Technology Services

Year: 2006

  • Chapel Podcast Is Back

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    jlencion

    School is now back in session after the summer hiatus, and things are in full swing—including the Daily Chapel Podcast. In the past year, the Daily Chapel Podcast has garnered some attention. It was even mentioned in “Podcasting Into the Future” by Robb Murray from the Mankato Free Press and “Big Podcasts on Campus” by…

  • Gustavus Homepage Issues

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    doachs

    At about 4:00am Thursday September 14th, the SQL server that powers www.gustavus.edu stopped working. It looks like it tried to reboot and then got stuck. Just before 8:00am today I hit the reset button and it came back up. Thus www.gustavus.edu was unavailable during that time. Jeremy, please come back soon. Your server misses you!

  • Students- Need help registering your computer?

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    nsonsteb

    Need help registering your computer on the Gustavus network? On Thursdays during the month of September, between 1 and 4:00 pm, the Technology Helpline will be offering walk-up help in the main lobby of Olin. During this time, the Technology Helpline will be helping students register their computers on the wired and wireless networks. This…

  • Who are the people on your network

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    sommere

    As people have been moving in and registering their computers, I’ve been collecting some statistics. A week after move in things seem to be settling down. (Although we just added access to the 7th street houses, which house about 30 students total.) Here are some of the more interesting stats: Of the students living in…

  • Facebook- Adopting Open Admission

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    nsonsteb

    Do you have a Facebook account? Do you like the fact that only a certain people can register and be a Facebook member?  Guess again. They are changing their admission requirements -  to anybody with Internet access. Please see the following link:  http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=111795 Originally they have slated this major change to take place on September…

  • Monday Night Networking Troubles

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    doachs

    Last night the Helpline caught me on IM and let me know that the res-hall network was not exactly running smoothly. According to the reports, users plugged in in many dorms as well as via wireless were having trouble raching email, the internet, or the Gustavus home page. However the lab computers in the dorms…

  • Return of the Hitlist and Dutyperson!

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    tami

    During the academic year the managers of the Technology Helpline use two tools to help coordinate the daily activities of all our employees.  The Hitlist and the Dutyperson. The Hitlist has matured and changed over the years, and has changed yet again this year.  We hope it will continue to change during the year.  This…

  • Birthday Wishes

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    jerry

    On this day in 1930 the 3M Corporation began selling Scotch tape. 36 years later the first episode of Star Trek, entitled “The Man Trap,” aired. 18 years after that, a young man named Ryan “Rudi” Rud was born. Today we celebrated all of these things, but Ryan’s birthday was the only one to warrant…

  • A bit of wireless detective work

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    sommere

    Yesterday during chapel I went over to Old Main in order to reboot an access point which wasn’t checking in. I got there, looked where the access point was supposed to be and saw two holes in the wall. I went back to my office and used some tools I created over the summer (I’ll…

  • Gribly Feature From User Feedback

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    jlencion

    We received the following feedback today from the five star rating system regarding the new Gribly: “Missing a link to email the class from this list. A few of my faculty have asked where the link to send an email to this group was. We think it would be very functional if that could be…