At 3pm today there was a brief outage of all network services in Oldenborg. I rebooted the switches in the basement and service appears to have been restored. The full time staff have been notified of this recurrent hardware problem and have pledged to investigate.
A student called the helpdesk this morning to report that he can log into the my.pomona.edu portal successfully, but attempts to retrieve information produce an following error message. I duplicated the problem from the consultant computer trying to log in to my own account.
WinHttp.WinHttpRequest error ‘80072efd’
A connection with the server could not be established […]
In response to the TSL Joke Issue, I’m proud to announce that we have gone almost 72 hours without any kind of downtime! Aside from a brief (10-15 minute) outage in Oldenborg caused by faulty switches rather than any server problem, intermapper shows no problems in the past few days.
…now back to the Sunday […]
At the moment no user appears to be able to log into the student portal. We have already spoken to a full-time staff member and he is working on the error. We will update as soon as we have either an estimate or an update. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE [9:24 PM, Chris “the man” […]
This evening the ITS student consultants were given a list of student computers that have not applied some critical security patches. Without these security patches your machine can be more easily infected with viruses, worms, and trojans. We have contacted most of the people that are vulnerable and are currently trying to get them patched. […]
At this point the wireless access point in Gibson has been turned off for the evening. It appears that someone was connected to both the wireless access point and the residential network at the same time. This causes a loop in the network and can effectively bring the entire student network down. If you have […]
Sending mail through mail clients on your computer, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Mail, and Entourage appears not to be working if your outgoing mail server is set to mail.pomona.edu (Webmail appears to be sending messages just fine) . Changing your outgoing mail server to smtp-stu.pomona.edu enables sending of email. For Outlook, this process […]
This note recieved to the Supers by Juan Matute:
AIM Spybot virus is also spreading via a link in your profile (it replaces your profile) that says this - Whoaaa….look at what I found, click here! This link goes to www.talkstocks.net (don?t go there) which downloads the virus from public.searchbarcash.com. My security settings on […]
Thanks to Mini-Super for this info: Sophos has updated their virus definitions to detect this new virus. (They call it W32/Spybot-W.) Please ensure that your virus definitions are up to date. To do so double click on the Sophos remote update program in the system tray. (It is the one that looks like a little […]
This message was recieved to the supervisors email list. Please read it as it is of immediate concern to all students:
I contracted the w32.spybot.worm over AIM from another Pomona Student. I received an IM from his sn which says something like ?check out the new camera I?m getting ? followed by a link called […]
