News - Mar 2004

Mar 29 2004 - ... without first having established your EnterpriseID and EID password.

Enterprise ID: Must be Claimed for Fall '04 Registration, Available April 5!

Next Monday, April 5, marks your first opportunity to register for Fall, 2004 classes. For the first time, you (and all students at UIC, UIUC and UIS) will be using the new UI-Integrate Student Self-Service system.

Are you ready? Have you claimed your Enterprise ID? If so, you're ready. If not, then you're running out of time to act. In order to register for classes, you must have already claimed your Enterprise ID and set a password. Go to:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/ims/webstudent/

and follow the instructions in the first bullet item - it's easy!

Note: You can then test your EID and password by clicking on the red bullet under UI-Integrate Self-Service, in the Registration category. Follow the student and UIC links to login.

Problems? Please follow the instructions in the "Help" section at the bottom of the web page. Whenever possible, first ask an ACCC lab monitor for in-person assistance, as that may be the quickest way to resolve a netid activation or EID claiming problem.

- The Academic Computing and Communications Center, ACCC

Mar 26 2004 - UIC students were the victims of a home invasion armed robbery Wednesday evening.

At approximately 8:45 p.m., an unknown offender who claimed to have a gun forced a male student, who was returning home on the 800 block of south Racine, into the victim's residence. The offender asked the student if anyone else was in the house, then forced the student upstairs and kicked in the locked bedroom doors of two female students, one of whom was able to hide. The offender demanded money from the other two victims and fled.

The offender is described as a black male with dark complexion, 6-feet to 6-feet-2, possible scar on left side of face, 175 pounds, thin build, wearing black knit cap, blue jeans, white t-shirt, white gym shoes. He was seen entering a white 4-door mid-sized Ford.

Responding UIC Police and Chicago Police units could not locate the suspect in the neighborhood.

None of the victims reported injuries.

UIC Police remind members of the community of some safety tips:
--be aware of your surroundings
--try to travel in groups after dark
--use well-lit walkways
--never prop open a security door or gate
--never open your door to strangers
--on campus, look for the location of the nearest emergency call box (there are more than 700 across campus)
--the emergency number for UIC Police is 996-HELP (4357).

Mar 25 2004 - Tigger will be down THURSDAY MARCH 26, 6:00PM-12:00 Midnight to upgrade the Operating System from AIX 4 to AIX 5. This longer time window is to insure that we have complete backups before we change anything.

While tigger is down, incoming email will be held and will be delivered when the system is back up. If you still have a tigger-only password, you will be unable to use it for Bluestem authentication, such as to use the dialup lines. You can avoid this problem by setting a new Common Password now at http://passwords.accc.uic.edu . Personal Web pages hosted on tigger of the form http://www.uic.edu/~netid will be unavailable. Departmental Web pages of the form http://anything.department.uic.edu will remain available, except those that use many cgi scripts, such as formmail, pbupdate, and others, which will be unavailable.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 24 2004 - The Blackboard system is being upgraded to version 6.1 on Wednesday morning, 3/24, between 5am and 9am.

This time window is also set aside as the ITL maintenance window, so future downtime of our instructional technology systems on Wednesday mornings should be planned for.

Mar 24 2004 - We have a new version of Odyssey. Try installing it. Be sure to uninstall your previous version before you install the new one.

See Installing and Using Odyssey for Windows.

Mar 24 2004 - Beginning April 5, you will be registering for Fall 2004 classes through the new UI-Integrate Student Self-Service system.

WILL YOU BE READY?

You will NOT be ready to access the system without an Enterprise ID and password, which will replace the ID number and PIN you currently use for the Student Access System and telephone registration. Neither of these systems will be in use for terms that begin after Summer 2004.

Full information on obtaining your Enterprise ID and Password are on the entry page for the Student Access System/UI-Integrate Self Service site:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/ims/webstudent/

Clicking on the link under Fall 2004 Registration Changes (Enterprise ID and Password [REQUIRED to register ]--Instructions) on this page will take you to step-by-step instructions for setting up your ID and password.

We STRONGLY advise you to set up your Enterprise ID now and to try out your access by looking at what may be available under Student Accounts Receivable and Financial Aid, just to make certain you will be good to go at registration time.

You will not want to be messing around with matters of system access at the same time you are trying to get into those sections you need. Give yourself a break and do this early!

Best wishes,

Gene W. Ruoff
Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Associate Provost UI-Integrate Campus Coordinator

Mar 23 2004 - Tigger will be down TUESDAY MARCH 24 (tonight!) 9:00 PM-12:00 Midnight, for hardware and microcode maintenance.

While tigger is down, incoming email will be held and will be delivered when the system is back up. If you still have a tigger-only password, you will be unable to use it for Bluestem authentication, such as to use the dialup lines. You can avoid this problem by setting a new Common Password now at http://passwords.accc.uic.edu . Personal Web pages hosted on tigger of the form http://www.uic.edu/~netid will be unavailable. Departmental Web pages of the form http://anything.department.uic.edu will remain available, except those that use many cgi scripts, such as formmail, pbupdate, and others, which will be unavailable.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 22 2004 - We're experiencing problems with the web client access to UICalendar and are working on it.

Mar 22 2004 - We could not get the web client working properly so we will bring down the entire server at 5pm for system reset.

Mar 20 2004 - The public labs will be down for approximately 15 minutes Saturday evening. The server will be restarted at 10pm Saturday March 20. Services will be restored upon the server restarting.

