Chapter 1 - Performing pre-built experiments

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You will learn:

• How to run standard experiments (generically)
• How to shut down your experiments.

Quick Quiz: Try each of the items below to see how quick quizzes work.

• This lesson is to teach you Basics of CyberLab Access and Use
• This lesson is to teach you how to do CyberLab experiments
• The Earth is flat, there is no such thing as reality, and that's what this lesson teaches you

The menu on the left

Menu items on the left provide different built-in and Internet-based functions supporting the CyberLab. If you are not also Internet connected, only the CyberBox functions will work. The rest of the functions are accessible from the Internet by going to CyberLab.all.net.

The top area returns to the top level "home page" area. Under that are the mechanisms for accessing the CyberBox in different ways:

• Login returns to the Login page where you can login with the identity and authenticator provided on that page or any other identity you have created within your own CyberBox.
• SSH access opens a window for terminal access to the CyberBox. Once there, type: cyberlab@localhost for the first entry (then press return), and for the password, use "cyberlab" (no quotes all lower case). It should look like this:

  Enter the SSH hostname or host IP: cyberlab@localhost
  Enter the password for cyberlab@localhost:
  Connecting to remote hosts ..
  
  cyberlab@oPiPC-1:~$
  

• VNC access gives you access to an X11 graphical user interface. To login, you add the "cyberlab" password where it is asked for and press "Connect". You might want to go full screen or expand your Web window to use this interface once it starts. From there you can issue commands, use the mouse and menus, and so forth. You mght want to (right click for the menu, right click to) select "Help" from the menu and use "Xman" to learn about the system and get used to it.

The X11 interface and getting help

Quick Quiz: Pick from the selections below:

• User interfaces require additional hardware.
• User interfaces require additional software.
• Your Web browser provides all the user interfaces requird to run the CyberBox.
• You will require detailed assistance for use of the user interfaces.

• Actions allows you to select actions performed by the CyberBox directly. These include the "Aerosspace" quetionaire, "Psycho" that performs psychometric analysis of text you provide for various personality factors, and several forms that may be used for other purposes at a later time.
• Everything else is used for off-CyberBox controls and won;t be documented here.

System shutdown

Pull out the power connector. The file system is "journaled" and therefore stable, returning (usually) to the initial state except for anything you changed. As long as you don;t change anything in the directories used by the system, power down and up should get you into the same ability do things you had when you last did an update.

Quick Quiz: Pick from the selections below:

• The hardest part of using the CyberLab is shutting it down.
• It's dangerous to pull the power and plug it back in for restart.
• Just go ahead and power it doesn and back up if you need to restart the system.

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