News for UCLA Computer Science 130, Winter 2005

2005-01-28

• Matt Moen's Running Windows viruses with Wine (NewsForge, 2005-01-26 06:12 UTC) may be of some interest to the Wine project members.

2005-01-25

• The classroom for discussion section 1B has been moved from Kaufman 101 (where it has never met yet) to Geology 6704. This is because Kaufman 101 is not ready yet for classes. Please don't forget to enroll in section 1B if you are scheduled to do so; otherwise we'll lose the room.

2005-01-12

• Project jeam assignments are now available on Courseweb, under Materials. Please let Teresa know if any corrections might be needed.

2005-01-10

• Dan Kegel has updated his Software Engineering with Wine proposal to list a few DLLs to consider writing tests for, and to mention the mailing list he created for people working on the project.

2005-01-09

• Shaun Ahmadian has set up a meeting time of tomorrow (Monday) at 09:00 in 4760 Boelter for those interested in his IM project idea. Please contact Shaun for more info.

2005-01-08

• Even if you are interested in one of the student-proposed projects, please still send email containing your preferences for the four projects as discussed on Friday. This email will be used if the student-proposed projects do not pan out for whatever reason.
• Shaun Ahmadian has proposed a SEASnet instant messaging service project. Please contact Shaun if you are interested.

2005-01-07

• Nikitas Liogkas has proposed a Firefox-based project suite; see his email which had a proposal attached. Please contact him if you are interested.
• Don't forget to read McConnell chapters 1 through 9 before lecture Tuesday; there will be a quiz.
• As mentioned in discussion section today, please email your project preferences to the class TA (CC: to the instructor) with the Subject: line reading "CS130 preference". The first line of the message body should be your name and Student-ID, and the next four lines being your preferred projects in descending order (choose among bison, blast, minigrant, and wine). Please append any other information you find useful after those four lines. The deadline for this email is Monday at 12:00.
• Please use the machine lindbrook.seas.ucla.edu for any heavy-duty computing that you need to do for this course on SEASnet. We have reserved that machine for this course. Log in directly to lindbrook.seas.ucla.edu instead of to the generic host ugrad.seas.ucla.edu.
• Obtain or renew your SEASnet Computing Facility account right away, as there are occasionally delays before your account is activated.