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| 2012/05/15 | | Who wants to be a millionaire? |
| 2012/05/11 | | Yeah, those emails you may have received with the subject line "Your TD EasyWeb cIient account has been Iimited" are bogus. If you check the link, it won't take you to the TD site, but rather something that looks like the TD site in an attempt to have you enter your TD userid and password... at which point the bad guys would have access to your bank account. |
| 2012/05/11 | | UW Policy 8 - Information Security For non-account# photocopying, there is a watcard photocopier in PAS 1099. |
| 2012/05/11 | | Annual Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture Friday May 25, 2012
3:00pm, TC 2218A |
| 2012/05/11 | 2012/05/15 | King of the Internet |
| 2012/05/08 | 2012/05/11 | For non-account# photocopying, there is a watcard photocopier in PAS 1099. |
| 2012/05/08 | 2012/05/11 | Spring Town Hall
Wednesday, May 9 3:00pm to 4:30pm in the Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall |
| 2012/05/03 | 2012/05/11 | If when logging into a Nexus station you see a message indicating your profile can't be loaded and you will have a "temporary profile" loaded instead, please logout and stop by to see Carlos or myself for a quick fix. The problem is due to how Symantec blocks some malicious java code from a website you may have visited (though often I think it's a false positive). Also, here's a warning to encourage you to get things fixed sooner rather than later if you see this... "Temporary profiles" are not saved so among other problems you'll run into is that files/folders saved to the desktop will be permanently lost. Just thought I'd give fair warning.  |
| 2012/05/03 | 2012/05/11 | Best zombie baby ever. |
| 2012/05/02 | | Our Nexus Groups List (use your UWuserid/password to login) contains lists of userids associated with various security groups in Psych. People need to be associated with the correct groups in order to access specific Nexus network shares and also to be able to print to printers. Please check and send any updates. |
| 2012/04/21 | 2012/05/03 | I'LL BE BACH... |
| 2012/04/21 | 2012/04/25 | There will be a fire drill in PAS Tuesday April 24 at 8:45am. |
| 2012/04/20 | 2012/04/25 | Graduate Student Research Conference 2012 - Arts
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 in the Davis Centre |
| 2012/04/20 | 2012/04/21 | There are currently problems with LEARN being extremely slow to respond. IST is dealing with the D2L people and they expect the problem to be resolved by 5:30pm today (a core network switch at D2L is being replaced). |
| 2012/04/20 | 2012/04/21 | Stolen |
| 2012/04/18 | 2012/04/20 | The printing problems from earlier today have been resolved. |
| 2012/04/16 | 2012/04/20 | Henri the French Cat Articulates the Pain of Existence |
| 2012/04/16 | 2012/04/18 | Our Dept backups and the Nexus backups are only kept for a few months at most. I really recommend to people to make permanent backups of files on all machines (offices, labs, home, laptops) at least once a term - and now is as good a time as any. If you are purchasing CDs or DVDs from a UW account, see Helen and she'll be able to order things for you. "CD -R" or "DVD -R" discs are probably best for archiving files (longer shelf life), but +RW's will probably also do the trick. Consider making two copies of critical stuff (it's not a backup unless there's two). Be sure to store them in a dark, cool, clean area and not on your window sill. Things won't last forever so also consider recopying old discs. In the same way, if you are copying things to an external disk disk, be sure you have a second copy of everything as all drives will also fail eventually, and probably at the worst time possible. |
| 2012/04/15 | | There's currently long standing issue with quotas to be aware of which the ACO has on their todo list. |
| 2012/04/15 | | RDP access to machines on campus now requires first connecting with the UW VPN Service. |
| 2012/04/15 | | Jeff Hughes (Soc Psych grad) has a Scripts Repository with a number of useful tools that complements the Psych Web Form Templates by bee. I'll keep a permanent link to Jeff's page at the bottom of the Templates page. |
| 2012/04/15 | 2012/05/08 | If you need the process.spd add-on for SPSS installed on a Nexus station, just send me the name of the machine (there should be a yellow sticker on top of the machine). |
| 2012/04/15 | 2012/05/08 | Apple Releases Flashback Removal Tool for Macs Running OS X Lion without Java |
| 2012/04/15 | 2012/04/16 | You won't like me when I'm angry... |
| 2012/04/15 | 2012/04/16 | |
| 2012/04/13 | 2012/04/15 | The problem earlier in the week in which backups of the D:\users where not happening has been fixed. If you receive any future messages that you haven't been backed up, let Carlos know ASAP. |
| 2012/04/12 | 2012/04/15 | On April 10th a change will be made to the Connect mail server (which faculty and staff use for email) so that Connect changes to NEXUS Authentication. What this means is that when logging into Connect with Outlook or OWA, rather than using "ads\youruserid", you will instead use "nexus\youruserid". If you are logging in from your Nexus station using Outlook (faculty/staff), you won't be prompted for a password. |
| 2012/04/12 | 2012/04/15 | You won't like me when I'm angry... |
| 2012/04/12 | 2012/04/13 | Backups of D:\users on 1st and 3rd floors were halted for some reason. They have been restarted and Carlos is looking into what caused the issue. If you receive any future messages that you haven't been backed up, let Carlos know ASAP. |
| 2012/04/11 | 2012/04/15 | Jeff Hughes (Soc Psych grad) has a Scripts Repository with a number of useful tools that complements the Psych Web Form Templates by bee. I'll keep a permanent link to Jeff's page at the bottom of the Templates page. |
| 2012/04/11 | 2012/04/12 |  On April 10th a change will be made to the Connect mail server (which faculty and staff use for email) so that Nexus authentication will be used rather than ADS authentication. What this means is that when logging into Connect with Outlook or OWA, rather than using "ads\youruserid", you will instead use "nexus\youruserid". If you are logging in from your Nexus station using Outlook (faculty/staff), you won't be prompted for a password. |
| 2012/04/10 | 2012/04/12 | Terry Stewart takes home the Rogue Puck™ for winning the 2011/12 Hockey Pool - click the link for some humble words from the winner.  Two more Rogue Pucks™ are up for grabs: 2012 beeHive Hockey Playoff Pool and the 2012 beeHive Baseball Pool Entry deadline for both is Wednesday April 11th at 7:00pm EDT. Please pay homage to the Past beeHive Pool Winners. |
| 2012/04/10 | 2012/04/12 | Hey! |
| 2012/04/09 | 2012/04/10 | Two more Rogue Pucks™ are up for grabs: 2012 beeHive Hockey Playoff Pool and the 2012 beeHive Baseball Pool Entry deadline for both is Wednesday April 11th at 7:00pm EDT. Please pay homage to the Past beeHive Pool Winners. |
| 2012/04/08 | 2012/04/09 | Another Rogue Puck™ up for grabs in the 2012 beeHive Baseball Pool - deadline for entries is Wednesday April 11th at 7:00pm EDT. Please pay homage to the Past beeHive Pool Winners. |
| 2012/04/06 | 2012/04/08 | The problems with Waterloo LEARN (Desire2Learn learning management system) today, April 5, have been resolved. |
| 2012/04/05 | 2012/04/11 | On April 10th a change will be made to the Connect mail server (which faculty and staff use for email) so that Nexus authentication will be used rather than ADS authentication. What this means is that when logging into Connect with Outlook or OWA, rather than using "ads\youruserid", you will instead use "nexus\youruserid". If you are logging in from your Nexus station using Outlook (faculty/staff), you won't be prompted for a password. |
| 2012/04/05 | 2012/04/10 | hourly wage = $15.51 |
| 2012/03/29 | 2012/04/06 | Waterloo Brain Day
Wednesday April 4 in PAS 2083 |
| 2012/03/29 | 2012/04/05 | Tail! |
| 2012/03/28 | 2012/04/15 | There will be a "General Public" E-waste Green Day drop off being held on Saturday April 14th, 2012 from 8:00am to 4:00pm, at our Central Stores 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo location where you can drop off non-UW electronics at no cost. All UW-owned equipment must go thru the usual UW surplus process so contact Carlos or myself to handle those items. |
| 2012/03/28 | 2012/04/05 | On April 10th (changed from March 27th) a change will be made to the Connect mail server (which faculty and staff use for email) so that Nexus authentication will be used rather than ADS authentication. What this means is that when logging into Connect with Outlook or OWA, rather than using "ads\youruserid", you will instead use "nexus\youruserid". If you are logging in from your Nexus station using Outlook (faculty/staff), you won't be prompted for a password. |
| 2012/03/28 | 2012/03/29 | There will be a campus test of the university's Emergency Warning System today, Tuesday, March 27, at 1:00 p.m. The emerge software is installed on all Nexus stations (you'll need to install yourself on other machines) so you will see the warning at this time. If you are running subjects and would prefer to have it disabled on any Nexus stations at this time, send a quick note with the name of the machine (there should be a yellow sticker on top of the machine). |
| 2012/03/27 | 2012/04/15 | RDP access to machines on campus now requires first connecting with the UW VPN Service. |
| 2012/03/27 | 2012/03/28 | There will be a campus test of the university’s Emergency Warning System tomorrow, Tuesday, March 27, at 1:00 p.m. The emerge software is installed on all Nexus stations (you'll need to install yourself on other machines) so you will see the warning at this time. If you are running subjects and would prefer to have it disabled on any Nexus stations at this time, send a quick note with the name of the machine (there should be a yellow sticker on top of the machine). |
| 2012/03/23 | 2012/03/28 | If you receive an email with the subject line "Welcome letter from ITMS Media Services", you can ignore it. The message was meant to be sent to a small number of people at UW, but instead went to a larger set. |
| 2012/03/23 | 2012/03/27 |  Due to a recently announced critical vulnerability, IST will block all RDP traffic from off campus to the campus network effective noon on Thursday, March 15th, 2012. After this time, in order to use RDP, you will first need to install and connect using the UW VPN Service. Once connected with the VPN, you can run Remote Desktop as usual to connect the machines on campus which you have permissions to access. The documentation which IST provides is pretty straightforward. If you are using RDP to connect to machines on campus, please try to set things up yourself on home machines or laptops ASAP. Feel free to ask if you have problems. Updates: - If you seem to be waiting a while for something to happen during the install, check the bottom of your browser window for a message telling you how to continue.
- It's not necessary to connect/map to a network drive in order to use RDP so you can safely skip that step. Being connected thru the VPN is all you need to use RDP.
- But, if you do want to map to your Nexus file space, your Nexus N: drive is located at \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\youruserid and the lab shares are under \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\psych . Also, you'll need to choose the option to "Connect using different credentials" and for your userid enter "nexus\youruserid", and then enter your Nexus password. In this way you can open your UW files files from anywhere in the world in the same way as you open files on your local hard disk (another good reason to avoid things like Dropbox).
- The IST documentation isn't very clear in the section "Using the VPN client after installation", but where you enter your Username and Password, you may also need to enter "cn-vpn.uwaterloo.ca" in the "Connect to:" field the first time you connect.
