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Your home directory has the same name as your user-name, for example, compsci-user, and it is where your personal files and subdirectories are saved. text/html 2008-05-07T02:42:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/isohome.script?rev=1210128164&do=diff isohome Isohome is a simple script that tries to make an image of your CS home directory that is suitable for burning onto a CD or DVD. It will confirm that you are running it from the machine where your home directory is actually a local disk. If not it will tell you which machine you need to run the script from. text/html 2015-08-26T20:52:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/backups?rev=1440622373&do=diff FIXME update, convert to wiki, add link to isohome Backup With Tar ---------- * Overview * Creating a tar file of your entire directory * Copying the file to another location * Tar Documentation ---------- Overview While I make regular backups of the home directories on the Computer Science Unix machines, there are times when you want to have your own copy of your account. There are several relatively painless ways to accomplish this task. I will describe one of them here. If you n… text/html 2026-01-21T06:35:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/top?rev=1768977351&do=diff Spring 2026 Courses Course Title / Link to Course Page Faculty CMPU-100-51 Programming with Data text/html 2025-06-27T19:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/course-galleries?rev=1751051201&do=diff C.S. Dept. Course Galleries Semester Course Faculty Class Gallery Spring 2020 CMPU-195-51 Reiser Introduction to Digital Design text/html 2010-01-25T18:18:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs325-201001/run_zasm_under_dosemu?rev=1264443521&do=diff Well, since I took away your windows lab machines, here is an alternative. Doing these steps will let you run the assembler from Prof. Voerman on our linux machines under DOS emulation. - Greg Running Z80 Assembler under DosEmu The Short version Log in on any lab linux box and put the floppy in the drive```````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2016-05-20T15:49:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_eight?rev=1463759356&do=diff Linux Tutorial Eight 8.1 UNIX Variables Variables are a way of passing information from the shell to programs when you run them. Programs look “in the environment” for particular variables and if they are found will use the values stored. Some are set by the system, others by you, yet others by the shell, or any program that loads another program. text/html 2016-05-20T15:49:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_seven?rev=1463759351&do=diff Linux Tutorial Seven 7.1 Compiling Linux software packages We have many public domain and commercial software packages installed on our systems, which are available to all users. However, students are allowed to download and install small software packages in their own home directory, software usually only useful to them personally. text/html 2020-07-04T20:59:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/filecopy?rev=1593896345&do=diff Secure Shell on macOS, Unix, and Linux Installation Any modern Unix-like operating systems should come with secure shell client utilities already installed. This is true for macOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandrake Linux, FreeBSD and many others. If, however, you need a ssh client, you can download one from the openssh website: text/html 2008-06-24T17:21:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/anc-admin/keith_s_notes?rev=1214328076&do=diff Apache Notes This page is a place to make a note of the things I always forget when I don't configure apache for awhile. Restart with /etc/init.d/apache2 [start|stop|restart] An alternative to the above is apache2ctl [start|stop|restart] Also useful are text/html 2008-04-10T20:45:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/3d/rock?rev=1207860344&do=diff <html> <pre> X X ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ .......... : : : : : : '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''''' '''''''''' 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 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 2016-05-18T16:17:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/linux_basics?rev=1463588248&do=diff Linux Basics Files, Directories and Paths * a file is a collection of data with a name (a filename to be precise). Although it may be stored in separate chunks in different location on the hardware, programs will generally work with a file as a single continuous collection of data. text/html 2013-04-02T21:08:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ben/sidebar?rev=1364936914&do=diff Ben Stoutenburgh * Home * Bio * Hudson Valley Drupal Meetup * MHVLUG ---------- These are the old links, pay no attention * CS Home * Events * Courses * People * Research * Computing Facilities * Hats Off! * History * System Info * Alphabetic Index * Interactive Tree Index * Extended site search * Summer 2010 text/html 2026-01-21T06:00:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/tech_ref?rev=1768975208&do=diff Tech Ref Electronic Submission You should make a cs377 directory under your home directory on your CS account, and protect it: $ cd $ mkdir cs377 $ chmod 