The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, October 23, 2013 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.
More email blacklisting
Due to the continual spam received from certain domains we have started directing email from many sites ending in dealticker.com, videoblogsensation.com, and 163.com to the SuspectedSpam folder automatically, with a label that says [BLACKLISTED]. If you need to receive email from these sites please let us know and you can whitelist the required addresses (see our Email and Spam Filtering webpage for more information).
New wireless laser pointer for the Seminar Room – Update
It seems that someone has accidentally taken the USB wireless receiver for the wireless laser pointer in the Seminar Room. Without the USB wireless receiver the laser pointer can no longer be used to switch pages of a presentation. If you find the receiver please bring it to the front desk.
UTmail+ outage this weekend
The University’s email system for students, called UTmail+, has a scheduled service outage this weekend. After clicking on the UTmail+ link on the University’s system status page (http://www.systemstatus.utoronto.ca/) you will currently see:
The service outage will begin on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 4:00 P.M. with service restored on or before Sunday, October 13.
The departmental email will not be affected (except if you try to mail to an address like user@mail.utoronto.ca of course).
Another phishing email
coxeter and sphere updates on 2013sep25 were successful
coxeter and sphere appear to be working fine now, after the updates late this afternoon.
Software updates for coxeter and sphere at 4:15pm on Wednesday September 25, 2013
The main departmental servers coxeter and sphere will have software updates applied this Wednesday afternoon, September 25, 2013 which will require rebooting. Since some updates will be applied while these 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 these 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 about 5:00pm.
University Networking Problems
The University’s wireless networking is currently experiencing problems and there was also a problem with a core router that isolated our department from the rest of the world until about 12:45pm today. The latter problem seems to be fixed now, although connections to the University mail servers remains spotty.
MATLAB sessions on Wednesday September 4, 2013
Complimentary MATLAB seminars for educators, academic researchers and students at the University of Toronto have been scheduled:
| Date: | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 | |
| Location: | Bissell Building, Room 205 | |
| Time: | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. |
The event features two technical sessions presented by MathWorks engineers:
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Session 1: An Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization with MATLAB Learn how to acquire, analyze and visualize data through mathematical, statistical and engineering functions. |
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| 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Session 2: Parallel Computing with MATLAB Learn how to solve computationally and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and computer clusters. |
View the complete session descriptions and register at: http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/TorontoSept4.
Major coxeter update
The upgrades to coxeter’s hardware and software seem to have been successful. Information about the new coxeter will be added to http://www.math.toronto.edu/admin/coxeter-upgrade.html as necessary.
Please let us know as soon as possible at requests@math.toronto.edu if you notice any problems. It is better to let us know about problems early rather than wait for the start of the academic year when things are so busy that fixes may take a long time. In particular please test the new TeX and LaTeX (using pdftex and pdflatex is the recommended way).
