Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • Email Certificates

    I had a couple of requests last night about how to get a certificate for use with email such that you can digitally sign messages…


  • Webmail prefs change

    I have made a minor change to the default preferences for Webmail. Now the first time you log into webmail on or after the 1st…


  • Sohre Network

    The upgrade of networking hardware in Sohre apparently went smoothly. It took us about 3 hours to swap out the old hardware with the new.…


  • Network upgrade for Sohre planned

    If all goes well, we are planning on swapping out the very old 10 megabit hubs that connect all the dorm rooms together in Sohre…


  • IRC Bots

    There are more and more machines on campus infected by “IRC bots” every day. In an effort to stop them we began blocking all IRC…


  • Finally upgraded to SpamAssin 3

    Well, after about a week of testing SpamAssassin 3.0, I decided I was ready to transition the college to the lastest version. In the past…


  • Spamassassin 3

    I am very excited to see that spamassassin 3 was released today. So far I have it installed on a test system and am having…


  • Webmail

    As anyone who has used webmail.gac.edu lately knows, it has been slow. Especially during peak usage times (10:00am-10:30am). I think that I have found the…


  • More about viruses

    If you are wondering what happened to our network last week, here is a very good article from another college/university about an almost identical infection.…


  • VIRUS

    Sorry, wish I could update everyone but I am too busy and tired right now. As you probably know, a good sized virus outbreak occured…