700 cs377 Your programming assignments should each be saved in a subdirectory named cs377. This makes it easy to use the submit377 script for each individual assignment, as well as keeps your assignments organized. text/html 2008-06-19T12:41:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/anc-admin/bandwith_tests?rev=1213879267&do=diff download tests page date time protocol src loc bits/sec notes 06/16 7:20pm http anc wapingerfalls 189k Verizon dsl 06/16 7:15pm http anc gepd-home 49k Time warner 06/16 7:30pm http anc campus 10M 06/16 text/html 2022-08-31T12:49:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/sshkeysmswindows?rev=1661950198&do=diff SSH Keys on Microsoft Windows using the PuTTY Utility SSH keys are what you will use to establish an encrypted connection over the network, e.g. the internet, between your system and a remote machine. The default type of key to generate is RSA which is good for most purposes. RSA is universally supported among SSH clients. Note that EdDSA performs much faster and provides the same level of security with significantly smaller keys. In general, though, for what you need to do, RSA encryption is … text/html 2011-05-05T19:17:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/using_the_pickup_script?rev=1304623047&do=diff Using the pickup script with your course What it is The pickup script is a companion to the submit script. Pickup allows you to place files for pickup in your course directories such that those files cannot be read by your students until they run this script. At that time an entry is logged showing the date, time, user and directory that was picked up. If your students attempt to kill the script (say, after it copies the files and before it logs that it has) that attempt will also be logged… text/html 2007-12-28T00:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/books?rev=1198801150&do=diff My Favorite Books and Stories Limbo by Bernard Wolfe This book may be hard to find, but is worth the hunt. Originally published in 1952. Set in 1990. I am not sure what to say about this one - it had and continues to have quite an effect on me. (Of course that may just be because I had been told I text/html 2023-02-14T20:09:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/forwarding_x11?rev=1676405365&do=diff Forward X11 Very few systems here are configured to forward X11 via SSH. And this will generally be reserved for request by the faculty and not for classroom computers. If you require a GUI environment then you are strongly encouraged to use the Guacamole server by logging in at text/html 2022-09-02T18:02:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/account.size?rev=1662141739&do=diff Account Size Here are a few tips for managing the size of your Computer Science Unix account. How Much Space does My Account Use? du -s -h /home/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME This command will give you your total account size. The “-h” stands for “human readable text/html 2009-12-23T18:23:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/herbeee?rev=1261592581&do=diff herbeee aka "Herbert Lite" Herbert is a wonderful thing, but let's face it, it is not inexpensive.  I needed to send it in to Sony for a minor repair So, I built “herbeee” to tide me over... In April of 2008 I got an Asus eeepc with 4gig of flash and 512meg of ram.  In short order I installed text/html 2026-04-02T19:16:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week9?rev=1775157381&do=diff Week 9 Assignment: Dining Java Philosophers * Assign 4 * [PDF] * due: Tue, Mar 31, 11:59pm Channels (cont'd) * CSP, Occam, and Golang! * Peter Welch's slides introducing CSP and occam-pi (but we will use Go this semester!) * Occam-pi Lecture Notes * text/html 2010-08-31T20:47:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/recently_installed_software?rev=1283287649&do=diff Recently Installed Software Linux Labs and Desktops * Google-Chrome yes, chrome is available on the CS system, however, there are a few hoops to jump through. For information and instructions on running google-chrome from within your CS account see: ```````````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2023-04-06T14:19:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/possible_issues_with_remote_webui?rev=1680790785&do=diff Possible Issues when using the Remote WebUI 1. Why do I get bumped off after 4 - 5 hours? There is a time limit on the connection because several people have forgotten to log out and left their user home account files open and tied to remote system. Therefore a timer will kick you off after four or five hours to close all of your applications and files for you so that your files are not corrupted. Save your work often! Close all of your applications and disconnect or logout when you are done o… 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 2021-09-14T02:41:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs311-2021/week3?rev=1631587305&do=diff Week 3 Welcome back!! Querying the CAP Database on our postgres server: * with thanks to Alan Labouseur for permission to use his materials! :-) * CAP database creation [script] * [CAP snapshot] Class exercise: Use CAP to answer all of these query questions. Write only one query per question. Be certain to end each query with a semi-colon. Your final script should execute all of the queries in sequence