October 27th, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Windows Firefox package update: reboots might be needed Tonight we will be updating CLASSE managed Windows computers to...
October 13, 2014 Today's topics: X2Go replacing NX X2Go has replaced NX as CLASSE's solution for remote linux desktops. For more information, please see X2Go. D...
October 6, 2014 Today's topics: Migration of CLASSE file systems Tuesday October 7 After repeated disk failures on a decades old file server, the CLASSE IT gro...
September 29th, 2014 Today's topics: Firefox update to ESR31 on CLASSE Managed Windows Computers We will be updating Firefox to ESR31 tonight during our normal u...
September 15th, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows Firefox update 9/29/2014 CLASSE will be pushing Firefox ESR31 during standard updates on September 29...
Monday, September 8, 2014 Today's topics: Login change for CESR ELOG CESR logbooks (CESR Ops, CESR MS, CHESS_MS, and Instrumentation) were moved to cesrwww at 1...
August 29, 2014 Today's topics: Downtime for lnx201, Tuesday September 2 @ 12:01 AM On Tuesday, September 2, at 12:01 AM, the main Linux login node, lnx201, will...
August 25, 2014 Today's topics: Downtime for lnx201, Tuesday September 2 @ 12:01 AM On Tuesday, September 2, at 12:01 AM, the main Linux login node, lnx201, will...
August 18th, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows computers: Firefox update tonight We will be updating Firefox to ESR 24.7.0, including Flash and Java up...
August 4th, 2014 Today's topics: Running Linux programs from Windows: the CLASSE GRID icon The Windows desktop program "CLASSE GRID.exe" (the program previously ...
July 21, 2014 Today's topics: Computing at CLASSE homepage On Tuesday, July 29, the CLASSE Computing homepage will be updated the new homepage will be the Quic...
July 7th, 2014 Today's topics: RedRover Secure retiring on July 15 On July 15, CIT will discontinue the RedRover Secure wireless service. For more information, s...
FAQ: Mozilla is taking up most of the space in my home directory! How can I fix this? or I am unable to login to linux computers in the lab. When I try to login...
New UNIX Home Disk Gentle /home disk user. Almost a year ago, the server for our /home disk failed. As an emergency measure, we rushed lnx156 into service. The ...
June 30, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows computers Firefox update The web browsing package will be updated during today's regularly scheduled updates...
June 16, 2014 Today's topics: Accelerator Computing Mailing List CLASSE ACC COMP L is a new mailing list for announcements and discussions concerning accelerator...
June 09, 2014 Today's topics: Network Filesystems To ensure your data is secure and available, CLASSE maintains several terabytes of centrally maintained, redund...
WebEx Cornell University has paid for the web conferencing service, WebEx, which provides on demand, real time, collaborative web meetings and conferencing. As pa...
X2Go Debugging From the maintainer: I have seen this problem happen occasionally for various reasons. I think they have always been due to external factors. So I ...
DATE Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows Computers PDF Package upgrade during normal updates tonight. We are upgrading the PDF X Change Editor software to 5.5...
Public Terminals Location The CLASSE public terminal room is located in Wilson Lab, room 315. It is available for use at all hours. Logging in to a CLASSE compu...
Tag Cloud for CLASSE Computing Web Using System.TagMePlugin //TagMeSearch?tag=$tag\" style=\"font size:$size%\" $tag" separator=" " minsize="94" maxsize="220"}%...
May 19, 2014 Today's topics: New CLASSE Website Over the next two days, the long awaited CLASSE website will be moved into production. In addition to replacing ...
May 12, 2014 Today's topics: New CLASSE website (beta) The beta release of the new CLASSE website is now available at https://wwwdev.classe.cornell.edu. CLASSE c...
HyperNews External Links * HyperNews at CLASSE * HyperNews at CLEOc HyperNews at LEPP The CLASSE HyperNews server authenticates using CLASSE Credentials. ...
Monday, May 5, 2014 Today's topics: Power outage in West (New) Wing of Wilson Lab The following rooms in Wilson Lab will be without power on Tuesday, May 6, 2014...
Capturing Problems on Windows 7 Windows 7 has a built in problem reporting tool that may help you report a problem in a service request. If you are doing somethin...
Since CLASSE's computational resources were purchased using tax payers' money, it behooves us to use them responsibly. CLASSE's "Responsible Use statement" was dr...
Testing a USB device for malware Follow these instructions to test a USB device from any linux workstation. Testing from a CLASSE Linux Workstation 1. Log int...
LogMeIn Use at CLASSE (This page is in the middle of being updated. Some of LogMeIn's user interface has changed due to Java's new security restrictions.) CLASSE ...
Windows Data Storage * Please see Data Stewardship for guidelines on Windows and cross platform data storage. * Windows 7 desktop computers have a locally s...
Monday, April 14, 2014 Today's topics: Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability. Cornell's IT Security Office has issued alerts about the recently discovered "Heartbleed...
