MichaelBlodgett 30 Oct 2005 Details The 5331 conference room uses a Polycom !ViewStation SP that supports IP based videoconferencing. It uses the H.323 protocol at ...

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 ...

Accessgrid The !AccessGrid® is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid ...

Account Information Disk Space Information What If I Exceed My Disk Quota? The AFS filesystem will not allow you to use more disk space than your disk quota allows ...

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 ...

MichaelBlodgett 09 Jan 2006 The authenticated printer gateway will allow you to submit jobs from a remote host to any Computer Science or Statistics printer you regulary ...

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 ...

Subject: Spring 2008 instructional computing This message includes information about the Spring semester instructional computing: 1. Changes from previous ...

Brief Sybase Syntax DB Library/C a abort xact Mark a distributed transaction as being aborted. RETCODE abort xact(connect, commid) DBPROCESS connect ...

C And C Compilers GCC The current default compiler (in /s/std/bin, /s/gcc/bin) for all Unix platforms is GCC 3.3.2. The GCC acronym now stands for GNU Compiler ...

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 ...

Computer Systems Lab Account Policies The Computer Systems Lab develops and maintains the research and instructional computing facilities for the Computer Sciences ...

CSL Documentation FAQs and HOWTOs General Getting Started Account Security How To Change Your Password How To Choose A Secure Password Email ...

Computer Systems Lab Quick Facts Staff 8 Full time Staff 12 Undergraduate students Computers Supported Desktop workstations: 350 Instructional ...

MichaelBlodgett 10 Mar 2005 Computer Science Network Resources The CSL maintains the department network which is used by all Instructional, Reserach, and Computer ...

Computer Systems Lab Staff Select the staff member's name to see his or her home page. Select their email address to run the "finger" command. If you are trying to ...

Centos 4 The Computer Systems Lab is pleased to announce support for Centos 4 as a new desktop and server platform. Centos is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Edition ...

404 Page Not Found The cgi you requested was not found on http://cgi.cs.wisc.edu. On July 1, 2005, the services on cgi.cs.wisc.edu were shut down. Visitor If you ...

Compilers, Programming Languages And Programming Tools

Condor Workload Management System What is Condor? Condor is a specialized workload management system for compute intensive jobs. Users submit their serial or parallel ...

Copier/Printer/Scanner Use Procedures for using department copier/printer/scanner machines. Getting An Account On The Copier/Printer/Scanners See John O'Malley in ...

Crash And Burn Lab Where Is The Crash And Burn Lab? The Crash and Burn lab is located in room 1355 of the Computer Sciences building. How Long Can I Use A Crash ...

csim According to the manual, "CSIM18 is a library of routines, for use with C or C programs, which allows you to create process oriented, discrete event simulation ...

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 ...

Database Management Systems PostgreSQL What is PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including ...

Debugging And Program Analysis Tools gdb Debugger gdb is the GNU debugger. Although originally designed to operate with the GNU C compiler (gcc), gdb can be ...

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 Support? The CSL officially support pine (current version 4.56) on UNIX platforms, the email client included with ...

Electronic Mail Programs Mozilla Thunderbird Mail The CSL's officially supported E mail client is Mozilla Thunderbird which has been installed on all supported UNIX ...

End of Semester Announcements (May 2006) Instructional Accounts As the end of the Spring semester approaches, many students have asked the Systems Lab about their ...

Feature Disabled Registration and other features have been disabled for general CSL accounts. If you have questions/comments on the documents, please send email to ...

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 ...

Sharing Files/Using Subversion (SVN) This document explains how to set up AFS groups for sharing files, and also how to use Subversion for version control. This ...

Firefox and Thunderbird Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird overview Firefox and Thunderbird are the replacements for the combination web browser/mail reader mozilla ...

Fortran Compilers Sun Forte Developer 7 Compilers (f77 And F90) There are two Sun Workshop Fortran compilers installed in /opt/SUNWspro/bin on Solaris Sparc ...

Forwarding X11 On Microsoft Windows This document describes how to forward X11 using the ssh clients SSH Secure Shell and !SecureCRT. This will allow X Windows applications ...

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 ...

GNU Software GNU/Linux Like all Linux distributions, Tao Linux contains a large contingent of GNU contributed software. These packages include essential components ...

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 ...

GNOME and GDM GNOME Overview GNOME is a desktop environment which runs on top of X Windows. It is a free software effort and is included in most modern Linux releases ...

var googleSearchIframeName "cse search results"; var googleSearchFormName "cse search box"; var googleSearchFrameWidth 600; var googleSearchDomain "www ...

CS Graduate Student Account Policies If you have any questions regarding these policies, please send mail to lab@cs.wisc.edu or the CS Computing Facilities Committee ...

