Core Services

Author: doachs

  • SSC Network Upgrade

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    Yesterday we upgraded the network connection between SSC and the rest of campus from a 100Mbit connection to a 1Gbit connection. Hopefully anyone with a computer in SSC will notice a nice increase in network performance.

  • No Google for Paul

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    doachs

    For some reason, Paul Hanson is still not having any luck with Google. Google has visited his site, but if you try to search for it, you can’t find it. And what is even funnier is that most of the time when you search for it, the best link is this site 🙂 Anyway, so…

  • Server Room Upgrade

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    doachs

    Well, we finally did it. It probably should have been done years ago, but we finally made the move. We installed 10 nice new 7′ x 19″ racks in the server room and last Thursday night we moved the remaining critical systems into those new racks. We started shutting everything down at about 5:00pm and…

  • Helping another blogger

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    doachs

    My friend Paul needs some help. His page is not being indexed by google even though he has submitted his url to them. So I thought I would help him out. He has a very nice looking blog over here: http://bike.smarp.us/ So if you are into cycling and are in the southern Minnesota area, you…

  • Server Room

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    doachs

    As we are getting closer and closer to the date when we will be moving all of our servers from their old racks to their shiny new racks, we thought it was time to open up the windows and let everyone see what we are up to. So, if you are so inclined, you can…

  • Mailserver Changes

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    doachs

    To do our best to keep off the email block lists, all email that is sent on campus to other on campus addresses, and off campus addresses are now being routed through our virus filter before getting delivered. This should make it very difficult for us to actually send a virus via email. This has…

  • Issue with iCal and Tiger

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    doachs

    Over the weekend I upgraded my PowerBook from OS 10.3 to OS 10.4 Tiger. One of the problems I have noticed is that I could no longer publish my calendars. The way I had is set up in 10.3 was a hack to the .plist file so that I can use https for a secure…

  • Internet interuptions last night

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    doachs

    As a few students noticed last night we hade a couple small interuptions in our service. I contacted our ISP about it and they were not aware of any problems. Later on they got back to me and let me know that another part of the ISP actually did do some work on their “fiber…

  • TheFaceBook.com

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    doachs

    This past weekend Gustavus Adolphus College was added to the list of schools on http://thefacebook.com. Since then I have noticed some interesting facts. A site like Thefacebook is very disruptive. As far as I can tell, it is the hottest website on campus right now. People in the computer labs, student workers computers, and just…

  • Internet Connection Issues

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    doachs

    As some people on campus noticed, we had an issue with our internet connection last night. It appears as thought our internet service provider, Hickory Tech, had some issues. At about 1:15am, 1:20am, 2:30am, 2:36am, and 2:48am, it looks like out internet connection was down for a minute or two. As Wednesday night is Hickory…