Formerly on the third floor, the CS lab moved to A209 around 2004-2005.

This is a two-room lab—one of Windows boes and one of Solaris. It’s also connected to the graduate lab, but that room is seperated by locked doors.

Though a wide doorless doorway connects the Windows and Solaris labs, they have somewhat different autmospheres. The Solaris lab is typically fairly quiet, filled chiefly with upper-classmen and graduate students. The Windows lab is not free of these people, but it is much more heavily populated by earlier-year and less geeky students, and tends to be more rambunction at times.

When I was last there (Spring 2006), the Windows boxes were all identical Dells (512MB RAM; >1GHz), and the Solaris machines had two groups: the older boxes filling most of the room and the newer boxes along the front wall.

One of the primary advantages of this lab is that you have more permissions than in the general computer labs. Additionally, they have pre-installed C/C++ and other useful tools. Luckily, you can SSH into the Solaris machiens or Remote Desktop into a Windows machine (not a random one in the lab, but one provided by Tabrizi that will still have your roaming profile).

When on the Windows boxes, your Solaris home directory is still accessible as H:, though it will occationally go down.