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...]
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.
We spent [snip...]
Our weekly Atrium Help Desk has proven to be an extremely popular event. The convenient location, the comfortable couch, the cookies. And, happily, you folks seem to enjoy it, too! (It must be because we share our cookies.)
But we are not content to let a good thing go un-modified.
After extensive polling and data analysis (and one of us having a conflict with Tuesdays this term) Your Friendly Computing Services Team [snip...]
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...]
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...]
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