From ceginfo@u.washington.edu Mon Sep 29 07:54:16 2003 Received: from mxu5.u.washington.edu (mxu5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.164]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.9+UW03.09/8.12.9+UW03.09) with ESMTP id h8TEsGhh043474 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:54:16 -0700 Received: from mxout6.cac.washington.edu (mxout6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.20]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.9+UW03.09/8.12.9+UW03.08) with ESMTP id h8TEsFhW022234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:54:15 -0700 Received: from homer18.u.washington.edu (homer18.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.18]) by mxout6.cac.washington.edu (8.12.9+UW03.09/8.12.9+UW03.08) with ESMTP id h8TEsEKl016830 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:54:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (ceginfo@localhost) by homer18.u.washington.edu (8.12.9+UW03.09/8.12.9+UW03.09) with ESMTP id h8TEsE3S047086 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:54:14 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:54:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Civil and Environmental Engineering To: cegrads@u.washington.edu Subject: Fw: Notes about the new computer lab and more... (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIII, Probability=5%, Report='OUTLOOK_FW_MSG, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __HAS_MSGID, __MIME_VERSION, __SANE_MSGID' > Dear All, > > Please note the following changes in our computer lab in More Hall: > > (1) Printing is provided by UW Publication Services. The users must > have a HUSKY PRINTING card which can be obtained from dispensers > at various locations on campus. The new printer features both > 8.5x11 and 11x17 formats (8 and 16 cents per page respectively) > and can print 45 pages per minute. (A usage poster will be > provided to us asap this week.) > > (2) Due to IP shortage in More Hall network, the computers in the lab > were configured to use the UW private network, so called Project > 172. This project aims to double the IP space in a subnet and > to protect the computers from attacks originating from outside > the UW network. > > Computers in this network have full functionality within > UW network. I have worked with C&C until late hours of Friday > and now we also have HTTP and HTTPS connection to outside UW. > Please, note that FTP to outside UW network is going to be > available soon -- so make your material available to FTP from > some server in UW domain. Downloading via HTTP has no > restrictions. > > (3) We have installed/upgraded all requested software in the lab. Please, > let us know any problem/short coming you may notice immediately so > that we can schedule a fix. Although we have substantially > improved our software maintenance method, we would like to avoid > making changes to a minimum during the quarter. > > (4) There was a sudden jump in the number of e-mails containing virus. > help@ce received 62 of them between Saturday midnight and Sunday > afternoon! This is double the amount we noted during the initial > release of the virus about a month ago. The reason for this jump > is that the students are back to campus with their computers which > are behind in system and antivirus updates. Although we expected > to face this problem and tried to get ready, we are not certain > how much of our time will be spent on locating these computers and > informing the owners how to clean up and maintain their computers. > We will try our best to respond to your requests in a timely manner. > > (5) The computer backup system for the CEE department has been tested for > two weeks now and we are ready to offer it for general use. I will > send a separate message regarding this service early during the week. > > Best regards. > > Dr. Serhad S. Atakturk > > Senior Computer Specialist serhad@ce.washington.edu > > Civil & Environmental Engineering Tel: (206) 685-6695 > University of Washington, Box 352700 Fax: (206) 543-1543 > Seattle, Washington 98195-2700 > > > .