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Dispatch 2008.1: Update (and Downtime Announcement)
Greetings, humans! I’m going to try my best to get these out on the order of once a month or so in order to keep everyone well informed of what’s going on with their environment. In this issue: a limited downtime announcement for some servers, a Z…
Office 2008 Now Available
Office 2008 is now available. Here’s how you can get it. If you work on a Mac managed by systems, do nothing. We’ll push out the update once we’ve confirmed everything’s A-OK. If you manage your own machine: After you install the software, send a …
State of IT talk
Thanks for all who attended. Here are the relevant URLs from the talk. The talk itself: http://anl.acrobat.com/p52667910/ The list of sensitive countries: http://www.ipd.anl.gov/excontrol/restricted/sensitive.pdf
Dispatch #5: 2007/12/21
Has it been almost a year since the last one of these? Oh, my. Well, let’s send 2007 out in style. State of IT Talk First item of business, there’ll be a division IT talk on January 14, at 2PM in 221-A216. There, we’ll go over what we’ve been up t…
Cross Platform SVN Time Lapse Viewer
http://code.google.com/p/svn-time-lapse-view/ Very slick.
MCS Debian Sarge (3.0) to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) upgrade
Earlier this year, we introduced the new standard for desktop linux machines. These machines are running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). We still have some older debian machines that need to be upgraded to the newer build. If you haven’t already, you s…
MCS Website Content Management tool available
Hey, gang! Beth has been working on forms that allow you to easily post and edit content on CLS division websites. The particular focus here is for the MCS website. The forms can be found at https://www.cls.anl.gov/adminforms/ and you login using …
64 Bit Linux Desktop Reboot, 9/28/2007, 5:00 PM
The machines listed below need a reboot to get an updated kernel as a security fix. We plan to reboot any affected machines that have not yet been rebooted at 5 PM on Friday, 9/28. If you can reboot prior to then at your convenience you won’t be a…
Outage complete
The power outage is finished. All systems should be back and in full operation. Please report any problems to [email protected] and we’ll get them taken care of. Thanks for your patience!