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MARCH 2003
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Announcements from the Bulletin, Today, Notification-L

03/28/03, New Mulberry to be Released Monday, 3/31/03
Reminder for everyone!

The new version of Mulberry, Mulberry v3, will be released campus-wide on Monday March 31! This new version has many new features, but the big three are: 3-pane view, filters/rules, and spell-as-you-type. Early adopters of Mulberry 3 have uniformly given it positive feedback!

For Macintosh users, the new Mulberry may be downloaded and installed from here:
http://www.macalester.edu/cit/services/software/index.htm#Mulberry

For Windows users, the new Mulberry will be in the Novell Application Launcher on Monday. Just make sure to run Mulberry from the NAL window, and it will automatically get updated to version 3!

Windows XP users will need to update their Novell Client first, or the new Mulberry may not work. As previously announced, here is how to install the new Novell client for XP:

An icon (a big red "N") for the installer has been placed in your Novell Application Launcher (NAL). You must be logged into your Windows XP account with Administrator privileges for this installation to run. Double-click the icon to run it. You can find out right now if your account has Administrator status. Click Start.Control Panel.User Accounts. Does 'Computer administrator' appear under your Windows XP login name?

If yes, then run the installer! If no, you will have to login as UserAdmin, or the install will not work.

To install the new Mulberry at HOME, download it here:
http://www.macalester.edu/cit/services/software/index.htm#Mulberry

Please contact your AIA or the Help Desk, x6525, for assistance. [Notification-L]

03/28/03, LESTER Tip #14: LESTER's Initial Tab Setting
LESTER is Macalester's Web portal, providing a convenient and personalized way to access a wide variety of campus and Web resources. Use your regular network/e-mail username and password to log in to LESTER at http://lester.macalester.edu.

Your User Profile in LESTER includes an option to tell LESTER which tab to display first when you log in. By default the initial tab is set to Campus. To change the initial tab setting, click on the Customize tab and then select the User Profile link in the list of options on the left side of the page. Options for initial tab are listed in a drop down menu. Click on the "Save Changes" button to save your new user profile settings. [Bulletin]

03/28/03, New Netware Client for Windows XP
Faculty and Staff: A new Novell Client for Windows XP is available. The new client looks and acts the same, but has important updates in its background operation. We would like all Windows XP users to install this new client at their earliest convenience.

An icon (a big red "N") for the installer has been placed in your Novell Application Launcher (NAL). You must be logged into your Windows XP account with Administrator privileges for this installation to run. Double-click the icon to run it. You can easily find out if your Windows XP account has Administrator status. Click Start.Control Panel.User Accounts. Does 'Computer administrator' appear under your Windows XP login name?

If yes, then run the installer! If no, you will have to login as UserAdmin, or the install will not work.

Please contact your AIA or the Help Desk, x6525, for assistance. [Bulletin]

03/28/03, Need to Scan Some Slides?
It is easy to transfer your slides to high-quality digital images with the slide scanner in the Humanities Resource Center. The new high-end Nikon CoolScan IV scans your slides directly to Photoshop 7, where you can edit or simply save your pictures in any of the popular image formats. You may save your files on your server account, on a zip disk, or burn them onto a CD. Instruction and assistance is available. [Bulletin]

03/25/03, New Novell Client for Windows XP
Faculty and Staff: A new Novell Client for Windows XP is available. The new client looks and acts the same, but has important updates in its background operation.

An icon (a big red "N") for the installer has been placed in your Novell Application Launcher (NAL). You must be logged into your Windows XP account with Administrator privileges for this installation to run. Double-click the icon to run it. You can find out right now if your account has Administrator status. Click Start.Control Panel.User Accounts. Does 'Computer administrator' appear under your Windows XP login name?

If yes, then run the installer! If no, you will have to login as UserAdmin, or the install will not work.

Please contact your AIA or the Help Desk, x6525, for assistance. [Notification-L]

03/22/03, NAL Launcher Update
This message is only relevant for Windows users.

A new version of the Novell Application Launcher (NAL) has been put out on the servers. It will automatically be installed on your computer when you login to the network. The new version looks identical, but at startup you'll get a message reading, "Your NAL launcher has been updated. You need to reboot for the changes to take effect. Reboot now?" Just reboot, then you'll be done with the NAL update.

We apologize for the late notice regarding this. The update was actually inadvertently put out there, and we can't take it back. It's an important update, as it should allow us greater flexibility with the management of Windows XP computers. [Notification-L]

03/20/03, New Netware Client for PC Users
A new Novell NetWare client will be rolled out to PC users on campus beginning Monday, March 24. The client will be automatically installed on Windows 98 machines at login time, and will require the computer to be rebooted when the installation finishes. The new client for Windows XP will have to be downloaded and installed when logged on to the PC as useradmin, or installed from the Novell Application Launcher when logged on as useradmin. We highly recommend that XP users install this update, since it will make future software installations easier.

