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ThayerFS quota bump

We’ve bumped the default ThayerFS disk quota from 512 MB up to 1 GB. We also doubled the, “no questions asked”, maximum quota for undergraduates to 2 GB.

The “no questions asked” maximum quotas for graduate students remains at 5GB and 10GB for faculty and staff. As always, if you have reasonable case for needing more space, just let us know.

Full details about ThayerFS quotas are here.

Screens of All Sizes

You may have noticed new flat panel screens of all sizes popping up around Thayer School. Computing Services is currently working on three separate, but related, projects.

We plan doing a test trial by adding screens containing room schedules to M001, M101, and M201. We’ve already installed an early prototype screen on M101. The concept is to show exactly when a conference room is in use so that it can also be used for quick ad-hoc meetings and studying without scheduling conflicts.

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New Thayer Events Calendar

We are pleased to announce the availability of the new Thayer Events Calendar. This calendar is the long overdue replacement for the “This Week at Thayer” email.

The calendar contains many new features and improvements, while still mimicking the functionality of the old system. You will continue to get an email each Monday morning with the weeks upcoming events. However, there are now multiple other ways to stay in tune with events happening at Thayer School.

The new web address of the Thayer [snip...]

Wiki software upgraded

Over the weekend we upgraded the software that runs the wiki server. The most obvious change is a redesign of the user interface. The old tabs and links have been moved to the upper right and are now use drop-down menus to de-clutter things a bit.

You can learn more about the change on these pages:

There are a couple other changes which might be of interest. For instance you can now manually reorder [snip...]

Weather and Photovoltaic Array update

The new datalogger and weather station is now installed on the roof of Murdough.  We are now working on making the data available for public viewing.  Here’s a quick video of the setup on the roof:


Thayer School of Engineering Weather Station and Photovoltaic Array from Thayer School on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for future updates on viewing the data.