https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-12T11:20:52+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2008-05-06T18:34:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/ssh/in_the_department?rev=1210098899&do=diff Page in progress This page is not yet compleate. When it is, this will be removed Ssh between machines a CS It is quite simple to get to a machine in the department remotely from another machine in the department. All machines in the labs, classroom and faculty offices should already have an ssh client installed on them and those machines which allow remote access are running an ssh daemon to accept incoming connections.```````````````````` 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 2008-05-02T22:19:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/site_search_options?rev=1209766745&do=diff Searching the CS websites We actually have several publicly viewable websites here at CS. There is the primary site and in addition several projects have their own servers. To further muddle things, we have a content management system, conventional web pages and cgi pages. 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 2012-11-12T16:27:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2012-11-12_mote_migration?rev=1352737626&do=diff 2012-11-12 Mote Migration The new remote access server is finally ready for general usage. This means everyone will have remote access to a system that has all the same software and settings as a department workstation. Fire up Racket and do your CMPU 101 homework, submit your CMPU 203 homework assignment, or just open up IDLE to work on your NLTK work, whatever you need. text/html 2012-11-12T15:29:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/linux?rev=1352734187&do=diff Using VNC on Linux Unlike many other operating systems, Linux uses an X server for graphical display, which allows network redirection. This me ans that you can easily have a secure remote display without using VNC by tunneling through ssh using 'ssh -X'. None the les s, if for some reason you would still like to use VNC, this page describes the process for getting it to work. text/html 2011-04-05T02:38:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/resolution?rev=1301971112&do=diff VNC Client Display Resolution Depeding on your VNC use, you may want to have a larger or smaller display than the default or a different number of colors. This often happens if you want to run the display full-screen or want to speed things up by reducing the amount of information moving over your network connection by choosing a smaller color set or resolution. Our VNC server allows you to choose a resolution and color depth by connecting to different ports. The instructions suggest you connec… text/html 2010-05-04T13:36:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/speed_tips?rev=1272980194&do=diff Improving VNC Performance This page is a work in progress, use the information here if it helps, but do not consider it in any way authoritative. * -- Greg Priest-Dorman 2010/05/04 09:36 Why is my session so slow? VNC is sending the image of your screen over the network between the server (here at CS) and your client (the machine where you are working). Depending on the network speed, the load on the server, the speed of your machine and the protocols vnc is trying to follow, the speed of …