- Nexus machines have already been patched with the with the RDP vulnerability. The reason IST is implementing the block immediately is because other self-managed machines on campus with RDP enabled may not be updated in a timely fashion and would be vulnerable. We actually do see a lot of brute force attacks to machines with RDP enabled where the bad guys throw a lot of password attempts at machines so the VPN is a good idea anyway to add an extra layer of protection.
- Apparently there will be issues if you have Kaspersky Antivirus installed. Just un-install Kaspersky and use Symantec EndPoint (SEP, antivirus) which is available at no cost to faculty/staff/students.
- Using Matlab from a machine off campus also now requires the VPN connection.
- If you can install the VPN, but not connect, try changing your password on WatIAM.
- The VPN client doesn't replace RDP - you simply need to connect with the VPN client before you connect in the usual way with RDP.
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| 2012/03/22 | 2012/03/28 | On April 10th (changed from March 27th) a change will be made to the Connect mail server (which faculty and staff use for email) so that Nexus authentication will be used rather than ADS authentication. What this means is that when logging into Connect with Outlook or OWA, rather than using "ads\youruserid", you will instead use "nexus\youruserid". If you are loggin in from your Nexus station, there will be no need for the "nexus\" prefix and you can just login with youruserid". |
| 2012/03/22 | 2012/03/23 | Due to a recently announced critical vulnerability, IST will block all RDP traffic from off campus to the campus network effective noon on Thursday, March 15th, 2012. After this time, in order to use RDP, you will first need to install and connect using the UW VPN Service. Once connected with the VPN, you can run Remote Desktop as usual to connect the machines on campus which you have permissions to access. The documentation which IST provides is pretty straightforward. If you are using RDP to connect to machines on campus, please try to set things up yourself on home machines or laptops ASAP. Feel free to ask if you have problems. Updates: - If you seem to be waiting a while for something to happen during the install, check the bottom of your browser window for a message telling you how to continue.
- It's not necessary to connect/map to a network drive in order to use RDP so you can safely skip that step. Being connected thru the VPN is all you need to use RDP.
- But, if you do want to map to your Nexus file space, your Nexus N: drive is located at \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\youruserid and the lab shares are under \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\psych . Also, you'll need to choose the option to "Connect using different credentials" and for your userid enter "nexus\youruserid", and then enter your Nexus password. In this way you can open your UW files files from anywhere in the world in the same way as you open files on your local hard disk (another good reason to avoid things like Dropbox).
- The IST documentation isn't very clear in the section "Using the VPN client after installation", but where you enter your Username and Password, you may also need to enter "cn-vpn.uwaterloo.ca" in the "Connect to:" field the first time you connect.
- Nexus machines have already been patched with the with the RDP vulnerability. The reason IST is implementing the block immediately is because other self-managed machines on campus with RDP enabled may not be updated in a timely fashion and would be vulnerable. We actually do see a lot of brute force attacks to machines with RDP enabled where the bad guys throw a lot of password attempts at machines so the VPN is a good idea anyway to add an extra layer of protection.
- Apparently there will be issues if you have Kaspersky Antivirus installed. Just un-install Kaspersky and use Symantec EndPoint (SEP, antivirus) which is available at no cost to faculty/staff/students.
- The VPN client doesn't replace RDP - you simply need to connect with the VPN client before you connect in the usual way with RDP.
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| 2012/03/20 | 2012/03/22 | Matlab is licensed by UWuserid (not machine). The license period is for the calendar year with a grace period running to April. If userids were licensed for 2012, they will stop working soon. You can renew or purchase Matlab user licenses here. |
| 2012/03/17 | 2012/03/22 | On March 27 a change will be made to the Connect mail server (which faculty and staff use for email) so that Nexus authentication will be used rather than ADS authentication. What this means is that when logging into Connect with Outlook or OWA, rather than using "ads\youruserid", you will instead use "nexus\youruserid". If you are loggin in from your Nexus station, there will be no need for the "nexus\" prefix and you can just login with youruserid". |
| 2012/03/16 | 2012/03/29 | I'm My Own Grandpa |
| 2012/03/16 | 2012/03/22 | Due to a recently announced critical vulnerability, IST will block all RDP traffic from off campus to the campus network effective noon on Thursday, March 15th, 2012. After this time, in order to use RDP, you will first need to install and connect using the UW VPN Service. Once connected with the VPN, you can run Remote Desktop as usual to connect the machines on campus which you have permissions to access. The documentation which IST provides is pretty straightforward. If you are using RDP to connect to machines on campus, please try to set things up yourself on home machines or laptops ASAP. Feel free to ask if you have problems. Updates: - If you seem to be waiting a while for something to happen during the install, check the bottom of your browser window for a message telling you how to continue.
- It's not necessary to connect/map to a network drive in order to use RDP so you can safely skip that step. Being connected thru the VPN is all you need to use RDP.
- But, if you do want to map to your Nexus file space, your Nexus N: drive is located at \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\youruserid and the lab shares are under \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\psych . Also, you'll need to choose the option to "Connect using different credentials" and for your userid enter "nexus\youruserid", and then enter your Nexus password. In this way you can open your UW files files from anywhere in the world in the same way as you open files on your local hard disk (another good reason to avoid things like Dropbox).
- The IST documentation isn't very clear in the section "Using the VPN client after installation", but where you enter your Username and Password, you may also need to enter "cn-vpn.uwaterloo.ca" in the "Connect to:" field the first time you connect.
- Nexus machines have already been patched with the with the RDP vulnerability. The reason IST is implementing the block immediately is because other self-managed machines on campus with RDP enabled may not be updated in a timely fashion and would be vulnerable. We actually do see a lot of brute force attacks to machines with RDP enabled where the bad guys throw a lot of password attempts at machines so the VPN is a good idea anyway to add an extra layer of protection.
- The VPN client doesn't replace RDP - you simply need to connect with the VPN client before you connect in the usual way with RDP.
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| 2012/03/16 | 2012/03/17 | Another phishing attempt making the rounds. This one is forged to make it appear as if it's from upgrade@uwaterloo.ca. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/03/15 | 2012/04/15 | If you need the process.spd add-on for SPSS installed on a Nexus station, just send me the name of the machine (there should be a yellow sticker on top of the machine). |
| 2012/03/15 | 2012/03/16 | The main pipe from UW to the real world is down at the moment so you'll notice that accessing non-UW sites is slower than usual. The service provider, Orion, is working on repairs. Apparently a fibre cable was accidentally cut. |
| 2012/03/15 | 2012/03/16 | Due to a recently announced critical vulnerability, IST will block all RDP traffic from off campus to the campus network effective noon on Thursday, March 15th, 2012. After this time, in order to use RDP, you will first need to install and connect using the UW VPN Service. Once connected with the VPN, you can run Remote Desktop as usual to connect the machines on campus which you have permissions to access. The documentation which IST provides is pretty straightforward. If you are using RDP to connect to machines on campus, please try to set things up yourself on home machines or laptops ASAP. Feel free to ask if you have problems. Updates: - If you seem to be waiting a while for something to happen during the install, check the bottom of your browser window for a message telling you how to continue.
- It's not necessary to connect/map to a network drive in order to use RDP so you can safely skip that step. Being connected thru the VPN is all you need to use RDP.
- But, if you do want to map to your Nexus file space, your Nexus N: drive is located at \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\youruserid and the lab shares are under \\artsfile.uwaterloo.ca\psych . In this way you can open your UW files files from anywhere in the world in the same way as you open files on your local hard disk (another good reason to avoid things like Dropbox).
- The IST documentation isn't very clear in the section "Using the VPN client after installation", but where you enter your Username and Password, you may also need to enter "cn-vpn.uwaterloo.ca" in the "Connect to:" field the first time you connect.
- Nexus machines will be patched this evening when they reboot overnight so no problems there with the RDP vulnerability. The reason IST is implementing the block immediately is because other self-managed machines on campus with RDP enabled may not be updated in a timely fashion and would be vulnerable. We actually do see a lot of brute force attacks to machines with RDP enabled where the bad guys throw a lot of password attempts at machines so the VPN is a good idea anyway to add an extra layer of protection.
- The VPN client doesn't replace RDP - you simply need to connect with the VPN client before you connect in the usual way with RDP.
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| 2012/03/14 | 2012/03/15 | Due to a recently announced critical vulnerability, IST will block all RDP traffic from off campus to the campus network effective noon on Thursday, March 15th, 2012. After this time, in order to access machines on campus with Remote Desktop from off campus, you will first need to install and connect using the UW VPN Service. The documentation which IST provides is pretty straightforward. If you are using RDP to connect to machines on campus, please try to set things up yourself on home machines or laptops ASAP. Feel free to ask if you have problems. Updates: - If you seem to be waiting a while for something to happen during the install, check the bottom of your browser window for a message telling you how to continue.
- Most people will have no need to connect/map to a network drive so you can safely skip that step. Being connected thru the VPN is all you need to use RDP.
