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Week 5

Week 5 hits a few milestones:
- This week effectively marks the 1/3 waypoint of the semester. Can you believe it?
- Fall begins on September 23, at 4:21 A.M. … so be sure to enjoy what remains of summer!
General observations:
- rushing begets confusion and stalled progress. Be it rushing due to procrastination, or rushing due to not putting adequate amounts of time into understanding, it will hurt you if you do not spend the appropriate amount of time to learn the new concepts and to become increasingly fluent with them.
- I cannot stress this enough: you must make time to play.

With increasing exposure to system basics, the tasks we can accomplish can start to be increasingly productive. This week's introduced project will entail taking command of some of our settings, opening the door to customization.

Welcome! I've wrapped all the initial activities into one project, uxi0, that I'd like you to perform by the given deadline (by 11:59:59pm / 23:59:59).
On Lab46, we'll be getting familiar with logging into the pod systems, and once there:
- opening up a terminal
- logging that terminal onto Lab46 for class work and in-class attendance
Get familiar with how to log onto Lab46, and once on:
- change your password to something more preferable
- start working on the labs and other class activities
- start exploring
Be sure to do the reading (located in the individual labs below)! There may be many pages, but there are many concepts to encounter.
The following labs are now available for you to work through:
- Lab 0x0: Introduction to UNIX/Linux and Lab46 (complete by 20150909)
- Lab 0x1: Basic Utilities and their manual pages (complete by 20150909)
- Lab 0x2: Files and Directories (complete by 20150916)