Notes for the 1996 "How to Compute Like a Grad Student" talk 
(2:00pm 26-Aug-96).

What to cover (in no particular order):

- Focus on things Clauss Strauch (facilities) is not likely to talk about
  the following week, and that aren't covered well in the facilities
  intro guide.

- AFS tips
  - OldFiles
  - watch out for permissions -- the mode bits are irrelevant for access ctl
    - e.g. ~/nsmail
  - suggested permissions for home dir?
- Andrew
- home machines
  - SLIP/PPP
  - Linux
  - rpp-dial
  - ?
- document editing & production
  - xemacs, emacs, framemaker, Word, latex
- scheduling
  - ical
  - cboards
- learning faces
  - url for face thing
- zephyr tips
  - quick ptrs to setup info, zarchive
  - instances
  - culture
- research tools
  - library web interface ("webcat")
  - LIS (library, library -v, lislook)
- web stuff
  - making pages visible via www.cs.cmu.edu (URL)
  - MOMspider
- where to put personal info:
  - .plan file (make them all symlinks to /afs/cs/user/<you>/.plan)
  - csd entry (available only to CS people)
  - web page (ptr to instructions)
- the RPP
  - printing (covered by facilities)
  - use of gp machines
  - license-stealing?  (how do you explain this?)
  - moving machines around
  - modem use (cf home machine tips)
  - in general, tread lightly on shared resources
  - ?
- mail handling:
  - MMDF, .maildelivery (include samples)
    - one AFS gotcha: make sure home dir and ~/.maildelivery are
      rwxr-xr-x (not world-writable) or .maildelivery will be ignored.
      (the mmdf mail dispatcher doesn't know that it's "really" safe
      because of AFS perms)
  - zrcvalert
  - user+foo@cs
  - kpop, pop (explain some typical setups)
  - mail readers (include ptrs to setup instructions):
    - VM (xemacs or emacs)
    - MH (cmd line, mh-e w/ xemacs/emacs, exmh, xmh)
    - GNUS (xemacs) -- (need setup instructions)
    - Netscape
    - UCB mail -- but can't do kpop/pop3, can't read MMDF format
    - elm (need instructions)
    - Mac/Windows: Eudora, Netscape, etc.
  - set up forwarding from andrew
  - establish cmu.edu address (choose carefully)
- contacting people in SCS
  - when to use email, zephyr, phone, drop by
  - how quickly to answer email
  - mailing lists: cs-students, cs-newstu, cs-faculty, cs-support
    - extremely low volume.  consider newsgroups.
    - watch your replies!
    - when sending to lists, consider doing Bcc: listname@cs
      with To: you@cs or whatever.
  
- plug for collection maintenance
- plug Maria's RSI talk
 

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outline:

- Intro
  - Not much time, so I'll be referring to the expanded version 
    of this talk on the web a lot.
  - Clauss Strauch will give the official facilities intro talk 
    next Wednesday.

- How to find out more
  - Be sure to read the facilities intro and other docs.
  - officemates
  - zephyr
  - help@cs
  - newsgroups (cmu.cs.unix.forum, ...)

- What's unusual at CMU SCS