDesktop (RMD) from the Ubuntu Software Center (USC). I've been avoiding this as it's really hard to set up a Mic. I finally had to install Skype from USC in order to get pulse audio working. Then, I enabled "pulse" instead of "DEFAULT" in the input device tab under the advanced tab in RMD. Also, you must resist the temptation to enable "encoding on the fly!" This saves time since you don't have to encode the *.ogv file after class. However, when I enabled this option, the video and audio were out of sync! IE: don't enable encoding on the fly as audio and video won't sync. Also, RMD loses the recording if it's not encoded right away (unlike SOM). BTW, In my first screencast for YouTube using RMD, the audio cut out at 8:49 for some reason. Either I hit the mute button on the mic while recording or there was a problem when RMD encoded in *.ogv format or there was a problem uploading to YouTube where the file is converted to *.mp4 or *.flv. IDK what went wrong, but its too soon to give up on RMD! UPDATE 1/9/13 All is well with RMD! All I had to do was reduce the audio and video quality from 100% to 50% and today's recording encoded perfectly. Still, encoding on the fly is out of sync, but we'll live without that! UPDATE 1/16/13 Well, all is not well with RMD as it loses audio near the end of any recording over 10 or 20 minutes. RMD is a GUI front end for ffmpeg. So, I thought I'd use that directly from the command line. However, I find that ffmpeg is being depricated for avonv. I tried the following executable bash script today. A 20 minute video encoded on the fly to under 90MB and converted well on YouTube!
UPDATE 1/29/31 I finally got around to doing this. Just in the nick of time too. I'm being observed tomorrow. All I need is for someone to be playing gnomine during my observation while I'm at the SmartBoard!
(11) (cancelled) I will add sshd to students boxes so I can easily share files from the teacher station or debug a student station remotely. UPDATE 1/29/31 I don't really need sshd right now. I used to have it installed for a native Linux Cluster using public authenticated ssh to run MPI. We are using a live Linux CD solution for the cluster this year: pelicanHPC or BCCD. Also, I used sshd to copy files to students' desktops. However, I share files via edmodo, youtube, slideshare, pastebin, programr and sage now.
(12) (done) Don't forget about:
sudo gedit /etc/crontab
UPDATE 1/19/13 I had a little problem with this step. It seems that Ubuntu 12.04 does not assign "eth0" as the default name of the ethernet card on the mother board. I had to search for eth0 and replace with ethXX in crontab on most of my Linux boxes! Also, you can schedule anything down to the minute only, not second. Further, if there's even one typo, the crontab file is ingnored completely! Here's the new crontab:
NOTE If you are not using SOM and you use Tachyon instead of JMol for 3D graphs in SAGE and you aren't running any other Java Applets in Firefox (such as http://www.keepvid.com), you need not install JRE on the Teacher Station at all! HTH, good luck with your Linux boxes!
Eureka!!! We finally got the new Shadowfax Cluster running up to 24 nodes, 96 cores and 48 GigaFLOPs! The fastest cluster in the world, Titan, has 150000 cpu cores and 150000 gpu cores running at 20 PetaFLOPs. Maybe we could run 100 cpu cores and 100 gpu cores next year at 100 GigaFLOPs!
Next year, CIS(2013-2014) has 8 members! We are going to look into making a little MandelZoom, POV-Ray or Blender movie!
BTW, we'll never catch up to Titan, especially since they are going to upgrade it to 20 ExaFLOPs. They ran into a SNAFU, however, as they will need a nuclear reactor right next door just to boot up this monster!
APRIL-MAY UPDATE
We didn't get to meet in April due to Easter break. We just met today, the day after returning to Room 429. 429 had to be rebuilt from the roof down for the last 6 months since Hurricane Sandy destroyed the cluster. We have all new lighting, wiring and PCs. We tested these Linux Boxes today for the first time using flops.f and MPIF77. We now have Intel quad-core i5s. We clocked each core at over 530 MFLOPS. We also got all 4 cores running at over 2.1 GFLOPS per node. However, there's a DHCP server conflict on the LAN, so we couldn't make the jump from multi-core to grid today. We are hoping to have 100 cores running simultaneously next time. Let's see if we can break 50 GFLOPS for a ShadowFax/CIS(theta) all time record!
