Extended OS lectures start from tomorrow. Gernot Heiser will be giving the extended lectures.

We had a number of IT issues with the first Wednesday lecture. The zoom recording worked from the 20-minute mark. The automatic Echo360 recording seems to have no audio at all. The zoom recording is now uploaded to Echo360. I have now recorded an intro that replaces the lost first 10-15 minutes, that will appear on Echo360 shortly.

Aside from the video, we hope that the number of IT issues is reducing. Contact us (e.g. on the admin email account) if you're reading this and still can't get access to something.

Thanks to tutor and admin Ivan who has upgraded the Mac support for OS/161. Follow the setup guide from the assignment 0 material to find out more.

Monday next week is the King's birthday holiay (thanks Charles). No lecture on Monday, so for those not doing E-OS, catch you all next Wednesday.

Reminder: tutorials start in week 2. The central timetable doesn't know this and so you may see week 1 tutorial times on my.unsw, which you can safely ignore.

The lecture slides for the "concurrency" lecture are up, and the slides for processes and threads have been edited a bit.

Yesterday I mentioned that a few people were having issues connecting to the various websites (moodle, discourse, Echo360, the moin-moin wiki). It seems that all those issues are getting sorted out, and we're not in contact with anyone who still can't connect. The moodle link in yesterday's notice may help.

If you're still having IT issues, contact us on the class admin account, cs3231 (at) cse.unsw.edu.au.

The Echo360 recording for Monday seems to have come out OK. We'll use the same technology (but a different zoom link) for Wednesday morning. Catch you then!

Hi everyone. Thanks to everyone who made it to the 1st lecture, in person or on Zoom. We'll continue to work to smooth out the Zoom audio setup. We've gone through the initial "structure" lecture and got as far through the "threading" content as the "burger" example.

The warmup assignment "Assignment 0" is now available. Congratulations to the students who may have found some technology bugs already. We'll get to them.

The bigger issue is that multiple students seem to have issues accessing moodle, the discourse instance, the wiki or all of the above. We will continue to investigate and should get this fixed up soon. Some systems get a bit confused by the multiple course codes, which might explain some of the issues. Hopefully we'll have updates on this soon.

This URL may assist in accessing the moodle the first time: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=99804 . That shouldn't be needed but it does seem to have helped one student.

The slides for the 1st lecture are now uploaded. You can find them on the lectures subpage (under "Courseware" in the menu).

I am still thinking of rearranging some of the content connected to the hamburger analogy in the threads lecture.

Welcome to OS! I've put up a short (30-minute) online-only mini-lecture on Echo360. It covers some basics about the course prior to the OS-related content starting on Monday. If you have time, have a look, or scan through the slides. Info about lectures is summarised in the lectures page (under "Courseware" in the menu). Most lectures will be hosted on Echo360, with exceptions clarified on the lectures page. You will need to go via moodle to get to Echo360. Let us know if that isn't working.

And catch you for the start of the term on Monday!