Archive for January, 2008
2008 Campus Energy Challenge Kickoff Tomorrow
Starting at 12:30pm tomorrow, January 31, we will be promoting the 2008 campus energy challenge in the campus center. There will be posters, a slide show, energy bikes, free CFLs and more. So if you are interested in helping the campus compete in this national competition, please stop by and show your support. We are […]
More spam than usual
I noticed that I was getting much more spam in my inbox in the past day so I looked into it a little further. It turns out that one of our 4 spamassassin servers was stuck and not filtering email. As a result many messages were not being checked for spam. Hence the increased spam […]
Campus Electricity Usage
We have revamped the campus electricity usage page that Core Services released last March with a new look and a new feature just in time for the National Campus Energy Challenge 2008.
Phishing email sent to Gustavus accounts yesterday
Last night a large batch of phishing email was sent from “Gac Team” gacteam@bellsouth.net to many Gustavus email addresses. The message looked like this: VERIFY YOUR GAC EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW Dear Gac Email Account Owner, This message is from Gac messaging center to all Gac email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base […]
Internet outage this afternoon
For about 20 minutes this afternoon starting sometime after 1:00pm most of the internet was inaccessible. As far as I can tell the problem was not with us or our internet connection but was most likely somewhere a little bit farther up stream. My traceroutes were showing lots of issues past our ISP but possibly […]
Wireless added to Fine Arts Music
A new wireless access point was added in the basement of the music building to help give coverage to the areas near the Bjorling concert hall. My initial test show that this one access point covers the hallway from the south end of the Bjorling concert hall all the way to the middle of the […]
Homepages webserver upgraded
As of about 3:00pm this afternoon I have moved homepages.gac.edu to a new server. The old server was running on Fedora Core release 4 with PHP 5.0.4. The new server is based on CentOS 5 and PHP 5.1.6. Hopefully this will not introduce any unforeseen issues with users homepages, but if it does, please let […]
January Term (IEX) Helpline Hours
January Term (IEX) hours Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Friday: 8 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. Saturday: Closed. However, you can still leave voice mail or e-mail Sunday: Closed. However, you can still leave voice mail or e-mail Contact Us Phone: 507-933-6111 Email: helpline@gustavus.edu Web: https://gustavus.edu/gts Blog: https://gts.blog.gustavus.edu Remote Support: https://sos.gac.edu System Status: https://gustavus.freshstatus.io