Computing and Technology

A central place for information about technology at The Evergreen State College.

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Technology News

  • 2009-11-12Apple File Protocol (AFP) going away for good

    Apple File Protocol or AFP will be shut down on Hurricane for faculty and staff home and work directories. This will be done in anticipation of an upgrade to Windows Server 2008 and this protocol is no longer supported. You will still be able to access your files using a different protocol (SMB) [...]

  • 2009-11-04Campus-Wide Network Outage this weekend!

    Network Outage Sunday November 8th 7 AM to Noon Network Services will be doing maintenance to the main network storage on Sunday November 8th. Most network services will be offline from 7 AM until noon on Sunday. Internet access will still be available. This is the second and final outage related to this [...]

  • 2009-11-04Interesting article on botnets

    Botnet production eerily like commercial code practice Misguided youth in Netherlands feeding the botnet monster? By Ellen Messmer , Network World , 10/13/2009 People don't understand why their machines are infected as they've beenrunning antivirus continuously," says Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research at Damballa, a security start-up specializing in botnet detection. "They're stumped."

  • 2009-10-15Network Outage October 25th!

    Most of the servers on campus will be shutdown on Sunday morning, October 25th from approximately 7am to noon. This will affect the majority of campus technology services so be prepared to not be able to connect to Academic or Administrative services for a few hours Sunday morning. While Network Services furiously replaces [...]

  • 2009-09-01Network Outages – September 5,6!

    Network Services will be upgrading core network hardware this weekend starting in the early afternoon on Saturday. While the upgrade is underway, each network location (including wireless services) will experience scattered service outages as Internet connectivity, network servers and building connections are moved off of the old hardware onto the new hardware. Some [...]