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| 2012/03/12 | 2012/03/16 | Kids these days... |
| 2012/03/11 | 2012/03/13 | Auroral Forecast |
| 2012/03/10 | 2012/03/14 | At some point in the summer we'll try to get everyone switched over to using the UW VPN Service in order to connect to office machines by RDP (without it, the connection will fail). This is similar to what IST is doiong in academic areas. The documentation which IST provides is pretty straightforward so if you have a moment, please try to set things up yourself on home machines or laptops sooner rather than later just to get ahead of the game. Feel free to ask if you have problems. We'll send a note later when we are about to make a more concerted effort to get people set up. |
| 2012/03/10 | 2012/03/11 | Solar flare may make for a night sky light show |
| 2012/03/09 | 2012/03/12 | Game Over by PES |
| 2012/03/08 | 2012/03/14 | What to do in the event of a power outage. |
| 2012/03/08 | 2012/03/10 | There's some email containing malware addressed to uwaterloo.ca addresses circulating that tries to convince you it's from FedEx and contains malware. I've stashed a sample on my phishing page. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/03/08 | 2012/03/09 | |
| 2012/03/08 | 2012/03/09 | FYI... If you are planning to purchase new workstations for your grad students... |
| 2012/03/03 | 2012/03/08 | Another phishing attempt making the rounds to uwaterloo.ca addresses from "WaterlooSupport" which asks you to enter your userid and password on a google spreadsheet for the bad guys. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/03/02 | 2012/03/03 | In case you didn't notice... Power out across Elmira, Waterloo and Guelph If you restarted your machines as soon as the power returned, you'll probably have some grief since the network and servers need to fire up first. It's probably a good idea to logout, and at the login screen, press ctrl-alt-del and select Shutdown, then Restart. If there's any future power outages in the next little while, wait 10-15 minutes before thinking about firing things up again. |
| 2012/03/01 | 2012/03/02 | In case you didn't notice... Power out across Elmira, Waterloo and Guelph If you restarted your machines as soon as the power returned, you'll probably have some grief. It's probably a goot idea to logout, and at the login screen, press ctrl-alt-del and select Shutdown, then restart. If there's any future power outages in the next little while, wait 10-15 minutes before thinking about firing things up again. |
| 2012/02/28 | 2012/03/08 | Stupid Design |
| 2012/02/28 | 2012/03/03 | Another phishing attempt making the rounds to uwaterloo.ca addresses which asks you to send your userid and password to the bad guys (which they will just use to browse your email messages and to send more spam). As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/02/25 | 2012/02/28 | What we say to dogs |
| 2012/02/23 | 2012/02/25 | Epic Skies |
| 2012/02/20 | 2012/02/28 | Another phishing attempt making the rounds to uwaterloo.ca addresses which proclaim to be from the TD. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/02/17 | 2012/02/23 | Grad Students |
| 2012/02/16 | 2012/02/17 | Professors |
| 2012/02/15 | 2012/02/20 | Another phishing attempt making the rounds to uwaterloo.ca addresses which proclaim to be from the CIBC. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/02/10 | 2012/02/16 | Grad School Scam |
| 2012/02/09 | 2012/02/10 | Jonny Mizzone |
| 2012/02/07 | 2012/02/14 | | I'm on vacation until Monday February 20th... |
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| 2012/02/07 | 2012/02/09 | Sleeping with pets |
| 2012/02/05 | 2012/02/14 | Matlab was updated to the latest version on Nexus stations (Saturday January 4th). |
| 2012/02/04 | 2012/02/07 | Apple iNett: Back To Work! |
| 2012/02/04 | 2012/02/05 | Matlab will be updated to the latest version on Nexus stations on the weekend in the wee hours. |
| 2012/01/31 | 2012/02/04 | Guess/Keep |
| 2012/01/31 | 2012/02/01 | Thanks for your donations to the Hockey for Heart Tournament. We ended up winning the tournament, but my pinky (2) didn't make it thru all the games  |
| 2012/01/30 | 2012/01/31 | Thanks for your donations to the Hockey for Heart Tournament. We ended up winning the tournament, but my pinky didn't make it thru all the games |
| 2012/01/30 | 2012/01/31 | Sleeping With Pets |
| 2012/01/28 | 2012/01/30 | Sh*t Nobody Says |
| 2012/01/27 | 2012/03/10 | IST will be upgrading wireless across campus in the coming months, but unfortunately a number of people are experiencing slow connections right now. If you are having problems, let us know and we'll provide a cabled connection to the wireless network which will speed things up significantly. |
| 2012/01/26 | 2012/01/30 |  This weekend I'm participating in the Hockey for Heart 2012 charity hockey tournament. Thanks in advance for any donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. |
| 2012/01/26 | 2012/01/28 | Carlos and I will be inerviewing coop students for next term most of the day on Thursday so we'll only be checking messages intermittently. For any emergencies, our current coops, Daniel and Vahid, can be reached at x37870 in PAS 4279. |
| 2012/01/26 | 2012/01/28 | Police Notes |
| 2012/01/26 | 2012/01/27 | A number of people have mentioned they have been running into wireless problems recently. If you are experiencing any grief, could you let me know where you were working and the time frame. |
| 2012/01/25 | 2012/01/26 | Solar Eruption Triggers Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years |
| 2012/01/25 | 2012/01/26 | Hands Free Car Phone |
| 2012/01/24 | 2012/01/25 | Hands Free Car Phone |
| 2012/01/23 | 2012/01/24 | Hands Free Car Phone |
| 2012/01/20 | 2012/01/23 | Tim's cups |
| 2012/01/19 | 2012/04/15 | Our Nexus Groups List (use your UWuserid/password to login) contains lists of userids associated with various security groups in Psych. People need to be associated with the correct groups in order to access specific Nexus network shares and also to be able to print to printers. Please check and send any updates. |
| 2012/01/19 | 2012/01/25 | SOPA and PIPA: Everything you need to know |
| 2012/01/19 | 2012/01/20 | So True |
| 2012/01/14 | 2012/02/01 | Drop-in sessions for LEARN, the new learning management system that has replaced UW-ACE, will be held in EV1 242 on Thurs Jan 19 12:00-2:30pm, and Fri Jan 27 1:00-3:30pm. |
| 2012/01/13 | 2012/01/19 | Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 2012/01/12 | 2012/01/19 | UW Policy 8 -- Information Security |
| 2012/01/12 | 2012/01/14 | Learn was painfully slow since the start of the term. A fix was applied around 11am today (Wednesday), so performance should be better. Don't be afraid to provide any comments or feedback - check the "Help" in Learn for how to contact their support. |
| 2012/01/11 | 2012/01/19 | The Automatic Page Turner |
| 2012/01/10 | 2012/01/13 | Waterloo Copyright FAQ |
| 2012/01/08 | 2012/01/11 | The Canada Party - Election 2012 |
| 2012/01/06 | 2012/01/10 | Another phishing attempt making the rounds to uwaterloo.ca addresses which proclaim to be from the TD bank. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2012/01/06 | 2012/01/08 | Liberals announce 30% tuition break for Ontario students |
| 2012/01/05 | 2012/01/11 | Nexus stations in teaching labs have been upgraded to SPSS 20 and AMOS 20. SPSS/AMOS 20 has also been installed on all research lab and office Nexus machines where faculty members requested licenses be purchased (or at least it will get installed automatically the next time the machine reboots). Installs on non-Nexus machines will need to be done manually. In the next little while, I'll send notes to people who had purchases licenses indicating how to download the install files and also the authorization code to use. |
| 2012/01/04 | 2012/01/26 | I'm participating again in the Hockey for Heart 2012 charity hockey tournament. Thanks in advance for any donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. |
| 2012/01/03 | 2012/01/08 | New Mail from Prof |
| 2012/01/03 | 2012/01/05 | Nexus stations in teaching labs have been upgraded to SPSS 20 and AMOS 20. |
| 2012/01/02 | 2012/01/04 | I'm participating again in the Hockey for Heart 2012 hockey tournament. Thanks in advance for any donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. |
| 2012/01/02 | 2012/01/03 | They will never get along... |
| 2011/12/29 | 2012/01/03 | Nexus stations in teaching labs have been upgraded to SPSS 20 and AMOS 20. I'll get machines where licenses which have been purchased upgraded in the next week or so. |
| 2011/12/26 | 2012/01/11 | Nexus stations in Psych have all been upgraded to Office 2010. A couple minor issues you may run into with a trivial fix... if you've created shortcuts to Word, Excel or PowerPoint on your desktop yourself, you'll need to delete those (since the old version is no longer there) and create new shortcuts (right-click and drag from the Start Menu). Things should always start properly from the Start Menu. Also, the first time you start Outlook, the user name name field on the login panel may come up as "MAIL\youruserid". You'll need to change this back to the usual "ads\youruserid". Grad students should avoid Outlook on Nexus stations for now as there's some potential issues with multiple userids logging into the same machine and also quota issues - for the moment, students should stick to the web intereface or thunderbird on Nexus stations. |
| 2011/12/22 | 2011/12/29 | Please leave your Nexus stations on over the holidays as a number of updates will be going out over that time (Office 2010, SPSS, AMOS and a few others). They will go into a power saving mode when not in use. No harm turning off the LCDs, printers and scanners. |
| 2011/12/21 | 2011/12/26 | We'll be updating a sprinkling of Nexus machines to Office 2010 again in the next few days to ensure there's no major issues for when we move the remaining 280+ Psych Nexus stations to Office 2010 one night next week. If you would like to avoid having your PC as one of the random test installs, let me know asap (send the machine name). If your machine is updated and you notice an issue, let us know asap. One minor issue you may run into with a trivial fix... if you've created shortcuts to Word, Excel or PowerPoint on your desktop yourself, you'll need to delete those (since the old version is no longer there) and create new shortcuts. Things should always start properly from the Start Menu though. Also, the first time you start Outlook, the user name name field on the login panel may come up as "MAIL\youruserid". You'll need to change this back to the usual "ads\youruserid". |
| 2011/12/20 | 2012/01/02 | Things that go ping |
| 2011/12/20 | 2011/12/21 | There's a problem with Sharepoint permissions at the moment which Carlos is looking into. |
| 2011/12/20 | 2011/12/21 | We'll be updating a sprinkling of Nexus machines to Office 2010 over the weekend to ensure there's no major issues for when we move the remaining 280+ Psych Nexus stations to Office 2010 one night next week. If you would like to avoid having your PC as one of the random test installs this weekend, let me know asap (send the machine name). If your machine is updated and you notice an issue, let us know asap. One minor issue you may run into with a trivial fix... if you've created shortcuts to Word, Excel or PowerPoint on your desktop yourself, you'll need to delete those (since the old version is no longer there) and create new shortcuts. Things should always start properly from the Start Menu though. Also, the first time you start Outlook, the user name name field on the login panel may come up as "MAIL\youruserid". You'll need to change this back to the usual "ads\youruserid". |
| 2011/12/19 | 2011/12/20 | Goodbye Cruel World |
| 2011/12/17 | 2011/12/20 | We'll be updating a sprinkling of Nexus machines to Office 2010 over the weekend to ensure there's no major issues for when we move the remaining 280+ Psych Nexus stations to Office 2010 one night next week. If you would like to avoid having your PC as one of the random test installs this weekend, let me know asap (send the machine name). If your machine is updated and you notice an issue, let us know asap. One minor issue you may run into with a trivial fix... if you've created shortcuts to Word, Excel or PowerPoint on your desktop yourself, you'll need to delete those (since the old version is no longer there) and create new shortcuts. Things should always start properly from the Start Menu though. |
| 2011/12/17 | 2011/12/19 | Use the force |
| 2011/12/15 | 2011/12/20 | There's a significant number of Windows security updates which have been released recently. These will get applied to Nexus stations automatically so no worries there, but be sure to update any non-Nexus stations (home machines, laptops, etc) ASAP. |
| 2011/12/14 | 2011/12/29 | The 2011 licenses for SPSS/AMOS 19 expire on December 31 with a grace period until January 31 at which time SPSS will stop working. Soon you'll start seeing warning messages about this when you start SPSS or AMOS. I've sent a note to faculty indicating which machines they had purchased licenses for in 2011 ask asking which machines we should purchase licenses for in 2012. If a faculty member had purchased SPSS/AMOS for you this past year, touch base with them ASAP for a renewal if you need it. I've asked that people purchasing licenses get back to me with this information by Tuesday December 20th. The paperwork and installs are much much easier if we can do everyone at once. THANKS. Nexus stations are easy and will get updated automatically. Other machines will need to be done manually. I'll update things here once we have the software and license codes ready to go. |
| 2011/12/13 | 2011/12/15 | What the Higgs is going on
on-line: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:30pm ET |
| 2011/12/11 | 2011/12/17 | Man's Life |
| 2011/12/10 | 2011/12/13 | Tree of Hope Bingo
Nov 14 thru Dec 8
Our Goal: $300 (to support a family of four in need)
Current Donations: $300.00+
See Louise (PAS 3023) to buy bingo cards and/or make cash donations |
| 2011/12/10 | 2011/12/11 | Start at the top and scroll down |
| 2011/12/09 | 2011/12/10 | In honour of Sherry's last day on the job, we present... |
| 2011/12/08 | 2011/12/10 | Super Antics #3 |
| 2011/12/08 | 2011/12/09 | There's some phishing
emails forged to appear as if they came from Canada Post. The attachment contains a trojan. As usual, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2011/12/06 | 2011/12/08 | Sometimes the walls move... |
| 2011/12/01 | 2011/12/06 | Ditto |
| 2011/11/30 | 2011/12/08 | Exclusive: Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say Networked printers in Psych are behind a firewall and protected from attacks from the outside world. |
| 2011/11/29 | 2011/12/01 | Hungry |
| 2011/11/28 | 2011/12/20 | Holiday Food Drive
Supporting the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.
