Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • TheFaceBook.com

    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…


  • Internet Connection Issues

    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…


  • Slow email

    Late in the day yesterday (~4:00pm) the disks attached to our email server had a hiccup which caused a mirror system to fail. Thus the…


  • Webserver downtime

    Our mail website http://www.gustavus.edu was not functioning for a few minutes this morning because it could not contact its database backend. Turns out a loose…


  • Firefox and Thunderbird updates

    As some of you probably already know, there are new updates to Firefox (web browser) and Thunderbird (email client) that fix serious security issues. I…


  • Pat Francek Leaving GAC

    Well, yesterday morning I got the official word that Pat was leaving Gustavus to pursue another position up in the cities. I wish him best…


  • Secondary Mailserver Changes

    I just wanted to let everyone know that we are putting a new email server into place as a secondary to solen. This new email…


  • Webalizer spam

    This is probably something others have already noticed years ago, but I just came across it this week. For a year or so now we…


  • Wireless in Lund

    In preperation for tonights game, we have added a wireless access point to Lund. It is a nice, strong, wireless device that should cover a…


  • Res Hall Traffic

    Something strange happened on our res-hall network again this morning. At about 7:00am this morning there was a ton of broadcast traffic. Something like 50k…