• EECIS FAQ for questions about the CIS machines and network: old html or new wiki.
• Breech's Welcome to Grad School (slightly out of date, but still good)
• Advice from Dave Patterson to advisors of graduate students, but you can read it the other way to find out what you should do (especially the first paragraph)
• Advice from Jeffrey Ullman to advisors of graduate students, but this has even more advice for graduate students
• Advice to new students from Matt Welsh

• Graduate School Survival Guide by Wanda Pratt
• What's graduate school all about: Goals and survival skills, Anne Condon (University of British Columbia), Jo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California)
• How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors and Associated Slides by Marie desJardins
• Jelena's grad student advice
• Graduate School Survival Guides at phds.org
• A Mental Makeover for the Graduate Student by Shannon Duvall. See also the Mental Makeover site

• Linux User Group @ UD
• Emily's Shell Scripting and Makefiles Help
• Breech's really small Beginner's Guide to Emacs
• Sachin's even smaller guide to printing to CIS printers from your personal laptop/computer

In your ~/.cshrc file, by default, the keybinding are set to vi. If you know vi, you can use vi commands to edit the line, such as using ‘i’ to insert into the command. Otherwise, you should change your keybinding by editting your .cshrc file. Search the file for “bindkey” and uncomment the line about “emacs” bindings and comment out the “vi” option. Then, apply your updates.

If your .cshrc file doesn’t have the bindkey line about emacs in it, then add the line:

bindkey -e

The next time you login, your changes will be applied. To see your changes in the same shell, you can execute source on the configuration file:

source .cshrc

• Download and install an ssh client such as SSH Client or cygwin for Windows. If you have a Mac or *nix, you should have an ssh client already installed, just open a terminal and type the lines below.
• ssh strauss.udel.edu for the UD network
• ssh stimpy.cis.udel.edu for the CIS network

Remember that your UD network login and password might be different from your CIS login.

• If you have user id ‘user’, then your homepage on the cis network will be located at http://www.cis.udel.edu/~user.
• On stimpy, your files will be at ~user/public_html. Make sure to chmod -R 755 public_html to make your files world readable and executable.
• On the UD network, your files are in the same location, but your web page is at http://udel.edu/~user.