• Dictionary of Electrical, Electronical and Computer Terms January 4^th
• RC/AutoForge January 25^th
• Change in e-mail adresses March 22^nd
• ANSYS & MATLAB & MAPLE New Versions May 6^th
• A New Book: Introduction to SPSS May 12^th
• WARNING - CIH Virus June 16^th
• A Remind on the Change in e-mail adresses July 5^th
• Y2K Problem August 10^th
• Increase in the bandwidth August 12^th
• Proxy Server September 24^th
• METU Listserver September 29^th
• Maintenance on Central Servers December 3^rd

The search program, developed by METU Computer Center for the dictionary, which is prepared by the professor of Boğaziçi University, Bülent Sankur, and which consists of 8944 turkish Electrical, Electronical and Computer Terms, can be found on the page:
    http://www.metu.edu.tr/sozluk/
    Program can be run with two different options:
    English equivalents of the Turkish terms, Turkish equivalents of English terms.
    The German, French, English equivalents of the Turkish terms with explanatory notes in Turkish
You can e-mail your questions to hot-linemetu.edu.tr or call the phone number 210 3355.

MARC/AutoForge, has recently been installed on tasman and is in the service of users of the university. The program can be run on tasman system by using the command "autoforge". The software requires graphical interface. You can see the explanations about the program and the graphical interface, on the page;
    http://www.cc.metu.edu.tr/services/soft/package.html
The documentation about the software can be found in CC Libraray No109. You can call 210 33 58 for your questions or e-mail to swadminmetu.edu.tr.

The ongoing improvement studies about e-mail services at METU have been recently completed and are presented below:

E-mail Adresses
As a consequence of the accomplished improvements on Unix servers which are in service for 24 hours/365 days, all student, academic and administrative personnel e-mail accounts defined on rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr and orca.cc.metu.edu.tr servers will be changed as usernamemetu.edu.tr after April 5, 1999. Following these improvements, e-mails which are sent to e-mail accounts that are currently being used as, usernameroqual.cc.metu.edu.tr and usernameorca.cc.metu.edu.tr, will be accepted for 3 months. In order not to be affected negatively by this change, our users should re-subscribe to the off-campus discussion lists using the usernamemetu.edu.tr address until April 5, 1999. For this purpose, the required procedure is explained in detail;
at http://www.cc.metu.edu.tr/services/ol/pine/pine.html, for Pine Users,
at http://www.cc.metu.edu.tr/services/ol/pops.html, for POP 3 Users.

E-mail Server
In order to meet the increasing demand for the use of e- mail service through central Unix servers, the following changes have been made: For the userids defined on rorqual and orca servers which are available for interactive use, a new server named as mail.metu.edu.tr has been installed. This SUN Enterprise 450 model server, which contains 4 CPU's and 1 GB memory capacity, also offers POP and IMAP services. In order to be able to use the new e-mail server through the Windows-based programs that receive and send e-mail such as Eudora, Netscape, and Outlook Express, the required settings for our personnel and students are given at the following address in detail:
http://www.cc.metu.edu.tr/services/ol/pops.html
Those who use "pine" or similar programs for sending and receiving e-mail on rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr or orca.cc.metu.edu.tr do not need to make any changes in the settings. Please call 210 3355 or send e-mail to hot-linemetu.edu.tr for your questions.

The new version of Ansys 5.4, namely Ansys 5.5, which is the program for analysis of finite elements, is offered to service in our campus through the server "tasman". The program also has PC versions for Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms. The command for running the program is,
    xansys55

MATLAB
The new version of the mathematichal solution system MatLab 5.2, namely MatLab 5.3, which is the advanced-level mathemathics program that provides the opportunity for collective visualization of numerical applications and graphics, is offered to service in our campus.
The program operates in PC platform. Source of the program is available in,
    ftp://ftp.cc.metu.edu.tr/pub/MatLab 5.3/
after you receive the permission to access the "ftp.cc.metu.edu.tr" ftp site.
In order to receive the permission to access, you have to fill out the form in the following address:
    http://www.metu.edu.tr/cgi-bin/ftp/ftpcc
You can send e-mail to:
    swadminmetu.edu.tr
to get the licensing file which will be necessary while installing
    Matlab 5.3.

MAPLE
Maple V 5.1, which is the new version of Maple V program, the mathemathical solution system, is recently available to our campus members on the servers "rorqual", "orca" and "tasman" . The program can be run by using the command:
    xmaple
The software requires graphical environment. You can find more information about these programs and graphical environment in the following address:
http://www.metu.edu.tr/METU/CC/usg/package.html
Please call 210 3358 or send e-mail to "swadminmetu.edu.tr" for your questions.

"Introduction to SPSS" booklet, which is prepared by METU-CC in order to describe the use of a statistical analysis program -SPSS- that can be used on central servers "orca" and "rorqual", is recently available. The booklet has been prepared at an introductory level. Its contents are as follows:
    Getting Started
    SPSS Basics
    Data Editing
    Analysing Data
    Saving and Ending Session
    Simple Factorial Design
    Creating Charts
    Running Syntax Tool
    Running SPSS in a Text-Based
The booklet is available at METU-CC Library (Room No:109). You can call 210 3358 for your further question

