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==Announcements==
 
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<dt>[[mirrors.ece.ubc.ca down (Aug 23, 2013)]]
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<dd>The [http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca ECE mirror] server is down due to a hardware failure.
 
<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.
 
<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.

Revision as of 15:54, 23 August 2013

ECE Information Technology Services

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

Announcements

mirrors.ece.ubc.ca down (Aug 23, 2013)
The ECE mirror server is down due to a hardware failure.
Scheduled outage of staff file server (Aug 23, 2013)
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.
DNS outage (Jun 16, 2013)
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.
Spam/phishing/mail delivery problems (Apr 15, 2013; updated May 21, 2013)
One ECE user's account was compromised after divulging his/her password in a phishing attack, and was used to send spam. As a result of this incident, mail from ECE is currently being rejected by some e-mail providers, including GMail, Hotmail, and Comcast.
End-of-Life for Matlab old license servers: fs6 and service (Jan 2013)
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).