https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-12T07:29:52+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 2011-05-10T16:58:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/ewc?rev=1305046736&do=diff Export a window to the Projector Please note, the instructor's workstation in room 105 has a resolution of 1280×1024, the student workstations have screen resolutions of 14450×900. Please resize any window you want to export to fit on the display where you are exporting it. ```````````````````````````````````````````````` 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 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.