1998 System Changes
1998Dec18: Installed SSH
Installed SSH, the secure shell replacement for telnet, rsh, rlogin
and other network services. SSH encrypts usernames and passwords used for
logins across network connections. All department unix machines have SSH
and un-encrypted telnet logins will be eliminated soon. Users who connect
from home machines, campus PCs and other systesm should contact system@stat.ufl.edu for information
on obtaining and installing client software for SSH.
1998Dec01: Upgraded Octave 2.0.13
Upgraded octave to version 2.0.13. Octave is a free version of Matlab,
a statistical programming language. Documentation for octave is available
on the web at http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/.
1998Nov23: Upgraded CIS 97
The online CIS database has been updated to the 1997 version (which
covers through 1996). The 1998 version should be out in 3 to 5
months. We have not yet installed new search software, but we plan to
upgrade, including the addition of a web accessible version.
1998Nov13: Installed BUGS 0.6
Installed Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling (BUGS) version 0.6.
BUGS is a software package which permits the analysis of complex statistical
models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. For more information, see the
postscript manuals online.
1998Nov03: Upgrade Sendmail 8.9.1
Upgraded Sendmail to 8.9.1 with anti-spam features. The purpose of the
mail changes was to block people from using our server to send junkmail to
other sites. This is accomplished by allowing people to use our server to
send outgoing mail anywhere from a stat machine, and receiving mail from
anywhere to a stat machine.
What is not allowed is sending mail from a non-stat machine to another
non-stat machine. This is relevant to people who use a home computer for
email. If you dial into an Internet Service Provider (ISP) other than NERDC,
GatorLink or IBM.NET, you cannot use our server for your SMTP host. You
should use you ISP's SMTP host instead.
1998Oct15: Sponsorship for Departed Students
Departed students and collaborative guests now require departmental
faculty sponsors in order to create new accounts and keep existing
computer accounts active beyond a three-month grace period. Faculty
sponsorship forms are available in and Portable
Document Format (PDF).
Sponsored accounts must be renewed at six-month intervals by
the faculty sponsor.
1998Oct14: Upgrade Ghostscript 5.10
Upgrade from Aladdin ghostscript 5.03 to 5.10. The ghostscript program
converts images into and out of PostScript format. The newer version includes
a copy of ps2pdf for creating cross-platform Portable Document Format (PDF)
documents which are acceptable to the NSF for electronic grant requests.
1998Oct05: Upgrade AcroRead 3.0
Upgrade from Adobe Acrobat 1.0 to 3.0. The acroread program allows
viewing of cross-platform Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.
1998Oct03: Installed new Biostat server
The new Biostat server is moss, or biostat.ufl.edu, which is an
Enterprise 450 with one 250Mhz processor and 128MB of RAM. Any
references you had for azalea, the old biostat server, should be changed
to biostat.ufl.edu so that you connect to the new machine.
1998Sep30: Upgrade Communicator 4.06
Upgrade from Netscape Communicator 4.02 to 4.06. Includes bug fixes,
better IMAP support, Smart Browsing, enhanced JDK 1.1 support, etc. For
a complete list of what's new see the Release Notes.
1998Sep28: Installed gv 3.5.8
Installed a new postscript viewer (gv) as a replacement for Ghostview.
You should find gv to be a big improvement over ghostview. Among
other things, the "Open" entry under the "File" menu will work
correctly. Also gv will open compressed PostScript or PDF files on
the fly, so that you can use gzip (or compress) to compress your
PostScript files and still view them without manually gunzip'ing (or
uncompressing) them. For documentation see the gv man page or our
online documentation
.
1998Sep15: Moved Licenses
The machine-specific licenses for GLIM and Mathematica were moved
to the new computation server, orca.stat.ufl.edu, and can no longer be run
on ocean. At the same time, mathematica was upgraded from version 3.0
to version 3.0.2 to be compatible with the new server.
1998Sep03: Installed Computation Server
Installed Sun Enterprise 450
server with three 250Mhz processors and 512MB of RAM. The new machine is
self-contained enough that it should be able to run during downtime for
the primary server. Statistical software licensed only for one machine,
eg. GLIM and Mathematica, will be moved to the new machine as soon as the
licenses can be transferred.
The new machine is orca.stat.ufl.edu, and users can telnet or rlogin to
run jobs there. Normal rules of running jobs with the nice
command still apply.
1998Aug27: Installed Ghostscript 5.03
Installed Ghostscript 5.03 for image procesing - includes ps2pdf utlity
for converting exisiting postscript files to Portable Document Format (PDF)
which is viewable across various platforms and through web browsers.
