This was the first day on the school, registration was held as scheduled by Ms. Mabilo in the lower level at Adriatico's; in the meantime Dr. Radicella and C. Fonda were tuning up some equipment at one of the Laboratories that is going to be used along this three-week school.

Due to some problems (visas) some of the participants will be present in the next few days.

The schedule and programme of the entire school was given to us early in the morning in which we could appreciate that for those who are not familiar with linux, there will be an intensive training this saturday from 9 to 17h, including installation and configuration of a linux system from scratch.

Activities took place in lecture room A almost the whole day. At the end we moved out to the lab where we were told about the equipment and the structure of the 4 sections of the lab.

During introduction Dr. Radicella, told us how different topics related to previous activities since 1989 had lead them to the first school on radio, actually this is the sixth one and is being focused on the challenges of the ICT, giving a brief perspective of the ICT and the Radio-Use oriented seminars holded at ICTP we look how things change everyday.

Then we had a presentation of the e-Journals Delivery Service prepared by H. Cerreira and E. Canessa, and the improvements they have been made. Recently this January they opened a new portal which includes a lot of information and dinamic content that makes it really attractive to the consultants.  It includes the PingER program that monitors the internet along institutions of the third world. They explained the www4mail  service (developed and mantained by E. Canessa and C. Onime) as a cheap, low -bandwidth researching tool for developing countries.

Next in line was Johannes Grassberger from the SCS who gave us some directives to the use of  the computer facilities among the center, our email accounts, disk quotas, and the OS's installed both windows and linux were explained in detail.

This was the last activity in the lecture room A, then we moved into the lab in which we found the equipment, antennas, access point, cables, and all we are going to use along the school, C. Fonda was in charge, and by this time  many of us were interested definetely in this kind of "tech" issues and hope to take out the best of our experience in order to help our institutions and communities to grow and give a step ahead in the use of technologies.

Pictures of each lecturer were taken by C. Fonda, and will be in the school website soon.

"Concerning weather for the first day, the word "cold" is a little short to define the sunny but windy beautiful day, but by midnight it started to rain and it hasn't stopped at 4:50 a.m (time in which I finish my "activity.log for today, so Shall I: a) SUSPEND  b)ALT+F4 or c)CTRL+ALT+DEL :) "