News - Jan 2003

Jan 27 2003 - Week 3 ACCC Computer Workshops
Jan 27- Week 3; Register today at http://www.accc.uic.edu/seminars

• Mon 1/27 2-3:50pm 408CCC —Excel Intro I: Spreadsheets and Graphs for Everyday Use
• Tue 1/28 10-11:50am 408 CCC — ITL Faculty Session: Creating Lecture Presentations with PowerPoint
• Tue 1/28 1-2:50pm 408CCC — SAS Introduction II
• Wed 1/29 10-11:50am 179BGRC — Web Authoring for Beginners with Macromedia Dreamweaver - Part II
• Thu 1/30 1-2:50pm 179BGRC — Creating PowerPoint Presentations - Part II
• Fri 1/31 12-12:50pm 408CCC — Introducing Mobile Computing with the Tablet PC
  

Jan 25 2003 - Tigger, our faculty/staff email and personal web page server, will be down Saturday morning (1/25) from 6am until 10am. We will be installing additional memory which should help performance.

Most www.uic.edu web pages will not be affected during the upgrade.

Jan 25 2003 - Network attacks from off campus and from on campus are adversely affecting UIC's connectivity. These attacks are causing trouble nation-wide according to postings on CNN and other news sites. View the CNN article

ACCC is working at this time to alleviate the problems to the extent possible.

Jan 20 2003 - Icarus will be down tonight (Monday night / Tuesday morning) from 10pm until 2am to repair problems with the disk quota system.

Jan 17 2003 - At approximately 1 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, an employee of a contractor at UIC leaving her home in the 1400 block of West Lexington was confronted and robbed by an offender brandishing a box-cutter knife. The offender fled on foot. The victim was battered in the attack and was treated at the scene by Chicago Fire Department paramedics.

The offender is described as a male, 30's, medium build, dark complexion, wearing a green hooded sweatshirt.

On Tuesday police reported an aggravated criminal sexual assault one block south on West Flournoy. That offender was described as a male approximately 6-feet-2 inches in height, 250 to 275 pounds, pear-shaped build, 25 to 30 years of age, dark complexion, five o'clock shadow but no other facial hair, wearing a dark blue zippered coat with a hood, dark gray or black knitted cap, dark blue sweat shirt, with either a scarf or turtleneck collar about his throat.

Police do not know at this time if the two crimes are related. People are advised to travel in groups when possible; to be aware of their surroundings, particularly as they enter or leave their homes; and to be watchful for persons acting suspiciously. Anyone with information regarding either of these crimes is asked to contact Chicago Police District 12 at (312) 746-8396 or Area Four Detective Division at (312) 746-8252.

Jan 15 2003 - Police report that a UIC student was sexually assaulted at approximately 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14.

The student was entering her off-campus residence in the 1400 block of West Flournoy when, according to police, the offender grabbed the woman and proceeded to sexually assault and rob her.

The victim was treated at the UIC medical center and released.

Police are searching for the offender, who is described as a male of dark complexion, approximately 6-feet-2-inches tall, with a heavy build. He was wearing a dark blue nylon coat, dark stocking cap, and a dark scarf or possible turtleneck sweater covering his mouth.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Area 4 Detectives at 312-746-8252.

Jan 15 2003 - Week 2 ACCC Computer Workshops; Register today at http://www.accc.uic.edu/seminars.

• Tue 1/21 10-11:50am 408 CCC — ITL Faculty Session: Creating Class Materials for the Web with Dreamweaver
  
• Tue 1/21 1-2:50pm 408CCC — SAS Introduction I
  
• Wed 1/22 10-11:50am 179BGRC — Web Authoring for Beginners with Macromedia Dreamweaver - Part I
  
• Thu 1/23 1-2:50pm 179BGRC — Creating PowerPoint Presentations - Part I
  
• Fri 1/24 12-12:50pm 408CCC — Protecting your PC: Dealing with Spam, Viruses, Etc.

Jan 15 2003 - Note that we now have a lab running Windows XP in SEL 2054. Please give it a try and send us your feedback. We will be deploying this image to the rest of the ACCC Public Computing labs later on this year.

Also, we made available a color printer during the fall semester in CCC 401. Printouts cost $1/sheet.

Any questions or comments, please send them to consult@uic.edu

Jan 11 2003 2003 - As part of the icarus move to new hardware, the ACCC meetingmaker service will also be down on Saturday, January 11. The service will be available again on Sunday.

Jan 11 2003 - Icarus is now running on a new Sun Microsystems, Inc. "SunFire V880" server with 8 900MHz UltraSparcIV processors and 16GB of RAM. The operating system has been upgraded to Solaris8.

If you encounter any difficulties with icarus, please send a DETAILED message to SYSTEMS@UIC.edu or call the network operations help desk at 312-413-8080 extention 2.

Jan 11 2003 - The ACCC WebBoard server is being upgraded to version 6 and simultaneously being moved to new, much faster, hardware. The server will be unavailable on Saturday, January 11, from 9am CST until 2pm.

Jan 11 2003 - The WebBoard upgrade to version 6 and move to new hardware were completed successfully and ahead of time. Performance is a lot better than before.

Jan 11 2003 - Things are progressing, but going slower than expected. Right now it looks as if icarus will be up no earlier than 10pm. Sorry for any inconveniences caused.

Jan 08 2003 - Icarus, our main student email/web server, will be down for a significant period of time on Saturday January 11th so that we can install a complete hardware and OS upgrade.

Icarus will be shut down at 12:01am Saturday morning. If the upgrade goes very well, it may be back in production as early as 2pm, but complications could extend the downtime further into Saturday evening and/or night. We'll try to post updates here of any change in status.

The new hardware, a SunFire V880 from Sun Microsystems, will be twice as powerful as the current icarus (Sun E4000) and should provide significant improvements in response time.

We will also be upgrading the Solaris operating system from version 2.7 to Solaris8 (2.8). This Solaris upgrade is required to support the new hardware.

We're sorry for inconveniences caused by the upgrade, but we expect that the result (a faster and more stable system) should be worth the wait.

Jan 01 2003 - The ADSM/Tivoli Storage Manager Server has now been converted to its new home - a much faster RS/6000 H80. It is now running in production mode, catching up with delayed backups.

You should not need to change anything to use the new server - it is still called adsm.cc.uic.edu. Files which you had backed up on the old server are available for restore on the new server - you do not need to do a new full backup. If you cannot contact it for some reason, doublecheck the TCPSERVERADDRESS line in your dsm.opt file to make sure you are not using some other name, such as a numeric IP address.

If you use the automatic backup scheduler, you will probably need to restart it, because it may have timed out during the downtime. The easiest way to do this is to simply reboot your whole computer.

If you have any trouble with this, contact datasave@uic.edu.

Thank you for your patience during the extended holiday downtime period, which allowed us to get this done right and also to have time to overcome the inevitable glitches without panic.

Happy New Year!