Technology Services

Year: 2008

  • Mailserver Issues Last Night

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    doachs

    Yesterday at about 5:00pm an email was sent to all students with a very large email attachment.  As a result of that email some of our mailservers ran out of disk space causing users to see a variety of issues with their email. Thursday morning we were able to free up some disk space and…

  • Helpline Spring Break Hours

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    nsonsteb

    Technology Helpline hours during spring break: Monday – Friday: 8am – 4:45pm. helpline@gustavus.edu x6111 http://gustavus.edu/gts/Technology_Services

  • Phishing email this weekend…

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    nsonsteb

    Gustavus Technology Services will never ask for your password. Be aware that this weekend an email, NOT FROM GUSTAVUS, was sent out regarding your email password. Please be aware that this is a scam/phishing attempt. Thank you to those that brought it to our attention. Please delete the message immediately. Always remember, if you are…

  • Campus Energy Contest

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    doachs

    In case you have not heard, our campus is competing in the National Campus Energy Challenge.  In addition we are also holding our own local competition between the various buildings on campus.  Here are contest details: 1. Entry categories. There are two entry categories in the contest: 1) residence halls and 2) academic/administration buildings. For…

  • Touring Break Helpline Hours

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    nsonsteb

    Technology Helpline hours during Touring Break: Monday – Friday: 8am -4:45pm Saturday and Sunday: closed —- Technology Helpline x6111 helpline@gustavus.edu

  • 2008 Campus Energy Challenge Kickoff Tomorrow

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    jlencion

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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…