This probably comes as no surprise to most ArcGIS users in MCECS. The old ArcGIS Desktop (often run as ArcMAP) that has run on various systems in MCECS has long been announced as end-of-life soon. We’ve noticed that the old license server (run by OIT in conjunction with the Geography dept) has been down intermittently [...]
[This only affects people using VNC or xRDP to access our Ubuntu Linux systems.] We have switched back to the MATE desktop as the default when you remotely access our Ubuntu Linux systems via VNC or xRDP. The desktop is the graphical user interface you interact with when you initiate a graphical session on a [...]
Using OIT's Enterprise Apps portal to get Banner POs and Reports Downloads Go to the OIT Enterprise Apps Portal and login with your Odin ID https://apps.oit.pdx.edu/ Click on the Employee Desktop Wait for your Windows session on the employee desktop to finish loading. Run a web browser [...]
Visual Studio Code - Windows VS Code on Windows in MCECS To run VS Code on a CAT-supported Windows machine, open a Command Prompt by pressing Win+R and typing "cmd", then hitting return. Within the command prompt, type: code --user-data-dir="N:\VSCode" Why does it have to be done this way? VS Code [...]
New to Fall 2022 is our MCECS Windows Remote Lab (currently numbering 27 systems and soon to grow to 37 systems). These systems are dedicated to remote use and do not reduce the seat count of our onsite computer labs. We are hoping that this remotely accessible service provides sufficient capacity for remote Windows lab [...]
If you are a user of the web interfaces to the database services provided by the CAT, be advised that we are moving from the old phpPgAdmin and phpMyadmin to a new interface called Adminer (formerly known as phpMinAdmin). The functionality of the old interfaces will still be provided, although the graphical layout will be [...]
Matlab can be remotely accessed from our Linux systems through VNC or X forwarding, and from Windows through the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). However, RDP can only support a single user per computer. To ensure that you can access MATLAB in a reliable fashion, we recommend using VNC or X forwarding where possible. If you [...]
The Solidworks for Students offering is currently unavailable for new activations (or renewals). The vendor has changed their licensing scheme and we are working on departmental guidance for how this product may be provided to MCECS students in the future. If you need to use Solidworks, the production version is available in many of our [...]
Greetings from the Computer Action Team! Fall 2020 is going to be a remotely-accessed experience for most MCECS users. Whether you’re a student, faculty, or staff, you can learn more about your MCECS account by following this link: https://cat.pdx.edu/users/getting-help/ We have built a resource that catalogs many of the most commonly asked questions we encountered [...]
The recent Tunnelblick update to version 3.8.3 has left Mac users unable to connect to our VPN servers due to a deprecated setting in older versions of the CAT’s configuration files. A symptom of this problem is seeing the Tunnelblick connection notification window stuck in a loop with yellow text, like in the image below: [...]