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Office 2008 Now Available

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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State of IT talk

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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

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Dispatch #5: 2007/12/21

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Cross Platform SVN Time Lapse Viewer

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

http://code.google.com/p/svn-time-lapse-view/ Very slick.

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MCS Debian Sarge (3.0) to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) upgrade

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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MCS Website Content Management tool available

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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64 Bit Linux Desktop Reboot, 9/28/2007, 5:00 PM

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Outage complete

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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!

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Machine Room Power Outage, 09/22/2007, 5:30AM until 6:00PM.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The 221 MCS Machine Room will have a power outage on Saturday, September 22, 2007 to install new power feeds for arriving equipment. The outage window is from 5:30AM until 6PM, and all core services are expected to be down during this time. Sorry …

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Mail server outage Wednesday, July 25th, 7AM – 9AM.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We will be taking the e-mail gateway for MCS (mailgw.mcs.anl.gov) offline tomorrow, July 25th, from 7 AM until 9 AM to replace the machine due to a hardware failure. This outage will prevent users from sending any new messages, and incoming mail d…

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