https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-18T15:31:23+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 … text/html 2009-11-02T18:01:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/ratatosk_xmpp_server?rev=1257184898&do=diff Using our xmpp server This page is only now being written, 'till then, here is the email I sent out last spring: We now have a chat server. It uses the open protocol XMPP aka Jabber. It can do chat rooms (group chats), messaging (IM) and can reach and be reached by other XMPP servers around the world (like google talk). The big advantage over AIM is that XMPP is decentralized. Your messages only go as far as the servers involved, so it saves electricity and network traffic. It's greener an… text/html 2009-09-28T15:07:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/where_are_my_icons?rev=1254150453&do=diff Where are my Icons? If you find that you have logged onto the system this year, and all of your shortcut icons are missing, don't worry. You can get them back. First off, the buttons are still there. The icon has just been set to “no icon.” If you hover over the taskbar, you will see the application the blank button links to, as shown. text/html 2008-05-07T11:34:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-01-28_password_problem_resolved?rev=1210160067&do=diff 2008-01-28 Password Problem Resolved The problem we had in yesterday’s lab (Monday Jan. 28) has been resolved. The problem was that one of the server maps needed to be manually rebuilt after changes made to our system. The other maps are all dealt with in an automated fashion so I did not notice at first that one of them needed to be built manually.  It is all fixed now. -Greg text/html 2008-05-07T11:29:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-02-05_services_restored_backups_complete?rev=1210159794&do=diff 2008-02-05 Services Restored, Backups complete Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 10:00am there was a brief interruption to some of the CS servers as we produced a bare metal backup. The servers that were unavailable were: * Our wiki server (this includes all wikis hosted at CS) text/html 2008-05-07T11:26:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-03-27_unscheduled_reboot_of_remote_access_server?rev=1210159617&do=diff 2008-03-27 Unscheduled Reboot of remote access server I had to reboot our remote access ssh server at 4:10PM EST today. I will be monitoring it a little more closely. Sorry for the hassle - Greg text/html 2008-05-07T11:25:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2008-04-24_printer_problems_resolved?rev=1210159505&do=diff 2008-04-24 Printer Problems Resolved Both lab printers, asprey and loaner are back up and fully operational. Thanks to a visit from NetEffects (our printer repair folks) I can report that as of 11:20 am, asprey is now working. (Loner has been working since yesterday.) text/html 2012-12-01T17:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2012_workstations?rev=1354383048&do=diff 2012 Workstation Upgrades [LightDM screenshot ]Welcome back. Plenty of changes have occurred to network this summer, here is a summary. The new workstations in the Asprey and Intro labs have quad-core Intel i7 2600 CPUs running at 3.4 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. The new workstations in the 105 classroom have dual-core Intel Atom D2700 chips runnings at 2.13 text/html 2015-08-27T14:13:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2013_winter_updates?rev=1440684807&do=diff 2013 Winter Updates Welcome back. There has been some good quiet time in January which works well for pushing out updates. All of the workstations remain on Ubuntu 12.04.1, but several components have been updated. So that you are aware here are the bigger updates to have occurred.