Today's practicals were very nice introductory material, designed to bring everyone up on speed on login, credentials, and what are practical facilities are.
The only suggestion I would make to the staff for the ISSGC is to permit students to remote VNC in while on campus, which would be nice. (I actually did broach this with one staffer, and I have some other names to discuss it with) - the caveat is that not everyone groks VNC, so it can be a loaded proposition. Perhaps we can set it up on a per-user request. We shall see.
For the non-technical folks, what this means is this. Normally to use a "linux" or "unix" machine, system administrators use the command line (that black screen with the white text, yay fun!). However, sometimes we need to use a mouse and windows (think "desktop") so there is a way that we can use the desktop over the network. But it's not normally turned on by default, so we have to ask permission. That's the nutshell version, and I hope it clarifies why I would suggest that they do something they didn't already do. The physicists and bio-med students wouldn't know VNC any more than most, so it's not something that's inherently beneficial to everyone. But a lot of the students here use VNC back home, so it's an option that's reasonable. Just not standard.
Otherwise, I thought that the practicals were nice from the standpoint of bringing people online and getting them up to speed.
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