coxeter and the mail server are taking a little longer to reboot due to filesystem verifications. We expect them to be back around 5:30pm. The other servers are working now.
Network Interruptions tomorrow (2011oct27) in Bahen
The UofT networking people will be working on the main router in Bahen tomorrow (Thursday, October 27, 2011) morning from 6am until 8am. There will likely be short network outages during that time.
Software updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday October 26, 2011
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 2011 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.
lw2 maintenance
The lw2 printer will be down for about an hour today (from 3:30pm until 4:30pm) to perform maintenance on it. Please use lw3 during that time.
Software updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday September 7, 2011
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, September 7, 2011 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.
Latest version of mathematica (8.0.1) installed on sphere
The latest version of mathematica (8.0.1) was installed on sphere this morning.
Software updates at 3:45pm on Wednesday August 24, 2011
Note: The start time for the reboots will be 3:45pm due to summer hours.
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, August 24, 2011 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 3:45pm). 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 4:30pm.
Latest version of mathematica (8.0.1) to be installed on sphere
The latest version of mathematica (8.0.1) will be installed on sphere next week during the usual Wednesday (summer) update session which will start at 3:45pm.
Reminder: Never send a password via unencrypted email
The UofT I+TS Security Group has asked that people be reminded that UofT (and also the Department of Mathematics) will never ask for someone to send a password via email (unless that email is well encrypted, and currently most people still do not use that). They have a warning page for avoiding email and phishing fraud.
Also, the main UTORweblogin page (to access the Portal for Blackboard, for example and UofT’s webmail) has a large box with an anti-phishing warning to remind people to not type passwords into the wrong web pages.
Latest version of matlab (R2011a) installed on sphere
The problems with the matlab installer were fixed and the upgrade took place this morning.
Now sphere has version R2011a of matlab.