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==Announcements==
 
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<dt>[[mirrors.ece.ubc.ca down (Aug 23, 2013)]]
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<dt>[[Kaiser power outage (February 20, 2021)]]
<dd>The [http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca ECE mirror] server is down due to a hardware failure.
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<dd>There is a power outage planned for the Kaiser building on Saturday, February 20, from 10 am to 2 pm. This outage is necessary as part of the MacLeod construction project.
<dt>[[Scheduled outage of staff file server (Aug 23, 2013)]]
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<dd>The file server for ECE staff will be briefly unavailable on Friday Aug 23 between 18:30 and 19:00 while we move files to alleviate a disk space shortage.
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<dt>[[File and mail migration (2020)]]
<dt>[[DNS outage (Jun 2013)|DNS outage (Jun 16, 2013)]]
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<dd>In October and November 2020, ECE IT will be performing migrations of two major systems that will affect ECE users.  A file migration involves some disruption during each user's cutover periodThe ECE e-mail migration will happen seamlessly and with negligible disruption for the majority of users.
<dd>At approximately 17:55, one of the DNS servers at ICICS stopped responding, which caused a cascading failure of DNS service for ECE as well. The problem was resolved at 18:40 by restarting the affected nameservers.
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<dt>[[Spam/phishing/mail delivery problems (Apr 2013)|Spam/phishing/mail delivery problems (Apr 15, 2013; updated May 21, 2013)]]
 
<dd>One ECE user's account was compromised after divulging his/her password in a phishing attack, and was used to send spamAs a result of this incident, mail from ECE is currently being rejected by some e-mail providers, including GMail, Hotmail, and Comcast.
 
<dt>[[End-of-Life for Matlab old license servers: fs6 and service (Jan 2013)]]
 
<dd>Please note that the license servers on fs6 (for research) and on service (for classroom use) are going to retire soon. Please point your software to the following aliases: matlabr-lm  (for research) and matlabt-lm (for teaching).
 
 
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Announcements

Kaiser power outage (February 20, 2021)
There is a power outage planned for the Kaiser building on Saturday, February 20, from 10 am to 2 pm. This outage is necessary as part of the MacLeod construction project.
File and mail migration (2020)
In October and November 2020, ECE IT will be performing migrations of two major systems that will affect ECE users. A file migration involves some disruption during each user's cutover period. The ECE e-mail migration will happen seamlessly and with negligible disruption for the majority of users.