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| I walk away from my desk for five minutes and my ssh session times out, can I stop this? | I walk away from my desk for five minutes and my ssh session times out, can I stop this? | ||
| * Yes! There is a parameter called ServerAliveInterval which will keep sessions alive. A guide is [[https://patrickmn.com/aside/how-to-keep-alive-ssh-sessions/|here]]. | * Yes! There is a parameter called ServerAliveInterval which will keep sessions alive. A guide is [[https://patrickmn.com/aside/how-to-keep-alive-ssh-sessions/|here]]. | ||
| + | How do I access journal articles from home? | ||
| + | * There are a variety of possibilities, from connecting to campus via a VPN or other remote connection (I once used wget to download an article directly to fishtank which I could then scp back to my computer!). | ||
| + | * MSU libraries details some instructions [[https://lib.msu.edu/rds/offcampus-access/|here]]. | ||
| + | * By far the easiest method I've found is to create a proxy server bookmarklet a la [[https://www.lib.purdue.edu/help/bookmarklet|this Purdue guide]].\ | ||
| + | * You then simply replace the Purdue href with the MSU one: "http://proxy1.cl.msu.edu/login?url=%22+location.href" | ||
| + | * Your final bookmarklet should look like this: javascript:void(location.href="http://proxy1.cl.msu.edu/login?url=%22+location.href) | ||
| + | * Now whenever you need to are up against a journal's paywall you merely need to click this bookmark, login to your MSU account, and voila, journal articles wherever you are! | ||
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