Non-perishable food items can be dropped off in the PAS lounge until Dec 16. |
| 2011/11/24 | 2011/11/29 | Father of the Year |
| 2011/11/23 | 2011/12/08 | Waterloo Ignorance Day
Tuesday, December 6, 9-12, PAS 2083 |
| 2011/11/22 | 2011/12/10 | Tree of Hope Bingo
Nov 14 thru Dec 8
Our Goal: $300 (to support a family of four in need)
Current Donations: $278.00
See Louise (PAS 3023) to buy bingo cards and/or make cash donations |
| 2011/11/18 | 2011/11/28 | If you have had any issues with wireless connections recently, could you pop me a quick note with details. Thanks. |
| 2011/11/18 | 2011/11/19 | Department of Psychology Colloquium
Dr. Karl Aquino, University of British Columbia
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Place: HH 373 |
| 2011/11/17 | 2011/11/22 | Tree of Hope Bingo
Nov 14 thru Dec 8
Our Goal: $300 (to support a family of four in need)
Current Donations: $228.18
See Louise (PAS 3023) to buy bingo cards and/or make cash donations |
| 2011/11/15 | 2011/11/17 | Tree of Hope Bingo
Nov 14 thru Dec 8
Our Goal: $300 (to support a family of four in need)
Current Donations: $112
See Louise (PAS 3023) to buy bingo cards and/or make cash donations |
| 2011/11/14 | 2011/11/24 | Latest GOP Debate Concludes With Candidates Wrestling Squealing Pig To Ground And Slaughtering It |
| 2011/11/11 | 2011/11/14 | Invisible Wall |
| 2011/11/10 | 2011/11/23 | Waterloo Ignorance Day
Tuesday, December 6, 9-12, PAS 2083 |
| 2011/11/10 | 2011/11/15 | Psychology's 2011 United Way Campaign Buzz II donations: $1,000 Goal: $1,000 Pictures here (will only work with Internet Explorer on campus). |
| 2011/11/08 | 2011/12/20 | The ACO upgraded artsweb November 2nd. There's a few problems we're in the middle of tidying up, but if you notice any issues, please let me know asap. Correct time of day for studies collected between Sept-Nov and be determined here. |
| 2011/11/05 | 2011/11/11 | Why go to college |
| 2011/11/05 | 2011/11/06 | A test of the university’s emergency communications system is scheduled for today between 1:00 and 2:30. This system employs messages to voicemail on campus phones, text messages to cell phones, and a message to computers that appears as a "pop-up" directing everyone to the special emergency home page. This system is only deployed in the event of major emergencies where there is imminent physical danger. If you are doing data collection at this time and would like to avoid the pop-up, just let me know the name of the machine. |
| 2011/11/04 | 2011/11/10 | Psychology's 2011 United Way Campaign Buzz II donations: $960
Goal: $1,000 |
| 2011/11/04 | 2011/11/08 | From the Psych Grads Nice of you guys and much appreciated. |
| 2011/11/03 | 2011/11/08 | There's a currently a problem on artsweb which is causing the system time to fall back to 1968 which may affect web studies running on that server. The ACO is hoping to replace the hardware the week of Sept 26. I'll pop a note here with the scheduled downtime and additional details when I have them. I also have something updating every minute that will show the time on artsweb and watarts which may help to work around the problem. UPDATE: The ACO has upgraded artsweb as of November 2nd. There's a few problems we're in the middle of tidying up, but if you notice any issues, please let me know asap. |
| 2011/11/02 | 2011/11/04 | From Psych Psych Grads Nice of you guys and much appreciated. |
| 2011/11/02 | 2011/11/03 | There's a currently a problem on artsweb which is causing the system time to fall back to 1968 which may affect web studies running on that server. The ACO is hoping to replace the hardware the week of Sept 26. I'll pop a note here with the scheduled downtime and additional details when I have them. I also have something updating every minute that will show the time on artsweb and watarts which may help to work around the problem. UPDATE: The ACO will be upgrading artsweb Wednesday November 2nd starting at 8:15am so it will be unavailable for a portion of the morning. If you notice any issues with any web studies, please contact me asap. |
| 2011/11/01 | 2011/11/04 | Psychology's 2011 United Way Campaign Buzz II donations: $940
Goal: $1,000 |
| 2011/11/01 | 2011/11/02 | There's a currently a problem on artsweb which is causing the system time to fall back to 1968 which may affect web studies running on that server. The ACO is hoping to replace the hardware the week of Sept 26. I'll pop a note here with the scheduled downtime and additional details when I have them. I also have something updating every minute that will show the time on artsweb and watarts which may help to work around the problem. |
| 2011/10/29 | 2011/11/05 | How pumpkin pie is made |
| 2011/10/29 | 2011/11/01 | Psychology's 2011 United Way Campaign Buzz II donations: $679
Goal: $1,000 by Fri Oct 28 |
| 2011/10/28 | 2011/10/30 | Psychology Colloquium
Dr. Richard N. Aslin
University of Rochester
Date: October 28, 2011
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Place: PAS 1229
Title: What eye tracking (and neuroimaging) can reveal about infants' language processing and visual attention |
| 2011/10/28 | 2011/10/30 | Printers have been moved to a private subnet and should be working now (with a few exceptions that we're tidying up). They are no longer open to toner bombs from off campus so you can fill them with paper and close the trays. As usual, if there are any problems, let us know asap. |
| 2011/10/28 | 2011/10/29 | Think hard |
| 2011/10/27 | 2011/10/29 | Psychology's 2011 United Way Campaign Buzz II donations: $613
Goal: $1,000 by Fri Oct 28 |
| 2011/10/27 | 2011/10/28 | Printers have been moved to a private subnet and should be working now (with a few exceptions that we're tidying up). They are no longer open to toner bombs from off campus so you can fill them with paper and close the trays. As usual, if there are any problems, let us know asap. |
| 2011/10/26 | 2011/10/27 | Printers on campus were recently hit with toner bombs (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. If you are hit, cancel the job using the controls on the printer. If that doesn't work, remove the paper tray, wait for the current page to finish printing, remove the power from the printer and wait about 30 seconds before plugging it in again. UPDATE: Our 80+ Nexus printers were moved to the private subnet over lunch today. You will need to restart your printer before you will be able to print - power it off, wait 10 seconds and turn it on again. As usual, if there are any problems, let us know asap. |
| 2011/10/24 | 2011/11/08 | If you have any problems logging into watarts or Nexus, go to WatIAM, click "WatIAM User Access" and reset your password. You don't need to change it, but WatIAM will tell you if it is too weak and should be changed. Once set, your WatIAM, Nexus and watarts passwords will all be the same. |
| 2011/10/22 | 2011/10/28 | Your next Halloween costume |
| 2011/10/22 | 2011/10/26 | Printers on campus were recently hit with toner bombs (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. If you are hit, cancel the job using the controls on the printer. If that doesn't work, remove the paper tray, wait for the current page to finish printing, remove the power from the printer and wait about 30 seconds before plugging it in again. There's several avenues of attack that the super-annoying guys are using. We'll need to move printers to a separate secure subnet to completely avoid future toner bombs - IST is pushing a change to all network switches on campus to allow this to be implemented. Until this happens (hopefully later in the week), it might be a good idea to power off printers for the evenings and weekends and/or simply keep a small number of sheets of paper in the printer. UPDATE: We noticed some odd network issues with the new subnet and decided to hold off on the changes we were planning on Thursday. Printers are still in the original subnet and still vulnerable to the toner bomb attacks. Please leave the printers turned on, and simply open the paper tray to prevent the printer from printing. We'd like you to do this rather than turning them off so that we can check the status of the printers over the network. |
| 2011/10/21 | 2011/10/22 | Printers on campus were recently hit with toner bombs (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. If you are hit, cancel the job using the controls on the printer. If that doesn't work, remove the paper tray, wait for the current page to finish printing, remove the power from the printer and wait about 30 seconds before plugging it in again. There's several avenues of attack that the super-annoying guys are using. We'll need to move printers to a separate secure subnet to completely avoid future toner bombs - IST is pushing a change to all network switches on campus to allow this to be implemented. Until this happens (hopefully later in the week), it might be a good idea to power off printers for the evenings and weekends and/or simply keep a small number of sheets of paper in the printer. UPDATE: We noticed some odd network issues with the new subnet and decided to hold off on the changes we were planning on Thursday. Once the issues are sorted out, we may try again later on Friday or on the weekend. Printers are still in the original subnet and still vulnerable to the toner bomb attacks, so keep them turned off when not in use or limit the amount of paper in the trays. |
| 2011/10/20 | 2011/10/21 | Printers on campus were recently hit with toner bombs (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. If you are hit, cancel the job using the controls on the printer. If that doesn't work, remove the paper tray, wait for the current page to finish printing, remove the power from the printer and wait about 30 seconds before plugging it in again. There's several avenues of attack that the super-annoying guys are using. We'll need to move printers to a separate secure subnet to completely avoid future toner bombs - IST is pushing a change to all network switches on campus to allow this to be implemented. Until this happens (hopefully later in the week), it might be a good idea to power off printers for the evenings and weekends and/or simply keep a small number of sheets of paper in the printer. UPDATE: We're planning to do the printer moves on Thursday between 4pm-5pm - printers will be unavailable during that time. Please power off your printers before 4pm and you can turn them on after 5pm. If this doesn't work for you, let us know the name of the printer and we'll hold off until another time which is more convenient for you. |
