https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-13T23:51:52+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 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 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 2011-02-21T11:49:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/iceweasel_thinks_it_is_running?rev=1298288975&do=diff Firefox or Chromium thinks it's already running Firefox Problem: firefox will not start and the message you get is something like this one: firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window you must first close the existing firefox process or restart your system```````` 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 2009-03-02T21:18:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/ssl_cert_issue_explanation?rev=1236028739&do=diff SSL Site Certification We run two apache2 servers at this site. These two instances of apache2 serve multiple wikis and web sites. They are located in the Computer Science Department of Vassar College. As a result, they all get the same site certificate. In some cases that works just fine. But in some cases your browser will complain about not being sure if it should trust the certificate or not being able to verify the certificate. text/html 2008-10-24T17:22:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/wacom_tablet_tips?rev=1224868951&do=diff Using the Wacom Pen Tablet on our Linux Desktops NOTE: Currently the 5 buttons on the tablet itself are not detected by the windowing system. I am working on fixing that. -Greg Making the machine aware of the tablet Because we do not leave the tablets connected to particular machines, the Xserver needs to be restarted to properly recognize the device. ```````````````````````` text/html 2010-08-31T20:47:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/recently_installed_software?rev=1283287649&do=diff Recently Installed Software Linux Labs and Desktops * Google-Chrome yes, chrome is available on the CS system, however, there are a few hoops to jump through. For information and instructions on running google-chrome from within your CS account see: ```````````````````````````````````````````````````` 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 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 2008-05-02T22:19:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/site_search_options?rev=1209766745&do=diff Searching the CS websites We actually have several publicly viewable websites here at CS. There is the primary site and in addition several projects have their own servers. To further muddle things, we have a content management system, conventional web pages and cgi pages. text/html 2016-01-24T19:47:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/schedule?rev=1453664861&do=diff cmpu 240 Schedule Approximate schedule, subject to change. You are responsible for keeping yourself informed of the schedule and any changes that may occur over time. The assigned readings should, ideally, be read before the corresponding class. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading and for all material covered in class. I 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 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 2012-11-12T15:29:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/linux?rev=1352734187&do=diff Using VNC on Linux Unlike many other operating systems, Linux uses an X server for graphical display, which allows network redirection. This me ans that you can easily have a secure remote display without using VNC by tunneling through ssh using 'ssh -X'. None the les s, if for some reason you would still like to use VNC, this page describes the process for getting it to work. text/html 2020-01-30T19:31:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/tips_for_instructors?rev=1580412701&do=diff System Tips for CS Instructors Creating Dropboxes Before your students can use the submit### script with your course the following prerequisites must be met: * A course account must exist. * You need access to the course account. * Your students each need an account on our system.