• The lab web page is at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/spl/
• Add yourself to the SPL mailing list: mail majordomo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca placing subscribe soft-practices in the body of the message
  • And then send a message introducing yourself!
  • Other useful department mailing lists: cs-eclipse, cs-cycling, realtimenews, cs-running
• Subscribe to the lab calendar (from Google Calendar; simply ask if you want ability to add events)
  • XML
  • iCal
  • HTML
• Add your name to the WebNotify page, so you can receive email notification when SPL wiki pages change (such as for SPLuRGe).
• Update your userinfo information. Department people will use this to find out your office, etc. You can query this information with the userinfo command from any Unix box or using the userinfo web search.
• Get yourself on the Unix spl group by asking one of the faculty to send a request to help@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca.
• Read the local computing FAQ for information on setting up your e-mail, and about our Unix and Windows setups.
  • Your home directory is accessed through Z:\ under Windows.
  • Our SPL directory is in /cs/spl (Unix) or R:\spl (Windows)
  • The different internal groups have their own drives for storing research work, usually found under the SPL directory. Gail's group (for historical reasons) is found at /isd/se2/ (Unix) or R:\isd\se2.
  • Local copies of programs can be found from the SPL downloads page; add your own to /cs/spl/labs/Downloads (Unix) or R:\spl\shared\Downloads (Windows); the web-page is rebuilt nightly.
• Use the self-service forms at Campus Wide Login for your cwl id.
  • If possible, make your cwl id the same as your cs id.
    • Then inform help@cs of your cwl id.
  • Doing this will allow you to connect via the Contivity VPN client on Windows, logging in as your cwl id.cs
    • you'll get an IP address inside the CS firewall,
    • you'll be able to mount your home directory from \\cs-smb.cs.ubc.ca\your cs id,
    • and connect to printers at \\winserver.cs.ubc.ca\queue name (eg. iccs-306).

The following are instructions for setting up CVS:

• Create a directory in which you want your CVS repository to reside.
  • There is a shared space under /cs/spl/shared where you can create your own directory. The only problem is we have to get help to create the directory for us. You should send an email to help and let them know the name of the directory you want to create, the location of the directory and to ask them to set ownership of the new directory to yourself. You should also CC your supervisor so they can confirm the creation of the directory.
• Using SecureCRT after you have logged into your CS account, type the command "cvs -d $path init" where $path is the path to your repository location.
• Then you will notice that $path/CVSROOT is created. After that, your repository is set up and you can start sharing your projects.