INFORMATION SERVICES
December 2001
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Announcements from the Bulletin, Today, Notification-L
12/28/2001, Server Downtime
December 28: the Admin and Academic
servers will be taken down at 4:00 PM this afternoon for system
upgrades. They will be down for about an hour. Personal and
departmental shared network drives will not be available, and
networked printers will not be available. E-mail and Internet service
will continue to work while the servers are down.
Have a happy New Year! [Notification-L]
12/26/2001 Support Changes
Effective September 1, 2002, the following applications will no longer be supported
by CIT: Corel WordPerfect, Corel Paradox, Adobe PageMaker and Adobe PageMill.
These applications will be removed from the central file servers. No documentation,
troubleshooting or assistance will be available for these applications from
CIT staff, including the Help Desk, after 9/1/02. More information about the
change, how you may be affected, and what your options are may be found at this
URL: http://www.macalester.edu/cit/announce/122601removal.html
[Notification-L]
12/18/2001, Internet connection
Our Internet connection was down this morning between 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM
while we switched over to our new, faster connection. We now have three times
the amount of bandwidth than we had before. There will be another outage on
the morning of Friday, January 4, as we finish connecting up additional equipment.
[Notification-L]
12/13/2001 Upcoming symposium
Mark your calendar now for “Academic Integrity: Intellectual Property, Plagiarism
and Copyright,” a symposium to be held at Macalester Friday, April 5. Intended
for faculty, students and staff, this symposium is jointly sponsored by Macalester,
Carleton and St. Olaf with funding provided by the ACM’s Information Literacy
grant. The symposium will explore the impact of technology, the role of information
literacy and the opportunities for collaboration as we strive to teach ethical
use of information resources. The symposium is the first in a series of three
planned annual sessions relating to information literacy issues. Detailed information
including speakers, a complete schedule and registration information will be
mailed to faculty the last week of January. Contact Jean Beccone at x6398 for
more information. [Bulletin]
12/13/2001 Interlibrary loan clarification
The library will be closed from Dec. 22 through Jan. 6; however, interlibrary
loan requests may be submitted for processing beginning Jan. 2. Books will not
be available for pickup until Jan. 7. [Bulletin]
12/13/2001 Looking for something to read over the holiday break?
Check out our current titles in the library’s Harmon Reading Room. The Harmon
current reading collection includes broad and diverse writings of local, national
and international interest particular to the Macalester community. Included
in this collection are bestsellers, non-fiction, fiction, current issues, hot
topics, community-related publications and prize-winning books. Take one home
with you and let us know if you enjoy it![Bulletin]
12/13/2001 Library Hours
The library will close at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, and reopen at 10 a.m. Monday,
Jan. 7. [Bulletin]
12/6/2001 Going to be away?
Before leaving for your holiday break, be sure to record a new voice mail greeting
to alert callers of your status. If you record an extended absence greeting,
when you return to your office you simply delete it and your regular greeting
returns. To record an extended absence greeting: access your voice mail box,
press 4, then 3, then 2 and follow the prompts. If you are going to be away
for an extended period and don’t want your voice mail box to accept messages,
you must record an extended absence greeting and call Telecommunications at
x6566. [Bulletin]
12/6/2001 The deadline looms
All applications for new and recycled computers from the Microcomputer Fund
must be returned to David Sisk before Friday, Dec. 14. Call David at x6745 if
you wish to have application materials sent to you, or get them on the Web at
http://www.macalester.edu/cit/general/funding.html.
This is the second round of the 2001–02 Fund: decisions will be made and communicated
in late January or early February. The first round of the 2002–03 Fund will
take place in Spring 2002. [Bulletin]
12/6/2001 Time to spruce up your inbox
Our e-mail service works much more efficiently if you periodically remove old
e-mail messages from your inbox. On the new mail server, the inbox is stored
in a different place than messages that you have saved into other folders, and
we have a limited amount of room for inboxes. Running out of space for inboxes
means no new messages can be received and it can make the mail server crash.
Large inboxes also slow the performance of Mulberry and other mail clients.
We will begin sending out notices soon to people who are storing a large volume
of messages in their e-mail inbox, asking them to delete the messages or save
them to another folder. If you receive a notice about the size of your inbox
and you are using Eudora or another POP mail client, check to make sure that
your e-mail client isn’t set to leave messages on the server. If it is, you
should log on to the server periodically through Mulberry or Silkymail to manage
the messages left there. We have a large amount of space for mail folders other
than inboxes, and currently have no limit on the amount of mail you can store.
Contact the Help Desk at x6525 if you need assistance with these tasks. [Bulletin]
12/6/2001 Courseware demonstration
Vendor representatives will demonstrate a “courseware package called Prometheus
on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. in Humanities 401. Please come if you can! Some
of us have participated in the current beta test of WebCT, a similar product.
Prometheus may provide advantages—come and help us decide! Details available
from Michael Nelson or Joel Clemmer. [Bulletin]
12/6/2001 Goner--The Latest Virus
Our networking staff updated the virus scanner on our central e-mail server
hours after the release of the Goner virus on the Internet. Dozens of copies
of it were captured and erased by early the following morning. For the late-breaking
network news, subscribe to Notification-L at http://subscribe.macalester.edu
[Bulletin]
12/6/2001 December Interlibrary loan services
The last day for students to submit interlibrary loan requests will be Dec.
14. The last day for faculty and staff to submit requests will be Dec. 21. No
interlibrary loan requests will be processed between Dec. 22 and Jan. 1. All
requests by students, staff and faculty will resume being processed on Jan.
2. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Aaron Albertson at x6539,
or albertson@macalester.edu [Bulletin]
12/04/2001, URGENT VIRUS ALERT
To all Windows users:
There is a new destructive virus called Goner, also known as W32/Goner@MM, Pentagone,
or Gone. This virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook email and ICQ instant
messaging programs. However, any Windows mail client that receives this virus
can become infected if the user extracts and runs (opens) the attachment!
Here is what a message with this virus looks like:
Subject: Hi
Body: How are you ? When I saw this screen saver, I immediately
thought about you I am in a harry, I promise you will love it!
Attachment: GONE.SCR
If you receive this message, DELETE IT immediately without opening it, and notify
the sender of the message that they are infected. If you suspect your computer
may have become infected, please call the Help Desk at x6525 for assistance.
Goner has a DESTRUCTIVE PAYLOAD. When the attachment is opened, it will look
for a variety of anti-virus, firewall and other security programs and attempt
to delete them, along with ALL FILES in the same directory. This worm will also
place a trojan, REMOTE32.INI, on the system, which contains instructions to
attempt Denial-of-Service attacks on other IRC users. [Notification-L]
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