MARCH UPDATE
We only had only one meeting and all we did was set up for Game Day! We had an OpenArena LAN Party all day yesterday. Thanx to KyleS (period 1), fun was had by one and all! All the brownies and cup cakes were great too! Thanx to JessicaP (period 6) and LeslieM (period 8), noone left hungry! Yesterday (3/22/13) was the Friday before break. It had the feeling of a celebration like the day before XMas break. I suppose that's because we haven't had a break since then. Not only did Hurricane Sandy close the school for 10 days and condemn the Math building, but it cancelled Midterm Week and February Break too! Thanx a lot, Sandy....
FEBRUARY UPDATE
We finally got around to writing mandelSeq.py and mandelMPI.py using MPI4PY, mathplotlib() and spectral but only on 3 cores. Our work is based on Lisandro Dalcin's excellent materials listed below. We ran mandelSeq.py as an executable file from the terminal just like any standard python program. To accomplish this we added:
#!/usr/bin/python
as the first line of the file and ran:
chmod 755 mandelSeq.py
to make an executable. mandelMPI.py is executed like helloMPI.py:
mpiexec -n 3 python helloMPI.py
JANUARY UPDATE #3
OOPS, we got our signals crossed and had to postpone this meeting! Next time I think we'll try to render some Mandelbrot Fractals. If we ever get back to our old room, we could make a FractalZoom movie using 100 cores instead of just 3....
JANUARY UPDATE #2
Finally, we got helloMPI.py working today on a single node with 3 cores! We wrote the following code: 1 from mpi4py import MPI 2 3 rank = MPI.COMM_WORLD.Get_rank() 4 size = MPI.COMM_WORLD.Get_size() 5 name = MPI.Get_processor_name() 6 7 print ("Hello, World! " 8 "I am process %d of %d on %s" % 9 (rank, size, name)) We saved this text in the file helloMPI.py in the pelicanHPC home dir. Then, from a shell in the home dirm we executed this code by:
We tried to isolate our LAN from other DHCP servers but could not. So we still only have individual 3-core SMP boxes running at about 1.2 GFLOPs. We also tried our hand at mpi4py, but we have a way to go in that department too! UPDATE: mpi4py was left out of the current pelicanHPC by mistake! No wonder mpi4py didn't work! Look here: http://pelicanhpc.788819.n4.nabble.com/pelicanhpc-2-9-amd64-and-mpi4py-td4650446.html
We finally had a chance to meet this month in our new PC Lab! We got pelicanHPC to run 3 cores at about 1.2 GFLOPS. We have AMD Phenom IIs. These CPUs are supposed to be quad-cores. It seems one core is dead. Even so, that's not a bad start. However, we could only run pelican in SMP mode. We could not PXE boot any other nodes. We are also looking into Flame Fractals.
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Sorry to say that we had no meetings this month. I was hoping for 3 meetings, but Hurricane Sandy changed everything! We are in a new room where we may be able to try out liveLinux CD based MPI clusters next month. Stay tuned!
