Partial AFS outage March 9 2009 One CSL AFS file server (miter.cs.wisc.edu) went down shortly after 1:10p this afternoon. Users with home directories on this file ...
Introduction This document discusses project management in AFS and project storage space in /p . The first part of this document provides a broad overview of project ...
About the CSL Who we are The Computer Systems Lab (CSL) is the organization that operates and maintains the computer facilities of the Computer Sciences Department ...
Security of Your CSL Account If You Think Your Account Has Been Broken Into If you think that someone has broken into your account, please contact the Computer Systems ...
AFS File System Introduction AFS is a distributed file system that enables sharing files across both local area and wide area networks. AFS is based on a distributed ...
Backups And Restores Getting Lost Files Back You can only get files back which were present When Backups Are Made. In many (but not all) cases, this boils down to ...
Computer Science Instructional Computing, Fall 2012 Information for Instructors Student accounts New students will be able to activate their accounts on Tuesday, ...
Writing CD Roms In The Computer Sciences Department There are two types of facilities available for writing CD Roms in the Department of Computer Sciences. Anyone ...
CSL Current Service News This document outlines important announcements, notices, and information pertaining to CSL services. This includes details about downtime ...
Computer Systems Lab Staff Please send any problem reports or work requests to lab #64;cs #46;wisc #46;edu Professional Staff David Parter dparter #64;cs #46 ...
The Computer Sciences Department uses the the departmental VPN service maintained by DoIT. This VPN service provides a secure network connection from your device ...
Copier/Printer/Scanner Use Procedures for using department copier/printer/scanner machines. Getting An Account On The Copier/Printer/Scanners See Jennifer Russo in ...
Current Weather Conditions in the CSL Clear and Cool Current Temperature: 68°F Humidity: 45% Wind: Calm 5 Day Extended Forecast Clear and Cool High: 68°F Low ...
Emacs How Do I Turn Off The Toolbar Or Menu Bar In Emacs? The following .emacs file entries, written in elisp, will disable the toolbar and/or menubar on your emacs ...
Electronic Mail What Email Clients Does The CSL Recommend? The CSL recommends the use of Thunderbird . Other email clients are available within the department, but ...
Frequently Asked Questions about Files, Directories And Disk Quotas I Deleted A File. How Do I Get It Back? On UNIX systems: You can recover files that existed the ...
Sharing Files/Using CVS This document explains how to set up AFS groups for sharing files, and also how to use CVS for version control. This document was adapted ...
FTP Server How Can I Put Files Up On The Department FTP Server? All files available for download should be copied to /p/ftp (or P:\ftp from Microsoft Windows ...
Getting Help Using CSL Workstations There are several sources of help: CSL Documentation CSL Online Documentation New users should read: GettingStartedFAQs ...
Getting Started How Do I Activate My CS Or Statistics Department Instructional Computer Account? If you do not currently have a Computer Systems Lab computer account ...
CSL IMAP Outages Sunday, Oct. 26th The CSL IMAP server suffered a power supply failure early Sunday morning which caused an unexpected mail service outage. As soon ...
IMAP Mail Issues, 9/25 to 10/9/2008 Updates are posted in chronological order with the newest first. 10/9, 4:08pm The following was just sent to the department: CS ...
IP Multicast What Is IP Multicast? IP multicast is a way of sending IP packets to a group of hosts, without sending it everywhere, like a broadcast. Hosts that wish ...
CS Instructional Facilities Hours The instructional computing labs are open from 7 AM 1 AM every day. Locations Room Operating System Computer Names ...
Instructional Labs Shut Off Tuesday night into Wednesday Due to the upcoming Unit 3 power outage, the CSL will be shutting down the instructional lab late this afternoon ...
Mailman Mailing Lists How Can I Join A Mailman Mailing List? via the web: 1. Visit the subscribe page for the list at http://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo ...
CS Data Center cooling failure Tue May 5 22:56:22 CDT 2009 Chillers back on, room cold, booting the clusters Tue May 5 21:45:52 CDT 2009 The CS Data Center cooling ...
Mentor Graphics What Release Of Mentor Graphics Is Installed? The following Mentor Graphics design tools are installed: Design Tools EN2004 ICFlow ICFlow ...
