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Computer Resources at Pitt and Introduction to the the Pitt Main Frame Computer Raise student awareness of computing resources available at the University of Pittsburgh Students will access their Unix account Student will create a web page on their Unix account that contains 2 links and one image file Students will learn how to move files with FTP Class Objectives Falk Library Benedum Hall Cathedral of Learning David Lawrence Posvar Hall Hillman Library Sutherland Hall Alumni Hall Computer Labs at Pitt More info at http://technology.pitt.edu/software_hardware.html Adobe Acrobat Professional ($35) Microsoft Office ($0) ArcView ($10) MiniTab ($5) Clementine ($10) Norton Anti-Virus ($0) EndNote ($5) Oracle ($5) MathCad ($5) SAS ($10) Mathematica ($10) S-Plus ($10) MatLab ($10) SPSS ($10) Software Licensing at Pitt CSSD Student Toolkit CD Students, faculty and staff have access to the Pitt network, including: an email account and a unix account Computer Accounts All Pitt faculty students and staff have access to the Pitt computer store. Go there first to buy Hardware and Software Computer Store will help with configuration and installation Computer Services The Technology Help Desk is staffed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week (closed holidays) and serves as a single point of contact for all information technology services. University of Pittsburgh students, faculty and staff can contact the Help Desk regarding any computer issue including e-mail, hardware, software, networking, ResNet, University Computer Accounts, computing labs, and other services. Help desk 624-4357 Technology Help Desk Most Universities run mainframe (huge) computers that use the unix operating system If you’re a Pitt student you have a unix account Pitt maintains this account for you, backs up the data, keeps it running 24 hours a day, 7 days week. What’s a Unix Account? Stable Used by Main Frame Computers Allows many users to have separate accounts on the same machine Used world wide for web servers UNIX Operating System [...]... mcs2 is my UNIX username UNIX is a Command Line Environment Not as easy to use, therefore less popular But more powerful too! Why Should I Bother to Learn Unix? Maybe you shouldn’t but Almost all bioinformatics processes are run in a Unix environment Lots of FREE software for DNA/protein sequence analysis is available on Unix Sharing data/images with colleagues and friends How to Access your Unix Account.. .UNIX Operating System Maintained by University Data backed up each night Lots of free scientific software has been developed for Unix Unix is the base for new OS’s for personal computers including Linux and Mac OSX Pitt Maintains Unix Mainframe Computers Student and Faculty have Unix accounts by default email address = username @ pitt.edu... Sharing data/images with colleagues and friends How to Access your Unix Account Log on via Telnet ( HSLS programs > Internet aps > Telnet shortcuts > unixs) host = unixs.cis.pitt.edu Enter username and password at prompt ls command lists directories and files UNIX uses a Hierarchical File system When you log on, you are in your home directory You can always return to your home directory by typing cd (change... directory MUST be empty before it can be removed Create the ‘html’ Directory Pitt allows web broswers to access web pages in your Unix account Web pages must be inside a directory called ‘html’ that is located inside your ‘public’ directory Create the ‘html’ Directory log on to you Unix account go inside public cd public create new directory called html mkdir html go inside html cd html What’s a path? The... directories is a forward slash / More on paths The path to your html directory is public/html The Unix OS keeps track of your ‘current working directory’ You can always get the complete path by typing pwd (print working directory) The abbreviation for the current directory is / How do you create or edit a text file? Unix provides several text editors The easiest to use is ‘pico’ To launch pico, type pico ... should have directories called public and private File access is controlled at the directory level Web pages must be in your directory public Anyone can read the contents of your public directory Basic UNIX Commands Basic commands are listed on a web page under Tutorial #1 Everybody should log in to their accounts In-Class Exercise Create directory needed to host web pages Create your own web page Address... file (buffer) was modified, you will be asked whether you want to save the changes The answer is yes (y) or no (n) You can save to a new name or OVERWRITE the existing name Once a file is OVERWRITTEN on Unix, there is no UNDO caution More Pico: ^X More Pico: ^X What’s a Web Page? Web pages are text files that are meant to be ‘rendered’ or formatted by a browser Browsers use HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) . run in a Unix environment Lots of FREE software for DNA/protein sequence analysis is available on Unix Sharing data/images with colleagues and friends Why Should I Bother to Learn Unix? Log. the unix operating system If you’re a Pitt student you have a unix account Pitt maintains this account for you, backs up the data, keeps it running 24 hours a day, 7 days week. What’s a Unix. world wide for web servers UNIX Operating System Maintained by University Data backed up each night Lots of free scientific software has been developed for Unix Unix is the base for new OS’s