Technology Services

Year: 2006

  • Sending large attachments using your Gustavus account.

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    nsonsteb

    Have you ever tried to send a large attachment with your Gustavus email account? Did it work? Depending on the size probably not. The answer to this problem is using the Gustavus Webmail system. Start by composing an email message in Webmail and attach your file.  When attaching the file set the option at the…

  • Webmail Upgrade

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    nsonsteb

    Today, Gustavus Technology Services has upgraded the Gustavus Webmail system newest version. We are currently using Horde IMP 4.1 as our webmail system. Here is a quick list of major changes compared to our last version: Virtual Inbox and Virtual Trash folder. “Empty Spam” menu item. Stationery and form responses. Not necessary to click on…

  • Homecoming and Family Weekend Registration

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    jlencion

    Online registration is now available for this year’s Homecoming and Family Weekend events. Both will allow you to register for the Neal & Leandra concert and the Diversity Center Banquet on Saturday, October 7.

  • Robots in the Wiki

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    jlencion

    We made some minor adjustments to our installation of MediaWiki to prevent robots such as Googlebot from indexing irrelevant pages like article edit pages and history pages. Essentially, we prepended a “/w/” to all non-article pages and then used mod_rewrite to remove the /w/ so the pages still work normally. The robots.txt file then prohibits…

  • Search Cloud

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    jlencion

    Today we added a search cloud to the Search Gustavus page. We hope that this will help you find what you are looking for a little bit quicker. The search cloud is set to display the top 62 search terms from the past month. Why 62? Because Gustavus was founded in 1862. We’re number nerds…

  • 2006 Nobel Conference Website

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    jlencion

    The 2006 Nobel Conference website, featuring an original design by Jerry Nowell, is now live. The cool feature on this year’s Nobel Conference website is the slick implementation of the hCalendar microformat on the Conference’s schedule page and the hCard microformat on the presenter pages and schedule page. This will allow software that can recognize…

  • Commencement Video

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    jerry

    Graduation exercises from the 2006 Commencement weekend were broadcast live, online. The video has since been archived and is again available online. If you missed it, now’s your chance to relive this special event.

  • Wildfire Updated

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    doachs

    Over the weekend I upgraded our Wildfire Jabber server to the most recent version.  Now I believe that using our LDAP based groups will work much better.  Now if we could just get more people to use our own  Jabber IM server instead of AOL, MSN, or Yahoo…

  • Wireless update for International

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    doachs

    We added a couple more wireless access points to International yesterday to give the East side of that building better coverage.

  • Wireless in Complex

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    doachs

    Last Friday, Ethan, Alison, and I finished up installing a grand total of 12 new wireless access points in Complex.  Now North, Gibbs, and Sorensen all should have decent wireless internet access.