Cornell NetID A NetID is assigned by Cornell's Human Resources department when an individual is hired or becomes a student at Cornell. That NetID is used when acc...
FAQ: Could you tell me of a good computer to use? ANSWER: Your supervisor or project lead are the best source of information about the resources available. Most...
Monday, April 07, 2014 Today's topics: Wilson Lab Network Outage: Tuesday, April 8 @ 9:00 AM There will be a brief network outage (including RedRover eduroam w...
Scientific Linux 6 LEPP is in the process of transitioning to 64 bit Scientific Linux 6 (SL6). Any code built on an earlier SL distribution should run on 64 bit ...
Monday, March 31, 2014 Today's topics: Wilson Lab Network Interruption: Tuesday, April 1 @ 9:00 AM There will be a brief 30 second network interruption in Wilson...
March 24, 2014 Today's topics: Newman Lab Network Outage: Tuesday, March 25 @ 7:30 AM There will be brief network outage (including RedRover eduroam wireless) ...
March 10th, 2014 Today's topics: Microsoft Windows Performance Ever wonder what makes your Windows machine run sluggishly or crash all the time? We have a write ...
Windows Performance and Stability Introduction Contrary to naive expectations, the performance of Windows desktops and laptops can be adversely affected by the s...
March 3rd, 2014 Today's topics: Security Vulnerability fixed in latest versions of iOS, MacOS On Friday, Feb 21st, Apple announced that they discovered a serious...
February 24, 2014 Today's topics: Vulnerability in iOS (and maybe MacOS) Last Friday, Apple released a critical update to iOS 6 and iOS 7 to fix a major security...
February 17th, 2014. Today's topics: New functions for PDFs on CLASSE Managed Windows computers Tonight during Windows updates, we are upgrading from PDF X Chang...
February 10th, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows computer Firefox, Java updates We will be updating to Firefox 24.3.0 and Java 7u51 during our normal W...
Video Tutorials Several Video Tutorials are designed to work with Firefox on computers managed by CLASSE. If you have difficulties viewing a video in Firefox o...
February 3rd, 2014 Today's topics: VPN outage Tuesday at 10AM 11AM We will be migrating the VPN endpoint of the CLASSE VPN from a legacy server to a clustered se...
January 21, 2014 Today's topics: Replicon issues resolved The previously reported issue with accessing Replicon from off site was resolved on Saturday, 1/18. Pl...
January 17, 2014 Today's topics: Accelerator Subversion Repository Switching to CLASSE Authentication On Tuesday, January 21st, at 10am, the Accelerator Subversi...
Startpage Privacy Search Engine What is Startpage? Why would I want to use it? There are a couple reasons to use a search engine like Startpage. Privacy You know...
CLASSE suggestions for home computers This is going to be some suggestions on how you might set up and secure your home PCs. The first will be a baseline that we ...
Monday, December 23, 2013 Today's topics: Powering down desktop computers for the holidays. If you'll be away for an extended period of time, please do a gracef...
Monday, December 2, 2013 Today's topics: Exchange (Office 365) upgrade: December 4th starting at 5 PM. Microsoft will be upgrading Cornell's instance of Office 3...
Monday November 25, 2013 Today's topics: Campus network outage Sunday, December 1 On Sunday, December 1st between 5:00am and 12:00pm CIT Network Engineering will...
Application Profiling This page, and the references included therein, are currently being tested. YMMV Please submit a ServiceRequest with any problems, questio...
Monday, November 18, 2013 Today's topics: Brief network outage 9am EST, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 There will be a brief network outage starting at 9am EST, Tues...
Monday, November 11, 2013 Today's topics: Brief network outage, Tue Nov 12 @ 9 AM There will be a brief network outage starting at 9am, Tuesday, November 12, 201...
Introduction Foswiki An enterprise, open source web application that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via any web browser. http://foswik...
November 4th, 2013 Today's topics: CLASSE managed Windows Firefox updates tonight We will be updating Firefox to 17.0.10ESR, Flash to 11.9, Java to 7u45. During...
Clearing Browser Cache To clear your cache in Firefox, please see Mozilla's documentation: https://support.mozilla.org/en US/kb/remove recent browsing search and ...
Monday, September 30, 2013 Today's topics: WorkDay Problems? If you are having problems accessing WorkDay (e.g. long periods of the "busy" indicator), please su...
September 09, 2013 Today's topics: New instructional videos We have produced two new instructional videos, showing how to perform common tasks on Windows: * I...
September 3rd, 2013 Today's topics: Updates for CLASSE Managed Windows Computers Firefox Firefox will be updated to 17.0.8 ESR, Flash to 11.8 Tuesday night. Ma...
August 26, 2013 Today's topics: MATLAB server upgrade, Aug 27 On Tuesday, August 27, at 7 am, we will upgrade the license server for MATLAB versions 2012a and ea...
