Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • Coldfusion MX on Linux

    Having trouble getting Coldfusion MX 6.1 started on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3? Well, then I found the solution. For some reason, some…


  • Fedora Core 3

    A couple of days ago Fedora Core 3 was released. I used Bittorrent to download the DVD iso and the CD iso images. If anyone…


  • FireFox 1.0

    In case you missed it, Firefox 1.0 was released today. You can get it locally here: For Windows users: http://homepages.gac.edu/~doachs/downloads/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe For Mac users: http://homepages.gac.edu/~doachs/downloads/Firefox%201.0.dmg.gz For…


  • Wireless Update

    In our pursuit to ever increase our wireless coverage on campus, we have added an access point to Confer. Almost all of the 3rd floor…


  • Email Certificates

    I had a couple of requests last night about how to get a certificate for use with email such that you can digitally sign messages…


  • Webmail prefs change

    I have made a minor change to the default preferences for Webmail. Now the first time you log into webmail on or after the 1st…


  • Sohre Network

    The upgrade of networking hardware in Sohre apparently went smoothly. It took us about 3 hours to swap out the old hardware with the new.…


  • Network upgrade for Sohre planned

    If all goes well, we are planning on swapping out the very old 10 megabit hubs that connect all the dorm rooms together in Sohre…


  • IRC Bots

    There are more and more machines on campus infected by “IRC bots” every day. In an effort to stop them we began blocking all IRC…


  • Finally upgraded to SpamAssin 3

    Well, after about a week of testing SpamAssassin 3.0, I decided I was ready to transition the college to the lastest version. In the past…