Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • New Homepage Server

    We have switched homepages.gac.edu over to a new faster server so that at some point in the future we can offer PHP and MySQL to…


  • Email

    Just reading the usual blogs tonight and just had to say I agree with what this one says: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7907 Unfortunately email is no where near…


  • Bye Bye Solen

    This morning at about 7:45am, we pulled the network connection from solen.gac.edu and turned on a different server with that IP address. The new server…


  • Hurricane Katrina Teach-in streaming audio

    Last week’s Hurricane Katrina Teach-in here at Gustavus is now available to stream from the web in Windows Media Audio (wma) format. To listen to…


  • Faculty schedules updated

    After being empty so far this school year, the faculty schedules have been updated with the latest information directly from the registrar’s office. For the…


  • Spamassassin Changes

    It appears as though our current spamassassin setup is adding a significant amount of load on our home directories. As a result I am looking…


  • Permalinks changed

    Today we started utilizing mod_rewrite for our permalinks in this blog and our Featured Gustavus Weblogs. I’m not totally sure exactly how mod_rewrite does it,…


  • Lots of students

    As you probably already know, Gustavus accepted a few too many students this year. That means more students, staff, and facutly than usual. Which for…


  • Postifx and LDAP issues

    Apparently when our LDAP servers are under a bit of load such as when we do a batch update of info and the indexing is…


  • Gustavus featured weblogs

    In an effort to consolidate our various blogs and blogging systems that we have tried out over the last couple of years, we have created…