Things you should do before too much time passes:

• EoCE is now located at the bottom of your Opus. It is accessible only by you (and me). As such:
  • you MUST be logged in to the wiki to see it.
  • if it doesn't show up and you are logged in, try adding “?purge=true” (sans quotes) onto the end of the URL and load that.

• Lab 0xB: Filters
• Case Study 0xB: Groups and Security

• Lab 0xA: Data Analysis with Regular Expressions and Scripting
• Case Study 0xA: Data Manipulation

• Lab 0x9: Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
• Case Study 0x9: Fun with grep

• Lab 0x8: The UNIX Programming Environment
• Case Study 0x8: Data Types in C

• Lab 0x7: Job Control and Multitasking
• Case Study 0x7: Scheduled Tasks

• Lab 0x6: Shell Scripting Concepts
• Case Study 0x6: Device Files
• Here is the UNIX Knowledge Assessment

• Lab 0x5: More UNIX Shell Explorations
• Case Study 0x5: Web Pages
• NEXT WEEK, there will be a “Knowledge Assessment”, which will test your skills on anything learned up through this week. Be sure you have been keeping up with the labs, case studies, playing, and have an up-to-date Opus (I may also be checking things off).

• Lab 0x4: UNIX Shell Basics
• Case Study 0x4: UNIX Messaging Tools
• Know your loops! We are going to be working on an in-class project where they may come in handy!

• Lab 0x3: Text Processing
• Case Study 0x3: The Puzzle Box

• Lab 0x2: Files and Directories
• Case Study 0x2: Unconventional Naming

• Lab 0x1: Basic Utilities and their Manual Pages
• Case Study 0x1: Archive Handling
• Make sure you find time to play! That's the only way you are really going to learn this material.

• Read over the syllabus.
• Obtain and start perusing through the books (I highly recommend reading UNIX for the Beginning Mage from start to finish, as soon as possible).
• Here is a guide on setting up the screen/irssi session for class chat.Get on the class chat, and familiarize yourself with basic screen usage (attaching/detaching). Most everyone doesn't get the screen setup right the first time. Pay attention- ask questions. You are already starting to learn course material with this. I will be watching your progress!
• Clone and start using your personal Lab46 Mercurial Repository
• Familiarize yourself with logging in to the Lab46 system
• Edit/customize at least the Title and Introduction sections of your Opus by the start of class on Friday September 6th.
• Subscribe a frequently checked (or pushed) e-mail address to the class mailing list
• Make sure you can access the UNIX course homepage from home and-or your preferred computing device(s) (you may want to bookmark it).
• Make sure you can log into Lab46 from home with your username/password (using PuTTY if on Windows, or some other SSH client).
• To help you get started, here is Lab 0x0: Introduction to UNIX/Linux and Lab46.