Due to the severity of some of the patches involved for servers, we are moving up our server patching to Thursday Night (November 14th, at 9:45pm). There will be REBOOTS of all MCECS supported Windows Servers at 9:45 PM on Thursday, November 14th, 2024. This work should be completed by 11:30 PM. This will affect [...]
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 [...]
Over the past few years, Google has been trying to reign in runaway storage consumption for its Google Apps for Education tier. For faculty and research groups who found PSU’s google storage to be a convenient and limitless resource, that era is now over. OIT now has to ensure that the university stays below a [...]
At the end of Summer Term 2024 (and before the start of Fall Term), we will be shutting down our old Windows Terminal Server. Running on scrounged hardware since 2003, the terminal server provided remote access to select Windows applications supported by the CAT. With the advent of our Windows Remote Lab, MCECS users now [...]
Starting Spring 2023, access to services running on "high ports" (ie: network ports numbered 1024 and higher) on remotely accessible MCECS Linux systems will be blocked to external users. You will still be able to ssh into those systems. However, if you are running any services (programs) on these systems that listen at high ports, [...]