The virus known as CIH, which is activated between April 26 and June 26, causes the loss of data on your hard disk. You should follow the instructions below in order to prevent any possible damages that may occur because of this virus;
1) First of all, copy all anti-virus programs under
    ftp://ftp.metu.edu.tr/.m4/virus/
to the C:\virus folder that you will create in your PC.
2) Of these programs, run "kill_cih.exe" program under DOS window (MS-DOS Prompt) using the commands,
    C:\cd virus
    C:\virus>kill_cih.exe
and determine if there exists any virus in your PC's memory. If there does not exist any virus in the memory, you may continue with step 3 to determine if the files in your hard disk are affected. If this program determines any virus in the memory, you may continue with step 3 after you start your computer using a system diskette ensuring that it is not infected by any virus.
3) From the Start button;
choose Shut Down and start your computer in DOS mode using;
   Restart Computer in MS-DOS mode
and clean the probable CIH virus, using the following commands (be sure to write the commands as they appear including the spaces);
    C:\cd virus
C:\virus>navc /doallfiles /repair/zips
Please consider that, these processes take a long time to apply.
4) After you return to Windows mode using the command,
    win
you will find "f-prot" program under C:\virus\f-prot\folder
From the Start button, choose Programs menu. Select Windows Explorer and run,
    C:\virus\f-prot>f-prot.exe
to determine if there exists any other virus in your PC.
5) We would like to remind you that it may be beneficial to define the BIOS settings as
    boot sector readonly (WRITE PROTECT)
in order to protect your PC from CIH and similar viruses. You may call 3355 hot-line number or send e-mail to hot-linemetu.edu.tr for your questions.

We are addressing this notice to you as a reminder of the change in the central e-mail servers. As stated before, the e-mail addresses defined on central e-mail servers have been changed to usernamemetu.edu.tr on April 5, 1999. However, the usernamerorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr and usernameorca.cc.metu.edu.tr addresses have been preserved for a three-month period, so as to enable our users to make necessary changes on their accounts.
Noting that the three-month period is about to end, the e-mail servers will be accepting only the usernamemetu.edu.tr address after July 12, 1999. From this date on, for the users who haven't finished the necessary changes, the mails sent to either usernamerorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr or usernameorca.cc.metu.edu.tr will return with a warning indicating the change, which is;
    usernamemetu.edu.tr
It is, therefore, important that all users make the necessary changes that has been stated in the previous notification declared in 22 March, 1999, until July 12, 1999. Any further questions will be answered by our Hotline services. Phone number of METU Hotline service is 210 3355 and e-mail address is; hot-linemetu.edu.tr

For the purpose of determination and removal of any problems which may arise because of Year 2000 Problem, also known as "Millennium Bug" that will occur as a result of the defect in the design phase of computer systems and all embedded systems and interfaces, Computer Center has been continuing on several studies for the services in its responsibility. In this context, on the services listed below;
    Registrar's Office Automation System,
    Personnel Office Automation System,
    Dial-up service,
    Services on SP2 and "tasman",
    Web server,
    "ftp.metu.edu.tr" service,
    "ftp.cc.metu.edu.tr" service,
Run-time Environment Tests are planned to be implemented as a part of "Year 2000 Project". "Run-time Environment Tests" are one of the critical parts of the on-going studies. For our services other than those listed above, our users will not be affected by Year 2000 compliance tests since "Test Environments" will be formed.
For the "Run-time Environment Tests", August 21, 1999 will be accepted as the "New Year" by Computer Center. These tests have great importance for us to continue our services that we give to you without any problems. Year 2000 tests will start on August 20, 1999 Friday at 20:00 and will end on August 22, 1999 Sunday at 08:00. In order to complete Year 2000 tests successfully, services listed below will be closed within this period. Services closed between August 20, 1999, Friday, 20:00 - August 22, 1999, Sunday, 08:00:
    Connection to METU servers using dial-up numbers 2101155 and 2101040
    All services related with Registrar's Office
    All services related with Personnel Office
    All operations requiring high computing power given on "SP2" and "tasman"
    Operations on web server
    ftp service given on "ftp.metu.edu.tr" and "ftp.cc.metu.edu.tr"

METU's national and international Internet access had been provided through ULAKNET lines with 2 Mbps bandwidth until now. METU Computer Center and ULAKBIM completed their ongoing studies in order to increase the bandwidth. As the result of these studies:
    On August 6, 1999, a new line with 2 Mbps bandwidth has been added which increased METU's ULAKNET access to 4 Mbps in total.
    By July 20, 1999, the international ULAKNET lines which previously had 6.5 Mbps bandwidth, have been offered to service with 10.5 Mbps bandwidth.

A new proxy server has been installed to serve our users.
The proxy server is a program that speeds up internet access by saving the previously contacted addresses (graphs, pictures, html, etc). When the user wants to reconnect to these addresses, the proxy server offers this address locally, instead of trying to make a connection to the original address.
The proxy server will be tested between October 4-30,1999. Depending on the rate of use and your comments, necessary adjustments will be made to it.
The set up information to use the proxy server is available at this link
Please, e-mail hot-linemetu.edu.tr or call 3355 for your questions about the program.

Listproc service is one of the services of METU Computer Center. A new web page has been formed in the below address, which will help you to reach the information about this service in a more convenient way;
    http://www.metu.edu.tr/list_server
This web page can also be reached from the METU Computer Center "User Services" page which is stated below:
    http://www.metu.edu.tr/METU/CC/usg
In this address, information can be found about;
    Names of electronic lists,
    Listproc commands,
    Archives of open lists.
Because the studies about private list archives are continuing, these archives will be in service as soon as they are completed. For your related questions, you can send e-mail to listadmmetu.edu.tr address.

We would like to inform you that on December 4th, 1999 between 15:00-17:00 our central servers
    tasman.cc.metu.edu.tr,
    myra.cc.metu.edu.tr,
    dns.metu.edu.tr
will not be operating due to some maintenance applications. The following services will be partially carried out or they will be completely suspended in this brief period of time. The services which may be subject to suspension are as follows:
    DNS queries,
    Mail transfer,
    The transfer of list messages,
    The applications running on tasman server