Topics

1) Mostly Unix: Computer Security
2) Unix NEWS: TeX / LaTeX and tth
3) Barb's Corner: Scheduled Staff Computer Training Sessions


1) (Mostly Unix) Computer Security:


If you work on a PC or Mac, this discussion may not be very important for you.

If you haven't read the Computer Security Policy yet, please do so. If you
run sendmail on your Unix machine, please make sure to let us know. If we
don't hear from you, we have to assume that you don't receive sendmail on
a private machine.

The security filters will be implemented as discussed in the explanation to
the policy on a subnet by subnet basis.

We will start with

	subnet 190 on Thursday, April 16.

Subnet 20 will be changed Thursday, April 23, and subnet 33 on Thursday, April
30. If you have any questions about this, please send email to
support@chemistry.ohio-state.edu.


2) Unix News: TeX / LaTeX and tth:


teTeX version 0.4 has been installed on chemistry and is available for all
Sun Solaris machines in the Department. We are planning to make this new
version available for all AIX machines as well.

tth is a (La)TeX-to-html converter. tth version 1.45 is now available on all
Solaris, AIX and IRIX machines that mount the central /usr/common and
/usr/global filesystems. Documentation on tth is available through the
Computer Support web page:

Internal
  Computing
    LaTeX-To-HTML (tth) Manual



3) Barb's Corner: Scheduled Staff Computer Training Sessions:


(Watch for details/preregistration via email; all are welcome)

Friday, April 10, 1998 (Computer Lab, 2105NW):
Using Message Filtering with Eudora Pro
  * Creating/using message filters
  * Creating/using Stationery files
  * Changing message queueing

Details: By user request, the next training session will be a tutorial
about "Using Message filtering with Eudora". With message filtering, one
can set up Eudora to do certain tasks automatically, such as:

     * move certain incoming msgs. to specified mailboxes/folders
     * tag certain incoming msgs. w/color-coded labels
     * reply to certain requests with "canned" responses (Stationery files
       in Eudora's parlance)

I would also like to show users how to create/use Stationery files (in
combination with message filtering or otherwise), and how to change
message queueing, so they can send any of their outgoing email messages
at a specified time/date.


Proposed Series of Workshops on Web Page Creation/HTML


Friday, April 17, 1998 (Computer Lab, 2105NW):
Creating Web Pages (Part 1)
  * The Web, Home Pages & Other Web Pages, Hyperlinks
  * HTML - HyperText Markup Language
  * Some Basic HTML Tags to Create a Web Page
  * Using Text Editors to Create/Edit a Web Page
  * Using a Browser to View Your Web Page

Friday, April 24, 1998 (Computer Lab, 2105NW):
Creating Web Pages (Part 2)
  * Creating Your Chemistry Home Page & public_html Directory
  * Simple Editing of Your Chemistry Home Page
  * Some More HTML Tags
  * Adding Links to Other Web Pages
  * Including Graphics on Your Web Page

Friday, May 1, 1998 (Computer Lab, 2105NW):
Creating Web Pages (Part 3)
  * Using Web Authoring Tools to Simplify Web Page
    Creation/Editing/Publishing
  * More HTML Tags
  * More About Images
  * Background Color/Images
  * Tables

Friday, May 8, 1998 (Computer Lab, 2105NW):
Creating Web Pages (Part 4)
  * More on Tables
  * Web Forms (Rudimentary)
  * Frames
  * Other Stuff: Image Maps, Animated GIFs, Sound/Movies/etc.,
    CGI Scripts, Java
  * Some HTML/Web Page/Authoring Tools & Editors Resources