| 2011/10/19 | 2011/10/22 | Oh, I love surprises!... |
| 2011/10/18 | 2011/10/20 | Printers on campus were recently hit with toner bombs (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. If you are hit, cancel the job using the controls on the printer. If that doesn't work, remove the paper tray, wait for the current page to finish printing, remove the power from the printer and wait about 30 seconds before plugging it in again. There's several avenues of attack that the super-annoying guys are using. We'll need to move printers to a separate secure subnet to completely avoid future toner bombs - IST is pushing a change to all network switches on campus to allow this to be implemented. Until this happens (hopefully later in the week), it might be a good idea to power off printers for the evenings and weekends and/or simply keep a small number of sheets of paper in the printer. |
| 2011/10/17 | 2011/10/19 | I found a necklace on the path to Lot T. I'll drop it off with the campus cops some time soon. |
| 2011/10/15 | 2011/10/18 | On Wednesday morning in the wee hours a number of printers on campus were toner bombed (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. Printers previously were relatively open, but we've now locked them down a bit tighter so it won't happen again. Unfortunately Macs printing from wireless will not be able to reach printers at the moment. If you have any concerns or questions, feel free to ask. Update: We'll need to move printers to a separate subnet to completely avoid future toner bombs. Until that happens, it might be a good idea to power off printers for the evenings and weekends. |
| 2011/10/13 | 2011/10/16 | Network maintenance is scheduled is the IST server room on Thursday October 13th 5:30am-7:00am. Email on the Exchange/connect server will not be available at this time. |
| 2011/10/13 | 2011/10/15 | On Wednesday morning in the wee hours a number of printers on campus were toner bombed (many pages of black) from our friends in Serbia. Printers previously were relatively open, but we've now locked them down a bit tighter so it won't happen again. Unfortunately Macs printing from wireless will not be able to reach printers at the moment. If you have any concerns or questions, feel free to ask. |
| 2011/10/12 | 2011/10/27 | Psychology's 2011 United Way Campaign |
| 2011/10/12 | 2011/10/19 | Star Wars Dog |
| 2011/10/12 | 2011/10/13 | Entry deadline for the 2011/12 beeHive Hockey Pool is 7:00pm October 11th. |
| 2011/10/06 | 2011/10/12 | Worst magic trick ever. |
| 2011/10/05 | 2011/10/06 | NASA satellite falls on car. |
| 2011/10/04 | 2011/10/12 | Entry deadline for the 2011/12 beeHive Hockey Pool is 7:00pm October 11th. |
| 2011/10/04 | 2011/10/11 | It's official!!! Greg Gunn takes home a Rogue Puck(TM) as winner of the 2011 beeHive Baseball Pool. |
| 2011/10/04 | 2011/10/11 | | I'm on vacation until Tuesday October 11th... |
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| 2011/10/04 | 2011/10/05 | Todo List |
| 2011/10/02 | 2011/10/04 | Slide! |
| 2011/10/01 | 2011/10/04 | Entry deadline for the 2011/12 beeHive Hockey Pool is 7:00pm October 10th. |
| 2011/10/01 | 2011/10/04 |  It's official!!! Greg Gunn takes home a Rogue Puck(TM) as winner of the 2011 beeHive Baseball Pool. |
| 2011/09/30 | 2011/10/12 | October is United Way month and Psychology will be having an email Bingo as part of its fund-raising. Cards again will be $5/sheet (2 cards to a sheet) and can be purchased from Louise Porter in PAS 3023. Bingo Monday Oct 3. |
| 2011/09/30 | 2011/10/02 | Why? |
| 2011/09/29 | 2011/10/01 | E-Prime YouTube Channel |
| 2011/09/29 | 2011/09/30 | There's minor breakage with myWaterloo. When you login, you'll need to specify the server you want to connect to - for most students in Arts, it's probably mailservices. |
| 2011/09/28 | 2011/09/30 | Strictky No Elephants |
| 2011/09/27 | 2011/09/28 | Adopt Pinky |
| 2011/09/26 | 2011/09/27 | Crazy Dog |
| 2011/09/24 | 2011/09/26 | Protest Duck |
| 2011/09/23 | 2011/09/24 | Snotty sneeze |
| 2011/09/21 | 2011/10/12 | There's a currently a problem on artsweb which is causing the system time to fall back to 1968 which may affect web studies running on that server. The ACO is hoping to replace the hardware the week of Sept 26. I'll pop a note here with the scheduled downtime and additional details when I have them. I also have something updating every minute that will show the time on artsweb and watarts which may help to work around the problem. |
| 2011/09/18 | 2011/09/23 | They're doing it wrong. |
| 2011/09/15 | 2011/09/18 | File-sharing site hit by hackers |
| 2011/09/14 | 2011/09/21 | Getting Started in D2L courses are scheduled regularly this term. Instructors/TAs will want to register early. This two hour hands-on workshop will introduce you to Desire2learn (D2L), our new course management system for presenting course activities and resources in on-campus and fully online courses. By the end of this session you will: be able to use the D2L environment to communicate with your students; make decisions around the most effective way to organize content in your course; have basic knowledge of the tools available within D2L and the ability to use these tools effectively. |
| 2011/09/14 | 2011/09/15 | The campus DNS was messed up at around 10:15am Tuesday which may have caused issues with people trying to reach campus servers. People off campus may continue to have problems until about 10:15am Wedensday. |
| 2011/09/13 | 2011/09/18 | Apple Wants Its Lost iPhone 5 |
| 2011/09/10 | 2011/09/18 | Free software for UW students includes: ...plus a few oher things at Software for Students. |
| 2011/09/10 | 2011/09/13 | Sending email for UW-related work from your Gmail account or other non-UW account is a bad idea for a number of reasons. For one, people can't confirm who you are - e.g., anyone in the world can set up the email address mark.zanna@gmail.com and we don't really know it's Mark unless we ask him. If you are dealing with confidential information, you probably don't want to expect people to reply to what is effectively an anonymous account. Individuals also need to keep track of this non-UW address for future emails and prey that someone doesn't forge something similar (such as mark.p.zanna@gmail.com) which we might assume is correct if we vaguely remember Mark had sent something earlier from gmail - again we have no way of verifying unless we ask him if he really sent it. You really should use your @uwaterloo.ca for all UW-related emails. It also makes things easier for people when searching for past emails from you if you always use your same @uwaterloo.ca address so that multiple searches don't need to be done. It's especially important if your gmail address is something like myfishhiccups@gmail.com which doesn't reflect a portion of your name. If you use Gmail, you should set it up so that any UW-related emails that you send will have your @uwaterloo.ca email address as the return address. To do this: - Login to Gmail, click the Setting (gear) icon in the top-right and select the "Accounts and Import" tab.
- Under Send mail as, click "Add another email address" and add your @uwaterloo.ca address.
- Select Use Gmail's servers to send your mail (this is easier to set up).
- Click "Next Step >>" and then click "Send Verification" and verify the message.
Once you've done the above, you can then pick your UW address from the drop-down menu in the 'From:' field when you compose a message. Anyway, if you can stick to your UW address for emails to myself, Carlos, Sharon, Rita, Heather, Theresa, Sherry, Marg, Mark, Colin, Helen, our coops, the ACO and IST, HR, students you are TAing, other UW faculty/Staff/students/depts/offices, research collaborators, research clients and subjects, we'd all greatly appreciate it. This will save us from having to look up your real UW email address and replying to that instead of your gmail address. |
| 2011/09/08 | 2011/09/10 | Free software for UW students includes: |
| 2011/09/07 | 2011/10/24 | If you have any problems logging into watarts or Nexus, go to WatIAM, click the "WatIAM User Access" and reset your password. You don't need to change it, but WatIAM will tell you if it is too weak and should be changed. Once set, your WatIAM, Nexus and watarts passwords will all be the same. |
| 2011/09/07 | 2011/09/14 | Our new coops this term are Jerry Liang and Filip Dinu. Be gentle with them. |
| 2011/09/03 | 2011/09/13 | Pavlov's Dog |
| 2011/09/02 | 2011/09/18 | Waterloo Copyright |
| 2011/09/01 | 2011/09/10 | Sending email for UW-related work from your Gmail account or other non-UW account is a bad idea for a number of reasons. For one, people can't confirm who you are - e.g., anyone in the world can set up the email address mark.zanna@gmail.com and we don't really know it's Mark unless we ask him. If you are dealing with confidential information, you probably don't want to expect people to reply to what is effectively an anonymous account. Individuals also need to keep track of this non-UW address for future emails and prey that someone doesn't forge something similar (such as mark.p.zanna@gmail.com) which we might assume is correct if we vaguely remember Mark had sent something earlier from gmail - again we have no way of verifying unless we ask him if he really sent it. You really should use your @uwaterloo.ca for all UW-related emails. It also makes things easier for people when searching for past emails from you if you always use your same @uwaterloo.ca address so that multiple searches don't need to be done. It's especially important if your gmail address is something like myfishhiccups@gmail.com which doesn't reflect a portion of your name. If you use Gmail, you should set it up so that any UW-related emails that you send will have your @uwaterloo.ca email address as the return address. To do this: - Login to Gmail, click the Setting (gear) icon in the top-right and select the "Accounts and Import" tab.
- Under Send mail as, click "Add another email address" and add your @uwaterloo.ca address.
- Select Use Gmail's servers to send your mail (this is easier to set up).
- Click "Next Step >>" and then click "Send Verification" and verify the message.
