The departmental mail server will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, March 8, 2017 which will require rebooting (the server will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the mail server is 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 the system 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 mail server to be back up by 5:00pm.
Server updates on 2017mar01 were successful
March 1, 2017 by
The departmental servers appear to be working fine after the updates today.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday March 1, 2017
February 24, 2017 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, March 1, 2017 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.
We will also be moving some network switches to a UPS (in order to handle minor power outages) so some departmental servers (such as the mail server) will temporarily not be reachable during this update time.
Latest version (R2016b) of matlab has been installed on sphere
February 17, 2017 by
The latest version (R2016b) of matlab has been installed on sphere. We have the following toolboxes: Simulink, Bioinformatics, Control, Curve_Fitting, Signal_Blocks, Data_Acq, Image, Instr_Control, Optimization, Distrib_Computing, Signal, SimMechanics, Simscape, Simulink_Control_Design, Stateflow, Statistics, Symbolic, Econometrics, Financial, and PDE. The Econometrics and Financial toolboxes are older, and there is only one license for the PDE toolbox so please do not hold onto that toolbox unless necessary.
lw2 printer can now print in duplex again
February 16, 2017 by
After much back-and-forth with Xerox we were finally shipped the correct replacement part this morning and now the lw2 printer can print in duplex once again.
Update: lw2 printer only prints one-sided (no duplex)
February 3, 2017 by
As of this afternoon (on Friday) we were told that the part will arrive on Monday.
lw2 printer only prints one-sided (no duplex)
February 2, 2017 by
The Exit Unit on the lw2 printer has broken and that printer can only do one-sided printing (no duplex/two-sided printing). A replacement for this part was supposed to have arrived this morning, but after calling about this we were told that they were unable to ship it yesterday and that it should arrive tomorrow (Friday).
short mail server update at 4:15pm on Wednesday January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017 by
The departmental mail server will have software updates applied starting at 4:15pm today (Wednesday, January 25, 2017) which will require rebooting. Since some updates will be applied while the mail server is still up there may be some temporary issues with some software and connectivity. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing the mail server 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 mail system to be back up by 4:30pm.
Server updates on 2017jan11 were successful
January 11, 2017 by
The departmental servers appear to be working fine after the updates today.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday January 11, 2017
January 10, 2017 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied tomorrow Wednesday afternoon, January 11, 2017 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.
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