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Blog entries that are worthy of being placed on the GTS front page.
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 version […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 are […]
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 […]
Proxy Servers Upgraded
For a long time we have been using a pair of very old Sun servers ( the old Solen and Ra ) as our proxy servers. Well today was finally the day to train in their replacements. At about 11:30am today I flipped the switch so that people began using the two new proxy servers. […]
New internet connection growing pains
After many weeks of waiting today was finally the day we were able to cut over from our 40Mbit HickoryTech internet connection to our shiny new 100Mbit Onvoy internet connection. As is the case with many new things, there are a few bugs to be worked out. One such bug came to light tonight. At […]
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 their […]
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 such as the […]