Previous Assignments
Due May 6
Get a school account
As long as you are a registered student, you can have an account to use the
school's computers. This account is not needed to use the PCs in the computer
labs, but it is needed to long onto solix.
To get the account, you must connect to the solix computer. When you
are prompted for a login name, type the single word (no spaces)
newstudent. You will then be asked some information like name and
student number. Then you will be given a user name and a password. Write
them down! Then you will be logged off the computer. You won't be able
to access the computers for another 24 hours, while your account is being
activated.
In the future, you will use your user name and password to log onto any of
the named computers.
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Due May 11.
You are to send me, downeyt, an e-mail message from the
solix computer. Be sure to include
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Your name
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Course and section (CGS3559 Section 01)
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Something funny or interesting
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Optional: If you would like to be able to view your homework grades
on the web, then provide me with a secret name that I will use to identify
your grades. Everyone will be able to see your grades, but only you will
know that your secret name applies to you. If you do not wish to have your
grades displayed, then do not provide me with a secret name. The secret name
does not need to be secret, it could be your student number or even your
name. It could also be very secret, like XY45-89Q.
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Due May 13
Go to http://vlib.org/Overview.html and browse the web. Look for three pages
on different topics that you like. Then, send me an e-mail message explaining
why you like each page, and also give me the complete URL for each page.
The complete URL will begin with http://
While browsing, use the history list, the forward and back buttons, add a
bookmark.
You may send the message from any e-mail account that you use.
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For this assignment you are to join two different electronic mailing lists:
my list, and a list of your choosing.
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Join my mailing list cgs3559
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Send a mail message to majordomo@cs.fiu.edu
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Leave the subject area blank (or insert a period)
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In the message, include only the following (delete your signature
from the message)
subscribe cgs3559
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You should receive a message within 5 minutes that welcomes you to the list.
Keep this message, it tells you how to unsubscribe. Do not unsubscribe from
this list until I tell you.
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If you receive a long message that tells you that you made an error, then
read the message and see if you can determine what you did wrong. If you
can't understand the message, you can forward it to me and I will help you
translate it.
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Join a mailing list of your choice.
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The book has several lists that you can choose from.
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Try www.liszt.com for a list of mailing
lists.
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Or, try tile.net/lists for a different
list of mailing lists.
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You may be required to respond to a message with a siimple OK. This
is to prevent other people from adding you to a mailing list. You usually
hafe 48 hours to respond, so check your mail after you apply to a list. Usually
you will receive this message within 5 minutes.
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You should receive an acknowledgement that you are on the list. Keep it,
it will tell you how to unsubscribe later (a very important thing to know).
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After you are on the list, forward me a message from the list. Do not forward
an administrative message the is welcoming you to the list. Wait until you
get a real message from the list.
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You are to go to the People Search website at
http://people.yahoo.com and register
yourself.
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Near the top of the People Search home page, follow the Create
Listing link
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On this new page, select Sign Me Up
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On the new page, enter as much or as little information as you choose. Be
sure to enter a password so you can change your listing later. Then press
the Submit this form button.
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Within a few minutes, you should get an e-mail reply from People Search.
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Forward this message to me.
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If you do not want to remain listed, you may remove yourself as soon as you
have forwarded the welcome message to me.
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Due 6/1
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Go to the fiu.scs.cgs3559 newsgroup. There is a message from me that
describes what to do for this homework. Find the message and follow the
instructions.
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Send me an e-mail message containing the names of two newsgroups that interest
you.
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Reply to the message that I sent to the cgs3559 mailing list:
cgs3559@cs.fiu.edu.
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Due 6/8
For this assignment, you are going to find several pages on the web. To complete
the assignment send me one e-mail message that contains the required
information for each of the searches below.
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There are several pages on the web that list all the movies for the movie
actress Bette Davis. What movies did she make in 1942? In what year did she
make the most movies? Where did you find this information on the web?
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There is a book with the words bear and mountain in the
title.Actually, there are several such books. I want the one that was published
in the 90's and is a humorous satire. Who wrote this book? Where did
you find this information on the web?
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Who sponsored Senate bill number 7 for the 106th congress?
What is the description of this bill? Where did you find this information
on the web?
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Give me the name of a newsgroup that was created for the actor Dustin Hoffman.
I have posted a message in it.
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Due 6/10
You are to create your own web page and modify it. After you have made all
the modifications, send me an e-mail with the URL to your site.
Setting up your directories in solix
Follow these commands if you have not created your index.html file yet.
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Log onto solix
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Issue the command chmod 711 ~
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Issue the command mkdir www
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Issue the command chmod 755 www
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Issue the command cd www
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Issue the command pico index.html
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Type My Web Page
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Save the file by pressing CTRL-O, accept the
name index.html
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Exit pico by pressing CTRL-X
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Issue the command chmod 644 index.html This will fix the access rights
of your home page so that you can edit the file.
This has done three things
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created a directory called www in your solix account. The complete
path to this directory would be ~jsmith01/www, replacing jsmith01 with your
solix username.
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created a file in the www directory named index.html This file
is where the HTML code for your home page is located.
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created a URL for you at the school. The URL would be
http://www.fiu.edu/~jsmith01, replacing jsmith01 with your solix
username.
How to edit your index.html file and view it in Netscape simultaneously
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Connect to solix. Issue the commands:
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Now you are in the pico editor, looking at your home page file, index.html
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Start Netscape.
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Now by using the ALT-TAB key combination, you will be able to switch
back and forth between Netscape and the telnet to solix.
Changes to make to your index.html file
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Due 6/17
Create a new page named assign9.html.
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Log onto solix
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Change to the www directory
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Issue the command pico assign9.html. You will see a new, blank screen.
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Add all the necessary tags: HTML, HEAD, TITLE, BODY as you did in
the previuos assignment.
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Add two images to this page, and create two paragraphs of several sentences
each.
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Have one image to the left of one of the paragraphs
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Have the other image to thr right of the other paragraph
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Use an image for the background of the page.
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Select an appropriate text color that looks good with your background.
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Create a defintion list of something that interests you.
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Add a link on this page that will take you to your index.html page.
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Add a link on your index.html page to this page.
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