Author Archives: Rip

Faculty Technology Fair Sept 12

techfairThe 2012 Tech Fair summer faculty institute is close at hand.  The fair will be held Wednesday September 12 in the Computer Center, which we will close down for the entire day so the whole facility can be dedicated to this event. The plan is for there to be four categories of concurrent activities from […]

Evergreen spam filters are working

Screen Shot 2012-06-04 at 8.59.20 AMJames Gutholm, Associate Director of C&C, Network Services has done a recent review of our mail systems and has shared some of the recent trends. Specifically looking at the amount of spam and malware that are filtered through the Evergreen mail servers he says "At the height of spam, ~2 years ago, we were getting about 1.3 million messages per day. I think the worst day we saw was ~1.7 million with 99.7% being spam." Take a look at the graphs to see how hard the spam filters are working and how much is getting bounced on a regular basis. This is a strong improvement from where we were 5 years ago.

Week 7 Computer Center Goodness

laptopsOk, so I thought this was pretty cool.  It’s week 7, thursday afternoon and the Computer Center is packed, buzzing.  A student walks away and leaves behind her sweet, new MacBook Air at one of the computer stations. Another student finds it, brings it to the desk.  Staff email the student after finding out the […]

Hurricane down Friday March 30

We are still working on Hurricane and will need to keep it inaccessible all day today. This applies to all shares on Hurricane including department shares (O drive), personal shares (H drive) and PCCommon. I will send out an email update later today and again tomorrow to keep you posted on when Hurricane shares will […]

Hurricane is back!

Thanks for Network Services for working around the clock to bring the main faculty/staff fileserver back up from the edge.  It is now back up and functioning well.  Please forward an problems or question you have to the help desk

Campus Wireless Updated

Aruba replacement complete for campus (all HP’s and Cisco’s are gone).  These new access points provide much better granular access to reporting, it allows us to know where bottlenecks are, throughput rates and density issues.  Network Services will provide windows … Continue reading