Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College during sunrise.

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  • SPF

    In an effort to help protect our self from joe jobs, spam, viruses, etc. we have begun publishing SPF TXT records in our DNS for…


  • Lots of infections

    It seems like almost every Windows computer on campus is infected these days. Ok, well maybe not every one, but some times it sure feels…


  • ddos

    It appears as though some machine(s) on campus is trying to take out an IRCd server. There are literally thousands of spoofed TCP SYN packets…


  • Email downtime

    Due to an unusual set of circumstances, we had to turn off email for about an hour today. A combination of a new email virus/worm,…


  • No more MyDoom messages

    Since there is such a high volume of the MyDoom infected email attachments flying around these days and some unlucky people have been getting hundreds…


  • iChat AV 2.1

    Finally! The new version of iChat AV finally supports video conferences with PC users that download the latest version of AOL’s IM client. So much…


  • Power Problems

    This morning during a regular check of the backup generator, power was lost in our machine room. For the most part this meant everything was…


  • Wireless in Olin

    As a part of testing what we can do with wireless network access, we have placed 2 wireless access points on the 1st floor of…


  • Network slowness

    From Jeff’s email: “Around 11:15-11:30 something happened that crippled the res-hall network to the point of unusability. We made a change to revert something to…


  • Latest email virus

    As everyone should know by now, another email virus is going around. As far as we can tell, nobody on campus has been infected yet.…