Ever need to send a file to someone that was just a bit too large for an e-mail attachment? There are a few options – put it in your web space, use Dartmouth’s ftp dropbox, etc. But any of these can take lots of extra steps, especially when you just want to get your file out. So, what to do? Thayer School Dropbox to the rescue…
The new Thayer School Dropbox is a way to quickly and easily get your file sent. Once you visit [snip...]
Today, the latest version of Ubuntu Linux – Hardy Heron (8.04) – was released. For folks at Thayer and Dartmouth, we have ISO images of the CDs available for download here:
http://ubuntu.thayer.dartmouth.edu/iso/hardy/
Be sure to check out our main Ubuntu page at:
http://ubuntu.thayer.dartmouth.edu/
Here, you’ll find instructions on how to set up your system to obtain updates from our local repositories.
You may also want to explore our new Linux @ Dartmouth Help Wiki. There’s not too much here yet, but we’ll be adding more linux support [snip...]
On Saturday, December 15, 2007, Thayer Computing Services will be upgrading the physical infrastructure of our ThayerFS file server. This new system will provide larger and more cost-effective storage capacity.
In order to perform this upgrade, ThayerFS will be taken offline and will be unavailable from 8:00am until 2:00pm on December 15th. Our hope is that the upgrade will be completed in less time than this, but it may take the full six hours. Once the system is back online, we will send e-mail to the [snip...]
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.
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