Your Portable PC at the workshop

• Electricity
• Network Connection

• SSH and X window system

Electricity

Voltage:   100V

Plugs:   If you are using any European type plugs, you willl surely need adapters. If you are using plugs that are used in US, you may need adapters depending on the type.

The power plugs used in Japan are with two flat blades of the same size. US plugs look similar, but many of them have one blade wider than the other, and/or a grounding round pin, which do not fit into most of the outlets in Japan. If you have a plug with only two blades of the same size, it would work anywhere in Japan (hotel rooms, and so on). If you have one with two blades of the same size and a round grounding pin, it will work at the workshop site where we will prepare some outlets of this type, but not at many other places.

Network Connection

Wireless LAN is available at the workshop site (Koshiba hall). We will provide the WEP key at the reception desk, with which you configure your PC in order to have it connected to the network.

SSH and X window system

We will provide server machines for the tutorials with the necessary software and the environment prepared in advance. However, you will need to use your own PC as a terminal. (For those who do not have a usable PC, please contact the workshop support team as soon as possible.)

The tutorials require your terminal to be equipped with SSH and X window system. If you don't have either ssh or X window system on your PC, you will need to install them in advance. Here in the following we prepared some information to help you, although, you are free to choose whatever software that provide the required functionalities, and please prepare your PC at your own risk.

Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, ...)
If you run Unix-like system on your PC, you are most likely to have SSH and X window system already.

Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a UNIX-based system, which comes with SSH by default, and X window system is provided as an option:

• http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/
• http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html

Microsoft Windows

• cygwin provides both SSH and X window system. Free to download and use, easy to install. It provides GNU software; that means many tools/commands quite similar to GNU/Linux system (Linux kernel + GNU) are available.

• Otherwise, you can pick up a combination of a SSH terminal software and an X window software. Your home institute might have site licenses of such software.

• If you are at CERN and utilising NICE, the recommended combination is Putty and Hummingbird Exceed. An instruction is available at http://cern.ch/security/X11/ ("To encrypt your X sessions inside ssh") .
  From the writer's experience, it works (although it was with NICE2000 that he tried), but may take some time to understand how to make the two work in combination.

• Other SSH client software: Teraterm

cygwin

1. Go to the site http://cygwin.com/.
2. Download setup.exe and execute.
3. When you come to "Select Packages" stage, open "Net" and choose "openssh", then go down to the bottome and open "X11", choose at least "xterm" and the necessary packages will be installed.
4. Once the installation is finished, run "Cygwin Bash Shell" and type "startx". An x-terminal will open.
5. Type "ssh -Y " in an xterm window to logon to the tutorial server with X-forwarding.

PuTTY

Go to the site http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and download "putty.exe" and "puttygen.exe" at least.

If you are using NICE at CERN, it is already available. You should make sure that it is installed locally on your PC.

Hummingbird Exceed

This is a commercial software. http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/

If you are at CERN, you can install it under the site license. Have a look at https://websvc02.cern.ch/WinServices/Help/?kbid=060505 .

UTF-8 TeraTerm Pro with TTSSH2

1. Go to the site http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ttssh2/ , download "UTF-8 Tera Term Pro" and run the .exe file.

Tera Term + TTSSH

1. Go to the site http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html , download and install "Tera Term Pro".
   1. Download "ttermp23.zip", and unzip (or just open).
   2. Read "readme.txt".
   3. Copy all the files into a temporary directory.
   4. Run "setup.exe".

2. Go to the site http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~canon/Help/ttssh.html and follow the installation instruction of TTSSH.

3. Documentation is available at http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~canon/Help/ttsshdoc.html , where you will find how to combine X sessions and Tera Term in the section "Port Forwarding".