Academic Computing Center

Pick up an application at the Computer Center Front Desk

Being a Computer Center Consultant may be the best student job on campus! Why? Because you make a difference! You help other students get their work done. You may leave work tired but you’ll always leave work knowing that you made a difference. Plus, you get a chance to learn about technology on the job, while on shift and through weekly training sessions.

Students with or without a work study award are encouraged to apply!

What we’re looking for in Computer Center Consultants is a combination of technical skills, people skills, and work skills. We know that every Evergreener doesn’t possess these skills in equal parts- that’s why we interview you. Some personal trails that we are looking for are Willingness to learn, Maturity, Responsibility, Ability to cooperate and work as part of a team, and Strong people and communication skills. Job-related experience working with people is

Currently, we are working on fixing a bug that causes the printers to freeze up and ask you to “load tray 1″ which is actually a tray we don’t really use.  However, you needn’t worry about your job being lost or stuck–you simply need to press the green button next to the screen.  (It has a little check mark on it for easy identification.)

The fix is on the way, but in the meantime, you can use this simple workaround.  ^_^

Eating is now permitted in the Computer Center as long as you’re away from the computers. This should allow you the flexibility of eating here but help us keep the keyboards and mice clean. OK places to eat are the lounge area in the Mac Lounge, the sofa in the AC, and the three lounge areas in the Commons. We will be developing small lounge areas in the Grotto and Solarium soon. You can drink from a covered container anywhere in the Computer Center.

Please help — report spillages immediately!

Did you know that people leave thumb drives behind in the Computer Center all the time? (I know, hard to believe..)  We have an extensive lost and found with all sorts of stuff left behind, and a special system for thumb drives.  We’d love to get yours back to you if you think you might have left one behind in one of the computers.

When we find a drive left in the center, we log it in our lost and found system and then try and contact the owner if we can dig up that information.  Please stop by the computer center consultant desk (and bring ID) if you think this might be you and we will happily reunite you with your data!

Philip Schiller

In case you missed the Keynote Address from this year’s Macworld 2009, you can see it here: Macworld 2009 Keynote.

Apple announced DRM-free music as the new standard on their ever popular iTunes music store. Good news for all you iPodders out there. They also announced new versions of iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, Garageband) and iWork (Keynote, Numbers, Pages).

280 Slides is a free online presentation application. Think of it as “free online PowerPoint” – though it actually has a Keynote style to it. The major drawback is that it’s missing an outline mode, which is arguably the fastest way to make a presetation. (Also check out Picnik – an online image editor)

It’s taking over like the small, warm, cuddly (but cost effective and powerful) creature that represents it. Linux is not just for nerds and screen-monkeys. It’s a stable and easy to use operating system for the masses and best of all it’s free. It is also now installed on all of the PC’s in the computer center in one form or another.  Although these machines have linux installed, the configuration of these systems (specifically user logins) is evolving so that they will not yet boot into Linux.  We are working on this integration so that in the future any user can boot into Windows or Linux.  In the meantime, the kiosks at the front of the center are running Ubuntu as are the stations in the ACC.

If you are using a computer in the center that is running Windows, chances are good that it’s also running Linux. Wanna give it a try? Ask a computer consultant at the front desk and they can help you get started!

Student email services will be a little different starting Dec 12. Over the course of several months, a workgroup has identified issues with the current email system that warranted immediate action in order to deal with an unacceptable level of message delivery failures. Problems related to slow or non-delivery of messages are increasing as more of our systems become reliant on email communication. For full text of these changes with rationale, please go to the email help pages

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If you are wondering if your home browser is the right one to be using with Evergreen’s on-line Learning environment (AKA elms AKA moodle), then check out our help page on system requirements for moodle. It will help you to make sure that you have all you need to be able to access, upload and download stuff from your course page.

Many people can be (and obviously are) lured into phishing schemes by clever scam artists. Do you think you can detect the difference between a legitimate source and a phishing scam?

Carnegie Mellon University had built an interactive game where users learn how to identify phishing URLs, where to look for cues in web browsers, and how to use search engines to find legitimate sites. Try it out! Play Anti-Phishing Phil and see how you do!