Tech Computer Center Newsletters and Hotlines

All newsletters are available in pdf format.

Hotlines

Hotlines are published as needed.

• Jan. 1, 2008: ssh disabled on dbhost and infohost; ftp disabled on infohost; Software for Spring 2008; New TCC web server.
• Oct. 15, 2007: Speare 113; iClicker classrooms; Software for Spring semester.
• June 1, 2007: Computer classrooms; Email quotas; New SpamAssassin; New login server installed; Saving files with Microsoft; Change your password via the Web; Forward your email via the Web; New scanners; Email not backed up; Speare 5 special-use machines; VPN server; 100MB portable Ethernet; Microsoft update server.
• Apr. 13, 2007: Email notification of outages; MS Office 2007; Software for the Fall Semester; Fedora 7.
• Mar. 3, 2007: Speare 23 classroom available; SAS license changes; Email format change Mar. 14; Software for Spring 2007; WebCT version 6 available.
• Nov. 29, 2006: New software for Spring 2007; WebCT version 6; Prototyping room to Speare 142; New color printer; Deinstall Speare wireless and Sun Sparcs.
• Aug. 31, 2006: Expanded disk and e-mail quotas; New labs in Fidel and Cramer; Instructor system training; Fall semester software; TCC-managed rooms.
• May 5, 2006: E-mail quotas; home directory permissions; new software for Fall 2006
• Jan. 6, 2006: New mailhost; New SpamAssassin; National Anti-Spam Centers
• Nov. 30, 2005: 3 GHz PCs in Speare 4; www subdirectories; Email not backed up; Software for Spring 2006.
• Oct. 31, 2005: Free quota increased to 200MB; new login server; saving files with Microsoft; new OCR documentation; Endnote software; firewall setup for WebCT; AltaCluster available; new mailhost, less spam; software for Spring 2006.
• Apr. 29, 2005: sftp; file and print sharing; Fall 2005 software changes; vacation program; removal of on-campus modems; Linux on a DEC Alpha.
• Mar. 28, 2005: Disk quotas now 150MB; Change your password or mail forwarding via the Web; Webmail file attachment size increase; Using SpamAssassin; New scanners.
• July 26, 2004: Windows XP and Fedora testing; iMovie and iDVD; Email relaying.
• July 12, 2004: Disk quota increase; New Mac G5s; Close the Mac lab?; Mac Beowulf; Erdas and ArcGIS; Speare 5 special use machines; user area food and drink.
• May 5, 2004: Hotline mailing list; tape backup service; cancel Irfan view?; Summer 2004 changes.
• Apr. 21, 2004: Online user info; anti-virus server; wireless Ethernet in Speare; mailing list server; Prism deinstalled; cancel IMSL?
• Apr. 7, 2004: VPN server; Lambda rail network; 100MB portable Ethernet; Microsoft update server; summer 2004 changes.
• Mar. 2004: Beowulf cluster; SAS 9.1 installed; ANSYS 8 installed; Free alumni accounts.
• Jan. 2004: Disk quota increased; new modems; USB connection; Cancel SAS?; Abode software.
• Nov. 2003: Software upgrades; software deleted.
• Sep. 2003: Spam Assassin; scanners have CD writers.
• Aug. 2003: 56KB modems; mailhost and e-mail readers; new flatbed scanners; video card upgrades; Red Hat 9; DVD devices; Spam Assasin; Web subdirectories and CGI.
• May 2003: Remote file and printer access from Windows; Usenet changes; Linux moving to Red Hat.
• Jan. 2003: Hacking; terminated services (telnet, rlogin, gopher); scheduled maintenance; test lab; DVD software; new software.
• Dec. 2002: Disk quotas increased; Windows login problems; new version of Matlab; the war against spam; POP mailer troubles.

Newsletters

Newsletters are published on an occasional semester basis.

• Spring 2002: Classrooms, labs, and auditoriums; projector training; cleaning up your cobweb pages; the off-campus modem crunch; Macs upgraded to OS-X; PCs upgraded to Windows 2000; CADKEY; using the vacation program.
• Fall 2000: Software news; instructional TV; classrooms; WebCT; TCC free classes.
• Fall 1999: Presidential support; equipment and software upgrades; help desk notes; Macintosh news; TCC free classes.

Last updated: 2007/12/21 01:57:46 UT
URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/newsletters.html