System Status
No scheduled downtime
You can use the ACL's computers from anywhere that has Internet access by using an SSH client. An SSH client is a program that allows you to log in to other computers and work on them.* If you use an SSH client to log into cn01.cs.stedwards.edu or cn02.cs.stedwards.edu (the same computers you use when sitting at a terminal in the ACL), you will have access to all the same programs and files that you would if you were in the lab. This means that you will be able to work on assignments when you aren't on campus or when the ACL is closed.
NOTE: SSH is text-based, so you normally won't be able to use graphical applications like GUI-based Web-browsers (such as Mozilla) and image-manipulation tools (such as GIMP) from SSH. However, the most important tools in Linux are text-based, so you can do practically everything you need for a class though SSH.
If you use Windows, you probably don't have an SSH client installed yet. You can find a free one at the SSH Web site.
If you use Linux or another UNIX-like operation system,
you might already have an SSH client installed.
To check, type:
$ ssh cn01.cs.stedwards.edu
at your shell's command prompt.
If that didn't work,
try to find a package
in the format preferred by your operating system.
A free client for Linux can be found
in a package named "openssh."
The source distribution for openssh
can be found at
its home site.
(Macintosh instructions not here... yet).
* If you've ever used telnet, you already know how to use SSH. SSH is essentially just a secure version of telnet.