https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-09T14:57:28+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2011-02-21T11:49:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/iceweasel_thinks_it_is_running?rev=1298288975&do=diff Firefox or Chromium thinks it's already running Firefox Problem: firefox will not start and the message you get is something like this one: firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window you must first close the existing firefox process or restart your system```````` text/html 2015-08-26T21:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/logs?rev=1440623371&do=diff System Status Workstations Problem, Tues 12/17 System CS129 in OLB104 had a power supply issue. A ticket has been opened with user services. --- Rob Casinghino 2013/12/17 15:59 Workstations Update, Tues 9/17 I have done a non-critical update to our automated filesystem mounting for home directories. These will time-out after 90 minutes (beyond the typical class/lab sessions) to clear up resources on systems. While the connections are still active and in use, there will be no issues. If… text/html 2008-05-07T11:34:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-01-28_password_problem_resolved?rev=1210160067&do=diff 2008-01-28 Password Problem Resolved The problem we had in yesterday’s lab (Monday Jan. 28) has been resolved. The problem was that one of the server maps needed to be manually rebuilt after changes made to our system. The other maps are all dealt with in an automated fashion so I did not notice at first that one of them needed to be built manually.  It is all fixed now. -Greg text/html 2008-05-07T11:29:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-02-05_services_restored_backups_complete?rev=1210159794&do=diff 2008-02-05 Services Restored, Backups complete Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 10:00am there was a brief interruption to some of the CS servers as we produced a bare metal backup. The servers that were unavailable were: * Our wiki server (this includes all wikis hosted at CS) text/html 2008-05-07T11:26:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-03-27_unscheduled_reboot_of_remote_access_server?rev=1210159617&do=diff 2008-03-27 Unscheduled Reboot of remote access server I had to reboot our remote access ssh server at 4:10PM EST today. I will be monitoring it a little more closely. Sorry for the hassle - Greg text/html 2008-05-07T11:25:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-04-24_printer_problems_resolved?rev=1210159505&do=diff 2008-04-24 Printer Problems Resolved Both lab printers, asprey and loaner are back up and fully operational. Thanks to a visit from NetEffects (our printer repair folks) I can report that as of 11:20 am, asprey is now working. (Loner has been working since yesterday.) text/html 2011-02-09T16:47:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/printing_tips?rev=1297270048&do=diff Printing Tips Printer Name Changes and your .bashrc If you are having problems with command line printing it may be because your .bashrc is not using the correct printer name. Have a look at your .bashrc file. Near the top there are some lines that set your default printer. If they don't look like the lines below, then cut out everything in your .bashrc from &&```````````` text/html 2008-10-24T17:56:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/xournal_tips?rev=1224870963&do=diff Xournal Tips Xournal is a Pen Journal that also allows you to add annotations to PDF files and/or capture and import arbitrary windows on the current screen to use them in xournal. xournal's sourceforge site Documentation for xournal A few common commands and settings INVOKE XOURNAL FROM THE GUI```````````````````````````` text/html 2013-02-28T21:20:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/nodir/kiosk?rev=1362086441&do=diff <html><script type=“text/javascript”><![CDATA[><!]]></script></html> <html><style type=“text/css”>#clock {font-family: 'Lucida Sans Console', sans-serif; font-size: 30px; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;}</style></html>```` text/html 2015-08-27T14:13:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2013_winter_updates?rev=1440684807&do=diff 2013 Winter Updates Welcome back. There has been some good quiet time in January which works well for pushing out updates. All of the workstations remain on Ubuntu 12.04.1, but several components have been updated. So that you are aware here are the bigger updates to have occurred. text/html 2011-04-01T15:28:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/tips/update-alternatives?rev=1301671717&do=diff update-alternatives: error In the event that an execution of “apt-get install” terminates following an error of the following type: (Terminal output for attempted set-up of sun-java6-plugin while /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so is being managed by mozilla-javaplugin.so~):