August 19, 2013 Today's topics: Mathematica 9 Mathematica 9 is available for testing from any managed CLASSE Linux box using the command, mathematica r 9.0.1. ...
August 12, 2013 Today's topics: RedRover and Cordless Phones If you use a Cordless Phone at CLASSE, please verify the frequency range that it uses. Cordless phon...
August 3 Power Outage W221 1 Move the power cord for BSD191 to a UPS. This system is under the console shelf. This will free up a 30 amp receptacle. 1 Move...
Monday, July 22, 2013 Today's topics: Replicon requires Firefox ESR You must use Firefox ESR 17 in order for Replicon to work for you. Firefox ESR is the version...
How to use the queueing system on the Alphas NOTE: this documentation is obsolete. DQS (aka GridEngine) is no longer available on DEC/Alpha/Tru64 and Sun/Solaris ...
A Message about Gnutella on the CLASSE Network Dear Computer user: Your computer should not be running Gnutella or similar MP3 sharing software. If it is, please...
July 8, 2013 Today's topics: Accelerator File Systems Upgrade (lnx113 deprecation) 4pm Monday, July 8 Starting at 4pm Monday, July 8, the following accelerator...
July 1, 2013 Today's topics: CLASSE Windows Systems will update the Firefox Package at 10PM 7/1/2013. This evening there will be updates applied to Firefox to ES...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Today's topics: Kronos and Java For this week only, hourly employees and their supervisors should be sure to use Kronos Basic, not full Kr...
DATE Today's topics: Wilson Lab RedRover Service Interruption, Tuesday 6/18 @6:00 PM As a follow up to last week's intervention, CIT will be restarting the Red...
June 10, 2013 Today's topics: Wilson Lab RedRover Service Interruption, Tuesday 6/11 @6:00 PM CIT will be restarting the RedRover Wireless Access Points in Wil...
June 03, 2013 Today's topics: CLASSE IT Help Desk In the upcoming week, we will be establishing a CLASSE IT Help Desk in Wilson 229, which will be staffed by an ...
Conference Management CLASSE supports a local Indico installation for managing conferences and workshops. Please submit a ServiceRequest for any new events that ...
May 29, 2013 Today's topics: CLASSE Wiki server upgraded, May 27 (This changes the URLs) The CLASSE Wiki server was upgraded to new hardware and software on Mond...
Authentication Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g...
January 12, 2011 Special Physical Sciences Building edition Today's topics: Networking in the PSB * Each LEPP office in the PSB has three networks availabl...
January 17, 2011 Windows Backups at night: leave your computer on! * Many people are turning Windows machines off at night. When you finish using a Windows ...
Printing PDFs You will get the best results printing PDFs as Images. Adobe Reader In Adobe Reader click the advanced button. Then click Print as Image. ...
FAQ: Why can't I print from my laptop (or an experimental subnet) using IPP? ANSWER: lns61 is not running an IPP server, and we will not enable it on each indiv...
Printing from a Public Solaris system at LEPP This page contains instructions on printing from a public solaris system at LEPP using LPR. The LEPP printers are N...
Printing from a Public Unix system at LEPP This page contains instructions on printing from a public unix system at LEPP using LPR. All of LEPP's printers should...
Printing from Legacy Windows XP LNSNTCAD Domain Desktop or Laptop If you're running a Windows 7 or CLASSE Domain Windows XP system, see: CLASSE Domain Printing A...
Printing from a Linux Laptop With the various distributions and releases of Linux, we cannot provide specific instructions that will work for everyone. In genera...
May 6th, 2013 Today's topics: How To Use VPN at Newman * Wednesday, May 8 10 AM in Newman 311: A presentation on "How To Use VPN" will be provided for those ...
April 29, 2013 Today's topics: SAMBA service maintenance 9:30am Tuesday April 30 At approximately 9:30am Tuesday, April 30, there may be a momentary interrupt...
April 22, 2013 Today's topics: Red Rover IP address conflict If your laptop reports an IP address conflict when you (re)connect your laptop to a Red Rover wirel...
April 8, 2013 Today's topics: Matlab 2013a License Server Upgrade PC176, the Matlab license server at CLASSE, will be upgraded at 10:00 AM Tuesday, 4/9. During t...
April 1, 2013 Today's topics: lnx201 maintenance lnx201, LEPP's public login node, will be rebooted at 10am Tuesday, 4/2. Please ensure all jobs running on lnx...
March 25th, 2013 Today's topics: Outage for WinAPP re configuration Tuesday There will be a 1hr outage Tuesday Morning starting around 8:30 to reconfigure WinAPP...
March 11th, 2013 Today's topics: Firefox on LEPP Windows computers will be upgraded during normal updates today We will be updating Firefox to 17.0.4, Flash 11.6...
March 04, 2013 Today's topics: Phishing In response to the recent successful phishing exploit, CIT has published a web page with general advice about phishing h...