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MATLAB Technical Seminars at UofT on May 15, 2014

May 2, 2014 by leblanc

Complimentary MATLAB seminars for educators, academic researchers and students at the University of Toronto have been scheduled:

Date:		Thursday, May 15
Location:		Claude T. Bissell Building, Room 205 (BL 205)
Time:		10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Session 1: Image Processing and Computer Vision with MATLAB to Detect, Classify and Track Objects
Learn how to explore images and video, perform analyses, develop algorithms, optimize performance and easily share your results.

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Session 2: Introduction to Signal Processing with MATLAB
Learn how to acquire, analyze and visualize time-based signals and spectra in MATLAB and the Signal Processing Toolbox.

View the complete session descriptions and register at www.mathworks.com/seminars/UT-May2014.

Filed Under: matlab

Heartbleed bug: change your departmental password

April 17, 2014 by leblanc

Do you need to change your coxeter (and hence mail) password?

Due to the recent Heartbleed bug <http://main.its.utoronto.ca/news/heartbleed-notice/> we recommend that you change your coxeter password. Simply type passwd on coxeter and follow the instructions.

If you are completely certain that you have never typed your coxeter password into a website (that includes departmental websites such as mail, since it is possible that website protections were compromised) and if you never typed your password into pine then as long as you do not use your coxeter password on any other sites/machines then you would not need to change your password.

Filed Under: Information

New certificates on main webserver and mail server

April 11, 2014 by leblanc

New certificates have been installed on our two main servers www and mail. These are the main servers where people might type in passwords; the other math.toronto.edu servers that use certificates will be updated on Monday.

The escalator.utoronto.ca sites are waiting for new certificates from the University.

Filed Under: Information

Heartbleed bug

April 11, 2014 by leblanc

It seems that only the web servers and mail in our department were affected by the Heartbleed bug. We patched all of them immediately (which necessitated the coxeter reboot on Wednesday) and now are waiting to install updated certificates for our various servers. Until the updated certificates are installed changing passwords and using them on our web or mail servers is not protected. We hope to have the new certificates ready on Monday and at that point we will have more information about password resets.

The official UofT link for information about the Heartbleed bug is:

http://main.its.utoronto.ca/news/heartbleed-notice/

Filed Under: Information

Networking issues today

April 9, 2014 by leblanc

Earlier today there were some networking issues in the department due to failing ports on our main switch which caused various connectivity problems to various people (some people had trouble connecting to coxeter, others to the mail server and others to the printers). Everything seems to be back to normal now.

Filed Under: Information

coxeter reboot at 4:15pm on Wednesday April 9, 2014

April 8, 2014 by leblanc

coxeter will be rebooted at approximately 4:15pm tomorrow (on Wednesday, Apr 9) in order to apply some updates due to the recently disclosed openssl problem. We expect coxeter to be back up by 4:30pm.

The other departmental servers have already been updated and will not be rebooted.

Filed Under: Reboots, software

Much better wireless coverage in Earth Sciences Centre by end of May

April 2, 2014 by leblanc

We have recently been told that the installation of complete wireless coverage for the Earth Sciences Centre has now been scheduled and that it should be completed by the end of May. New high-performance 802.11ac access points will be used. This will be welcome news for our departmental members in ESC who have had to contend with very spotty wireless coverage in there for quite some time.

Filed Under: Information

Server updates on 2014apr02 were successful

April 2, 2014 by leblanc

The departmental servers are working fine after the updates.

Filed Under: Reboots, updates

Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday April 2, 2014

March 28, 2014 by leblanc

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, April 2, 2014 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.

Filed Under: Reboots, updates

MATLAB updated to latest stable version (R2014a)

March 28, 2014 by leblanc

MATLAB has been updated to R2014a (the latest stable version) on sphere. Type matlab on sphere to access this new version.

Filed Under: matlab