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Dropbox in MCECS - Usage, Security and Privacy concerns Print
Written by johnj   
Thursday, 10 November 2011

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.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 November 2011 )
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SOLARIS - pine will no longer support Maildir format mail boxes Print
Written by Janaka Jayawardena   
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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/pkgs/gnu on Solaris will be going away soon Print
Written by fester   
Tuesday, 29 March 2011

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  This directory is now woefully out of date and has been supplanted by more current OpenCSW builds of the GNU utilities in /opt/csw.

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New crop of e-mail delivered malware making the rounds Print
Written by Janaka Jayawardena   
Monday, 07 March 2011
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.
Last Updated ( Monday, 07 March 2011 )
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Banner Printers are being renamed! Banner users take note. Print
Written by Janaka Jayawardena   
Friday, 04 February 2011
Banner printer names (the names you give for your printers
when printing reports or POs from within Banner) are changing.  
We have gone through and labelled ALL the MCECS Banner
printers that we know of of with the new names.
Please check on the Banner printers you use often, note the name
on the label and start using that name when doing Banner printing.  
We are trying to get the new names in circulation right now because
OIT will discontinue the old names sometime soon.
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