Technology Services

Author: doachs

  • Helping another blogger

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    doachs

    My friend Paul needs some help. His page is not being indexed by google even though he has submitted his url to them. So I thought I would help him out. He has a very nice looking blog over here: http://bike.smarp.us/ So if you are into cycling and are in the southern Minnesota area, you…

  • Server Room

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    doachs

    As we are getting closer and closer to the date when we will be moving all of our servers from their old racks to their shiny new racks, we thought it was time to open up the windows and let everyone see what we are up to. So, if you are so inclined, you can…

  • Mailserver Changes

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    doachs

    To do our best to keep off the email block lists, all email that is sent on campus to other on campus addresses, and off campus addresses are now being routed through our virus filter before getting delivered. This should make it very difficult for us to actually send a virus via email. This has…

  • Issue with iCal and Tiger

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    doachs

    Over the weekend I upgraded my PowerBook from OS 10.3 to OS 10.4 Tiger. One of the problems I have noticed is that I could no longer publish my calendars. The way I had is set up in 10.3 was a hack to the .plist file so that I can use https for a secure…

  • Internet interuptions last night

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    doachs

    As a few students noticed last night we hade a couple small interuptions in our service. I contacted our ISP about it and they were not aware of any problems. Later on they got back to me and let me know that another part of the ISP actually did do some work on their “fiber…

  • TheFaceBook.com

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    doachs

    This past weekend Gustavus Adolphus College was added to the list of schools on http://thefacebook.com. Since then I have noticed some interesting facts. A site like Thefacebook is very disruptive. As far as I can tell, it is the hottest website on campus right now. People in the computer labs, student workers computers, and just…

  • Internet Connection Issues

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    doachs

    As some people on campus noticed, we had an issue with our internet connection last night. It appears as thought our internet service provider, Hickory Tech, had some issues. At about 1:15am, 1:20am, 2:30am, 2:36am, and 2:48am, it looks like out internet connection was down for a minute or two. As Wednesday night is Hickory…

  • Slow email

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    doachs

    Late in the day yesterday (~4:00pm) the disks attached to our email server had a hiccup which caused a mirror system to fail. Thus the server needed to repair the mirror. Over the next several hours email was extremely slow. Users with small mailboxes (a few megs or less) were able to use email. Everyone…

  • Webserver downtime

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    doachs

    Our mail website http://www.gustavus.edu was not functioning for a few minutes this morning because it could not contact its database backend. Turns out a loose network cable was the culprit. Guess that is just one more reason why we are rebuilding the server room this summer and cleaning it up a bit.

  • Firefox and Thunderbird updates

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    doachs

    As some of you probably already know, there are new updates to Firefox (web browser) and Thunderbird (email client) that fix serious security issues. I encourage anyone using a version older than 1.0.2 to upgrade. Firefox version 1.0.2 can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html Thunderbird version 1.0.2 can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/all.html Hopefully they are cached…