Technology Services

Year: 2006

  • Students- Need help registering?

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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…

  • On-line Hardware Registration

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    tami

    Over 600 First Year Students have registered some type of network device on GReg (Gustavus Registration) since Saturday. GReg is the system that we use to track and register all the machines on our network. Users are automatically stepped through a web based process that installs the newest version of Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, installs…

  • Color Printing in the Public Labs

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    tami

    Over the years there has been a steady rise in the cost of printing for the college. Much of these costs have been associated with the increase in demand for and use of color printing options in our campus labs. In order to make it possible to accommodate the increased demands for color printing, starting…

  • Technology Helpline Regular Hours Begin

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    tami

    This fall the Technology Helpline will be expanding their hours. In an effort to deliver more coverage and help with some of the problems the lab assistants dealt with in the past the Technology Helpline will be open longer hours in the fall. Regular Hours: Monday – Thursday 8 am – 12 Midnight Friday 8…

  • English Department Blog Now Online

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    jlencion

    The English Department joins the MCS Department today by launching their brand new blog with some shiny new content. Their first few entries deal with alumni updates, the upcoming Lefler Lecture, and Senior Seminars for 2006-2007. They plan on updating it with interesting new content throughout the year. If you are/were an English major, are…

  • Planned Gustavus E-mail Outage

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    nsonsteb

    Tonight at 10:30pm, Gustavus e-mail will be unavailable for approximately 10-15 minutes. We expect at 10:45pm, all services will be restored completely. All messages received during this outage will be delivered soon after the outage. Thank you for your patience.

  • Gustavus Network Speeds

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    doachs

    I have had a couple of people ask me today, “How fast is our internet connection?” The quick answer to that is 30Mbit I1 and 45Mbit I2. What that means is that we have a 30Mbit connection to the “internet”. We also have an additional 45Mbit connection to Internet2. Internet2 is a research network mainly…

  • Arborview Printers

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    nsonsteb

    Due to construction this summer in Arborview, the printers that go in each apartment building will delayed until all construction/networking is completed. We anticipate that these printers will be delivered sometime in early to mid-September. Thanks for your patience.

  • SpamAssassin Performance Issues

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    doachs

    About 9 months ago we started using a MySQL database to store the bayes information for SpamAssassin. At first it worked great. It significantly reduced the load on our disk drives that used to house that information in the users home directories. Over time SpamAssassin became more popular and now it looks like over 3000…

  • Spamassassin Changes

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    doachs

    Due to performance issues, I had to clean out everyone’s spamassassin learning (bayes) database and migrate it to a new server. As a result all spamassassin training has been reset and you may notice more spam making it into your mailbox. If you would like help re-training, I have made a quick and dirty page…