CS SURVIVAL TALK

Thursday, December 2, 6:30 PM
Heilmeier Hall

www.upenn.edu/computing/security/office.html

Dave Millar, University of Pennsylvania Information Security Officer, will talk on personal computer security: that is, how avoid (or recover from) problems such as viruses, spyware, spam, and phishing. This talk is aimed at a general audience.

All interested students and faculty are invited to attend.

Here's what to study for Monday's quiz:

• Know all of the bad smells from all the refactoring lectures. I'll ask you to briefly identify one or two of them.
• Know how to create and read system and user Preferences.
• Learn the Logger methods and be able to distinguish among the XxxHandlers.
• Know the various ways to get the Class of an object, and the basic getXxx methods. Don't bother with all the methods to dissect classes, modifiers, methods, etc.
• DTDs, XML Schema Definition Language (XSD), and RELAX NG--know the advantages and disadvantages of each, but the language constructs won't be covered.
• Perl--everything in this lecture is fair game, so work on your assignment.

Using Eclipse for servlets: In order to compile servlets with Eclipse, you need to link to the two jars servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar. They are in Tomcat\common\lib.

Also, Tomcat 5.0.27 and 5.0.29 don't seem to work with Java 1.5.0; I had to use Java 1.4.2. I think there is a list of allowable SDKs in a Tomcat configuration file, but I haven't had time to go looking for it.

The quiz November 10 will cover the following lectures: Sockets and URLs, HTTP, Clients and Servers, Threads, Servlets, More About Servlets, JSP, Tomcat, and UML, and An Example Servlet.

The quiz will not cover: Refactoring 1, Comments on Chat Assignment, Swing, or Tomcat installation and configuration. It will not cover anything from November except the Example Servlet lecture (mentioned above), which adds no new technical material but helps clarify the organization of servlet information.

I have the class ftp server and student accounts set up. Please try it when you get a chance, to make certain your account is set up correctly:
ftp m174pc4.cis.upenn.edu
Your user name is your last name, uncapitalized (for instance, matuszek) and your password is your student number. Please change your password as soon as is reasonably convenient. Do not use your usual password, because it is saved on the server in plain text.

If you aren't familiar with FTP:
CETS has info on file transfer using Filezilla: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cets/answers/filezilla.html
and Pat has a quick reference page: http://harbormist.com/cit593_03/reference/ftp.html

There is a TA position (possibly two) available to assist students in

• CIT 592/Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
• CIT 591/Programming Languages & Techniques I
• CIT 593/Introduction to Computer Architecture

Candidates should have a strong academic background in mathematics; knowledge of an assembly language and Java desirable.

Pay: $18/hour

If interested please contact Prof. Dave Matuszek.

"I'm David Matuszek, and I approve this ad."

There is a talk by Craig Nevill-Manning, of Google on Tuesday, September 28, 3:00 - 4:30, inWu & Chen Auditorium. The title is "Finding needles in a 20 TB haystack, 200 million times per day."

This should be a good talk; I recommend it and I plan to attend myself. I will not have office hours during that time, so I will attempt to be more available the rest of the day.