Core Services

Category: GAC IT

  • New Webmail FAQ

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    sommere

    Here are a few common questions we’ve received about the new version of webmail and their solutions. I liked the way the old webmail worked better. Can I still use the old webmail? You can make the new webmail work like the old webmail by: 1. Going to https://webmail.gac.edu and loging in 2. go to…

  • Adding gac.edu to Gustavus’s Google apps domain

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    sommere

    For years, in google calendar and google docs, users have had to use @gustavus.edu e-mail addresses to invite another Gustie to an event or document. Google has now given us the ability to add @gac.edu as an “alias.” On November 28th, we plan to turn this feature on, though it may take a couple days…

  • 2011 Nobel Conference Streaming Statistics

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    doachs

    You may have known that Nobel Conference 47 drew thousands of people to Gustavus this week, but you probably didn’t know that there were also a lot of people watching the event live online. The graph to the right shows the number of concurrent video streams we were serving from our live streaming system.  The…

  • 2010 Graduate Accounts Expiring in August

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    doachs

    Earlier today GTS sent out an email to all of the students who graduated in 2010 to inform them that their accounts would be expiring on August 10th, 2011. Here is what that message looked like: Your Gustavus account (email and home directory access) is set to expire on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011.  If you…

  • Internet Bandwidth Increase

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    doachs

    Up until Wednesday morning the entire campus shared our 200Mbit/s internet connection. At around 10am we switched to a new provider ( Global Crossing ) and with that change came a 50Mbit/s bandwidth increase which puts us at 250Mbit/s. For anyone who is curious about our current bandwidth usage, you can check out our graphs…

  • New faster wireless in some buildings on campus

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    sommere

    Over the summer, Gustavus Technology Services’ Core Services staff installed new wireless access points in several buildings on campus. The new access points should be faster and be able to scale better to handle more computers using our wireless system. The new access points have been installed in: The Library Old Main Nobel Hall Carlson…

  • Gustavus is IPv6 Enabled

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    sommere

    Gustavus’s network is now IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) Enabled. The main difference between regular IPv4 and IPv6 is the number of internet addresses possible. The internet is about two years from running out of IP addresses. IPv6 solves those problems. In fact, Gustavus alone has FAR more IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses…

  • Possible Internet Outage Friday Dec. 18th **( Rescheduled for the 22nd )**

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    doachs

    *** UPDATE *** At 2:15 Thursday I received word that our ISP has rescheduled the maintenance for December 22nd instead. I just received a notice from our upstream ISP that they will be performing emergency fiber repair on the fibers Gustavus uses to connect to the internet. The maintenance is scheduled to being on Friday…

  • Explanation for last nights internet outage

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    doachs

    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. Being a…

  • How to watch the Nobel Conferece

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    doachs

    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.…