#nmu on csc.nmu.edu My CS department runs an unofficial server that we all SSH into and screen through IRSSI. We get a lot done that way. Makes planning our ACM/LUG meetings easier too since you can scrollback and see the previous discussions.
Fun Fact: MIT runs a finger server at mit.edu that lets you look up anyone with a registered account. Years ago it was publically accessible to the world, but now you need to make your request from within the MIT network to get a response.
You could also get the schedule for movies shown on campus with `finger @lsc.mit.edu`. That finger server is still running but looks like it's not being updated.
If it's anything like most universities I knew (especially in the 90s and early 2000s) then their CS department websites can host all kinds of documents, papers etc such as this, e.g. from ESR stuff to "Worse is better", Beejs guide etc.
RIT also has a similar service [1] there's a new ui in the works for the spring, but it's interesting to see how widespread this issue is.
Also I have to say RIT has done an awesome job if coordinating with the devs, they give a CVS dump of their course database periodically.
Wow. This really makes me appreciate what we had at my college. For nearly a decade now, the OFFICIAL portal for the university that lets students and teachers manage courses and assignments (submissions included), has been the one that was originally developed, and still managed by students. We have a webmasters club for that whose responsibility it is keep it up and running and add features to it as they see fit. The university has been nothing but supportive of this, including assigning it an yearly budget for hosting and other expenditures.
Speaking of content management systems used by colleges, the college I went also rolled out its own: https://apps.carleton.edu/opensource/reason/ I believe it's being used by some colleges in the Midwest.
If nothing else, send a report to soc@ren-isac.net. If NEIU is a member, the folks at the watch desk will have te ability to immediately get in touch with someone in security there.
I'm no longer at an .edu (and so no longer a member of REN-ISAC) but this was a great, quick way to get ahold of someone at another institution quickly.
Yeah, most of the interaction takes place on forum software called Piazza. Some classes also do weekly Google Hangouts as office hours.
There are assignments, projects and exams - they've put a lot of effort into making it have the same quality and standards as the on campus programs, even going so far as to do blind grading in some courses (i.e. grade the on-campus and OMSCS courses as one).
I'm a UMD student, and I had no idea this existed!
I've been hesitant about reporting holes/vulnerabilities in the school's infrastructure until now, but it's reassuring to see that there are official channels for doing so.
Matter of fact, nuts.edu is (or, at least, was - doing a whois on my phone is a pain) registered to a computer club at the NUST (which, incidentally, is the official abbreviation even though the direct translation would be NUTS...)
As far as I know yes. From personal experience you can just `cd ..` your way out to the top parent directory and see all the orgs which use the system. I could see MIT and JPL(?) users from my cmu account and you can view the other users for each org (at least for MIT and for some of the other unis, I could never get the JPL stuff to load.) You can view the usernames and their public folder but nothing else.
There's also a lot of content from previous CMU classes. It was interesting to stumble upon some older 15151 course material which used some programming to prove certain theorems. They don't do this anymore (I'm not sure they even did this in the first place) and I'm assuming even for CMU CS students, expecting them to be able to programmatically prove theorems in a freshman class is a bit much. Cool stuff to root around in.
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