On the 2nd Tuesday of Spring Break I did system upgrades to many of our machines. From 10:30am EST - 11:30am EST you may have experienced some service outages caused by these upgrades. As of 11:30am all upgrades are done and the systems are back up.

At this point it is safe to restart remote vnc sessions.

If you notice any differences or problems since the upgrade please tell me right away.

Thanks,

-Greg

1. - Greg Priest-Dorman 2010/03/16 12:26

A typo on my part created a problem Monday March 1. when as a result one of our fileservers become unavailable at 2:40pm. By 2:46pm all was back to normal. Over this time systems would seem to hang as they waited for a response from the server. This kind of thing should convince me to stay home when I am sick... My fault, sorry for the hassle, - Greg

• XFCE changed the defalt icon setup so you may need to redo icons the first time you use the new build. See Where are my Icons?
• You may need to set your preferred browser. XFCE menu –> Settings –> Preferred Applications –> Web Browser

Please let me know if something in the new build is not working for you. I am sure there are going to be some issues and I would like to deal with them promptly. If you notice it, it will effect someone else as well.

— Greg Priest-Dorman 2009/08/20 16:48

System beep has been eliminated from all linux desktops. — Greg Priest-Dorman 2009/03/03 20:26

If you are leaving Vassar, don’t forget to pack your CS computer account! We have written a script to automate the process of creating a CD image of your account see. For information and instructions see:

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sysnews/isohome

Watch this space for updates.

System Status

More as I know it,

Greg

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— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/02/05 22:56