CSL: What's New History

Alert: We believe the problems with the networking on the central filer have been resolved, please contact the lab staff if you experience any problems; 11/11/09
New machines have been added to the compute cluster; 11/10/09
Alert: We are currently experiecing some difficulty with our central filer which may cause intermittant outages. We will provide more information as it become available; 11/10/09
Alert: CS file server maintenance on November 8th in the early morning will cause a short downtime of departmental services; 11/08/09
Alert: CS research file server howl is currently down to a hardware failure; 11/05/09
Alert: UPS installation in North will cause a service outage on Friday October 30th between 6-6:30am. The outage will likely not take the entire alloted time; 10/28/09
CS Linux cluster (linux.cs.duke.edu) upgraded to Ubuntu Linux distribution; 10/21/09
Alert: The server providing SAMBA shares, as well as the /usr/xtmp filesystem will undergo maintenance tomorrow (10/21) at approximately 4:30am, lasting for up to 1 hour; 10/20/09
Due to a new campus licensing agreement, we are no longer able to distribute Matlab software is to users. The software is still available on our trusted machines; 9/28/09
A community-supported wiki has been set up for users to contribute practical knowledge of interest to others; 9/03/09;
As of today, the department has enabled Spam filtering by default on all new user accounts. This is an opt-out system; that is, you may opt in or out or make adjustments however you like, but initially an account will be opted in; 8/11/09
Users who forward e-mail to gmail (or other) accounts are advised to filter spam before forwarding; failure to do so causes the department server to be tagged in anti-spam databases and causes forwarded messages to be delayed or rejected; 7/14/09
Notice: The faulty network switch was successfully replaced last night; 7/02/09
Notice: Last night the lab experienced the failure of a redundant module in the network switches, starting at about 7pm. While everything generally appears to have continued working, there might have been some issues related to the failure. We have disabled the redundant module and a replacement has been ordered. We will follow up later if the replacement involves any downtime. Please let us know if you continue to experience issues.; 7/01/09
Department desktop OS changing to Ubuntu Linux distribution; 6/09/09
Department-maintained fileserver space set aside for Time Machine users; 5/26/09
Notice: This morning, the department web server experienced a problem that caused intermittant or interupted service to the web site, and to various other department services. The issue has been resolved and we are keeping an eye on the web server to make sure there are no further issues; 5/15/09
Alert: A power outage has affected many core OIT services; 5/06/09
Changes are being made to the departmental remote access accounts maintained for faculty use during travel; 5/06/09
Users should be aware of a problem with the driver for the new Sharp copiers, where they assume an incorrect paper size. Please follow these instructions as a temporary measure; 4/02/09
The department network equipment will be upgraded on Jan 6, 2009, please see the announcement for more details; 12/10/08
The department's USENET server will be discontinued (pending check of actual usage of the service, on October 1, 2008; 9/24/08
Department desktop computers have been upgraded, as part of the standard replacement cycle, running Centos 5.2; 8/04/08
Notice: LSRC building emergency status is available online; 5/15/08
Users should be aware of phishing emails attempting to gain privileged information by posing as legitimate administrators; 5/06/08
Due to a recently discovered vulnerability in the operating system, all trusted desktop machines will be reinstalled starting tomorrow; 2/13/08
Department desktop computers operating system upgraded, Centos 5; 9/24/07
Our primary file server has been upgraded to a NetApp FAS3020 with 14 TB storage. [read more]; 4/16/07.
Lectopia, video capture software installed for D106 classroom; 3/19/07
Department desktop computers upgraded, standard replacement cycle, running Centos 4.4; 2/20/07
Department mail server hardware upgraded; 2/19/07
Learnspam now uses timestamp files, and has had some option changes [read more]; 9/25/06.
The /usr/project/xtmp/ disk storage area has been upgraded to four terabytes on a RAID-5 w/ spare, and retention time has been increased to 180 days. For additional information, please see our Disk Usage Policy page; 9/15/06
A new multifunction color copier was added to room D108. In addition to printing, you should now be able to scan documents and send them via email to anyone! But you will need to update your drivers. For information and drivers see the CS Printers list (See printer pr108c) 9/14/06
Department desktop computers upgraded to Centos 4.4; 9/6/06
New vacation program (e-mail autoreply), please see the Vacation FAQ; 7/14/06
We have added two LTO-3 tape drives (400/800 GB) to our data backup infrastructure. For additional information, please see our UNIX Backups page; 6/1/06
Remote filesystems access changed, no longer uses ssh; 5/22/06
Solaris login server (login.cs.duke.edu) SSH Keys changed; 5/19/06
Department desktop computers upgraded to Centos 4.3; 3/20/06
Printing FAQ updated with LPRng vs. CUPS info; 2/17/06
Wireless Printing added to the department 2/22/06
CSL Facilities Introduction major update; 12/21/05
SpamAssassin upgraded to 3.1.0 for more information see SpamAssassin site ; 12/08/05
Desktop Computers Desktop linux machines upgraded to Centos 4.2; 12/07/05
Proprietary Software Matlab upgrade to service pack 3; 10/14/05
Desktop Computers facilities page update for summer machine replacements; 07/20/05
Change to department email system; 05/26/05
New Desktop Computers facilities page added, with information on new Dells; 08/11/04
New Transitioning to Trusted Linux FAQ page added; 08/11/04
LearnSpam System added to help department members with automated Bayesian filtering; 08/09/04
``More effective filtering'' section added to Spam FAQ; 06/21/04
Tools to help prevent automated harvesting of emails from web pages; 03/23/04
There has been a Printing System Upgrade; 12/26/03
Modems Retiring: discontinued as of 1/30/2004; 12/11/03
Connectivity issues for users outside the department; 12/05/03
Updated info on calendars and crontabs; 09/17/03
USENIX Proceedings added, 07/17/03
Duke Search Engine FAQ, 06/19/03
Critical Windows RPC vulnerability, 09/11/03
Sobig Virus alert, 08/20/03
Project Space rentals available, 04/23/03
Virus from admin@cs.duke.edu, 08/06/03
New main FAQ page layout!, 12/26/02
Mail Mirroring FAQ, 12/26/02
Using SMTP AUTH FAQ, 12/12/02
Department access anouncement, 5/17/00