Community: Our Life Together

The CSE Department provides its students and alumni with a number of resources and extended technical services. Some services require additional account set-up, and you should email Carl Daudt or Noah Sheppard for assistance. A brief overview of these services is listed below:

Lab Computers
Any student (you need a CSE account to log in) can use one of the 60 lab computers in one of our three labs.

Lab hours: Monday through Thursday = 8 a.m.–11 p.m.
Friday = 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday = Noon–5 p.m. (before spring break)
Saturday = 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (after spring break)
Sunday = closed

File Storage
Students are automatically given user space on the campus network to store files for classes and other academic purposes. An individual’s user space ranges from 30MB to 300MB based on current class enrollment. User space is accessible in Windows, via \\paul.cse.taylor.edu\username\. There also are two temporary storage drives: \\scratch\monday (storage cleaned every Monday at noon) and \\scratch\thursday (storage cleaned every Thursday at noon).
User space is ccessible in Linux and Mac OS X via Samba. User space is accessible off-campus via Terminal, using the scp command.

Remote Access—Secure Shell
SSH—students may login from on or off-campus. Remote access is accessible on-campus via Terminal, ssh matthew.cse.taylor.edu, or on or off-campus via Terminal, ssh john.cse.taylor.edu.

Web Storage
Students are automatically given a Web storage folder in their user spaces to store pages for classes and other academic purposes. All accounts have access to CGI (Perl), PHP, and SSI.      • accessible via Internet, http://cse.taylor.edu/~username/
     • accessible in Windows (lab computers), via X:\public_html\
     • accessible in Linux (lab computers), via ~/public_html/

Version Control—CVS, Subversion
CVS—students may request a CVS repository by contacting Carl or Noah.
     • accessible via cvs.cse.taylor.edu

Subversion—students may request a SVN repository by contacting Carl or Noah.
     • accessible via svn.cse.taylor.edu.

Database Services—MySQL, PostgreSQL
MySQL—students may request a server account and database by contacting Carl or Noah.
     • accessible via Internet, https://cse.taylor.edu/phpMyAdmin/
     • accessible via Terminal, mysql -h mysql.cse.taylor.edu

PostgreSQL—students may request a server account and database by contacting Carl or Noah.
     • accessible via Internet, https://cse.taylor.edu/phpPgAdmin/

Email Services - IMAP, POP3, SMTP
Students are automatically given a CSE email account of username@cse.taylor.edu that forwards to their Taylor University email address. Students may optionally disable the default forwarding so that their CSE email account is separate from the Taylor University account. If the CSE account is not forwarding emails, students can access mail in a variety of ways:
     • accessible via Internet, https://www.ces.taylor.edu/mail/
     • accessible via IMAP, imap.cse.taylor.edu
     • accessible via POP3, pop.cse.taylor.edu
     • accessible via SMTP, smtp.cse.taylor.edu

Windows Terminal Services—Remote Desktop
Students on-campus may be given access to the CSE Terminal Server for a Windows 2003 environment and a wide range of software such as Macromedia Studio 8, OpenOffice, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and much more. Students may request access by contacting Carl or Noah.
     • accessible in Windows, via Start, Programs, Accessories, Communications, Remote Desktop Connection and connecting to ezra.cse.taylor.edu
     • accessible in Linux (lab computers), via Terminal, rdesktop and connecting to ezra.cse.taylor.edu
     • accessible in Mac OS X, via Remote Desktop Connection and connecting to ezra.cse.taylor.edu