Introduction to Modern Telecommunications

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Introduction to Modern Telecommunications

• EE1305 Lab 1

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Overview of Lab

• Labs are for two hours, once per week
• Location Room 215C or G16 CL
• Stay with your own lab section
• Lab Textbook Light on the Internet by Lehnert
  you are expected to read the assigned chapters in
  advance, per Syllabus.
• Please be on time each week

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Computer Lab Access

• Room 215C is open 24 x 7, whenever build-ing is
  open, except two hours per week main-tenance.
  You will have a SEAS (School of Engineering
  Applied Science) account.
• Room G16 CL is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays
• At the end of the semester, you will set up a
  POST account if you do not plan to stay in SEAS.
  (POST is the name of the general computer for
  Dedman, Cox, etc.)

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Lab Grading

• Lab Grade is 30 of overall course grade.
• 25 - Internet Topics Web Site
• 25 - Individual Assignments Lab Quizzes
• 50 - Lab Final Exam
• In lab, November 16-22

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Hints on scoring high in Lab

• Attend all labs so you dont miss out.
• Attendance is taken twice in lab each week
• 3 absences equal -1/3 letter grade for course (A-
  goes to B)
• Dont get behind in lab reports/readings.
• Lab Reports are generally due 2 weeks after lab
  activity. See syllabus.
• There is also one lab report due on a lecture
  tour during the week of 9/28-10/4

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Internet Topics

• 25 of Lab Grade is your website
• Personal exploration on the Internet
• Learn to use various Internet tools
• Electronic mail (e-mail)
• World Wide Web (Netscape)
• Research tools
• Videoconferencing
• Create your website

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Research Topics for your Website

• Should be approved by lab instructor first.
• You must have
• (1) an academic topic that must be related to
  your academic degree major or probable degree
  major at SMU
• (2) personal interest topic can be anything
  cohesive and legal that you find of interest
  hobbies, sports, family roots, etc.

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Sample Research Topics

• Example academic topics
• English Literature
• Superconductivity
• Advertising
• French Impressionists
• Example personal interest topics
• Rainforests or a favorite country
• Art, sports (favorite team), music (band)
• Must be a cohesive subject, not a hodgepodge

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Personal Website

• Your Own Personal Website on WWW.
• Tells the world (350 million people)
• Who you are
• What you like
• Links to your favorite WWW sites
• May include
• Pictures (pets, family, friends, YOU)
• Neat features like graphics, sounds, movies

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Your website can advertise you

• Web Site can be
• Useful for job-hunting as you near graduation.
• Example on-line resume
• Samples of your best work.
• papers, research, poetry, youve done in school
• Include your personal culture
• Whatever you want to brag about!
• How do you want others to see you? Remember 350
  million people can see it!

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Lab Reports Quizzes

• 25 of lab grade
• Includes lab reports and lab quizzes
• Reports are one or two double-spaced pages, per
  syllabus
• Quizzes anytime

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Final Lab Exam

• Final Exam
• 50 of total lab grade.
• Comprehensive (whole semester)
• Helpful Study Reminder
• slides from lab available online and in Course
  Pack
• lab resource website www.seas.smu.edu/ee/1305
• Half of final is on HTML (You must pass this part
  to pass EE 1305)

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Do not use Web-Creation Software!

• If you do, you will be penalized one letter grade
  in the entire course
• You must learn HTML
• It is easy, but you must do it
• To make sure you do, you must pass the HTML exam
  (60) to pass EE 1305

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Do not be overly dependent on others to create
your website

• If you do not do your own website, you will not
  learn HTML, you will not pass the HTML exam, and
  you will not pass the course
• This is without regard to your average in lab and
  in the course
• The is one of the absolutes in the universe

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Todays Activity

• Todays assignment
• 1. Find your way around the campus computing
  facilities.
• 2. Get an e-mail account set up.
• 3. Send e-mail to your lecture instructor
• Include your lab instructor as a cc
• Heres how

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First, sign on to a computer

• Use any computer in Room 215 C or G16 CL
• Get your account name and temporary password from
  your Lab Instructor
• Follow instructions on the screen. Enter the
  login name, password, and domain name. The
  domain is SEAS-S.
• Tab (not enter) between these entries

