‘ForActiveDesktop’ Category
Never send your password by email
I would like to pass along a short reminder to everyone. Never send your password by email. Gustavus will never ask you to respond to an email with your password. Even if we did, don’t respond with your password. What happens if you do respond to a phishing email with your password? Chances are your account [...]
Google Calendar up and running
In response to requests for a campus wide calendaring system, GTS has implemented Google Calendar for Gustavus. If you go to http://google.gustavus.edu you can log in with your Gustavus username and password and take a look. If you are a Faculty member or Student, all your fall term courses have been pre-populated. That has two [...]
Commencement Time Lapse
Just like last year, I once again setup a camera to capture images of the 2008 commencement ceremony. Those images were then stitched together into a time lapse video of the entire event. If your computer can handle it, there is a full 720p HD version, a slightly smaller medium resolution version, or a [...]
More phishing attempts this weekend
As many of you noticed, there was another batch of phishing email sent to Gustavus email accounts over the weekend. Thank you to all of you who forwarded us the email. Your quick response allowed us to block any replies to those messages and keep the users who fell for it from divulging their passwords. As [...]
Mailserver Issues Last Night
Yesterday at about 5:00pm an email was sent to all students with a very large email attachment. As a result of that email some of our mailservers ran out of disk space causing users to see a variety of issues with their email. Thursday morning we were able to free up some disk space and get [...]
Campus Energy Contest
In case you have not heard, our campus is competing in the National Campus Energy Challenge. In addition we are also holding our own local competition between the various buildings on campus. Here are contest details: 1. Entry categories. There are two entry categories in the contest: 1) residence halls and 2) academic/administration buildings. For [...]
2008 Campus Energy Challenge Kickoff Tomorrow
Starting at 12:30pm tomorrow, January 31, we will be promoting the 2008 campus energy challenge in the campus center. There will be posters, a slide show, energy bikes, free CFLs and more. So if you are interested in helping the campus compete in this national competition, please stop by and show your support. We [...]
Phishing email sent to Gustavus accounts yesterday
Last night a large batch of phishing email was sent from “Gac Team” gacteam@bellsouth.net to many Gustavus email addresses. The message looked like this: VERIFY YOUR GAC EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW Dear Gac Email Account Owner, This message is from Gac messaging center to all Gac email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. [...]
Gustavus Homecoming Game Live on GusTV
If for some reason you find your self unable to attend the homecoming football game in person this week, you will be able to watch it live in 640×480 standard TV resolution on GusTV. Or if you happen to be at another college campus that is connected to Internet2 and has multicast enabled on [...]
Internet2 speed more than doubled
As of this afternoon we are now one step closer to getting our 1Gbit/s Internet2 connection (should be implemented by the end of the semester). Up until today we had a 45Mbit/s Internet2 connection. Today that connection was upgraded to 100Mbit/s. That means traffic flowing between Gustavus and other Internet2 connected institutions [...]