from one command. Remember that CAP is one snapshot in time in the life of th… text/html 2009-08-13T17:38:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/gate_tips?rev=1250185129&do=diff Gate tips Help! I still get GATE 5.0 Beta, not GATE 5.0 When you run gate you should see that you are running GATE Developer 5.0 build 3244. If you are not, then to use the new version you need to do the following 2 steps: * Delete your existing user configuration file, do that with the command: ```````````````````` 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 2017-01-31T00:58:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/lab1/top?rev=1485824308&do=diff Lab 1 CS203 Spring 2016 February 1 Goals * Create a Git account * Send your new account name to jones@cs.vassar.edu * Set up Git configuration * Create a simple Java program * Create local repository in the CS203 directory * text/html 2011-09-22T17:43:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/java_system_tips?rev=1316713392&do=diff Java issues and tips Java remote method invocation problem Problem: When running a demo of Java's remote method invocation on our Ubuntu 9.04 based linux machines running java-6-openjdk the client could only attach to a server running on the same host.```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2010-12-08T19:20:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/server_list?rev=1291836036&do=diff CS Servers Physical CS Department Servers Date Number installed Disks Space NAME type In Srv CPU & speed memory #xSize,type tot/used Function Pacific x3650 2007.1 Xeon 4x3gig 12gig 6x73g,sas text/html 2016-05-20T15:49:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_six?rev=1463759345&do=diff Linux Tutorial Six Other useful UNIX commands quota All students are allocated a certain amount of disk space on the file system for their personal files, usually about 100Mb. If you go over your quota, you are given 7 days to remove excess files. text/html 2018-08-18T03:56:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top-forward?rev=1534564608&do=diff Marc L. Smith's homepage has moved My new home page is: <http://pages.vassar.edu/mlsmith/> text/html 2024-07-27T01:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/sidebar?rev=1722043052&do=diff Marc L. Smith * Home * Publications * Grants * Past courses * Concurrency * Teaching * Publicity * My Erdös Number * Academic Genealogy * PGP Information * Bio Vassar Content AskBanner OneLogin Reference EoS Time text/html 2013-05-23T05:19:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/contact?rev=1369286399&do=diff Contact info for Greg Priest-Dorman Email:<contact_greg@budgardr.org> Call Sign:KC2FBE Home Page:top --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2013/05/21 text/html 2011-02-25T04:17:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/sidebar?rev=1298607431&do=diff Greg Priest-Dorman top * home * contact * tips * running notes * top * top text/html 2023-03-14T21:54:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/genealogy?rev=1678830869&do=diff Academic Genealogy * My Ph.D. advisors were Rebecca J. Parsons and Charles E. Hughes * Rebecca's advisor was * Matthias Felleisen, whose advisor was * Daniel P. Friedman, whose advisor was * Terrence W. Pratt, whose advisor was * Robert K. Lindsey, whose advisor was * Herbert A. Simon, the father of Artificial Intelligence text/html 2020-07-15T21:38:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/integrity?rev=1594849114&do=diff Vassar CS Student Integrity Guide This guide is designed to clarify Vassar College’s academic integrity policy as it applies to the Computer Science Department. Furthermore, it provides advice on how to best navigate integrity issues in the context of the field, where source code authorship is a central issue. text/html 2011-07-02T14:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/top?rev=1309618521&do=diff These are my personal pages, if you are looking for system information, please head over to top. -Greg ---------- <http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html> Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association ---------- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all These pages are XHTML compliant: use any browser you choose! Where Am I in the world? text/html 2012-06-13T22:04:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/voerman/top?rev=1339625071&do=diff Louis Voerman Visiting Associate Professor (Retired) Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604 Email: <voerman@cs.vassar.edu> LOUIS VOERMAN, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science, retired after 26 years of service, in Spring 2009. He taught courses in operating systems, microprocessor design, computer organization and advanced computer architecture at Vassar since 1983. