November 2005 Archives
November 30, 2005
Intel Fortran 9 Installed
Intel Fortran 9.0 has been installed on bayes and the msprime workstations. Version 8 is still available and is still the default.
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November 14, 2005
Scheduled Power Outage in T13
Physical Plant informs us that the power in T13 will be out from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on Sunday, November 20th.
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November 11, 2005
Extended Shutdown Saturday, December 17th
I plan to do extensive work in the department server room on Saturday, December 17th; the servers and linux workstations will be unavailable much of the day. Please let me know if the chosen date will be particularly inconvenient for your teaching or research.
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Mail Backup & System Lag III
We are no longer backing up mail hourly during the day time: as often as not, the backups would slow down the server and msprime workstations noticably.
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November 9, 2005
G95 (Fortran 95 Compiler) Available
G95 - the free, open source Fortran 95 compiler and runtime libraries - has been installed on the msprime workstations and the statistical server, bayes.
Enter g95 to run and g95 --help for options. More information is available on the G95 project page.
November 8, 2005
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installed
OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been installed on the msprime and T13-109 workstations. Icons can be found in the Office menus in Gnome and KDE. Version 1.1 is still the default if you enter the command ooffice; use ooffice2 for the new version.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 loads much more quickly than 1.1; other changes can be found here.
Firefox Update
Firefox on the msprime and T13-109 computers has been upgraded to version 1.0.7. See the release notes for details.
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Server Down Briefly
Mathserv was down for about five minutes at 9:50 am Tuesday due to a (theoretically invisible) performance tweak gone wrong; dependent systems should not require rebooting.
November 7, 2005
Weekend Power Failures
Two were brief power failures on Sunday affected much of the campus. Our servers were unaffected as they have emergency power. Most linux and OS X workstations have rebooted on their own; some will need to be started or restarted manually.
November 2, 2005
MacConnect Problem: Fixed
The MacConnect problem in HH is apparently fixed as 3:30 pm.
MacConnect Problem
Some people are having trouble with MacConnect wireless in HH. UTS explains...
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