August 2008 Archives

UTS has announced that MacConnect (wired and wireless) will be down Tuesday evening from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm for upgrades.

The power to Hamilton Hall and the Burke Science Building will be cut from 6:00 am to 7:30 am this Wednesday. We will shut down all RHPCS-managed linux and OS X workstations and all servers except for mathserv at 4:00 am. You should shut down - and perhaps unplug - your office systems if you manage your own.

Just for the record, there was a power outage at 7:30 AM on Thursday the 14th. Email was sent to department members Wednesday afternoon, which was as soon as we found out about it.

Contrary to my earlier announcement, I will be shutting down all servers except mathserv prior to the power shutdown tomorrow morning.

The HH-403 printer is still down and will remain so until I return from vacation next week; I've not yet isolated the source of the probem.

This summary of recent postings to the Computing News blog was emailed to all department members this afternoon.

Power Outage Tuesday Morning
The power will be turned off in Hamilton Hall on Tuesday morning between 5 am and 7 am. Bluespruce and freesurface are not on battery backup right now and will be shut down at 4 am. We will shut linux workstations down remotely; you should turn off your office Windows or OS X workstation when you leave on Monday.

Internet Outage Friday Night
UTS advises us that the campus connection to the Internet will be down from Friday at 11pm until Saturday at 5am. Internal networks will still work, but external sites will be unavailable from campus, campus sites will be unavailable from the outside, and email will be essentially halted.

AppleTalk Access to Mathserv Disabled
AppleTalk access to mathserv is disabled because the protocol does not play well with NFS. You can use smb://mathserv to reach shares on mathserv from OS X.

Departmental Computing Updates via RSS
You can read the departmental computing updates in Apple Mail, Thunderbird and some other mail clients if you subscribe to the RSS feed at
http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/blogs/computing_news/index.rdf

If You are Leaving the Department Soon ...
.... please have a look at the So Long, Farewell... page on the Computing Resources site.

HH-403 Printer Update
The HH-403 printer is still down and will remain so until I return from vacation next week; I've not yet isolated the source of the probem.

.... please have a look at the So Long, Farewell... page on the Computing Resources site.

The power will be turned off in Hamilton Hall on Tuesday morning between 5 am and 7 am. Bluespruce and freesurface are not on battery backup right now and will be shut down at 4 am. We will shut linux workstations down remotely; you should turn off your office Windows or OS X workstation when you leave on Monday.

You can read the departmental computing updates in Apple Mail, Thunderbird and some other mail clients if you subscribe to the RSS feed at
http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/blogs/computing_news/index.rdf

AppleTalk access to mathserv is disabled because the protocol does not play well with NFS. You can use smb://mathserv to reach shares on mathserv from OS X.

UTS advises us that the campus connection to the Internet will be down from Friday at 11pm until Saturday at 5am. Internal networks will still work, but external sites will be unavailable from campus, campus sites will be unavailable from the outside, and email will be essentially halted.