The CAT has been busy throughout the Summer, making some substantial changes to our computer infrastructure. These changes may affect both onsite and remote users. Here are some highlights: All Windows systems in computer labs have been migrated to Windows 11. All Ubuntu Linux end-user systems have been upgraded to the 24.04 (“noble”) release. The [...]
It’s only mid-September, classes haven’t even started yet but we’re starting to see phishing scam emails starting to land in email boxes. Fall term is when scammers try to get you to give up your login credentials. They assume you may be new to the College or have let your guard down after a nice [...]
Our old Windows Terminal Service has now been shut down. With the advent of our Windows Remote Lab, MCECS users now have access to remote desktops that provide all the software delivered to our primary on-campus Windows Labs. Use of the old terminal server has plummeted and we seldom see more than a few concurrent [...]
The CAT worked over the weekend to get the lab in operation. There are new tables and new 27" monitors with adjustable arms. As with the Particle Lab, the computer are now running Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble).
If you have a CAT supported Windows system, and you haven’t self-upgraded to Windows 11 yet, we will be pushing Windows 11 out to your system starting this week. This includes office desktops, computers in grad student cubes, and computers in research labs. The upgrades will occur when there is no one logged into the [...]
At about the same time last year, we announced that we were locking off our LInux lab "proxy" addresses behind the firewall. Due to a number of factors, this task was postponed and we are finally going to make the change on Wednesday, Sep 11. Read the included message for details. Note, existing CS login servers (ada/babbage/quizors) are [...]