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Scienc… text/html 2020-09-02T19:08:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/vsaravanan/sidebar?rev=1599073735&do=diff * Home * add * links * to * other * pages text/html 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/walter/top?rev=1611255073&do=diff Jennifer E. Walter Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science Vassar College Email: <jewalter@vassar.edu> “When you are the only woman in a group, you are no longer a woman; you are THE woman, as if your actions stand for that of your entire gender.” text/html 2009-05-21T22:04:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/bot-alternative/cmu-cam?rev=1242943463&do=diff Running a CMUCam through a Lisp Program May 2009 State of the project: I have successfully used the foreign-function method in lisp to call a method from another programming language. In my example I used a c file, but under the method it should be able to call something from Java or anything else. Instructing on performing this adaptation are as follows: text/html 2022-10-27T19:58:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2022b/assignments/06?rev=1666900684&do=diff <html> <style type=“text/css”> .comment { font-style: italic; color: #c0342d; } .name, .variable, code var, pre var { color: #9e5cb1; } .name { font-weight: bold; } .variable, pre var, code var { font-style: italic; } .keyword { color: #abafb3; } .builtin, .string { color: #417fb8; } .constant { color: #e89f27; } code, code.pyret { color: black; } table { margin: 1em auto; } table th, table td { padding: 1pt 4pt; font-size: 13pt; } div.dw-content a { text-decoration: underline; } div.dw-content … text/html 2019-01-28T04:02:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs145-201951/labs/lab_0?rev=1548648178&do=diff Lab 0 Welcome to the first lab * Objectives: * Become familiar with our lab procedures * Reacquaint ourselves with DrRacket * Write (recursive) function that determine the intersection and the union of two sets * To begin: * Open a command line window. Your current working directory will be your home directory text/html 2010-02-01T03:07:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs325-201001/lectures/dosemu?rev=1264993644&do=diff <html> <h2>Cross Platform Assembling: </h2> </html> We will need to create Z80 programs for our computer. To do this we will use xdosemu in Linux to open a DOS session. You will be given a floppy disk with the zasm z80 assembler and some sample programs. We will need to keep our programs on a floppy so that we can burn it to the ROM, or upload it to the RAM. text/html 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/multihome_dokuwiki_hacks?rev=1203628033&do=diff Multihome Dokuwiki Hacks I use the article by Lukas Ruf on setting up dokuwiki on a mutihomed web server to allow multiple separate wikis to run on one machine. The article is available at <http://wiki.lpr.ch/doku.php/multihomed>. These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article. text/html 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text?rev=1239026436&do=diff Tikkun Passover 2009 Supplement in Plain Text Some folks have had problems with the font size on the 2009 Passover Supplement.  The original is from <http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/seder_2009>.  Below is a version converted to plain text with acroread and then reformatted in emacs.  Use it if you find it useful. text/html 2010-07-09T05:25:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/top?rev=1278653149&do=diff Odds and Ends * a few tips on installing qemu in ubuntu 7.10 (well xubuntu in my case) * multihome dokuwiki hacks * an intermediate fix for nasm 0.99 * blackbox * Dokuwiki local Style Test * Using emacs with z80asm * tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text * Some links to help the indexing text/html 2008-04-28T02:09:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/sidebar?rev=1209348584&do=diff Greg Priest-Dorman top * home * contact * tips * Wearables * top * hacks * timeline * ISWC 2007 * spiffchorder * context_awarness_project * herbeee text/html 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top?rev=1369319086&do=diff What am I wearing? New Scientist A few details from decades of daily wear [gerbert in 2013]Please note, this page documents what I was wearing during the last four of the nineteen wonderful years I spent working for the CS Department at Vassar. For the last year and a half I have been wearing modified versions of Google Glass running Glass and Ubuntu. Along with that I am using a Bluetooth version of the Spiffchorder for input. Please see the text/html 2020-07-30T04:47:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/concurrency?rev=1596084460&do=diff Concurrency Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Links * WoTUG - The place for Communicating Processes * The classic text: Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare) * The modern text: Theory and Practice of Concurrency (Roscoe) * Unifying Theories of Programming text, by Hoare and He: UTP * JCSP - CSP for Java * C++CSP2 – CSP for C++ 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 2008-04-14T16:14:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ide/top?rev=1208189691&do=diff Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA tel : (+1) 845 437 5988 fax : (+1) 845 437 7498 e-mail : <ide@cs.vassar.edu> <html><font color=red></html> Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. text/html 2020-02-05T22:31:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-202051/week3?rev=1580941862&do=diff Week 3 Tuesday * I have a small homework assignment for you to do this week. It is good practice! We also have a lecture and some debugging based on last week's lab. A few links to share too. * Can we **protect** a java class? * The Curious Case of Strings, a reference * [Today's lecture