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Social Networking Safety

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Let me tell a couple of true stories of how social networking can be used to cause you and your friends harm. The first happened to a friend of mine. He’s sitting on his computer, browsing facebook, and he gets a chat request from a friend. This f…

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Mail Outage, 1/23/10, 9 AM – 2 PM.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hey, folks. Just a friendly reminder that we???ll be upgrading the Zimbra mail and calendar server on Saturday. Your inbox, calendar, and webmail will not be accessible between 9AM and 2PM. No mail will be lost, only delayed during the outage window…

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MCS Systems User Satisfaction Survey

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hey, gang. Communication is an important thing. Without it, we’d all just be a bunch of meat sticks making random noises and gestures at each other. A part of communication that’s important to any service organization is feedback. Sometimes, that …

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We're moved!

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Wow, what a day. Most of us got here over 15 hours ago, some of us are still here. I’m a little punch drunk, so I’ll give a quick summary and perhaps a better post mortem later in the week. All equipment was moved without incident. Boyer-Rosene (t…

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The Big Move

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

It’s here! It’s underway! Things are moving! Move II: October 16-18 Full Disclosure (already down) Breadboard (already down) kbT compute cluster (already down) I2U2 resources (already down) LCRC DDN storage system (already down) MCS Core Computing…

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Mail Slowness

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

An over-aggressive DOE scanner spam-bombed us this afternoon, bringing our mail service to a crawl as three mail servers tried to deal with over 40,000 e-mail messages sent within a matter of minutes. We believe we got it all stopped, and all the …

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Pictures from the Datacenter move

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Pics taken by Max. All in all, it took a little less than 11 hours. Everything went generally smoothly. It bodes very well for the move in two weeks!

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First Datacenter Move

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The first phase of the move of equipment from our old datacenter (the BMR) to the new datacenter (the Core) is complete, from a physical perspective. All the racks made it over with no issues. On Friday, our smallest cluster was up and running. To…

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History

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Today, the first computer came up in our new datacenter, The Core. The cosmea cluster came up, largely without incident, and backed itself up to the tape library (that is, incidentally, still sitting in 221). Tomorrow’s gonna be a fun day.

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Datacenter Move, Episode I, The Phantom Menace

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Okay, folks, this is it. A little over two weeks ago, we moved a bunch of people into the spiffy new building. And this Friday, we begin the process of moving our computers over from the BMR to the Core (which is now what we’re calling the SSF). A…

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