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That was a great meeting today! We burned 8 CDs of Precise Pangolin and reinstalled the whole back row of our PC LAB/Classroom. Many thanx go to Jeremy for coming to vist today and lending a hand! RELATED POST: http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2012/11/pc-lab-period-of-reconstruction-at.html Here's the steps we followed for a minimal install of the Student Stations (64bit Athlons): Step1: Reboot each Linux box with the current CD. Answer some basic questions about time zone, userid, passwd, no login on bootup, etc. Step2: Reboot each Linux box without the CD. Make sure to configure the gigE cards and proxy server: IP: 10.5.129.x NetMask:255.255.0.0 GateWay: 10.5.0.254 DNS: 10.5.0.254 Proxy: 10.0.0.125 Step3: Configure System Settings as desired (unit circle trig calculator background, no screensaver, etc). Step4: We had to switch Software Sources in the Ubuntu Software Center (edit/source) to Main before this would work: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Step5: Now, we could use the Ubuntu Software Center to install WINE. Step6: I copied my VTI83 and VTI89 directories from my memory stick to the Desktop. Then, after editing preferences to have VTI open with WINE, I configured each calculator. Step7: I will edit my /etc/crontabs tomorrow.... Step8: We haven't decided what else we may have to install (local SAGE server, JRE, openSSH, openMPI,etc). We'll have to think about that! Here's some info on install fests from prior years: http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2011/05/2-so-many-hard-drives-so-little-time.html http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2011/01/then-god-mage-midterm-week-and-saw-that.html http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-many-linux-distros-so-little-time.html
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OCTOBER UPDATE
We decided to try out the new Ubuntu Linux 64bit Desktop 12.04 nicknamed Precise Pangolin. So we surfed on over to http://www.ubuntu.com and downloaded the latest ISO. We burned the CD, rebooted a guinea pig box and reinstalled it. This should be a simple procedure as we no longer use dualboot or dualnic boxes. However, we ran into a SNAFU right away! Intranet gigE works fine, but we can't get on the Internet? OOPs, we forgot the network proxy. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again! Ubuntu Release History 4.10 Warty Warthog (mammal) 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog (mammal) 5.10 Breezy Badger (mammal) 6.06 Dapper Drake (bird) 6.10 Edgy Eft (amphibian) 7.04 Feisty Faun (mammal) 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (mammal) 8.04 Hardy Heron (bird) 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (mammal) 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope (mythical beast) 9.10 Karmic Koala (mammal) 10.04 Lucid Lynx (mammal) 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (mammal) 11.04 Natty Narwahl (mammal) 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (mammal) 12.04 Precise Pangolin (mammal) 12.10 Quantal Quetzal (bird) release: 10/18 Guardian, our ssh server, is running 10.04 32bit. Guardian has a dualcore 32bit intel Xeon processor with 2GB RAM and a 512GB RAID drive. Caprica, our ftp server, is running 10.04 32bit. Caprica has a dualcore 32bit intel Xeon processor with 2GB RAM and a 512GB RAID drive. Shadowfax, our teacher station, is running 11.10 32bit. Shadowfax has a dualcore 64bit amd Athlon processor with 2GB RAM and a 256GB hdd. We use a 32bit OS here as SmartNotebook doesn't run on 64bit.... Alpha-Omega, our student stations, are running 11.04 64bit. These Linux boxes, like Shadowfax, have dualcore 64bit amd Athlon processors with 2GB RAM and a 256GB hdd. We are only upgrading Alpha-Omega to 12.04 (or 12.10 if it's available when we upgrade in a couple of weeks). We are also waiting for a hardware upgrade for Alpha-Omega to amd quadcore Phenoms!
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SEPTEMBER UPDATE
We had our traditional first organizational meeting: (1) Wreath of the Unknown Server: We visited our first ssh server, Colossus, which is still in the switch room though dormant. I set it up for the first time in 1995 running Slackware Linux. Colossus ran for 12 years straight, 24x7 never having to shut down, reboot or even have anything re-installed! Colossus would not die. We finally just replaced Colossus with a dual-core Intel Xeon box complete with a RAID drive running 1TB. Old Linux boxes never die, they just fade away...
(2) Display Case Unveiled: We took down a ton of fractal prints and ray tracings from Room 429 to the 2 cases on the 1st floor near the art wing. We decorated both cases as best we could and left before anyone saw us. Must have been gremlins. (3) Recruiting 2012: We decided that we did not have a good pool of candidates to recruit more CIS(theta) members for this year's Geek Squad, so we tabled that topic. (4) Planing 2012: Next meeting would have been 9/28 but that's Yum Kipur. So, we have to wait another 2 weeks after that for 10/10 at which point Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 64bit release 12.10 Desktop Edition should be available for a mini install fest. After that, we may use bootable cluster Linux CD distros to learn MPI. ==================================
