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Written by johnj
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 |
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Dropbox, an online file repository/backup service, has been gaining in popularity. Its ease of setup and use for personal systems has resulted in rapid adoption among people trying to sync and transfer data between home desktops, laptops and other mobile devices.
We are seeing increased use of this service among faculty, staff and student users. While Dropbox is a hit at home, it has had a rocky road trying to adapt to corporate and centrally driven IT environments - both at a technical and policy level. MCECS users face many of these same challenges.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 November 2011 )
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Written by Janaka Jayawardena
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Thursday, 03 November 2011 |
When we switched our mail servers to support the Maildir
mailbox format some years ago, we performed a code hack
to pine (the mail program) on Solaris to make it support
Maildir format mailboxes. This was to ease the
disruptions that pine users would have experienced with
that change.
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Written by fester
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 |
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For long-time Solaris users, /pkgs/gnu was where we hand-built and installed GNU packages. This was especially the case for GNU replacements of standard UNIX utilities. This directory is now woefully out of date and has been supplanted by more current OpenCSW builds of the GNU utilities in /opt/csw.
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Written by Janaka Jayawardena
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Monday, 07 March 2011 |
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There are new variants of older malware making the rounds recently. If you are using Windows, even on a Tier 1 CAT supported system where you are not a local admin, you can still be vulnerable. The old basic guidelines against email-borne nasties still apply.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 March 2011 )
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Written by Janaka Jayawardena
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Monday, 24 January 2011 |
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At 6pm, on
a daily basis, any VNC session on nemo that has been running for longer than 12
hours will be terminated. A message will be sent to these sessions
before the termination. This is an effort to keep nemo usable for active users due to heavy loading.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2011 )
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Written by Janaka Jayawardena
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Friday, 17 December 2010 |
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PSU is constantly being barraged by prolonged spearphishing attacks. Phishing is where the attacker tries to trick you into giving out sensitive information. Spear phishing is where the e-mails are specifically tailored to a target audience. It relies on social engineering the victim to fall for the e-mail and give up some information the attacker wants. Don't be one of those victims.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 17 December 2010 )
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