Once you've done the above, you can then pick your UW address from the drop-down menu in the 'From:' field when you compose a message. Anyway, if you can stick to your UW address for emails to myself, Carlos, Sharon, Rita, Heather, Theresa, Sherry, Marg, Mark, Colin, Helen, our coops, the ACO and IST, HR, students you are TAing, other UW faculty/Staff/students/depts/offices, research collaborators, research clients and subjects, we'd all greatly appreciate it. |
| 2011/09/01 | 2011/09/03 | Gravity-Free Cats |
| 2011/08/27 | 2011/09/01 | ONE of the worst... |
| 2011/08/26 | 2011/08/27 | Steve Jobs was heard muttering "Damn you autocorrect" after meaning to text "I reign as CEO of Apple." |
| 2011/08/24 | 2011/08/25 | Yeah, earthquake today. My office has been devastated and will probably take months to clean up. |
| 2011/08/23 | 2011/08/24 | Electrical power, cooling, heating, ventilation was off in PAS on Saturday August 20 6:00am-midnight. If you are powering on machines yourself, turn on the UPS, wait 10-15 seconds until green green light is solid, and then fire up the machine, LCDs, printer, etc. If you forgot to power off a printer, you may have to power down and restart the printer before it will work. We noticed a few machines not booting - probably the power supply croaked. Let us know if you have trouble with any other machines and we'll look at them ASAP. |
| 2011/08/22 | 2011/08/23 | Electrical power, cooling, heating, ventilation was off in PAS on Saturday August 20 6:00am-midnight. Machines in the office wing, classrooms, teaching labs and a few other areas I thought people might be RDPing into machines are now on. After the power outage, if you are powering on machines yourself, turn on the UPS, wait 10-15 seconds until green green light is solid, and then fire up the machine, LCDs, printer, etc. If you forgot to power off a printer, you may have to power down and restart the printer before it will work. We noticed a few machines not booting - probably the power supply croaked. Let us know if you have trouble with any other machines and we'll look at them ASAP. |
| 2011/08/21 | 2011/09/18 | Please contact Carlos or myself if a computer or printer needs to be moved. We need to update things in the wiring closet before things will work in a new location and we also need to update our DB of equipment locations. Thanks. |
| 2011/08/21 | 2011/09/13 | Due to the recent watarts upgrade, people running web studies created prior to July 31, 2011 on watarts using the Web Form Templates for Surveys/Questionaires by bee will need to check the top of that page for info on how to fix things if those studies are still active. New studies on watarts and all studies running on artsweb are not affected. |
| 2011/08/21 | 2011/08/22 | Electrical power, cooling, heating, ventilation was off in PAS on Saturday August 20 6:00am-midnight. I'll come in on Sunday morning, probably not early , and will power up Nexus stations in faculty and staff offices so that they can be accessed remotely with RDP. If there's any other machines you need turned on, send me a quick note with the room#. I'll pop a note here on Sunday when I've finished. After the power outage, if you are powering on machines yourself, turn on the UPS, wait 10-15 seconds until the light is green, and then fire up the machine, LCDs, printer, etc. If you forgot to power off a printer, you may have to power down and restart the printer before it will work. |
| 2011/08/19 | 2011/08/26 | Proud Father |
| 2011/08/19 | 2011/08/21 | Electrical power, cooling, heating, ventilation will be off in PAS on Saturday August 20 6:00am-midnight. Plan to shutdown and power off your computers and printers the night before. We'll run something to power down all Nexus stations late Friday afternoon, but you may want to do a controlled shutdown of your machine and turn off the UPS (we can't remotely turn off the UPS which may preserve the battery life slightly). Most of the campus will be down at this time. The MC building is not affected so you should be able to send/receive email from off campus using connect (faculty/staff) or mailservices (students) - I'm guessing myWaterloo will not be available. The main UW web page www.uwaterloo.ca will also be available but most other campus web sites will be down including all of Arts, Psych, beeHive and any web studies you may have set up. I'll come in on Sunday morning, probably not early , and will power up Nexus stations in faculty and staff offices so that they can be accessed remotely with RDP. If there's any other machines you need turned on, send me a quick note with the room#. I'll pop a note here on Sunday when I've finished. BTW, if you need a link from the beeHive while things are down, do this... Go to Google and search for "uw beehive" (no quotes) and rather than clicking on the link, click the "Cached" link which will show you a recent copy of the beeHive. |
| 2011/08/18 | 2011/08/19 | The network in PAS will be down Thursday August 18 between 5:30am-8:30am. Definitely do not login before 8:30am on Thursday morning. |
| 2011/08/18 | 2011/08/19 | Electrical power, cooling, heating, ventilation will be off in PAS on Saturday August 20 6:00am-midnight. Plan to shutdown and power off your computers and printers the night before. Most of the campus will be down at this time. I'll come in on Sunday morning, probably not early , and will power up Nexus stations in faculty and staff offices so that they can be accessed remotely with RDP. If there's any other machines you need turned on, send me a quick note with the room#. I'll pop a note here on Sunday when I've finished. |
| 2011/08/17 | 2011/08/18 | The network connection from PAS to/from the rest of the campus and world will be down this Thursday August 18 between 5:30am-8:30am. I'd simply suggest you just not even go close to any computers here during that time. Make sure you don't login before 8:30am that day. |
| 2011/08/16 | 2011/08/19 | Save bandit!!! |
| 2011/08/13 | 2011/08/21 | Due to the recent watarts upgrade, people running web studies created prior to July 31, 2011 on watarts using the Web Form Templates for Surveys/Questionaires by bee will need to check the top of that page for info on how to fix things if those studies are still active. New studies and all studies running on artsweb are not affected. |
| 2011/08/13 | 2011/08/16 | Flowchart: Do You Have to Wake Up Yet? |
| 2011/08/12 | 2011/09/07 | If you have any problems logging into watarts or Nexus, go to WatIAM, click the "WatIAM User Access" and reset your password. You don't need to change it, but WatIAM will tell you if it is too weak and should be changed. Once set, your WatIAM, Nexus ans watarts passwords will all be the same. |
| 2011/08/12 | 2011/08/13 | box mixup |
| 2011/08/11 | 2011/08/12 | A number of updates went out to Nexus stations last night, but some machines might require a second reboot for some apps. If you are having trouble with Adobe Flash/Shockwave or Adobe Reader (for pdf's), logout, press ctrl-alt-del and select Shutdown/Restart to let the machine reboot. |
| 2011/08/10 | 2011/08/11 | Due to a hardware upgrade, Quest will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 from 7AM EST until 5PM EST. |
| 2011/08/05 | 2011/08/10 | We have a hardware problem on the server which handles the E-Prime 2.0 licenses so E-Prime 2.0 will be inaccessible until things are fixed. |
| 2011/08/05 | 2011/08/10 | Access from myWaterloo to watarts doesn't seem to be working at the moment for research lab accounts which did not have a Nexus account of the same name. I've forwarded a list of affected accounts to the ACO to update things and I'll pop a note here when things are fixed. |
| 2011/08/03 | 2011/08/10 | Watarts was down for upgrades on Sunday July 31 8:30-noon. WatIAM/Nexus passwords will no be required to login. Email on accounts which did not previously have WatIAM entries has been copied to mailservices. Account owners have been emailed passwords. The first time you connect to watarts, you may be asked to accept a new security certificate - you can accept it. |
| 2011/08/02 | 2011/08/05 | Yeah, that email from BMO saying they will pop $200 into your account for completing a survey is from the bad guys. If you enter your Bank Card# and password, you will be poor soon. |
| 2011/08/01 | 2011/08/03 | Watarts was down for upgrades on Sunday July 31 8:30-noon. WatIAM/Nexus passwords will no be required to login. Email on accounts which did not previously have WatIAM entries has been copied to mailservices. Account owners have been emailed passwords. |
| 2011/07/30 | 2011/08/01 | Watarts will be down for upgrades on Sunday July 31 8:30-noon. Web pages on watarts will not be accessible during that time. After the upgrade is complete, accounts will need to use the WatIAM/Nexus password to login. Email on accounts which did not previously have WatIAM entries has been copied to mailservices and the account owners have been emailed psaswords. |
| 2011/07/29 | 2011/07/30 | Watarts will be down for upgrades on Sunday July 31 8:30-noon. Web pages on watarts will not be accessible during that time. After the upgrade is complete, accounts will need to use the WatIAM/Nexus password to login. |
| 2011/07/28 | 2011/08/12 | Laser Guided Kitty |
| 2011/07/27 | 2012/04/15 | There's currently long standing issue with quotas to be aware of which the ACO has on their todo list. |
| 2011/07/27 | 2011/07/29 | If you had received a note from Keith McGowan in the ACO regarding moving email from watarts to Mailservices or the Connect Exchange server, please contact Carlos or myself so that we can arrange to move email from watarts. We'll create a WatIAM entry, a mailservices account, then move all mail currently on watarts to mailservices and set up a forward so any email sent to he watarts account will be forwarded to the mailservices account. This change will not affect any web studies you may have running on watarts. |
| 2011/07/27 | 2011/07/28 | Can you repeat... |
| 2011/07/23 | 2011/07/27 | There's currently a problem with the license server which handles SPSS and AMOS licenses in the teaching labs and classrooms on campus. Machines with SPSS/AMOS Licenses purchased by faculty members in research labs and offices are not affected. ENG is looking into the problem and I'll pop a not here when it's back up and running. |
| 2011/07/23 | 2011/07/27 | Dinner time |
| 2011/07/21 | 2011/08/18 | Electrical power, cooling, heating, ventilation will be off in PAS on Saturday August 20 6:00am-midnight. Plan to shutdown and power off your computers and printers the night before. |
| 2011/07/20 | 2011/07/27 | If you receive a note from Keith McGowan in the ACO regarding moving email from watarts to Mailservices or the Connect Exchange server, please contact Carlos or myself so that we can arrange to move email from watarts. We'll create a WatIAM entry, a mailservices account, then move all mail currently on watarts to mailservices and set up a forward so any email sent to he watarts account will be forwarded to the mailservices account. This change will not affect any web studies you may have running on watarts. |
| 2011/07/19 | 2011/07/20 | There seems to be a lot of phishing emails floating around at the moment. They typically tell you you bumping up against your email quota or that maintenance/upgrades are occuring and they want you to email or login to a non-UW site with your login creditals and possible date of birth, etc. Anyway, if you get 'em, just chuck 'em. |
| 2011/07/18 | 2011/07/23 | You know it is hot when... |
| 2011/07/16 | 2011/07/18 | When the space shuttle returns we should all be dressed up as apes. |
| 2011/07/15 | 2011/07/19 | We've noticed an issue with the autoupdate on a small percentage of systems running Symantec EndPoint (AntiVirus). After downloading several Mbs, the process stops and then restarts a minute later with another download occurring and again failing. This process repeats. This can be a potentially big problem with home machines as you might hit your download cap and Rogers, Bell or other ISPs may charge you extra for your internet service that month. If you had installed SEP from from the IST SEP download site, check to ensure you currently have version 11.0.6300.803. If you don't you might want to consider uninstalling your current version and installing the latest version. Alternatively, just touch base with me and there's an easier fix we might be able to do (remove the pkg file from the Downloads directory). Let me know if you were running into this. Thanks. |
