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.
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Posted 08 July 2008
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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...]
In between keeping all things computing running at Thayer, we always have several projects in the works. Here’s a quick overview of projects we’re currently working on or planning. In no particular order…
Email and collaboration tools
Dartmouth’s Council on Computing has constituted a task force to determine Dartmouth’s requirements for future email and collaboration tools. Thayer School’s Director of Computing Services is on the task force and seeks your thoughts on the subject.
Hard drive based back up server
We are a “belt and suspenders” computing staff. To [snip...]
In case you missed it, yesterday was the inaugural session of our latest attempt to scale the heights of accessible customer service: IT Atrium Help Desk!
Every Tuesday and Thursday from 3pm to 4pm one or more members of Your Friendly Computing Services Team will set up a satellite branch of our support office in the Glycofi Atrium. We hope this will provide easy, visible, and immediate access to computing assistance without having to visit our offices or [snip...]
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Posted 23 January 2008
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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...]