We will be staggering the update rollout by building, on the following schedule:

• Monday 3/24 - Olin-Rice and Humanities/Fine Arts
• Tuesday 3/25 - 77 Mac, Weyerhaeuser, and the Chapel
• Wednesday 3/26 - Carnegie and Old Main
• Thursday 3/27 - Campus Center and Kagin
• Friday 3/28 - All other buildings

03/20/03, A Good Deal for Faculty Members
If you were planning on buying Apple Computer's iLife or Keynote presentation software for the Macintosh, now is the time. Apple has a promotion which is offering the two packages for $14.95 plus tax. This offer ends March 31st and is only available to faculty. It requires you to pay with a personal credit card, so if you buy it for work, you will need to work out reimbursement with your department. David Sisk cannot order at this price because it is sold directly to consumers. This same software will cost $130 to buy at the usual full price, which is why we are letting people who may already be interested know. For more information go to http://www.apple.com/education/hed/ilifeandkeynote/. Please note that this software is new and only works with OS X version 10.2. Computing does not have a site license for OS X 10.2, so you would need to get that as well in order to use this software. It may also be worth pointing out that Computing does not support this software. [Bulletin]

03/20/03, Upgrade Now!
Refresh your computer for spring! Visit http://www.macalester.edu/cit/services/software for lots of important software downloads. You can download Windows XP Service Pack 1 there, which will be a MUCH faster download than from off-campus, as well as Norton Antivirus for Windows and Macintosh platforms, the latest Novell clients and a ton more. All of this is at no charge to you because of your affiliation with Macalester. [Bulletin]

03/13/03, A Whole New Mulberry
The newest 3-pane version of the Mulberry e-mail client has proven very popular among beta testers. CIT is offering two sessions to demonstrate the new features. You don't need to sign up. Just show up at one of the sessions:

Date: March 20
Where: Humanities 302
Time: 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM [Bulletin]

03/DD/03, Spring Break for Your Phone
Please change your voice mail greeting to reflect your status. It's nice to let your callers know you are not in and not to expect a quick return call. To change your greeting, access your voice mail box, then press 4 (personal options), then 3 (greetings), then 2, and follow the prompts. Your callers and our switchboard operator will be much appreciative. If you have any questions, please call Telecommunications at x.6566. [Venue]

03/13/03, Spring Break for Your E-mail
Gone for Spring Break but don't want to lose touch? There are several options available to check your e-mail or to let people know that you won't be checking it. All you need to do is point your Web browser at http://mail.macalester.edu. The Webmail option will let you log in and check your Macalester e-mail through a Web browser. We suggest that you clean up your Inbox before you leave if you plan to use this - a large number of messages can be slow to access over the Web. You can also choose the Vacation Messages/Forwarding option and either set up a vacation message to let people know that you won't be checking your e-mail, or forward all your incoming e-mail to another address that you will be checking while you're gone. When you return, you can remove the vacation message or forwarding address from the same Web page. [Bulletin]

03/13/03, LESTER Tip #13: Off Campus Access to Library Databases
LESTER is Macalester's Web portal, providing a convenient and personalized way to access a wide variety of campus and Web resources. Use your regular network/e-mail username and password to log in to LESTER at http://lester.macalester.edu.

The Library provides for off-campus access to subscription-based library databases and indexes. LESTER's "Library Indexes" and "Library-Purchased Reference Sources" channels, located on the Research tab, make it easy to access these resources from off campus. When you log in to LESTER from off campus and select a link for a library resource, you will be presented with an "Off Campus Access Login" page. Log in using your library bar code number (on the back of your Macalester ID) according to the instructions on the off-campus login page. Once you have completed this login procedure, you can access any of the library indexes and reference sources. If you have questions about off-campus access to library resources, please stop by the Library Reference Desk, call x6618, or e-mail askus@macalester.edu. [Bulletin]

03/12/03, Network Fix
In response to a critical mass of complaints about flaky behavior by applications such as Mulberry last week, CIT staff checked performance in Weyerhaeuser. They found a hardware problem at one of the switches plus a "data storm" from one computer. In other words, the problem was with networked services other than the application itself. Monitoring since then seems to indicate return to normal--for that particular issue. Please let us know at x.6525 if you see reoccurence. Thanks for your patience. [This message, a 'mini-Notification-L,' was sent to everyone in Weyerhaeuser Hall.]

03/06/03, Free Stuff for You
Visit www.macalester.edu/cit/services/software for lots of important software downloads. You can download Windows XP Service Pack 1 there, which will be a much faster download than from off-campus, Norton Antivirus for Windows and Macintosh platforms, and a ton more. [Bulletin]

03/06/03, Web Pages for the Impatient
Want good looking Web pages for your course, your department, yourself but don't want the techno-hassle that goes with it? Have we got a deal for you! Point your browser to www.macalester.edu/web/wizard/, make a selection and just drop in your data. It doesn't get easier than this! [Bulletin]

03/06/03, LESTER Tip #12: Customizing LESTER
LESTER is Macalester's Web portal, providing a convenient and personalized way to access a wide variety of campus and Web resources. Use your regular network/e-mail username and password to log in to LESTER at http://lester.macalester.edu.

Many of the information "channels" in LESTER can be customized to present the links and resources that are most useful to you. Each channel has a title bar with the channel title in boldface type. To the right of the channel title, a paper and pencil icon will appear for each channel that can be customized. Click on this icon to customize the appearance of the channel. The selections you make on the customize screens remain in effect until you change them. [Bulletin]

03/06/03, Computer Purchasing: Who Ya Gonna Call?
If you plan to buy computers, software or accessories with departmental funds or grants, they will be owned by Macalester. For consulting, pricing and requisitioning of such items, please contact David Sisk in CIT at x.6745.

If you plan to buy computer hardware with personal funds, the equipment will belong to you. Faculty and staff members may wish to investigate the Payroll Deduction Plan for buying computers. For consulting, pricing and other assistance, please contact Bonnie Alexander in CIT at x.6625 or check our Web pages at www.macalester.edu/cit/store.

If you plan to buy software and/or accessories with personal funds, these items will belong to you. For ordering, pricing and other assistance, please contact Angie Preiner in the Highlander Store at x.6698, or stop by the Highlander in the lower level of the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center. [Bulletin]