The second LFR will be placed in the new Media Union Advanced Visualization Facility. Alumni updates CAEN recently made several changes to the Alumni server in an effort to eliminate remote login problems. Now U-M Engineering Alumni can communicate with on another on Usenet on the recently created newsgroup umich.engin.alumni . To start up a Usenet newsreader when you are logged in to alumni.engin.umich.edu , type tin at the Unix shell prompt. CAEN recently installed POP on alumni.
POP defines how unfiled e-mail is downloaded from a mail server to a client mail program.
Most POP clients connect to the server and download mail to the local hard drive. Eudora is a popular POP public domain mail client that is easy to use, customizable, and very powerful. The interface is mostly menu driven. The naming scheme for this lab is words that begin with the letter 'x' that are eight letters or less. Some of the machine names are xylan, xylose, xenia, and xhosa.