https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-09T17:24:20+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2010-10-29T19:16:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/using_htaccess?rev=1288379766&do=diff Using htaccess for web pages Please note: htaccess is for pages served from OUTSIDE THE WIKI in users directories. The wiki has similar ability, but it is set up differently -Greg Web Access Restriction by user/password This can be used in many ways, the user and password are not related to our system users and passwords, so you can use anything you like, however, there is no mechanism for the web users to maintain or reset their htaccess password so it can become a maintenance nightmare qui… text/html 2020-07-04T21:04:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/x2go?rev=1593896682&do=diff X2Go -- Remote Desktop Access About X2Go is a program that lets you use your account's desktop remotely. Imagine that you want to do work using DrRacket (or DrScheme, Netbeans, etc.) from your home computer but don't want to deal with the fuss of copying your work onto your CS account afterwards. text/html 2023-01-19T02:50:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/sshkeys?rev=1674096627&do=diff Setting up SSH Keys Note : This tutorial assumes that you are running a linux-based operating system. The procedure for setting up keys on an Apple Mac OS X machine is similar to this procedure, but you may need to make some minor adjustments. There is a separate text/html 2025-06-27T18:49:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/browser_wont_start?rev=1751050146&do=diff Help, my browser won't load! Generally, if you click the browser icon and it doesn't do anything, or gives you an error that mentions profiles, there's probably a previous instance of the browser that didn't clean up after itself. The first thing to check is if you have the browser open on another workstation. If you're logged into two workstations and try to start a browser on both of them, it will cause an error because the application wants to ensure that there is only one copy of it running… text/html 2025-06-27T18:46:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/frozen?rev=1751049974&do=diff Frozen Machine! If you have a process, a window, or a machine that seems to have “frozen” while you were working on it, became “stuck,” is not responding to the keyboard or mouse, or is spewing out garbage into a window here is what you can try. If the steps below don't work, please get more help! Either ask a coach, an instructor or find or write me. text/html 2023-01-26T15:53:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/logging_out_of_a_desktop_or_remote_desktop?rev=1674748402&do=diff Logging out of the Computer Science Computers Leaving files open in editors such as pluma and emacs, or leaving applications running can lead to corrupt files and loss of your work because your files are not local to any computer. Your files are shared from a central server. Therefore, if you leave an application open on one computer and then go to another computer, you have several devices trying to access your files. Applications don’t like this. Firefox, for example, won’t allow you to star… text/html 2025-09-30T20:45:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/password?rev=1759265121&do=diff First Time Login The first time you log into a CS workstation with a temporary password, the login page will help you reset your password. First, enter your username (this will be the same as your Vassar email address, before the @-symbol): Enter your temporary password, which should have been given to you by your professor or sysadmin: text/html 2020-07-04T21:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/vnc?rev=1593896566&do=diff Using VNC What is VNC? NOTE: VNC is deprecated. For all remote desktop access, we ask that you use X2Go (found here). VNC is a system for interacting with a computer display remotely, over a network. This technology was developed by AT&T Laboratories, and is now available for free over the internet (distributed under the GNU General Public License. Visit the text/html 2010-12-06T15:30:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/kill_a_process?rev=1291649428&do=diff Monitoring and Killing Processes Any process you own you can kill (this is not a moral judgment, just a fact of life in Unix and Linux). Killing an offending process graphically If the machine itself is still responsive (but one or more windows perhaps aren't) you can try one of the Graphical Process Managers on our system.$$xfce4-taskmanager$$````````$$gnome-system-monitor$$```````` text/html 2021-03-04T00:22:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/x2go/apple?rev=1614817344&do=diff X2Go macOS Installation <https://www.xquartz.org/>may * Step 1: <html><a href=“<https://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-macosx/x2goclient/releases/4.1.2.2/>” target=“blank”>Click here for the latest version</a></html> to go to the download page for X2Go. <html><a href=“<https://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-macosx/x2goclient/releases/>” target=“blank”>Click here for the previous versions.</a></html> text/html 2016-09-29T18:34:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/x2go/linux?rev=1475174053&do=diff X2Go Ubuntu Installation * Step 1: Open a shell (Note: on most systems, you can to this by typing in Ctrl-Alt-t). * Step 2: Type in sudo apt-get install x2goclient. Hit Enter. * You will be prompted for your password. Type it, then hit enter. Note that as you type your password, the screen won't change (no *s will appear). This is normal; the computer is still registering your typing.