Mozilla Mozilla Hangs, Freezes, Crashes or Otherwise Misbehaves. What Should I Do? The first thing to do when mozilla does anything unexpected such as crashing, freezing ...
CSL now offering password based users on !PostgreSQL The following was just sent to the cs announce email list: The CSL is now offering support for password based ...
The CSL will coordinate purchases of any computing equipment and accessories, parts and software for CS Faculty, Staff and Students using University funds (only). ...
PDF Generation Overview PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a light weight document format, often used for exchanging documents on the web. NSF !FastLane also requires ...
How Do I Change My Password? Password Requirements: When choosing a new password, keep in mind that your password: must be at least 8 characters long. must ...
Past Service News May 24th 5pm: Major Power Outage, Unit 3 MAY 05 2009: Cooling failure, all cluster nodes shutdown Partial AFS outage March 9, 2009 ...
PGP What Is PGP? PGP is a program to securely encrypt email and data using public key cryptography. With public key cryptography, there is no need for a secure channel ...
CS Unit 3 Power Outage Wednesday 4 7am Because of necessary maintenance to the CS building's power infrastructure, electricity to unit 3 is scheduled to be shut off ...
Printing How To Print A Document On UNIX systems Print Commands lpr filename : This is the basic print command. It will print the file to your default printer ...
Transferring Files to or from a Remote System Setup This document describes how to transfer files from CSL Unix computers over to remote systems or vice versa ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise 6 is the latest release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system supported by the Computer Systems Lab ...
CSL Downtime Lab Maintenance Window In order to minimize the unpredictable disruptions of the Computer Sciences department network, the lab has established a number ...
Protecting Your Files File protection at the CSL is done with AFS access control lists, or ACLs . There are two aspects of protecting files: who has access to the ...
Transition To Secure Remote Access The Computer Systems Lab transitioned from insecure remote access (such as telnet and ftp, which transmit passwords over the network ...
Spam Filtering For IMAP Users How Can I Better Manage Spam? To help users manage unsolicited email (spam), the CSL now offers a !SpamAssassin based mail checking ...
SSH FAQ What Is SSH? SSH (Secure Shell) is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands on a remote computer, and to move files from ...
Computer Sciences Department Suggestion Box Welcome to the Computer Sciences Department Suggestion Box. If you would like to make a suggestion regarding anything having ...
Information for TAs about instructional computing resources Accounts Created from out database Data from the registrar: UP TO TWO DAY DELAY FROM REGISTRATION ...
Tao Linux 1.0 The Computer Systems Lab is pleased to announce support for Tao Linux 1.0 as a new desktop and server platform. Tao Linux is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise ...
Unix Software Catalog Most (but not all) software available on Computer Systems Lab Unix systems are listed here. Most software is installed in /s/std/bin/ program ...
Unsupported/Insecure Networks The Computer Systems Lab has designated several networks as unsupported/Insecure, for computers that can not be on our regular production ...
Unsupported Software in /unsup What Is UNSUP? Welcome to UNSUP, the repository of volunteer maintained, unsupported, for fun software in the CS department. Disk space ...
Useful Programs For Home Users This page is designed to be a reference guide for students and staff who wish to do their work from home. It is not intended to be a ...
This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this CSDocs web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to ...
Protecting Web Pages Warning: The security offered by these measures is minimal. There is no way to prevent other CS users from exploiting the system and gaining access ...
CSDocs Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the CSDocs web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be ...
The Web Server How Can I Get Started On The Web? To publish a web page on the Computer Science Department webserver, go through the following steps. This should take ...
Computer Science Department Web Servers The Basics The Computer Systems Lab supports three main department webserver types. Further information on each type can ...
Window Managers The CSL has installed multiple window managers that you can use on your UNIX account. To find out how to use a particular one, go to their home page ...
Windows XP These are questions related to Windows XP on CSL supported workstations. Some items may apply to other Windows XP workstations, but the focus is on the ...
XEmacs Xemacs No Longer Colorizes My Programs. How Can I Get This Back? Starting with xemacs 21.1 (installed June, 2001), XEmacs changed the internal workings of ...
The X Window System How Do I Change The Screen Resolution On The Computer I'm Using? The command xsetres can only be used on intel based desktop computers. Note ...