https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-13T23:52:03+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 2008-10-24T17:56:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/xournal_tips?rev=1224870963&do=diff Xournal Tips Xournal is a Pen Journal that also allows you to add annotations to PDF files and/or capture and import arbitrary windows on the current screen to use them in xournal. xournal's sourceforge site Documentation for xournal A few common commands and settings INVOKE XOURNAL FROM THE GUI```````````````````````````` text/html 2015-08-26T21:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/logs?rev=1440623371&do=diff System Status Workstations Problem, Tues 12/17 System CS129 in OLB104 had a power supply issue. A ticket has been opened with user services. --- Rob Casinghino 2013/12/17 15:59 Workstations Update, Tues 9/17 I have done a non-critical update to our automated filesystem mounting for home directories. These will time-out after 90 minutes (beyond the typical class/lab sessions) to clear up resources on systems. While the connections are still active and in use, there will be no issues. If… text/html 2010-02-17T18:32:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/software_for_your_machine?rev=1266431539&do=diff Software Version and Download Information Links to the same version of the software we are using in various courses. In most cases, once at the site, you will need to select your operating system and architecture, this is sometimes called your platform 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 2012-07-30T18:55:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2012-08-04_shutdown?rev=1343674547&do=diff Summer 2012 Power Shutdown On Saturday, August 4th Buildings & Grounds will be performing maintenance and a safety review of electrical equipment on campus. This outage will affect power to Old Laundry Building as well as disable our network access and air conditioning. Because of this all services will be shutdown Friday night at 8:00 pm. Services are expected to be turned on again around 8:00 pm Saturday night, assuming that electricity, network connections and air conditioning are all availa… 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. 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 …