Graphics And Drawing Programs bitmap: X Bitmap Editor bitmap is a simple X bitmap editor; it is part of the X Window System distribution. Output is a standard ...

PDAs, Smart Phones and other wireless devices Handheld devices that can not authenticate to the wireless network via the existing wireless authentication gateway can ...

Electronic Hand In System This document explains how to use the lab supported hand in system installed in /s/handin. It does not include information on other systems ...

Search The Computer Systems Lab Pages Search using Htdig (recommended) Match: All Any Boolean Expression Format: Long Short Sort by: Score Time Title Reverse Score ...

IMAP Mail Server IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is an alternative to POP (Post Office Protocol) and local workstation delivery for electronic mail delivery ...

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 ...

CSL Instructional Account Policies The Computer Systems Lab develops and maintains computing facilities in support of the Computer Sciences Department instructional ...

Computer Systems Lab Instructional Facilities Hours The instructional computing labs are open from 7 AM 1 AM every day. Locations Operating System Room ...

Java On Computer Systems Lab Workstations What Java Development Tools Are Installed? Java products installed currently include the JDK (Java Development Kit) ...

Kerberos Authentication Kerberos Tickets and Credentials Cache Kerberos uses tickets , which are issued for a specific user, for a specific service, and for a specific ...

Laptop Station There are 2 laptop stations available in the CS department on the CS networks. These are for people who want a network connection for short term use ...

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 ...

MatyasSelmeci 04 Mar 2005 Math Maple Maple does symbolic math and equation solving. Maple is available for Solaris (SPARC and Intel), Linux (Intel) and Windows platforms ...

Mentor Graphics What Release Of Mentor Graphics Is Installed? The following Mentor Graphics design tools are installed: Design Tools EN2004 ICFlow ICFlow ...

Miscellaneous Gtk2 Gtk2 is installed in /s/gtk 2 . In order to build against the libraries you need to set your PKG CONFIG PATH environment variable to /s/gtk ...

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 ...

Multimedia Playing .mp3 Files On UNIX systems: The most common mp3 player software is XMMS, which is very similar to Winamp on Windows. Type xmms to start the ...

Information For New Computer Sciences Faculty (Summer 2008) Welcome! This document is to introduce the Computer Systems Lab (CSL), and to give you some information ...

Office Suites OpenOffice (formerly StarOffice) Starting OpenOffice Staroffice is located in /s/std/bin and can usually be started simply by typing soffice ...

OpenAFS Taken from http://www.openafs.org : AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product ...

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 ...

PalmPilot Software Jpilot Jpilot is similar to the Windows software distributed with the palm pilot. It contains installation support, Address, !ToDo, Datebook ...

How Do I Change My Password? On UNIX systems: Use the passwd command to change your password. This program will prompt you for your old password and then for your ...

perl What Version Of Perl Do We Have Installed? Run perl v to find the current perl release installed. What Modules Are Available With Perl? You can run ...

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 ...

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) PGP PGP is public key encryption software, designed to allow private communications with people you've never met face to face. ...

MatyasSelmeci 04 Mar 2005 Plotting gnuplot: Function Plotting Utility gnuplot can be used interactively, or it can be run with a command file, either hand ...

MichaelBlodgett 28 Oct 2005 Details The rolling cart uses a Polycom !VSX 5000 that supports IP based videoconferencing. It uses the H.323 protocol at speeds up to ...

CSL PostgreSQL Database Service !PostgreSQL 8.3 is now supported. The port number is now 5432, please see below for more details. The !PostgreSQL 8.2 server on postgres ...

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 ...

Printing Facilities Types Of Department Printers See SupportedPrinterPolicy for details on type of printers in use in this department. Color Printing Accounting ...

Privacy And Confidentiality Of Files, Logs And Other Electronic Data Users should be aware that files stored on University computers are NOT confidential in all situations ...

Private Workstation Policy Privately Owned Desktop Workstations Graduate students, faculty and staff may request to use a privately owned workstation or personal ...

CSL Privileged Access Policy The following policies govern privileged ( root, superuser or administrator ) access to Computer Systems Lab computers. They are designed ...

Programming Tools make: Automatically Rebuild Your Programs make is a tool to automate the recompilation of your programs. Rules for rebuilding your program ...

Using the CS Projectors Using The Projectors In Rooms 3310, 3331, 4310, 5331 And 7331 Equipment Available Epson Projector with VGA and Composite Video Inputs ...

Prolog The YAP Prolog System The YAP Prolog System version 4.2.2 is installed in /s/Yap 4.2.2 (and /s/Yap and /s/std/bin ) YAP Prolog Documentation ...

Public Servers in the Computer Sciences Department Introduction There are a number of machines in the UW Computer Sciences department that allow its users general ...

Python Python 2.3 According to the website, "Python is an interpreted, interactive, object oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme ...

