Wet dream in progress…
It seems I have died and reached nirvana for CAS-nerds-who-like-Unix: as a realization of the general principle that Caltech has its stuff in order, maple, mathematica, and matlab are available by ssh tunneling and X forwarding. I wonder what other little goodies there are out there on the servers that I don’t know to look for.
I noticed there’s a public-html directory in my home dir, but what is the corresponding URL?
Possibly relevant posts:
- A note on running mathematica remotely using Xming (7/30/2007)
- Installing local Perl modules, using CPAN (5/8/2004)
- ACM11: Introduction to Matlab and Mathematica (9/26/2008)
check out vnc (vncserver and vncviewer on *nix) instead of X forwarding. Much faster.
Comment by dc — 9/7/2006 @ 4:43 pm
I’ll look into it– can I run a vncserver as a regular user?– but I shouldn’t have a speed problem with X, since I’m about a minute away from campus and they’ve provided a pretty fast connection to their network.
Comment by Alex — 9/8/2006 @ 11:11 am
if vnc in installed … which it really should be, the ‘vncserver’ is just a local process as far as I understand.
vncserver :1
should start a server at your.computer.name:1
(use -geometry 1200×800 or whatever you need to get the right screen size)
typing
vncviewer your.computer.name:1
should allow you to view your session.
The benefit is really that 1) no lags like with X, and 2) you never have to log out of your vncsession … your windows stay as they were wherever you go.
You should keep it behind a firewall (which may involve tunneling if you are outside) I think since the security is probably not great at all.
Probably lots of howto’s online.
Comment by dc — 9/8/2006 @ 12:08 pm
The public_dir/ directory probably maps to something like http://caltech.edu/~your_username
Comment by didier — 9/8/2006 @ 4:55 pm
Close, didier. It’s actually:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~your_username
Comment by Michael — 9/13/2006 @ 5:08 pm
Thanks! now I can get to work
Comment by Alex — 9/13/2006 @ 10:26 pm