Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • Secure.gac.edu changed

    The DNS entry for secure.gac.edu which used to point to an old solaris box named Zeme has now been changed to point to our new…


  • Mailserver Issues

    At about 12:15am Tuesday morning, our email server stopped allowing people to access their inboxes.  At about 12:50am I rebooted it, woof.gac.edu, and restored access…


  • Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

    To my surprise, Thunderbird updated its self this morning.  Looks like 1.5.0.2 has been released with some security fixes.  If yours does not update automatically,…


  • UNIX Sys Admin Status Update 4-21-06 Datatel Update:   The new IBM AIX server is now here and in the server room.  The migration to the…


  • With a Little Help…

    I was thinking today about the various pieces that help to make the Gustavus website as strong as it is and was taken aback at…


  • imap.gac.edu certificate

    The SSL certificate that we were using for imap.gac.edu expires this weekend.  We have installed a new wildcard certificate ( *.gac.edu ) on our IMAP…


  • Server Room Meltdown

    Some time early this morning the air conditioning for the server room in Olin stopped working. As a result the temperature in the server room…


  • I2 Connection Down

    This morning at 7:00am central, the router our I2 connection uses in the Twin Cities was moved to a different UPS. As a result the…


  • Firefox Update

    From reading the SANS Internet Storm Center Diary, I noticed that Mozilla has relased a new update to Firefox to patch some security holes.  At…


  • Gustavus Webadvisor Server

    This afternoon the web services team has changed the links for Webadvisor on the Gustavus home page to point to our new webadvisor server. The…