Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • Learned Something New

    As anyone who as worked with Linux, iptables, and ftp knows, firewalls and ftp can cause issues. I already knew that if I was using…


  • Spamassassin 3.02

    Spamassassin 3.02 was released last month. Not much new in there but in an attempt to always run the latest and greatest stable spamassassin code,…


  • Charter blocking port 25

    This is only a rumor, but I heard that last week Charted started blocking port 25 for home users on their Cable internet service in…


  • Campus Network Outage

    FYI, in case you didn’t notice, at about 10:35am today our core network router rebooted. That caused all network traffic on our network to temporarily…


  • Rebooting Solen

    Although solen has been workin great for the past 180+ days, it looks like we have no choice but to reboot it. If you are…


  • Res-Hall Network Flakeyness

    Last night our res-hall network was extremely slow and flakey. There appeared to be lots of broadcast traffic and pings were timing out 80% of…


  • Spamassassin

    For some reason early this morning an email that was passed to spamassassin appears to have caused all of our spamd processes to lock up.…


  • Lots of updates today

    Well, there have been lots of updates here at GAC today. First, this morning we updated our packeteer from 6.2 to 7.0 which gives us…


  • Wireless Update

    Add one more wireless access point on campus to the list. We now have a decent wireless signal inside the Guest House. Now we can…


  • Coldfusion MX on Linux

    Having trouble getting Coldfusion MX 6.1 started on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3? Well, then I found the solution. For some reason, some…