Transferring Files to a Remote System Setup This document describes how to transfer files from CSL Unix computers over to remote systems. CSL Windows NT ...

Removable Media Many of the Unix workstations have removable media that you can use to make personal backups, move files between our workstations and a computer at ...

Research Computing Facilities Chargeback Policies Research projects contribute to the Facilties Chargeback Fund to support their use of the computing facilities. ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 The Computer Systems Lab is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise 5 as the preferred operating system for the ...

CSL Downtime There is special downtime today (Tuesday, May 20th) from 5:30 to 7:30 pm to upgrade the main department database server to !PostgreSQL 8.3. Some services ...

Scheme PLT Scheme PLT Scheme v208 is installed in /s/plt 208 (and /s/plt and /s/std/bin ) for Tao linux systems. See Also: http://www.drscheme.org

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 ...

How To Have a Secure Password Choosing A Good Password Your password is the key to your account at the UWCS Department. Selecting a good password is the single most ...

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 ...

Authenticated SMTP Server Why Use The Authenticated Mail Server? By using the authenticated mail server, you can submit electronic mail from your laptop or other ...

SML What Is SML? From the documentation: "Standard ML is a safe, modular, strict, functional, polymorphic programming language with compile time type checking ...

The CSL Software Installation Scheme Introduction This document discusses /s , the scheme adopted by the Computer Systems Lab for installing software on our Unix ...

Solaris Operating System Overview Solaris is the current commerial UNIX offering from Sun Microsystems. It is available on Intel processors as well as Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC ...

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 ...

Using SSH This document explains how to use SSH to make secure connections from outside the CS department (for example, from home or other sites on campus). Secure ...

Computer Sciences Department Suggestion Box Welcome to the Computer Sciences Department Suggestion Box. If you would like to make a suggestion regarding anything having ...

Lab supported Printer Configurations Supported Department Printer Configurations The Computer Systems Lab has standardized on several printer configurations to reduce ...

More Sybase Information How Do I Set Up My Environment To Use Sybase? Before you may access Sybase, you must have a Sybase account set up for you, and have the ...

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 ...

Tcl/Tk Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a scripting language often used in conjunction with Tk, a graphical toolkit that allows rapid development of GUIs. Tcl 8.3 The ...

Text Editors Emacs Emacs is a powerful, yet easy to learn GUI based text editor. For more information, type man emacs or consult the Emacs tutorial and references ...

Mounting USB Key Drives on Centos Workstations There is a graphical client to help mount your usb drive, kdf . It'll spout a lot of messages in your terminal unless ...

CS Undergraduate Major Account Policies If you have any questions regarding these policies, please send mail to lab@cs.wisc.edu or the CS Computing Facilities Committee ...

Unix Operating Systems Linux Information Please see Linux Information for information about supported Linux distributions. Solaris Information Please see Solaris ...

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 ...

Usenet News Mozilla Mozilla is the CSL's standard recommended newsreader. It is a lightweight newsreader best suited to text groups. It is available on all Unix ...

How To Use VMware on CSL Supported Linux Computers Overview This application is primarily designed to solve the problem that exists when a Linux user receives a ...

Videoconferencing at Computer Science H323 One of the most prevalent type of conferencing is H323, which is an ITU T standard for realtime multimedia communication ...

General Interest Items CSL Documentation CS1000 Introduction to Unix and the CSL Search the CSL pages Available Software (UNIX) (Windows ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Using The Active Whiteboard You must use the laptop in the cabinet to run the IBID program Goto START PROGRAMS IBID 1.5 IBID to start the whiteboard ...

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 2000 These are questions related to Windows 2000 on CSL supported workstations. Some items may apply to other Windows 2000 workstations, but the focus is on ...

CSL Wireless And Laptop Network The CSL is in the process of installing 802.11b wireless networking and a 100bT "laptop" network for use in the Computer Sciences and ...

Word Processing And Text Processing 4.2.18.1 !FrameMaker 4.2.18.1.1. Available Version of !FrameMaker We currently have Adobe !FrameMaker version 5.5.6 installed ...

Writing CD Roms In The Public Windows 2000 Lab The Computer Systems Lab has created and tested a process for saving students accounts to CD. There are two different ...

Writing CD Roms On Linux Workstations Command line tools exist on the Linux operating system to: create CD Rom file system images (ISO images) from individual ...

Running CGIs on www.cs.wisc.edu The web server running on www.cs.wisc.edu now has the ability to run user scripts. This replaces the functionality available via ...

World Wide Web Policies It has become evident that World Wide Web servers are among the most popular targets of remote users attempting to gain unauthorized access ...

World Wide Web Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is the CSL's standard recommended, SUPPORTED web browser. It is available on all supported UNIX and Windows workstations ...

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 ...