A phishing email with Subject:
[URGENT]
and claiming to come From:
“University of Toronto” <help-desk@math.toronto.edu>
has been sent to the department. Please delete it, it is spam.
matlab options
November 8, 2012 by
Using matlab on sphere with the “-nodesktop” option allows for command line access to matlab, but plots will still display. This avoids using the large GUI that can be very slow, especially when accessing matlab remotely.
UTmail+ problems
November 8, 2012 by
Apparently there has been a problem since last night at 7pm with sending mail to “mail.utoronto.ca” accounts. Those are the accounts that the University moved students to last year. The latest update at 9:45am today is as follows:
More details about what is not working with UTMail+ :
– messages sent from UTMail+ to any destination should be working
– messages to UTmail+ from within UTMail+ should be working
– messages to UTmail+ from UTORmail, UTORExchange, or any other email service anywhere in the world–delivery is failing
We hope to have full service restored as soon as possible.
More phishing emails (this time for utoronto.ca)
October 23, 2012 by
The University announced that:
There may be a “verify your account, click here” type message coming from “accounts-utoronto.ca” targeting utoronto.ca mail accounts. Not sure whether it is scarce, or widespread, but just in case, this is an early warning.
Please do not follow any such links.
Server updates on 2012oct17 were successful
October 17, 2012 by
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.
Software updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday October 17, 2012
October 17, 2012 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied this Wednesday afternoon, October 17, 2012 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.
Another phishing email with subject "Important Notice."
October 5, 2012 by
A phishing email, purporting to come from:
“ithelp_webmasterhelp@math.toronto.edu” <pgomez1988@gmail.com>
and with message:
Attached to this email in PDF format are updates about your email.
has been sent to some people in the department. Please ignore it.
Server updates on 2012sep26 were successful
September 27, 2012 by
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.
Software updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday September 26, 2012
September 20, 2012 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, September 26, 2012 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.
Mathematica on sphere – license updated
September 20, 2012 by
The license for mathematica on sphere has been updated and the program is functioning normally again.