| 2011/07/09 | 2011/07/15 | Hmmm |
| 2011/07/06 | 2011/07/19 | I'm in the process of moving the last bunch of research email accounts from watarts to mailservices. I had IST reset the WatIAM/Nexus passwords on a number of accounts that people didn't know the WatIAM password (or folks I didn't hear back from :-)). Anyway, I'll get the email moved on these accounts in the next few days, but if you are having trouble logging in or checking email, just touch base with me. Web pages on watarts related to these accounts are not affected. |
| 2011/07/06 | 2011/07/15 | The mail service on artsmail has been turned off. A while ago users were move from artsmail to mailservices. If your addressbook previously contained something like userid@artsmail.uwaterloo.ca, you should instead use userid@uwaterloo.ca (drop the artsmail). |
| 2011/07/04 | 2011/07/27 | August/September is usually fairly busy for us. If you have new systems you would like to purchase for the start of the fall term, please try to get the order in by mid July at the latest. THANKS!!! |
| 2011/07/01 | 2011/07/06 | If you have Symantec EndPoint installed as anti-virus protection on home machines or laptops, you can check which version you have by opening it and selecting "Help and Support" and "About". If you don't have 11.0.6300.803, uninstall the version you have and download the current version from here. |
| 2011/06/24 | 2011/07/09 | Karma |
| 2011/06/21 | 2011/06/26 | It's official. Mark Zanna wins the Rogue Puck(TM) in the 2011 Hockey Playoff Pool. |
| 2011/06/21 | 2011/06/24 | Miss USA contestants answer the question, "Should evolution be taught in schools?" |
| 2011/06/15 | 2011/06/21 | Did you hear a click? |
| 2011/06/14 | 2011/07/01 | IST has provided an update to SEP (AntiVirus) which will generate a pop-up on home machines and laptops asking if you would like SEP upgraded . To avoid any issues, accept the upgrade and just let your machine sit for about 20 minutes while the upgrade completes. It's a silent upgrade which will complete in the background so avoid rebooting or shutting down the machine until it finishes. Don't browse the web or read emails while the upgrade is taking place since you won't be protected for a period of time. Again, don't use the machine for about 20 minutes while the upgrade completes. |
| 2011/06/14 | 2011/06/15 | Cute kid... Depth perception |
| 2011/06/03 | 2011/06/10 | Nexus stations reboot in the wee hours each night and among other things, generate various reports at that time so that we can look for problems and hopefully fix things before they cause issues for you. One new report which is now generated checks the health of your hard disk using a self-diagnosis (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most new hard disks. This, ideally, should allow us to replace a drive before it actually fails. |
| 2011/06/03 | 2011/06/08 | Google Says Hundreds Of Gmail Accounts Hijacked |
| 2011/06/02 | 2011/06/14 | Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge? |
| 2011/06/02 | 2011/06/03 | Facebook Attack Spreading both Windows and Mac malware |
| 2011/06/01 | 2011/06/02 | SEP will be updated to the latest version on all nexus stations between 9pm-midnight tonight (Tuesday). If for any reason we should not do it at this time on specific machines, send me the name of those machines. |
| 2011/05/18 | 2011/05/19 | There's been a few wireless issues on some parts of campus yesterday and today which IST is looking into. No one has mentioned problems in PAS. |
| 2011/05/17 | 2011/05/18 | There's been a few wireless issues on some parts of campus today. |
| 2011/05/16 | 2011/06/02 | There's way too many ostriches |
| 2011/05/13 | 2011/05/14 | The nightly backups of D:\users on a number of machines on the 2nd and 4th floor may not have completed properly in the last week. Make an extra backup of anything critical you save there just to be safe. Carlos is looking into the problem. |
| 2011/05/10 | 2011/05/14 | Skype bug lets hackers take over Macs |
| 2011/05/10 | 2011/05/13 | ... |
| 2011/05/07 | 2011/05/10 | Crash Test Kittens |
| 2011/05/06 | 2011/05/14 | UW's Policy 8 requires confidential information be secure and well protected. Unfortunately Western had a recent incident. |
| 2011/05/06 | 2011/05/07 | May 2, 2011 Daily Show |
| 2011/05/05 | 2011/05/06 | Haha! So we meet again!! |
| 2011/05/04 | 2011/05/10 | Yes, Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.exe is Malware |
| 2011/05/04 | 2011/05/05 | ... |
| 2011/04/28 | 2011/05/04 | From Me To You |
| 2011/04/27 | 2011/04/28 | Today (Tuesday), beginning at 10:00PM and ending by 2:00AM (EDT), IST will be performing routine maintenance on the Connect Exchange servers. During this time, services may be restarted and it may be necessary to re-authenticate (login). |
| 2011/04/22 | 2011/04/28 | Perform This Way |
| 2011/04/22 | 2011/04/27 | Canada Council awards five prominent scholars $100,000 Killam Prizes (including Mark Zanna) |
| 2011/04/20 | 2011/04/22 | A gentleman... |
| 2011/04/14 | 2011/04/20 | There is be a "General Public" E-waste Green Day drop off being held on Saturday April 16th, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the UW Central Stores 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo location. This single day community event is also available to all University of Waterloo employees who may have personal electronic waste at the home residences. |
| 2011/04/14 | 2011/04/20 | Net Worth |
| 2011/04/12 | 2011/04/14 | It's official. Joshua Rubin claims the Rogue Puck (TM) and bragging rights in the Regular Season Hockey Pool. Check here for some humble words from the winner. |
| 2011/04/11 | 2011/04/16 | Friday April 15th at 7:00pm is the deadline for entries in the 2011 beeHive Playoff Hockey Playoff Pool |
| 2011/04/09 | 2011/04/29 | There's currently a problem with the nightly backups of D:\users for machines on the 1st and 3rd floors. For the moment, make an extra copy elsewhere of anything critical. Carlos had replaced a bad drive and is hoping the backups complete correctly on the weekend. If you see any further messages indicating you haven't been backed up, send him a note. |
| 2011/04/09 | 2011/04/14 | Really? |
| 2011/04/06 | 2011/04/11 | The Epsilon data breach leaked millions of names and email addresse. As usual, you can assume that emails asking you to send personal information (including passwords) are simply phishing attempts. But as well, be cautious of emails which include URLs for you to login to. Be sure to always confirm that sites you are logging into are valid an not look-a-likes. |
| 2011/04/06 | 2011/04/09 | There's currently a problem with the nightly backups of D:\users for machines on the 1st and 3rd floors. For the moment, make an extra copy elsewhere of anything critical. Carlos is looking into it. |
| 2011/04/06 | 2011/04/09 | Waterloo Brain Day
Date: Wed April 6, 2011
Place: Room: PAS 2083 |
| 2011/04/02 | 2011/04/09 | I MUST GO - My people need me |
| 2011/04/01 | 2011/04/07 | It's on. Get your picks in for the 2011 beeHive Baseball Pool before the Wednesday 7:00pm dealine. |
| 2011/03/31 | 2011/07/27 | There's currently a couple long standing issues with passwords and quotas to be aware of which the ACO has on their todo list. |
| 2011/03/30 | 2011/04/02 | UW connection to the real world is degraded at the moment (Monday afternoon) so things are slower than usual. IST has notified ORION who manages that pipe. |
| 2011/03/30 | 2011/04/02 | twin baby boys have a conversation - part 2 |
| 2011/03/29 | 2011/03/31 | There's currently issues with passwords and quotas to be aware of. |
| 2011/03/29 | 2011/03/30 | UW connection to the real work is degraded at the moment (Monday afternoon) so things are slower than usual. IST has notified ORION who manages that pipe. |
| 2011/03/29 | 2011/03/30 | Legos: What Can't They Do? |
| 2011/03/26 | 2011/03/29 | Did you back up? |
| 2011/03/24 | 2011/04/02 | In order to access network shares or print to printers in the Psych, users will have to be a member in at least one Nexus Security Group in Psych. Please send me UWuserids of any users which should be added or removed from your Psych Security Groups (login with your WatIAM userid/password). |
| 2011/03/22 | 2011/03/29 | There will be a "General Public" E-waste Green Day drop off being held on Saturday April 16th, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the UW Central Stores 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo location. This single day community event is also available to all University of Waterloo employees who may have personal electronic waste at the home residences. |
| 2011/03/22 | 2011/03/26 | Tech Support Cheat Sheet |
| 2011/03/19 | 2011/03/26 | The APC software pops up a warning after 3 years to replace the battery in your UPS. But, since machines here are usually on 24/7, battery life tends to be longer so it's not unusual to keep a battery for 4-5 years. Down in the bottom-right of your display near the clock there's a little icon that looks like a computer under a parachute. Double-click on that and as long as the "Estimated Battery Time" is greater than 10 minutes, you should be good. The UPS software is configured to shutdown your system after 5 minutes of no power, so having 10 minutes of battery life provides 5 minutes for the machine to properly save things and shutdown in the event of a power outage. If you want to keep an eye on that, no harm waiting a bit longer before replacing the battery to stretch the life/$$$ of the battery. The batteries are relatively inexpensive though ($39) so no harm replacing the battery immediately if you are getting the warning and don't want to think about it. Just give the word and we can put an order in. |
| 2011/03/19 | 2011/03/22 | IST will deploy Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0.6200.754 to faculty/staff clients obtained from IST's Download site on March 17, 2011. Users will see a pop-up window with the following message, "UW IST has initiated this auto-upgrade of your Symantec client. You can confirm this on the IST home page Notice Board." Nexus stations have already been upgraded. The above applies to UW owned laptops, home machines or non-Nexus stations. When you accept the option to download and install it, be sure not to interrupt it. Best bet is to just let the machine sit for about 20 minutes while it updates since the antivirus will be disabled for a bit while it is uninstalled and reinstalled. |
| 2011/03/19 | 2011/03/22 | She's Watching you... |
| 2011/03/18 | 2011/03/19 | IST will deploy Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0.6200.754 to faculty/staff clients obtained from IST's Download site on March 17, 2011. Users will see a pop-up window with the following message, "UW IST has initiated this auto-upgrade of your Symantec client. You can confirm this on the IST home page Notice Board." Nexus stations have already been upgraded. The above applies to UW owned laptops, home machines or non-Nexus stations. When you accept the option to download and install it, be sure not to interrupt it. Best bet is to just let the machine sit for about 20 minutes while it updates. |
| 2011/03/17 | 2011/03/19 | Emerson - Mommy's Nose is Scary! |
| 2011/03/16 | 2011/03/17 | Adobe Warns of Attacks on Critical Flash Player Bug. This won't affect Nexus stations, but be aware of it and be sure to update home PCs and laptops, including Macs and Linux machines, as soon as a fix is available. |
| 2011/03/12 | 2011/03/16 | Latest Japan Earthquake News |
| 2011/03/11 | 2011/03/29 | Files stored on the psych-lab-* shares are being counted towards your personal quota. If your quota hits 90%, please contact Carlos or myself before you lose files. The ACO is hoping to have things fixed "later in November." AVOID STORING FILES OR FOLDERS ON YOUR DESKTOP as files won't get transferred to the network drive and backed up until you successfully logout. Since it may take several minutes to transfer large files/folders from your dekstop when you logout, you'll probably have your coat on and will be down the hall before you can see the popup that will appear telling you that it could not save your files/profile which includes your desktop contents (if you see the pop-up, you can login the same day and your files/folders will still be there and you can move them elsewhere). Check the Psych Nexus Notes for all the gory details. |
| 2011/03/10 | 2011/03/17 | My cat, "Chicken". The vet says "He just wasn't made right" |
