Policies

Rules governing use of SSU electronic communications resources—including computers, networks, airspace, telecommunications devices, email, and the World Wide Web—likewise apply to all Computer Science Department supported equipment and systems. See these resources for further information about SSU IT policies and service provider policies

If you have any questions about user policies, send mail to the system administrator. The system administrator generally handles enforcement, while the CS department faculty make policy.
 

Yes, if you meet some criteria. Click the title of this FAQ entry to learn more...

Students who graduate from the Computer Science program have about six months before the account expires. During that time they should arrange for an ISP and move any files they are interested in keeping.

Your pesonal webapge is hosted from blue.cs.sonoma.edu. Click the title of this FAQ entry to learn more...

You can use your account for anything you want, as long as it does not violate any laws, SSU policies, or cause problems. The system administrator is empowered to take actions to stop you, should you choose to ignore this rule. For minor problems, staff will send you an e-mail message asking you to stop. For major problems, your account could be turned off; you can appeal any such actions to...

SSU students have cooperated to give us a long tradition of open computer labs. There are rules for the labs. Click the title of this FAQ entry to learn more...

CS students may login to Jupyter Hub on blue at https://blue.cs.sonoma.edu:8200/. If you are unfamiliar with Jupyter notebooks, here is a tutorial that may be helpful.

Yes, you may request a key to the CS department computer labs to use, when they are not occupied by a class. Just fill out the Student Key Request form on our Forms page. It will be routed appropriately from there, and you will be contacted by email when the finals signatures have been collected.

It is not possible to connect to blue.cs.sonoma.edu over the Apple File Protocol (AFP) due to how campus Firewalls are configured. If you want to mount a share using AFP, you can still do it over an SSH tunnel. Click the title of this FAQ entry to learn more...