Who we are

• Per Erik Forssen

Helpful hints and tips

CS PostDocs Wiki

• For non LCI-specific post-doc info, look here.

Administrative

• Mailing lists and groups.

Mailing list hierarchy and UNIX netgroup correspondence, from Alan Mackworth (May 01, 2006)

• lci-all
  • lci-lab
    • lci-faculty
      • members of netgroup lci-faculty (LCI faculty)
    • lci-staff
      • members of netgroup lci-staff (LCI technical and administrative staff)
    • lci-grads
      • members of netgroup lci-grads (LCI grad students: MSc students, PhD students)
    • lci-guests
      • members of netgroup lci-guests (LCI visitors: short term visitors, visiting faculty, visiting grad students)
    • lci-scholars
      • members of netgroup lci-scholarsfaculty (LCI scholars: postdoctoral fellows = PostDocs)
    • lci-associates
      • list of people
  • lci-interest
    • list of people
  • lci-steering
    • lci-faculty,lci-scholars, list of people invited to the monthly LCI steering committee

Computing

The most important email address you'll ever know: lci-help@cs.ubc.ca. Trouble calls sent to this address will be automatically filed through the usual help@cs system, but also get routed straight to Hazita for faster handling (in many cases).

Disk space

Obtaining access to disk space is a relentless battle in the dept. As a postdoc, you should have at least 100MB of space on the /faculty filesystem (which in this day and age is pretty much useless). If you only received 10MB or you're not on /faculty, that's the first thing you should have corrected.

Assuming you've got your 100MB, there is a sequence of priorities you should use to get more space:

1. You want backed-up space. /ai is the main filesystem that gets a regular backup. Like /faculty, it's under a quota system, but assuming there's space and your supervisor helps, you should be able to get 1GB or so by sending a message to lci-help.
2. You want reliable space (but maybe not backed up). There is a lot of space available in /lci/project/raid1 (and possibly elsewhere in /lci --RS). You should have write access to this disk, so you can create a directory and file away. Note that this space is NOT backed up, but it's a raid disk and failures are usually recoverable. [Correction, May 15/06: apparently raid1 is backed up. Good news. RS]
3. Just give me some space! Assuming you have a desktop machine, you can use /var/tmp, which provides more space than the systems people have ever conceived of. The down-side is it's not backed up, your box could catch fire, be stolen, or any other number of calamities can strike. That said, you'll have total control over the space and the data. See also /lci/SCRATCH and /cs/SCRATCH

Web hints

Your home page will be in ~/www/index.html (or ~/World/index.html) 100MB isn't much space for all your papers, photos, weblogs, public data, etc, etc, but you can extend this space by creating symlinks to other filesystems.

Eg

$ ln -s /lci/project/raid1/simra/public_html ~/www/lci/

This creates a soft link to the directory public_html in my lci space. The web server is smart enough to forward URLs of the type: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~simra/lci/ to that directory.

Wanted: A method for getting a directory listing from the web. By default, the web server will produce an error message when you try to access a directory without an index.html file. Sometimes, I want to share a directory without an index... If there's a user directive I can use to instruct the webserver otherwise (it's a netscape server, not apache), I'd like to hear about it.

-- RobertSim - 04 May 2006