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Setting Up Your E-mail Account

• Locate the TELNET icon on computer screen
• Double (left mouse button) click on icon
• Single click on Connect
• Single click Remote Sys.
• Enter Host name hyper, quick, rapid, blaze,
  turbo, swift, homer, marge, agile, or speed
• Enter Port telnet
• Enter Term Type vt100

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Setting Up Your Account

• You will be asked for your login account name.
  This is your permanent account name in the SEAS
  computer system, as provided to you by your
  Instructor
• You will be asked for your password. Use the
  temporary password provided by your Instructor.
  Passwords are case sensitive you may not
  substitute cap for lower case

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Who are you on the Internet?

• E-mail address specifics
• Your account name part
• jsmith
• (Up to 8 characters, lower case)
• Your host part
• seas.smu.edu
• Your full e-mail address
• jsmith_at_seas.smu.edu

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Change Your Password

• Once you have successfully logged into the SEAS
  system, you must change your password to a
  permanent password
• Proper selection is important
• Something you can remember. Nobody can recover
  it if you forget it
• 8 characters, both upper and lower case
• Mixture of letters and numerals
• Not a word in English, not a birthdate
• Write it down in a secret place

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To change your password

• Changing your password
• passwd
• 8 characters, letters and numbers
• upper and lower case
• not in dictionary
• hackers use list of names words and dates,
  forward and backward

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Final Secrecy Reminder

• You can give out your computer name
• You can give out your user ID (user name)
• You must not give out your secret password
• Why not? a hacker could destroy your files and/or
  use your account to send nasty mail to students,
  faculty, President Clinton, etc.

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The pine e-mail program

• After you get the SEAS computer system prompt ()
  and have changed your password, enter pine
• pine allows you to compose and send, receive and
  file messages, and also to maintain your own
  private directory of e-mail addresses

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Running Pine Email Program

• ? HELP - Get help using Pine
• C COMPOSE - Compose and send a message
• I FOLDER INDEX - View messages, current folder
• L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view
• A ADDRESS BOOK - Update address book
• Q QUIT - Exit the Pine program
• Other commands at bottom of screen
• Type I to check your mail (index)
• Type C to compose and send a message
• Type Q to quit pine

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Composing a Message

• To dr.b_at_seas.smu.edu or
• Cc your_ta_at_seas.smu.edu
• Attachment
• Subject EE 1305 Homework Email message
• ----- Message Text -----
• Example Here is my homework.
• Type Ctrl-X to send this message (answer y for
  yes to send and it is done!)

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If you are not sure whetheryou did it right

• While in pine, press L
• You will see a folder named sent-mail
• Using arrow keys, move cursor to sent-mail and
  hit enter
• This will open the folder and reveal all messages
  you have sent this month
• Put the cursor on the message you sent and hit
  enter to verify what you sent

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Quitting Pine and Logging Out

• Type Q to quit pine
• Do you really want to quit pine y/n?
• Answer y for yes
• exit or logout
• Do not leave a terminal while logged in (bad
  things could happen)
• Reread the last bullet
• Reread two bullets back
• You are still logged into Windows

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Logging out of Windows

• After you logout of your account, you must also
  logout of Windows
• Strange as it seems, hit the Start key
• Hit u as in Shut Down
• Select Login under a different account and
  Enter
• Now you are completely out of the system
• As a rule, you have to logout as many times as
  you put in account passwords to get in

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Homework

• Email message to your professor and lab
  instructor
• include your name, lab section , E-mail address,
  and residence phone number
• Homework - email due by end of 2nd lab
• Check your email regularly, at least twice a
  week. Watch for your instructors reply.

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Lab Text Assignment

• Get Lab Textbook - copies available at Bookstore
  - Lehnert, Light on the Internet - read Preface
  and Chapters 1 2
• In Netscape, set the URL to http//www.lehnert.aw
  l.com
• Read the material pertaining to the reading
  assignment in Light on the Internet

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If time permits

• Spend time getting comfortable with the Netscape
  Browser
• Although MS Internet Explorer is available on the
  computers in the labs, you are required to use
  Netscape. There are significant differences, and
  your Website will be graded using Netscape
• Netscape is FREE. If you have your own computer,
  be sure it has Netscape