/afs/sipb.mit.edu/contrib/sipb
, and allow you to
quickly run programs without needing to know exactly where they are
located.
add
command. This will attach the locker and make it available through
/mit/lockername
, and add the locker to your path. For
example, to run the mplayer
program in the
outland
locker, type:
athena% add outland
athena% mplayer
The second way to use a locker is the attach
command.
This will make a locker accessible at /mit/lockername
the
same way add
does, but will not add the locker to your
path.
If you want to use a locker without attaching it, you can use
~lockername
to refer to it in a path. If you wanted to
browse the 6.001
locker, for example, you could type
athena% cd ~6.001
to change directories into the 6.001
locker. (Note that there are a few cases where this does not work.
In these cases, you can use ~~lockername
instead.)
Finally, if you want to run a program without adding the locker, you
can use the athrun
command. To run mplayer
as in the original example, you could type:
athena% athrun outland mplayer
locker | contents |
sipb | supported SIPB software |
outland | less supported and less actively maintained SIPB software |
consult | utilities maintained by the Athena Consultants |
gnu | common Unix utilities maintained by the Free Software Foundation |
abiword | a fast-loading word processor |
gnumeric | a fast-loading spreadsheet |
ooffice | OpenOffice.org, an office suite |
games | games and other fun utilities |
im | IM programs, such as gaim |
weather | contains the weather program |
athena% whichlocker mmblanche Locker software on Athena is maintained by many different people. Don't run this unless you know the maintainer can be trusted. "mmblanche" is in "consult" for NT, sgi, sun4, and linux
man programname
after adding the appropriate
locker.
Thewhats
program expands many acronyms, including MIT acronyms. If you have an expansion from an acronym that isn't included, you can submit it through the whats program, or through e-mail to sipb-whats.athena% whats pcmcia PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industries Acronyms (slang) PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (org.)
rolodex
is a repository of phone numbers. You can search by name, topic, or phone number.athena% rolodex olc 3-4435 Athena Consulting Office (N42) (OLC) athena% rolodex 3-7788 3-7788 Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) Office athena% rolodex pizza 617-424-9000 Domino's Pizza 617-523-5575 Bel Canto (Boston) [...] athena% rolodex 617-555-7890 617-555-7890 BOSTON, MA (CMBRMA012GT) BELL ATLANTIC NE
Thedict
program looks up the definition of a word from several dictionaries served from dict.org. As of this writing, these dictionaries are Elements database, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet, U.S. Gazetteer, Jargon File, The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary, CIA World Factbook, and Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms
athena% dict sipb 1 definition found From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: SIPB Student Information Processing Board, {MIT}. {(http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/rei/WWW/GAME/sipbroom.html)}.
thesaurus
gives synonyms for words, as you'd expect it to. You can also run this program asth
.athena% thesaurus freshman ***** Word: freshman #541. Learner.-- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve. recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer; chela, fellow-commoner; debutant. schoolboy; fresh, freshman; junior soph, junior; senior soph, senior; sophister, sophomore; questionist. undergraduate. class, form, remove; pupilage &c (learning) 539. disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple. Adj. in statu pupillari, in leading strings.
weather
looks up the weather for the selected city. The-l
flag will give the forecast instead of the current conditions.athena% weather bos Conditions at KBOS on 8/21/2004 at 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC) Weather: Cloudy Temp: 67 F (19.4 C) Humidity: 81% Dewpoint: 61 F (16.1 C) Visibility: 10 mi Barometer: 29.83 inHg Wind: NW 16 mph gusting to 23 athena% weather -f bos [...] Rest of today: Showers and isolated thunderstorms ending late this morning, then more showers and thunderstorms after 2 pm. Humid with highs in the upper 70's. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph. [...]
Ever forget to log out from a cluster machine, and not feel like going back to log yourself out? Now you don't have to.zlogout
helps you log out remotely. You must set this up ahead of time to take advantage of it, though. In your.startup.X
file in your homedirectory, add the line:Then, when you want to log yourself out remotely, use:attachandrun sipb zlogoutd zlogoutd &
where HOSTNAME is the name of the machine you want to log yourself out of.athena% zlogout HOSTNAME