On June 20, 2018, we will be upgrading the version of the Firefox browser on our Windows desktops to ESR 60 (Extended Service Release) . It provides users with more usability and security enhancements. The side effect of this change is that the new Firefox will no longer support the Java plugin that is needed [...]
If you are faculty/staff or a researcher and you either use or require your students to use SSH to access Linux systems in MCECS, we need your feedback. With a few exceptions, SSH access to most Linux resources in MCECS is currently open to the Internet. (That is, you can use SSH to login to [...]
We will be pushing out Google’s Drive File Stream to CAT supported Windows desktops on Thursday evening, May 10th, 2018. The new Drive File Stream client cooperates with our roaming network user profiles and will enable users to access their Google Drive storage as a mapped drive. To run it, look for “Drive File Stream” [...]
In June 2018, the campus site license for Maplesoft’s Maple (a symbolic and numeric computing tool) ends. The last version available to PSU is Maple 17 and all copies running on MCECS systems (or Tier 3 machines using this floating license) will cease to function after this happens. The Maple site license had been handled [...]
On our Windows 7 systems, the old version of Adobe READER (the program/plugin that views pdf documents) is no longer being supported. The next time we patch our Windows systems, any computers running an older version of Acrobat Reader will be upgraded to the current version of Acrobat READER (the 2015 DC version). Note that [...]
We have now switched over to the new methodology for serving up user web pages (web files served from your public_html directories). If you are running into issues, check this post: https://cat.pdx.edu/2017/12/13/details-on-how-to-deal-with-changes-to-user-web-pages/ If you need help in fixing issues, please contact us.
While most things remain the same, there are a few changes: MATLAB 2017B - The version of Matlab in the MCECS Windows Labs has moved to Matlab 2017B. While we usually do not like to make version changes during an academic year, there was demand from some faculty to make this happen to get around [...]
The web server that drives a number of special project websites in MCECS will be moving to our currently supported version of Ubuntu Linux (16.04 - Xenial). This involves a new version of PHP (Version 7) which has permanently gotten rid of some deprecated features. The change will occur sometime during the day on Wednesday, [...]
If all you have are static HTML pages, we do not expect you to have any problems with the transition. On the other hand, if you have any of the following, you may need to make some modifications. [If you missed our original announcement about user web pages changes, read that post first. ] There [...]
Do you setup and use User Web Pages on our systems? These are web pages that are accessed by URLs that look like: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~username/path.... If you do, you may be affected by some structural changes we are going to be making to our web infrastructure over Winter Break. Affected pages may: Use password protection (using [...]