Technology Services

Year: 2007

  • Homepage Featured in O’Reilly Book

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    jlencion

    While browsing for good books, I came across two that looked particularly interesting: Object-Oriented PHP and the recently updated Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (AKA “the Polar Bear Book”). Little did we know that while Jerry was mindlessly thumbing through Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld’s Information Architecture he would find the…

  • Welcoming Our Newest Member… Ryan Rud

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    jlencion

    Today, it’s official. Ryan “Rudi” Rud (previously) is the new Web Application Programmer for Web Services! While Ryan has been with us for a few years as a student worker, we are completely thrilled to keep him around here as a full-time administrator for the College. Ryan has been and will continue to be a…

  • New Faculty Schedules, Phase One

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    jlencion

    The new faculty schedules went live yesterday, in place of the old and aging version that had been in use over the last couple of years. While this new version is entirely different under the hood, most of the original experience has been preserved while bringing some new features designed for ease-of-use. What’s the same?…

  • Technology Helpline – January Hours

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    nsonsteb

    Hi everybody, We at the Technology Helpline hope that you all are having a wonderful new year. Our January Term hours are: Monday-Thursday: 8am-7:30pm Friday: 8am-4:45pm Saturday: Closed Sunday: Closed If you having problems connecting your laptop to a residence hall printer or connecting to the Gustavus Network, stop by anytime during our January Hours…

  • Gribly Gets New Feathers

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    jlencion

    Last week, we put live a slightly upgraded version of the Gribly with some extra color coding (among other features) that should help visitors parse information more quickly and efficiently. Finding a particular faculty member with the last name “Smith” among a sea of students, administrators, and support staff with the same surname should become…

  • Webmail Issues Tonight

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    doachs

    A little before 11:00pm tonight, one of our webmail systems started to have a problem. The other webmail server unfortunately was unable to handle the load all by its self and started to die as well. At around 11:30pm both webmail servers were back up and operational again.

  • Network Upgrades

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    doachs

    Over the past couple of weeks, we have made some improvements to the campus computer network. The most noticeable of these will be for the residents of Pittman. Four more Wi-Fi access points were installed to help improve the wireless coverage in that dorm. Less noticeable changes were made to the wired network in Complex.…

  • Snow, in time-lapse

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    doachs

    Just for fun, I put together a little time-lapse video of the recent snow storm as seen by our Stadium Webcam. If there are other days you think would make a good time-lapse video, please let me know.