1998Aug03: Installed Zip Drive
Installed an Iomega Zip drive on skipjack in the graduate lab for use
with DOS formatted Zip disks. See the Zip page
for notes on using the drive.
1998Aug03: Installed New Ultras
Installed new workstations, all running Solaris 2.6. Please see the
2.6 updates page for information about changes
to the user environment under the new system software.
1998Jul02: Installed Ox 2.00
Installed an updated version of the Ox statistical package. New
versions of the HTML documentation are available
on the web, as well as the old documents for comparison.
1998Jul02: Installed Bind 8.1.2
Installed the Bind DNS package, version 8.1.2. This version should be
immune to recent attacks on name service daemons which compromised
several servers on campus. The new Bind includes host and dig as well
as a new nslookup, all of which provide information about internet
hosts. Bind configuration docs are available
in the online documentation section of the system web page.
1998Jun25: Installed GNU diff utils
Installed GNU diff utilities which are a replacement for the standard
diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. The GNU diff utils have more options
than the standard diff utils. There are no man pages for this distribution
but there is documentation in the form of info files which can be found
in the /usr/local/info directory.
1998Jun22: Installed XMeter
Installed xmeter version 1.15. Xmeter provides a graphical view of
the current number of active processes on a machine. Several machines'
status can be displayed at once, as well as showing a variety of
metrics including disk, swap and RAM usage. Xmeter is similar to xnetload,
except it used RPC calls which are more easily supported to query
remote hosts.
1998Jun22: Installed Pine 3.96
Installed pine version 3.96. Pine is a simple but powerful
text-based email program capable of IMAP and local mail reading. It
also supports both mh-style message folders as well as Berkeley mbox
format.
This version of the Pine package also includes pico, a simple text
editor and pilot, a text-based file manager. All three of these
programs are recommended for telnet users who cannot access the
graphical mail client, file manager and text editors.
1998Jun20: Installed Agrep
Installed agrep version 2.04. agrep is a member of the grep family
of search utilities. Searches text for strings or approximations thereof.
Agrep is similar to the standard UNIX grep utility, but is more general,
and according to its authors, usually faster. Its most notable feature is
the approximate pattern matching facility. Agrep has other features not
found in the grep family: It is record rather than line orientated;
pattern matches can be output in a larger context than a single line.
Multiple search patterns can be specified with AND/OR logic. See the
agrep man page for examples of usage.
1998Jun19: Installed Mac Utilities
Installed various Macintosh Utilities for Solaris. It includes utilities
for working with archives (.cpt, .hqx, .sit, etc.). The commands are...
binhex, hexbin, frommac, tomac, macsave, macstream, and macunpack. There
are man pages for each utility.
1998May14: Installed Lyx
Installed Lyx software on all Statistics servers. Lyx is a "what you see
is what you mean" interface to LaTex. Lyx handles the typesetting duties
involved with LaTex in a consistent fashion so you can instead focus working on
the content of your document. Help menus and a highly-suggested tutorial
are available.
1998Mar13: Installed CAPA Server
Installed the CAPA software and web server on capa.stat.ufl.edu, formerly
snapper. This machine is not part of the password and file sharing system due
to security holes in the CAPA implementation. Instructors who are interested
in experimenting with CAPA can contact Allan for the instructor account
name and password (there's only one - that's part of the security issue) and
have a class area made for you to work in.
1998Mar13: Installed Splus 3.4
The latest update of Splus for unix, 3.4, is installed on all Statistics servers. Splus is statistical software with add-in packages for various special procedures.
1998Apr11: Delegated Routing
CLASNET now performs routing for subnet 141 on their Fore PowerHub 7000. They route IP, IPX and AppleTalk. This replaces IP-only routing on stat.ufl.edu which existed since prior to the formation of CLASNET. The server stat.ufl.edu now has a lighter load, and subnet 141 has access to campus-wide AppleTalk and IPX (Novell) file and print services including connectivity to the Statistics lab in Little Hall.
1998Mar13: Installed Color Printer
Installed a networked color inkjet printer for faculty use. The printer's name is rainbowprn and the machine is located in Griffin-Floyd 103C, the supply room, next to officeprn. It is for printing transparencies and other teaching materials. Please contact Allan for further information.
1998Mar03: Installed Ox 1.20
Installed Ox 1.20 on all servers. Ox is an object-oriented statistical package from Jurgen Doornik at Oxford. See: our online software documentation for more information.
1998Jan16: Moved departmental web documents
Moved departmental web documents. All departmental web documents
for http://www.stat.ufl.edu/
have been moved to the virtual user directory ~htdocs/ and reassigned
to group spinners for easier updating.
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