Technology Services

Month: May 2006

  • Mailserver, Email, Quota and Archived Mail Issues

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    doachs

    At about 3:20pm or so yesterday we had an issue with our mailserver.  This information from Tami should shed some light on what happened: Yesterday (May4th) a user on campus sent a very large (25 mb) email message to hundreds of users on campus. This message has caused multiple problems for you to be aware…

  • May 10th – Last Day for Network Fix Day

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    nsonsteb

    The Technology Helpline’s service – Network Fix Day – will no longer except computers for this school year after May 10th, 2006. We will continue to work on the computers we do have until they are finished. We wish everyone luck with Finals and great end of the school year.

  • Cool new “Give feedback” and “Send this page” forms

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    jlencion

    Thanks to all of the hard work of Jeremy Carlson and the wonderful moo.fx, we recently upgraded the “Give feedback” and “Send this page” forms (linked at the tops of every page) from popups to be nicer in-page forms. No More Popups We have never liked popups and are glad to be rid of them.…

  • Fedora Core 5 and Openldap

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    doachs

    After many hours of trial and error, I was finally able to get openldap on FC5 working the way we need it to.  I noticed that there are a few differences in the way openldap works on FC5 when compared to the way things were on fc4. In the past when using fc4 the database…

  • Spam Filtering

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    doachs

    As of this week, all new accounts we create will have spam filtering enabled by default. Our default spam score threshold is 6.  Any email scoring higher than 6 will be automatically placed in a mailbox called Filtered_by_GAC. Filtering can be easily changed or disabled by using the email settings webpage.

  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 Update

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    nsonsteb

    Mozilla has released a security update to its popular web browser, Firefox. Mozilla recommends that all users upgrade to the new version. It may or may not try to upgrade itself, but you can go to www.mozilla.com and click on the link to download the new update for Firefox. If you are a staff or…

  • GarageBand 3.0.2 Update

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    nsonsteb

    GarageBand 3.0.2 Update This update was made available via Software Update for the Macintosh platform on April 24th. GarageBand 3.0.2 addresses issues with video handling, podcast exporting, and importing QuickTime markers. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. System Requirements — Mac OS X 10.3.9 — Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later —…

  • iWork ’06 v2 updates

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    nsonsteb

    If you are running a copy of iWork ’06 for Mac OSX, updates for Keynote 3 and Pages 2 are available from Software Update. Keynote’s current version is 3.0.1v2. Pages’ current version is 2.0.1v2. To run Software Update on your Apple computer, please click on the blue apple in the upper left hand corner, and…

  • User Services/Library Position – HIRED

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    nsonsteb

    We have great news! Jessie Twaddle has accepted the User Services/Library position and will be starting in June. He will be replacing Kathy Spexet.

  • Gustavus Homepage Concept

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    jlencion

    Our homepage was one of the final pieces of the Gustavus Website that needed to be updated to the look-and-feel we introduced in December. We have been hard at work to create a concept that incorporates global trends, reflects our new design paradigms, addresses known information architecture issues, improves the accessibility and usability of the…