August 2010 Archives

The HH-303 printer is jamming several times a day. A repair call has bee placed. Until the problem is fixed, if you find the printer jammed you should ...

1. follow instructions on the printer display to remove the jammed paper


2. open the top of the printer using the latch at the top right


3. close the printer

The last two steps just seems to make the printer feel good about itself again.

Thunderbird on the ms workstations has been updated; this is a minor stability/security upgrade. You should close and restart Thunderbird if your session predates this message.

There will be a few brief interruptions to incoming and outgoing mail this morning.

Bayes has crashed three times since late Friday night. We are investigating but have not yet isolated the problem. It's up now and you can use it, but I wouldn't bet serious money on it not crashing again.

Some time after the file server recovered on Saturday morning, there was a hiccough with the non-crashed server accessing home directories starting with a - l. This was easily corrected, but unfortunately was not caught not until after I returned from camping. As of 10:30 Monday, all home directories are accessible and mail is starting to flow to accounts starting with a - l.