Technology Services

Author: doachs

  • Home Directory Access Last Night

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    Our NFS server crashed last night at about 12:20am. As a result home directories were not available until our backup NFS server was in place at about 6:30am. At about 7:40am the main NFS server was back in service.

  • Network Infrastructure Upgrades

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    Over the past couple of days we have increased the local network bandwidth available to some of the buildings on campus. By rearranging some of our network hardware and making use of previously dormant fiber links, we have made a few upgrades. Prairie View used to have a 100Mbit connection to the campus network which…

  • Spam Filtering Update

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    This week we have upgraded the spam filtering software on our email servers from SpamAssassin 3.1.3 to SpamAssassin 3.1.6. We also added the OpenProtect SpamAssassin channel to our updated rules. This gives us the SARE rules which should help us catch more of the image based stock spams people see these days. If you are…

  • 2005 Graduates

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    This year we are doing a few extra things for our recent alumni. Since it has been well over 1 year since the class of 2005 graduated, it was time to deactivate those accounts and free up the resources they were using. One new service we are offering this year is the ability to keep…

  • Jabber Server Upgrade

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    Yesterday I upgraded our Jabber server from Wildfire 3.0 to Wildfire 3.1.0 beta. With the new beta comes the ability to install the IM Gateway plugin. This plugin allows you to use our jabber server to contact users on AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, and Yahoo networks. Since this is a beta, there are some bugs…

  • Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.5.0.7

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    Today Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5.0.7. There are some important security updates in this release so I encourage everyone who uses it to update soon. Also having the auto update feature turned on can be a very easy way to keep your self up to date.

  • Mozilla releases Thunderbird 1.5.0.7

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    Today Mozilla has released Thunderbird 1.5.0.7. There are some important security updates in this release so I encourage everyone who uses it to update soon. Hopefully you have the auto update feature turned on and you have installed the most recent version before you even read this post.

  • Gustavus Homepage Issues

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    At about 4:00am Thursday September 14th, the SQL server that powers www.gustavus.edu stopped working. It looks like it tried to reboot and then got stuck. Just before 8:00am today I hit the reset button and it came back up. Thus www.gustavus.edu was unavailable during that time. Jeremy, please come back soon. Your server misses you!

  • Monday Night Networking Troubles

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    doachs

    Last night the Helpline caught me on IM and let me know that the res-hall network was not exactly running smoothly. According to the reports, users plugged in in many dorms as well as via wireless were having trouble raching email, the internet, or the Gustavus home page. However the lab computers in the dorms…

  • Gustavus Network Speeds

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    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…