Monthly Archives October 2007

October Birthday Photos

Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate October Birthdays with us. We had a lot of fun scooping Ben & Jerry’s and enjoying the balloon making mastery from Mo the Clown.

Mo the Clown

Check out a few photos of the event here…

Anti-Viral Computing

Jordan at the M210 Purell Dispenser
Jordan is demonstrating the latest weapon in our safe-computing arsenal: The public Purell dispenser.

Located in the M210 computing lab, we encourage its use early and often as the Winter flu season gathers steam.

Directions: Apply once to hands before using the public non-sanitized computer keyboards. Apply once more on your way out.

Extra credit: Do not sneeze on the keyboards.

Note: Use only as directed. The following is highly discouraged:
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Leopard - First Take

As most Mac owners know, yesterday Apple released OS X 10.5, code-name Leopard. Some lucky customers, including those of us in Computing Services here at Thayer School received our copies and have begun installing and playing. I have successfully installed it on my MacBook Pro, but have run into a few software issues that I thought I’d document in the hopes that it may save someone some time and effort somewhere.

  • Cisco VPN
    I know this is an odd one to have first, but I use this

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Friday Feed

This weeks feed-farm. See the full archive at Bookmarks in Computing Help space.

Solar telescope reaches 120,000 feet on jumbo-jet-sized balloon
Solar telescope reaches 120,000 feet on jumbo-jet-sized balloon. Photo credit: Carlye [snip...]

The Friday Feed

As always, you can view the complete linkified list - including previous weeks - on the Computing Help Bookmarks page.

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