News - Mar 2002

Mar 26 2002 -

Registration is now available for ACCC Seminars taking place during the first two weeks of April, along with our Brown Bag Lunch Seminars.

For more information, please go to our ACCC Seminars site at http://www.accc.uic.edu/seminars.

Mar 26 2002 - The ITL-East is in the back of the PC lab in room 401 CCC. We don't have a phone there yet, but we are getting a cell phone for it. The ITL-East Open Hours are:

Wednesdays 1-5pm and Fridays 9am-1pm

The ITL-West Open Hours remain the same:

Mondays 1-5pm and Thursdays 1-5pm

Besides Open Hours, we schedule ITL appointments at other times, upon request. Please direct any questions to itl@uic.edu or 312-996-9824.

Thank you,

Ed Garay, Assistant Director
UIC Instructional Technology Lab (ITL) itl@uic.edu
http://www.accc.uic.edu/itl/

Mar 22 2002 - As many of you are aware there were some difficulties with Listserv yesterday, March 21st 2002.

Yesterday morning I began the process of migrating all of the Listserv lists that were housed on listserv.uic.edu to a new dedicated listserv server.

The need to this migration has been emphasized by the hardware failure on piglet (our old listserv server) on Tuesday.

I did not pre-announce this migration, as I had expected the change to be transparent to all the subscribers on all of our 2000 lists.

Here's what went wrong:

The new listserv machine, which had been running ACCC internal lists for about a month, listserv2.uic.edu insisted on sending out mail as listserv2.uic.edu. This caused several messages to be distributed with a To: address like reach-l@listserv2.uic.edu. I fixed this error at about 1pm yesterday.

Unfortunately, this fix resulted in a new problem. The SMTP slave server refused to reload properly. It took me some time to discover and work around this problem. The misbehaving SMTP server was fixed this morning, and all of the mail that had been trapped on it was delivered between 11am and noon today.

I apologize for any trouble caused by mis-filtered or delayed listserv mail.

-- John Mason ACCC Listmaster

Mar 19 2002 - We are experiencing a hardware problem with the UIC LISTSERV server. This server distributes e-mail for discussion groups such as ACADEMY and REACH-L, so mail posted to such lists will be delayed until repairs are completed.

We currently have only a rough estimate of being up by 3pm. This may become clearer as repairs progress.

We regret any inconveniences caused by this outage.

Posted 3/19/02 11:30 AM

Mar 19 2002 - Listserv is now up and running again. There is a small chance that postings made between midnight and 4am Tuesday may have been lost during the hardware failure. We will attempt to contact anyone affected via email. But, if you posted a message to listserv@uic.edu during this time period, you may want to verify that the posting was properly delivered to recipients.

Posted 03/19/2002 3PM

Mar 14 2002 - Icarus will be down Friday morning (3/15) from 12:01am until approximately 3am to repair problems with heat dissipation hardware. Mailserv will be down Friday morning (3/15) from 12:01am until approximately 2am for power reconfiguration.

Mar 06 2002 - Icarus will be down starting Friday morning at 12:01 am. The system will be up no earlier than 4am.

One of the 8 CPUs that power icarus failed and will be replaced.

Mar 05 2002 - Registration to the upcoming ITL Conference is now open.

To register...

Visit the ITL home page (http://www.accc.uic.edu/itl)
and click on "ITL Conference 2002" on the top right

1. Monday Keynote: The Good News and the Bad News about Online
   Pedagogy, John R. Regalbuto, Chemical Engineering
2. Tuesday Keynote: Even a Rookie Can Do It
   Helen Roberts, Economics
3. A total of 46 UIC faculty and special guests will be presenting
   (31 actual UIC faculty members) on a variety of topics, geared to novice, intermediate and advanced uses of computer technology in teaching and learning applications.
4. We are expecting 300+ UIC faculty, instructors and instructional support staff to attend many of the 24 conference sessions.
5. The conference will be held in the Chicago Circle Center, on the east side of campus, on Monday and Tuesday of Spring Break: March 18-19, 2002. If there are any questions, please contact the ITL at itl@uic.edu or 312-996-9824.