News - Nov 2008

Nov 30 2007 - A MESSAGE FROM UIC POLICE

Chicago police say two UIC students were the victims of an armed robbery that occurred last night at 850 S. Western Avenue (off campus). According to police, the students were walking in an alley when two offenders approached them, displayed handguns, and demanded
money. The victims said they had no money and the offenders then forced them into a green minivan driven by a third man. The offenders
demanded the victims' credit cards and PIN numbers. The victims
initially refused but after the offenders threatened to kill them both, the students provided the information. The victims then were bound with tape and driven for approximately 20-30 minutes before being released in the area of 37th and Rockwell. The offenders took the victims' credit cards, checkbooks, and cell phones. One victim received minor lacerations to the mouth and was treated at the UIC Medical Center and released.

The driver of the vehicle is described as an African American male, 6-1, 170 pounds. The other offenders were described as a white male in his 20s, 5-9, 150 pounds, and an African American male in his 20s, 6-2, 185 pounds.

UIC police are assisting Chicago police in the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Area Four Detective Division,
Robbery/Burglary/Theft Unit at (312) 746-8253, or UIC police at (312) 996-2830. The emergency number for UIC police is (312) 996-4357 (HELP).

Nov 30 2007 - A MESSAGE FROM UIC POLICE

Chicago police report that a woman was sexually assaulted near the UIC
campus last night. The woman, who is not affiliated with UIC, was walking to her car parked in the 1500 block of West Fillmore at approximately 9:30 p.m. when she was approached by a man carrying a handgun. The man forced her into her car and made her drive to a nearby ATM and withdraw $500 in cash. After taking the money and returning to the car, he sexually assaulted her, then forced her to drive to the 1300 block of West Lexington where he made her park the vehicle and then sexually assaulted her a second time. The offender then forced the woman to drive to the 1500 block of Blue Island where he exited the vehicle and fled the scene. The woman was treated at a local hospital.

The offender is described as an African American male in his early 20s, 5-9, 165 pounds, wearing a black leather jacket, white T-shirt, blue jeans, and boots. Anyone with information is asked to call the Chicago Police Area Investigation Division at (312)746-8253. The general number for UIC police is (312) 996-2830 and the emergency line is (312) 996-4357 (HELP).

Nov 21 2007 - We had a long day trying to fix a data storage problem on one of the 10 mailserv backend servers. As of 6:30 PM the problem was circumvented and no data was lost, though arriving messages will be late. About 10 percent of mailserv users were affected and we regret the outage. We're still trying to figure out what happened to our "failsafe" storage area network devices and follow up with the vendor to be sure we can avoid a future recurrence.

Nov 19 2007 - The ADSM server is partially down due to a hardware problem with the tape library. Service has been called and will arrive Tuesday morning.

It is currently running OK for backups, but no restores can be run.

The backups scheduled for Monday night should run normally; backups are first written from your computers to disk during the night, and then are copied from disk to tape during the following day. The disk space for this had already been emptied when the problem occurred, so there is space for the Monday night backups.

When the tape library is repaired, all previously backed up data will be available for restore. However, things may be a bit backlogged on Tuesday as the Monday night backups are copied to tape much later on Tuesday than usual, once the repairs are complete.

Nov 15 2007 - Pharos system is not working properly. It has been fixed now.

Nov 15 2007 - Detailed guide to configuring your UIC-Wireless connection on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Windows Vista (using SecureW2) are now available online. For assistance with the configuration on your personal computer, please visit the ACCCeSS Helpdesk.

Nov 15 2007 - When the ACCC first required the use of SSL for email connections, we told you that email scanning by the ACCC's site-licensed Symantec AntiVirus was not compatible with using the SSL protocol. That was true then, but it has been fixed in Version 10.1.5 and higher. You can turn it back on and set it up so that it can check your incoming POP email and outgoing email. See Set Symantec AntiVirus Internet E-Mail Auto-Protect to Scan SSL Email.

Nov 06 2007 -

The current version of Pharos Popup for Mac does not support Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Students and staff who are planning to or have already upgraded their Mac operating system should be advised that they will not be able to print using Pharos Popup after the upgrade.

Pharos is actively working on providing support for OS X 10.5, however a date is not yet available when this will be complete. We will post information about Pharos Popup for OS X 10.5 as soon as it becomes available.

Nov 05 2007 - The keyserver was not responding and was rebooted at 10:13. The keyserver should be up now. NOC