Computer Science | Vassar College

priority

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-27T18:51:07+00:00

System Priorities Priorities of programs are something to be aware of. PS The first thing to do is to get to know your processes. The ps command lists out the processes you have running on the system. By using ps -l, an extended listing of your processes is provided. The fields of the most interest to this topic are the PID, NI, and COMMAND fields. The COMMAND field lists the name of the command that started your process. So, if you're looking for your runaway c++ program, a.out is the one yo…

printing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-30T14:38:10+00:00

Setup To enable the printer, on the linux cmd line: * cd ~ * mkdir .cups * cd .cups * echo 'User 999nnnnnn' > client.conf (ensure that single quotes are used your 999 is entered) * chmod 400 client.conf (ensure that you can only read the file)

sshkeys

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-19T02:50:27+00:00

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

vnc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-04T21:02:46+00:00

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

windows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-24T11:55:54+00:00

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.

apple

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-04T00:22:24+00:00

X2Go macOS Installation may * Step 1: ” target=“blank”>Click here for the latest version to go to the download page for X2Go. ” target=“blank”>Click here for the previous versions.