News - Oct 2005

Oct 25 2005 - The ACCC would like student feedback on the services we provide. Please bring your suggestions and questions regarding Labs, Email and service. A panel of experts from various areas of the ACCC will be on hand to answer your questions.

Date: Thursday November 3rd, 2005 Time: 12 Noon - 2:00pm Room: 603 Student Center East (SCE)

Virtually Yours, ACCC

Oct 24 2005 - The ACCC would like feedback from students on the services we provide. Please bring your suggestions and questions regarding Labs, Email, and service. A panel of experts from various areas of the ACCC will be on hand to answer your questions.

Date: Thursday November 3rd, 2005
Time: 12 Noon - 2:00pm
Room: 603 Student Center East (SCE)

Virtually yours, ACCC

Oct 22 2005 - Blackboard will be down today (Sat) from 2:30 AM to 5:00 AM for maintenance.

Oct 18 2005 - The ADSM network backup service will be down today from 1-2PM, to correct a misconfiguration issue that has arisen with the recent expansion to the tape library. This time was selected to be after the lunchtime "laptop special" backup window.

Oct 14 2005 - The tigger system will be rebooted tonight (early Friday morning October 14) at 5:00AM to correct a configuration problem that occured when we converted to the new tigger machine. It should be back up before 6:00AM.

Oct 10 2005 - We've run into a few problems related to the new server hardware upgrade. In one case, an onboard ethernet card seems to have been faulty and was replaced during a reboot at 2pm. The other main problem is with a large backlog of undelivered mail and poor POP mail performance. Both problems are the result of a not quite optimal disk configuration change that was made to accommodate the new server.

We're working to relieve the email and POP problems. One or more reboots may be required after 5pm. We hope all will be settled by Tuesday morning. Then, hopefully, the benefits of the new server (more cpu power and more memory) can be enjoyed. Thank you for your patience today.

Oct 09 2005 - Icarus will be down for emergency hardware maint from 8:30am - 10am

Oct 09 2005 - Oct 06 2005 - Tigger will be down Sunday October 9, from 8:00 AM until 12:00 Noon. During this time, tigger will be replaced with a newer, faster machine.

For the user, nothing will change except speed, which will improve.

During the downtime, email on tigger, faculty and staff personal Web pages, and other facilities hosted on tigger will be unavailable. Departmental Web pages will continue to be available, but you will be unable to update them. This downtime will not affect email on icarus or mailserv.

We will try harder not to be late this time, due to the possibility of a White Sox playoff game Sunday afternoon at 3:00 PM which we all want to watch.

Oct 07 2005 - AOL are currently denying delivery to all email originating from the UIC listserv. This is due to somebody receiving their UIC email at an AOL.com address and having reported it as spam.

If you normally forward your UIC email to an AOL.com address, please note this will forward all email, including MASSMAIL and URGENT notices. Please use the following form to opt out of email notifications. Note that some notifications you cannot opt out of, this is part of having a UIC email account.

https://tigger.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap-auth/bin/news_options

Please do not report legitimate listserv email as spam, as it affects not just you but everyone using their AOL.com email address for UIC email.

Oct 06 2005 - Tigger will be down Sunday October 9, from 8:00 AM until 12:00 Noon. During this time, tigger will be replaced with a newer, faster machine.

For the user, nothing will change except speed, which will improve.

During the downtime, email on tigger, faculty and staff personal Web pages, and other facilities hosted on tigger will be unavailable. Departmental Web pages will continue to be available, but you will be unable to update them. This downtime will not affect email on icarus or mailserv.

We will try harder not to be late this time, due to the possibility of a White Sox playoff game Sunday afternoon at 3:00 PM which we all want to watch.

Oct 02 2005 - We did some major rearranging of disk devices on tigger this morning and finished around 3pm. However a circuit breaker blew at 6pm and brought the system down. This resulted in file system corruption, which we are working to correct now. We have also reduced the load on that circuit. We regret any inconvenience caused and hope to have tigger up before 10pm.

Oct 01 2005 - MAILSERV and UICALENDAR will be down for hardware maintenance from 12am-2am Sunday morning 10/2.