notes] Wednesday * lab 2 still to come... text/html 2025-06-19T16:26:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/start?rev=1750350362&do=diff Computer Science Department Wiki This site is for internal use by current students, faculty and administrators in the Computer Science department at Vassar College. It provides access to active course websites and up-to-date computer systems information. text/html 2025-06-19T16:26:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/top?rev=1750350362&do=diff Computer Science Department Wiki This site is for internal use by current students, faculty and administrators in the Computer Science department at Vassar College. It provides access to active course websites and up-to-date computer systems information. text/html 2025-09-30T20:21:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/access?rev=1759263688&do=diff Remote Access If you want to connect to CS machines from your dorm room or home, use a web browser or an SSH client. SSH encrypts all communications, so connections are secure. CS systems are normally accessible only from campus networks; for off‑campus access the supported method is Citrix. Citrix works best via the `ssh acl215` 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 2025-05-29T20:28:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/history/hopper?rev=1748550486&do=diff The Grace Hopper '28 Home Page Grace Murray (1906-1992) was a Math/Physics major at Vassar who graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1928. She stayed at Vassar to teach, and became Grace Murray Hopper in 1930, after marrying Vincent Hopper. With the help of a Vassar College Fellowship, she went to Yale for graduate school, earning her Ph.D. in 1934. She remained at Vassar until 1943, inspiring many students including 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 2009-08-27T16:30:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/screen_saver?rev=1251390623&do=diff To change the screen saver mode Our lab linux machines use an inhouse setup to do screen locking and auto-logout. If you want a screen saver mode other than ??random?? here is what you do: * Look at the manual page for xlock and pick a mode you like.```` text/html 2020-01-30T19:31:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/tips_for_instructors?rev=1580412701&do=diff System Tips for CS Instructors Creating Dropboxes Before your students can use the submit### script with your course the following prerequisites must be met: * A course account must exist. * You need access to the course account. * Your students each need an account on our system. text/html 2016-05-20T15:48:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_four?rev=1463759331&do=diff Linux Tutorial Four 4.1 Wildcards The characters * and ? The character * is called a wildcard, and will match against none or more character(s) in a file (or directory) name. For example, in your unixstuff directory, type compsci-user@tim:~$ ls list* text/html 2017-08-25T16:28:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu-224_f17/sidebar?rev=1503678534&do=diff CS Wiki Home Courses Calendars Events History People Students Resources FAQs Interactive Tree Idx text/html 2023-03-24T17:09:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2023-54/week8?rev=1679677777&do=diff Python Week Monday * Welcome to Python * To use the same IDE head on over to: * colab.research.google.com * Please take the time to read the textbook section on python and review the given exercises. * https://dcic-world.org/2022-01-25/part_pyret-to-python.html * To make it a little easier, here is a text file example from dcic-world, the same code written in pyret and python. Try it out! text/html 2022-11-11T04:39:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-202203/week10?rev=1668141565&do=diff Python Week Monday * I started grading exam 2. Results will, most likely, be published on Friday. * Welcome to Python * To use the same IDE head on over to: * colab.research.google.com * Please take the time to read the textbook section on python and review the given exercises. text/html 2015-09-23T12:22:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs240/syllabus?rev=1443010933&do=diff Fall 2015 Syllabus Text Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Third Edition Michael Sipser Course Technology, Inc. Requirements * Exams: Three exams, each worth 20% of the final grade. The first two exams focus on material in the immediately preceding segment of the course. The third exam covers primarily later material, but may also cover material from earlier in the course. 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 2008-01-29T21:46:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs325/top?rev=1201643200&do=diff CMPU 325 - Microcomputers and Digital Electronics Spring 2008 Instructor: Lou Voerman (voerman@cs.vassar.edu) Lectures & lab: Tuesday 7 to 10 PM Office phone: 845-437-7293 Home phone: 845-452-8198 Office: OLB 117 Office hours: Mon. thru Thurs. 