Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

Latest Stories


  • System Downtime

    This morning at about 8:00am, one of our servers (meow) had a kernel panic and died.  As a result some services had issues with switching…


  • Spamassassin Upgrade

    Yesterday afternoon I upgraded our version of Spamassassin from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1.  I also ran sa-update so that it would download any new or updated…


  • Email issues

    For some reason over the weekend a bunch of IMAP and POP3 processes got stuck and made it such that those users could not modify…


  • Carefull out there if you are browsing with IE

    For anyone who is browsing the internet with Internet Explorer you should be aware that an exploit for a recent vulnerability is being seen on…


  • More Wireless

    Quote from Joel Jackson … “We have added three more wireless access points to the network today. Locations: Schaefer 323 – This services the Communications…


  • Unexpected Downtime

    At about 12:35pm today, both of our servers that provide home directory access and email access (woof and meow) decided to call it quits and…


  • Status Update

    Wireless Updates: The big news this week has been wireless. Since the last update we have added wireless to Rundstrom and Norelius. From our stats,…


  • Email Delays

    Late yesterday afternoon we were hit with a particularly large batch of spam comming from computers spread all across the internet.  Then, due to a…


  • WINS Server Change

    Our old WINS server (phoebe.gac.edu) was just not doing the job right these days. In an attempt to improve windows networking on campus this morning…


  • Internet Bandwith Increase

    In an attempt to keep up with the ever increasing demand for more internet bandwith, today we increased our connection from 20Mbits to 30Mbits.  Enjoy…