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sshkeysmswindows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-31T12:49:58+00:00

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 …

filecopy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-04T20:59:05+00:00

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:

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…

x2go

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-07-04T21:04:42+00:00

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.

backups

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-26T20:52:53+00:00

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…

info

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-18T15:53:52+00:00

Bash Shell Resources a few articles and tutorials on the web for learning the bash shell * * * * * System Info - User Help ---------- Help for New Users Unix information and help Examples for …

ssh

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-27T13:08:06+00:00

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

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.

drschemonmac

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-02-20T19:44:41+00:00

Getting Dr. Scheme to run on Mac * playonmac (www.playonmac.com) Install this program and then install the windows version of dr scheme. * 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.

linux_basics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-18T16:17:28+00:00

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.

windows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-11T14:53:34+00:00

X2Go Windows Installation * 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.