Mar 20 2004 - Icarus will be down for software maintenance starting at noon on Saturday March 20th, 2004. We expect to have Icarus back up by 5pm, possibly earlier.

Mail stored on Icarus, Webpages hosted on Icarus, and shell access to Icarus will be unavailable during this time.

- ACCC Systems

Mar 19 2004 - 3/19/04

CRIME ALERT

The Chicago Police/UICPD Robbery Task Force is investigating the strongarm robberies of three UIC students in two separate incidents on the evening of Thursday, March 18. At approximately 7:40 p.m., two students were robbed in the 1300 block of west Flournoy after an offender knocked one student to the ground and demanded money from both victims. The victims surrendered their money and the offender fled in a white four-door passenger vehicle. The students were not injured. The offender was described as male, 20-30 years old, African American, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, and wearing a black wool cap and white jeans.

The second incident occurred at about 10:15 p.m. in the 800 block of south Miller. A UIC student was robbed after an offender placed a wooden stick to her neck and demanded money. The victim surrendered her money and the offender fled, also in a vehicle described as a white four-door passenger car. The victim was not injured. The offender was described as male, 30 years old, African American, 5-10, 160 pounds, and wearing a dark skull cap, dark jacket and dark pants.

Anyone with information about these crimes is asked to contact Chicago Police, Area 4 Violent Crimes, at (312) 746-8252, or UIC Police at (312) 996-2830.

Mar 05 2004 - BGRC 179 Lab Closed Friday, 3/5, 11:00am For Lab Update Lab will re-open mid to late afternoon, following task completion.

Please re-locate to another ACCC Lab at this time: BGRC 105, SEL, BSB, CCC401, CCC408, LIB, SRC or SSB Check lab availability at: http://www.accc.uic.edu/pclabs

The lab image will be updated to integrate new class/instructional software and update accessibility applications. The update process monopolizes network bandwidth user applications wont run.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

LAN/Small Systems ACCC Academic Computing and Communications Center 3-0003, http://www.accc.uic.edu, consult@uic.edu

Mar 04 2004 - We have completed one phase of the ADSM hardware upgrades, but the final step could not be coordinated, due to two different vendors each with their own schedules.

This will require the ADSM Network backup Service to be down all day Thursday March 4, from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. Once again, all previously backed up data will be safe and will be available for restore when the system is back up for its normal evening backup cycle at 5:00PM.

(Is this interfering with your ability to back up your computer? Then perhaps you should consider the automatic backup scheduler feature of the Tivoli Storage Manager software. It backs up your computer every evening without you having to remember to do anything other than leave it turned on. See http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/adsmnew/ for details.)

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 03 2004 - The ADSM Network Backup sservice will be down Wednesday March 3 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM to complete the hardware upgrades started on Monday.

On Monday, with the system already down and disassembled on the floor, we found we were missing one vital part. I just got that part in, so now we can finish the job.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 03 2004 - There's a new version of a slightly older virus that is sending us email messages that appear to be from official UIC.EDU sources -- staff@uic.edu, noreply@uic.edu, and the like, threatening us with cutting off our email privileges because we've sent out too many messages with viruses.

Don't either believe them or even open them -- they are viruses themselves, the latest variant of Beagle, W32.Beagle.J@mm, including the use of made-up @uic.edu addresses and the whole "Uic.edu team" fluff. If your email address were at hotmail.com, it would say it was from the hotmail administrators. Read all about it at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.j@mm.html

Currently available (March 1, 2003) Symantec anti-virus definitions will protect you against W32.Beagle.J@mm. If you haven't installed Symantec antivirus yet, do it now: Symantec AntiVirus, which is free for the entire UIC community, to use on any of their computers, on-campus or off.

Mar 02 2004 - One of our servers was overloaded with processes causing problems for Mailserv, the server has been rebooted and mailserv is back up.

Mar 02 2004 - mailserv will be down for maintenance from 11:00 PM Tue Mar 2 to 2:00 AM Wed Mar 3. Users of Webmail and Eudora who have their mailbox located on mailserv will not be able to access their mail in that interval. Mail directed to people on mailserv will be queued so none will be lost.

Mar 02 2004 - We are currently experiencing problems with Mailserv. We do not have an estimate as to when it will be back up.

Mar 01 2004 - The ADSM network backup service will be down for hardware upgrades all day Monday March 1, from about 10:00AM until 5:00PM. No backups or restores will be possible between that time. All previously backed up files will be safe, and will be available for restore when it is back up again. Mid-day is the quiet time for this system - it does its heavy work in the evening. We are planning to have it running again before the nightly backup cycle begins at 5:00PM. These upgrades should speed both backups and restores, and provide the capacity for the increasing number of increasingly larger computers we are backing up.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 01 2004 - Test Drive The New Student Web Registration System

Monday, March 1, 2004 Noon to 4:00 p.m. Room 401 Chicago Circle Center

" Q: What's the deal? " A: Beginning April 5 you will be registering for Fall 2004 classes through the new web registration application that is part of the UI-Integrate project.

" Q: How will this work? " A: Come and find out at this test run of the student registration system. You will be able to log in under your own identity, search for courses, and register for them just as you will come April 5. Monday's registration data is test data. Participating students will have to re-register beginning April 5!

" Q: What will I need? " A: You will need a valid UIC netid and password. These will enable you to secure an Enterprise ID and password, which you already have obtained if you have used UI-Integrate Student Self-Service applications to check your financial aid or student accounts receivable.