News - May 2007

May 29 2007 - As a result of the move to larger disks over Memorial Day weekend, we have now doubled everybody's tigger email inbox quota. The new default quota for tigger inboxes is 50 megabytes.

This is NOT your homedir quota, which is separate and has not changed.

You can see your new quotas by using the "quota" command in a tigger session. It will not show up in mailtools yet, until we fix mailtools to be compatible with the new quota system.

This only applies to those who receive their email on tigger. It does not apply to icarus, or to mailserv which already had higher quotas.

May 26 2007 - Uptime revised to 10PM Sat 5/26

May 26 2007 - The tigger server is down until 6PM Saturday May 26 to move the mail spool to newer, faster, larger disks. All incoming mail will be safely queued.

May 18 2007 - Microsoft Windows Vista Business Upgrade & Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise is now available for purchase from E-Sales: http://e-sales.accc.uic.edu

This software is available as a personal purchase only (paid via a personal credit card). Please note, we limit 1 copy per person.

Departments at UIC can purchase Microsoft Select products licensed by the University through Urbana's Computer Center, which is a part of Campus Stores, Mail, & Receiving. For pricing information, refer to: http://www.cstores.uiuc.edu/cgi/price2.dbr?UCS0077

Please email questions to software@uic.edu.

May 18 2007 - The Blackboard system will be unavailable on Friday, May 18 from 5 PM until Midnight, so we can upgrade the software. (Instructors were notified several weeks ago.) The upgrade includes a number of performance improvements and enhancements to the Gradebook, Discussion Forum, Online Assessment and Electronic Portfolio subsystems as well as some new features and functionality. Bob Hyman - ITL