10:15 - 11:15 AM text/html 2026-04-09T18:57:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week10?rev=1775761062&do=diff Week 10 Channels, CSP, and Go * Last week: * Peter Welch's Occam-pi Lecture Notes * Go demo and starter code: see last week's notes for details * Demo and codewalk of csp-dining-philosophers.go * Demo and codewalk: Sieve of Eratosthenes (Prime Number Sieve) text/html 2026-04-20T19:06:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs377-202651/week11?rev=1776711968&do=diff Week 11 Linda and Tuple Space * Lecture Notes: [PDF] (updated and cont'd from slide 8) * Demo of Ruby/Rinda program * from Wikipedia example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinda_(Ruby_programming_language) * link no longer live :-( * text/html 2017-02-20T19:44:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/drschemonmac?rev=1487619881&do=diff Getting Dr. Scheme to run on Mac * playonmac (www.playonmac.com) Install this program and then install the windows version of dr scheme. * x2go (<https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/x2go>) Install x2go on your macbook and then connect to the virtual desktop. One advantage here is that you don't have to copy files that you create, that is, they will be in your $HOME directory the next time you log into one of the linux machines in SP309 or the Asprey lab in SP. text/html 2015-08-27T14:16:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/emacs_tips?rev=1440684973&do=diff Emacs Tips Emacs Command Shorthand From the emacs built in tutorial Emacs commands generally involve the CONTROL key (sometimes labeled CTRL or CTL) or the META key (sometimes labeled EDIT or ALT). Rather than write that in full each time, we'll use the following abbreviations: C-<chr> means hold the CONTROL key while typing the character <chr> Thus, C-f would be: hold the CONTROL key and type f. M-<chr> means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>. … text/html 2016-05-18T15:53:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/info?rev=1463586832&do=diff Bash Shell Resources a few articles and tutorials on the web for learning the bash shell * <http://www.arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html> * <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html> * <http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/bash-tute.html> * <http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/043.html> * <http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/> System Info - User Help ---------- Help for New Users Unix information and help Examples for … text/html 2024-03-27T13:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/ssh?rev=1711544886&do=diff Accessing CS Systems The easiest way to gain access the Computer Science Dept. Linux machines outside of the Asprey computer lab. This gives you terminal access to the command line inside the department, and it allows you to send files back and forth to your home directory. Since it has no remote text/html 2025-09-30T20:27:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/sidebar?rev=1759264020&do=diff CS Wiki Home Courses     Add policy     Dep Graph     First Course     Study Abroad People     Office Hours Students     FAQs     Research Integrity Guide History     Adams Prize Resources     Linux Tutorial     Firewall Overview     Remote Access Sitemap text/html 2019-05-24T11:55:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/windows?rev=1558698954&do=diff Secure Shell on Windows Installation To log in to the CS Department computers, you will need a SSH client. There are several free SSH clients available for Windows. We have used PuTTY with great success. We have also used WinSCP to copy files between Windows and Unix computers. 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 2010-02-01T19:26:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/using_dbc?rev=1265052409&do=diff Using the script /usr/local/sbin/dbc Dropbox check script Description This script is used to look at information from file names created by the submit script used by the digital drop box. It assumes English month names (January, February, etc.) and cannot deal with spaces. It prints out the encrypted information in a readable format. text/html 2008-05-07T11:21:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-04-16_mac_logins?rev=1210159299&do=diff 2008-04-16 Mac login The osX Macs in the lab now use your CS username and password for login. They do not mount your Linux home space. User space on the Mac’s is not persistent. Every time you log in your directory is recreated from scratch. text/html 2012-12-01T17:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2012_workstations?rev=1354383048&do=diff 2012 Workstation Upgrades [LightDM screenshot ]Welcome back. Plenty of changes have occurred to network this summer, here is a summary. The new workstations in the Asprey and Intro labs have quad-core Intel i7 2600 CPUs running at 3.4 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. The new workstations in the 105 classroom have dual-core Intel Atom D2700 chips runnings at 2.13 text/html 2008-09-23T18:33:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/ursi_2008/aiptasiabase/top?rev=1222194838&do=diff URSI 2008 TODO * version control - repository * bioinf upgrades * python 2.5 -> 2.6 * ruby 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6 SERVERS * AiptasiaWiki * AiptasiaBase RELATED LINKS * WikiProteins: <http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89> * WormBase: <http://www.wormbase.org/> * Fly-FISH home: <http://fly-fish.ccbr.utoronto.ca/> * BioMart: <http://www.biomart.org/> * Open Helix: <http://www.openhelix.com/> * * Website for free online bioinformatics resources. Perhaps someday they will …