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...]
Ever wonder how much power an average idle computer takes to run? A newer Dell Optiplex 745 with a 22″ LCD monitor, such as those in M210, consume 110 Watts just sitting there, not logged in with the screen saver on. When the monitor goes into power save mode, the consumption goes down to 70 Watts. When the computer itself goes into standby mode, power consumption plummets to just 2 Watts. Since most of the ~65 Thayer lab computers are idle most of the time, [snip...]
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.
Check out a few photos of the event here…
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Posted 30 October 2007
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