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==Announcements==
 
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<dt>[[Scheduled Power Outage (Jun 2012)|Scheduled Power Outage (Jun 9, 2012)]]
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<dd>Electricity in the Kaiser and MacLeod Buildings is off for maintenance.  Several ECE services, such as SMTP (outgoing e-mail), SMB (Windows network drives), [http://download.ece.ubc.ca/ download], and [http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca/ mirrors], are unavailable.  The scheduled outage window is 8 am to 8 pm.
 
<dt>[[Database Failure (Apr 2012)|Database Failure (Apr 10, 2012)]]
 
<dt>[[Database Failure (Apr 2012)|Database Failure (Apr 10, 2012)]]
 
<dd>Several websites that rely on databases were unavailable due to a hardware failure.  We have replaced that machine.
 
<dd>Several websites that rely on databases were unavailable due to a hardware failure.  We have replaced that machine.

Revision as of 08:50, 9 June 2012

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HOWTOs for all users of ECE computing infrastructure
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HOWTOs for the ECE research community
HOWTOs For Instructors
HOWTOs for the ECE teaching community

Announcements

Scheduled Power Outage (Jun 9, 2012)
Electricity in the Kaiser and MacLeod Buildings is off for maintenance. Several ECE services, such as SMTP (outgoing e-mail), SMB (Windows network drives), download, and mirrors, are unavailable. The scheduled outage window is 8 am to 8 pm.
Database Failure (Apr 10, 2012)
Several websites that rely on databases were unavailable due to a hardware failure. We have replaced that machine.
New SSH Servers (Jan 1, 2012)
Four new SSH servers, running 64-bit Debian 6, have been deployed. The old servers will be retired soon.
End of POP Service (Aug 26, 2011)
On Aug 26, 2011, ECE will discontinue the retrieval of email via POP and NFS. If you are still using POP, action is needed on your part...