UCSC School of Engineering Alumni Frequently Asked Questions

Alumni accounts

1. Who can get an alumni account?
   To be eligible for an alumni account from the School of Engineering, you must have obtained a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Applied Mathematics degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and must not currently be pursuing a degree from UCSC (whether actively enrolled or not).

2. Do I have to be a member of an alumni association?
   No, you simply need to meet the eligibility requirements for a UCSC School of Engineering alumni account. Please see question 1.1.

3. What do I get with an alumni account?
   You get a static email address (username@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu), a WWW home page, and access to software packages maintained by the School of Engineering.

4. How do I access my alumni account?
   There is no dial up access to the alumni machine. Alumni accounts must be accessed through another machine on the net. The recommended solution is to purchase an account through a local Internet Service Provider.

The Alumni Machine

1. What type of machine is the alumni machine?
   The alumni machine, alumni.cse.ucsc.edu, is currently a Dell Dual 2.8Ghz Xeon machine with 1Gb of RAM. It runs FreeBSD 5.2.1.

2. How much disk space do I get?
   For starters, users will be given quotas of 10MB on the /home partition, and 10MB on the /var/mail partition (where your mail spool file is kept).

World Wide Web Questions

1. What can I put on my home page?
   There are no restrictions on user home page content other than disallowing any commercial activities from the alumni machine.

2. Who can access my home page?
   Anyone who has access to the WWW can access your home page.

3. I don't know anything about html! Where do I start?
   To start learning about the basics (HTML 2.0), try looking at NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML. For a HTML 2.0 quick reference, try the HTML Quick Reference at the University of Kansas. For the more complicated stuff (HTML 3.0), try the HTML 3.0 Specification.

4. How do I enable my personal home page?
   

   	cd
   	mkdir .html
   	chmod 755 .html
   	touch .html/index.html
   	chmod 644 .html/index.html

   Then modify ~/.html/index.html to flavor using an editor (pico/vi). The url to your personal home page is http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~USERNAME