https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-18T15:47:38+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 2010-08-27T02:32:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/upc?rev=1282876344&do=diff Berkeley upc install on martha * Got berkely_upc-2.10.0.tar.gz and berkeley_upc_translator-2.10.0.tar.gz from primary site. * Checked md5sum for both. Translator * Starting with translator, extrated it into /usr/src on martha * did make * text/html 2009-10-14T17:24:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/isohome?rev=1255541099&do=diff Backup to CD/DVD ---------- * * * * * * ---------- <BOOKMARK:quick> The really short version of the instructions If you just want to do this without delay and can get to the CS lab... * Bring a blank CD or DVD to the lab * 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 2010-09-06T14:21:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/languages_on_martha?rev=1283782880&do=diff Languages on Martha Well, perhaps this page should now be called Languages installed for Marc as we are moving to having each language installed globally - Greg key installed not installed name url notes tested 64bit install tested jspin got from spin, treated like mariedp1 script, files in /usr/local/share/jspin text/html 2011-02-24T17:38:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/rsync_windows?rev=1298569104&do=diff Synchronization with your CS account from Windows /!NOTE this is the beginning of a page on this topic, this information is incomplete at this time -Greg !/ tools cwRsync - get it <http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10650> get latest cwRsync_VERSION.zip (not cwRsyncServer_VERSION.zip) from ```` 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…