WWW access information:

Our class home page is located at http://spot.colorado.edu/~pollocks/current_class.html

Here is information on various ways to look at it. Many terminals around campus are set up to run "Netscape", or "Mosaic", either of which can be used. They should have local documentation, and I won't explain how to use them any further - it's pretty similar on any machine.

"Lynx" can be run even from a slow modem, or with a dumb terminal, on most of the CNS machines - just type "lynx",then "g" (for goto) and then the address above. - but you won't be able to see equations in my homeworks, e.g.)

For the NeXT's in the basement, there are two options, OmniWeb or Mosaic. For OmniWeb: From the usual startup file viewer, click on the computer name at the left (famous physicist) to go to your "root" directory. Then go into the folder "Classes", then ``Physics_2140". There you will find "OmniWeb". You can bring this to your dock. Clicking on it starts up a Next-based web browser. Unfortunately, we only have a single license, which means at any given time, only one person can use it!

The other alternative, much better, is to use Mosaic, which is a bit more complicated the first time through, but will be better in the long run.

For those of you with new accounts, all of this has been done automatically for you - just double click on CoXIst on your dock (the "tilted X") and Mosaic should come up automatically

If you have an old account: go back to /Classes/Physics_2140, and you will also see an application called Co-Xist. You should bring this to your dock (click and hold, do NOT double click, and slide it over to your dock - do this now). You also need to bring some "hidden files" into your home directory (not your dock), if they aren't already there. You only need to do this once. They are located in a subdirectory of /Classes/Physics_2140 called Mosaic_Stuff. If you don't see anything in there, it's because they're hidden! You must go to the preferences program (in the dock, it has a little calendar/clock type icon, usually 2nd from top) and move over to Unix preferences (second to last), and click on "Unix Expert'' Go back to the Mosaic_Stuff folder (just click on a window to bring it to the foreground), where you should now see a bunch of hidden files (like ".mwmrc" and other such things). With the mouse, hold down the button and "sweep'' across them all, so they are all highlighted. Click and hold the mouse on any one of them, and (continuing to hold down the mouse) move the whole selected group up to the icon of your "home" in the far upper left, and release. Hopefully, this will copy all these files into your home. (If you get error messages about writing over files, it should be o.k) Check that it worked, by going to your home directory (click on the house) and you should see these new files there.

Logoff and *restart* your whole session. Now, all you ever have to do from now on is double click on Co-XIst (which you should by now have put on your dock- it has an icon that looks like a tilted X), and up will come a window. Wait a second, and Mosaic should appear. (If a corner is obscured by other menus, hold down the mouse in the bar at the top and slide to move it around)

Go to the Physics 2170 home page

Go to Prof. Pollock's home page.

Go to the Physics Department's home page.

Email: Steven.Pollock@colorado.edu