Archive for Dan Oachs
I am an associate director of core services at Gustavus Adolphus College where I get to play with technology. Everything from fighting spam with our mailservers to multicasted IPTV over Internet2. There is also some more info about me on my wiki page and my Technorati Profile.
Explanation for last nights internet outage
Last night our ISP ( Hickorytech ) needed to relocate the fiber that our internet connection travels on due to road construction. We were notified last week that there would be a “loss of service for up to one hour during the window” with the window being from 12:00am until 6:00am, October 13th. [...]
Panoramic Photos of Gustavus
Have you ever wondered what the view is like from the roof of Olin Hall? Or maybe search for faces in the crowd of the 2009 Nobel Conference? We have uploaded those zoomable panoramas as well as others such as the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library and a beautiful view of the Eckman Mall on [...]
2009 Nobel Conference Time Lapse
Well, it is the beginning of October here at Gustavus Adophus College and that means it is Nobel Conference time. Just like last year, we took images of the entire conference from one of our webcams and combined them into a single time lapse video. Watch the video. For those who are interested, I have a [...]
How to watch the Nobel Conferece
There are many ways to watch this years Nobel Conference on your computer. If you are on campus and have a wired network connection you can view this stream or try going to http://tv.gac.edu/. If you are on campus and have a TV connected to cable, you can watch the Nobel Conference on channel 7. Finally, [...]
Commencement 2009 Time-lapse
As per the tradition started a few years ago by Matt Dobosenski, this years Commencement ceremony held on Sunday, May 31st 2009 was captured by time-lapse. If your computer can handle it, take a look at our highest quality video stream. If that version is too much for your computer to handle, there is a half sized [...]
Another round of phishing email
This morning many of our users woke up to find their inbox had been invaded by a number of email messages asking them to verify their gustavus.edu email account. This is just a quick reminder to say that no one associated with Gustavus sent that message. An easy test to do is to read the message [...]
Blocking External DNS Servers
To combat recent infections, we are now forcing all computers on campus to only use our DNS server.
New anti phishing tool now in use
Earlier this week we started using a new tool to fight against phishing email. A group of higher ed email administrators has put together a list of email addresses used for phishing. As new addresses are discovered, they are added to the list. We have modified our email server to quarantine any email sent to [...]
Gustavus, now with 50% more bandwidth
Earlier this afternoon we upgraded the internet connection for the campus from our previous 100Mbit/s to the new 150Mbit/s.
Can’t login to Google Calendar?
When you get the error page, try telling your browser to reload the page. Many users are getting the following error this morning when they try to login to Google Calendar. This service cannot be accessed because your login credentials are not yet valid If you see that error message, just tell your browser to reload the page [...]