| 2011/03/08 | 2011/03/16 | When you login, you may get a message saying that you haven't been backed up for a few weeks. This applies only to the D:\users folder which is backed up nightly. Your Nexus My Documents folder and the psych shares are not affected. Carlos is looking into the problem, but in meantime, make a quick backup of anything critical saved there. |
| 2011/03/08 | 2011/03/09 | Wireless will be unavailable Tuesday March 8 from 7:00am-8:00am. |
| 2011/03/02 | 2011/03/10 | How to Install a Home Security System |
| 2011/03/02 | 2011/03/08 | Email Bingo started on March 1st, but you can still pick up cards from Theresa or Louise if you want to get in on the fun. |
| 2011/02/21 | 2011/03/02 | The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger |
| 2011/02/19 | 2011/03/01 | | I'm on vacation until Monday February 28th. |
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| 2011/02/18 | 2011/02/19 | If R-Project is installed on your Nexus station, it will be upgraded next time the machine reboots. It'll reboot automatically in the wee hours tonight, but if you want it sooner rather than later, logout, press ctrl-alt-del and select Shutdown/Restart. |
| 2011/02/17 | 2011/02/19 | I won't be in during Reading Week (Feb 22-25). |
| 2011/02/16 | 2011/02/21 | I scream, you scream |
| 2011/02/12 | 2011/02/16 | Mission Impossible Squirrel |
| 2011/02/08 | 2011/02/09 | I made a minor change to Web Form Templates. Any variables (including userids and passwords at the login pages) will have tabs keys and space characters stripped from the start and end of entered text. This will keep the data a bit cleaner and will hopefully prevent login issues (e.g., if someone enters a space at the start/end of a userid/password entry). This change will not occur with any existing studies, only on new studies when the 'makewebstudy' script is run. I don't expect any issues, but if you have any concerns, let me know. |
| 2011/02/03 | 2011/02/08 | The ACO upgraded the print server on Monday. If you have any issues printing, let us know. |
| 2011/02/02 | 2011/03/15 | SPSS/AMOS 19 has been installed on all Nexus stations in the Psych Divisional Teaching Labs. It has also been installed on all Nexus stations where faculty members purchased licenses. If a license for SPSS or AMOS has been purchased on a non-Nexus station, login to a Nexus station and click 'Psych Shortcuts' (on the desktop), 'Explore Psych', 'Misc' and 'SPSS 19'. There you will find the files you need along with a file called 'README.txt' which will tell you how to get things installed on non-Nexus machines, laptops and/or home machines. If you are currently reading this on a Nexus station with Internet Explorer just click here to get to that folder (a new window will open). This should also work for people using IE on the campus wireless network - enter "nexus\youruserid" as your userid and your Nexus password when prompted. |
| 2011/02/01 | 2011/02/03 | Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use |
| 2011/02/01 | 2011/02/02 | SPSS/AMOS 19 will get installed on all Nexus stations in the Psych Divisional Teaching Labs in the wee hours of Tuesday morning when they automatically reboot. If you want it installed sooner rather than later, logout, press ctrl-alt-del and select Shutdown/Restart to have the machine reboot right away. SPSS/AMOS 19 has also been installed on all Nexus where faculty members purchased licenses. If a license for SPSS or AMOS has been purchased on a non-Nexus station, login to a Nexus station and click 'Psych Shortcuts' (on the desktop), 'Explore Psych', 'Misc' and 'SPSS 19'. There you will find the files you need along with a file called 'README.txt' which will tell you how to get things installed on non-Nexus machines, laptops and/or home machines. If you are currently reading this on a Nexus station with Internet Explorer just click here to get to that folder (a new window will open). This should also work for people using IE on the campus wireless network - enter "nexus\youruserid" as your userid and your Nexus password when prompted. |
| 2011/01/29 | 2011/03/29 | If you change your WatIAM password, it will change both your WatIAM and Nexus password at the same time. Unfortunately things are broken in Arts so if you do attempt to change your password anytime after October 27th, please see Carlos or myself to complete the process. The ACO is/was hoping to have things fixed "later in November" (2010?). |
| 2011/01/28 | 2011/01/29 | You may have received an email from someone in IST with the subject "Stale Passwords". This is a valid email so you can follow the instructions. BUT, the WatIAM password change will change both your WatIAM and Nexus password at the same time. Unfortunately things are broken in Arts so if you do attempt to change your password anytime after October 27th, please see Carlos or myself to complete the process. The ACO is hoping to have things fixed "later in November" - I had assumed they mean 2010, but apparently not. :-) |
| 2011/01/28 | 2011/01/29 | A circuit blew again in the ACO machine room on the 1st floor at about 2:20am Thursday morning. If you notice a message indicating your profile could not be loaded, logout from the temporary profile you will be logged in with. Then reboot the machine - at the login screen press ctrl-alt-del and select Shutdown/Restart. This should get things back to normal, but if you notice any issues, let us know. |
| 2011/01/26 | 2011/01/28 | 
I'm playing in the Heart & Stroke Hockey for Heart Tournament this weekend. Click my page to make donation to the Heart & Stroke Foundation (you'll get a tax receipt). Thanks. |
| 2011/01/21 | 2011/02/01 | SPSS/AMOS 19 will land on Nexus stations automagically (if purchased) before the end of the month. SPSS 19 has already been installed on most Nexus stations where AMOS 19 wasn't also requested - I'll update machines that are to get both packages (our divisional teaching labs as well) in the next week or so. We're just waiting for ENG to complete the package to automate the AMOS install on Nexus stations. If a license for SPSS or AMOS has been purchased on a non-Nexus station, login to a Nexus station and click 'Psych Shortcuts' (on the desktop), 'Explore Psych', 'Misc' and 'SPSS 19'. There you will find the files you need along with a file called 'README.txt' which will tell you how to get things installed on non-Nexus machines, laptops and/or home machines. If you are currently reading this on a Nexus station with Internet Explorer just click here to get to that folder (a new window will open). |
| 2011/01/20 | 2011/01/21 | SPSS and AMOS purchased by faculty members expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. The early pricing we received for SPSS/AMOS was incorrect. For 2011 SPSS costs $110/machines, AMOS $75/machine for AMOS (PC only) and there's also a separate module called Sample Power (PC only) available for $60/machine. Update: Tuesday Update: SPSS 19 is now installed in IST controlled classrooms across campus, the ACO labs downstairs, our Psych Division Teaching Lab machines (ptlab* machines in 3022, 4036, 3245, 3253B, 3274, 1422, 4268, 4287). AMOS 19 has not yet been installed in any of these areas. SPSS 19 is also going out to Nexus machines where faculty members have requested licenses be purchased. The automated AMOS install for Nexus stations isn't quite ready so machines that currently have SPSS 18 and AMOS 18 won't be upgaded immediately so that people can still use AMOS 18. We now have SPSS/AMOS install CDs. I'll probably ask that the first person to stop by from each lab group install it on the other laptops/non-Nexus machines for that group - we're a bit backlogged at the moment, so the more we can pass off to people, the better. :-) If you need it installed on a home machine, just stop by at the end of the day to borrow the CDs and return them first thing the next morning. |
| 2011/01/19 | 2011/02/12 | Indeed I Have Read It |
| 2011/01/19 | 2011/01/20 | SPSS and AMOS purchased by faculty members expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. The early pricing we received for SPSS/AMOS was incorrect. For 2011 SPSS costs $110/machines, AMOS $75/machine for AMOS (PC only) and there's also a separate module called Sample Power (PC only) available for $60/machine. Update: Tuesday Update: SPSS 19 is now installed in IST controlled classrooms across campus, the ACO labs downstairs, our Psych Division Teaching Lab machines (ptlab* machines in 3022, 4036, 3245, 3253B, 3274, 1422, 4268, 4287). AMOS 19 has not yet been installed in any of these areas. SPSS 19 is also going out to Nexus machines where faculty members have requested licenses be purchased. The automated AMOS install for Nexus stations isn't quite ready so machines that currently have SPSS 18 and AMOS 18 won't be upgaded immediately so that people can still use AMOS 18. |
| 2011/01/18 | 2011/01/20 | I'm playing for McAfee in the Heart & Stroke Hockey for Heart Tournament January 29/30. Any donation to the Heart & Stroke Foundation is much appreciated (you'll get a tax receipt). Thanks. |
| 2011/01/16 | 2011/01/19 | SPSS and AMOS purchased by faculty members expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. The early pricing we received for SPSS/AMOS was incorrect. For 2011 SPSS costs $110/machines, AMOS $75/machine for AMOS (PC only) and there's also a separate module called Sample Power (PC only) available for $60/machine. Update: Saturday Update: SPSS 19 is now installed in IST controlled classrooms across campus, the ACO labs downstairs, our Psych Division Teaching Lab machines (ptlab* machines in 3022, 4036, 3245, 3253B, 3274, 1422, 4268, 4287). AMOS 19 has not yet been installed in any of these areas. I received a number of messages from faculty and grads indicating which machines they would like to purchase licenses for SPSS and AMOS. Thanks for getting those responses to me early - that makes things much easier. I didn't get a chance to respond to most emails, but I have them filed away and will get the installs done before the end of the month. |
| 2011/01/15 | 2011/01/16 | SPSS and AMOS purchased by faculty members expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. The early pricing we received for SPSS/AMOS was incorrect. For 2011 SPSS costs $110/machines, AMOS $75/machine for AMOS (PC only) and there's also a separate module called Sample Power (PC only) available for $60/machine. Update: SPSS/AMOS 18 in the teaching labs and classrooms unexpectedly expired early. Friday Update: Podium Nexus stations in IST controlled classrooms now have SPSS 19 installed. Nexus machines in the Psych Division Teaching Lab machines (ptlab* machines in WORC room, 3245, 3253B, 3274, 1422, 4268, 4287), our classrooms (ABC, 4288, 3012) also the machines in 3022 now have SPSS 19 installed. No AMOS 19 anywhere in the teaching labs yet though. In a pinch, undergrads could sneak over to several public Nexus labs in ENG which also has SPSS 19. |
| 2011/01/14 | 2011/01/15 | SPSS and AMOS purchased by faculty members expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. Update: SPSS/AMOS 18 in the teaching labs and classrooms unexpectedly expired early. Friday Update: Podium Nexus stations in IST controlled classrooms now have SPSS 19 installed. Nexus machines in the Psych Division Teaching Lab machines (ptlab* machines in WORC room, 3245, 3253B, 3274, 1422, 4268, 4287), our classrooms (ABC, 4288, 3012) also the machines in 3022 now have SPSS 19 installed. No AMOS 19 anywhere in the teaching labs yet though. In a pinch, undergrads could sneak over to several public Nexus labs in ENG which also has SPSS 19. |
| 2011/01/13 | 2011/01/18 |
I'm playing for McAfee in the Heart & Stroke Hockey for Heart Tournament January 29/30. Any donation to the Heart & Stroke Foundation is much appreciated (you'll get a tax receipt). Thanks. |
| 2011/01/13 | 2011/01/14 | SPSS and AMOS purchased by faculty members expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. Update: SPSS/AMOS 18 in the teaching labs and classrooms unexpectedly expired early. Wednesday Update: Podium Nexus stations in IST controlled classrooms now have SPSS 19 installed. SPSS 19 should arrive in classrooms by Monday at the latest (maybe Friday in some areas). Psych Nexus teaching lab and classroom machines may see it arrive Thursday (if no one is logged in and I get a chance to reboot the machines a few times) otherwise Friday or over the weekend. |
| 2011/01/12 | 2011/01/13 | 
I'm playing for McAfee in the Heart & Stroke Hockey for Heart Tournament January 29/30. Any donation is much appreciated (you'll get a tax receipt). Thanks. |
| 2011/01/11 | 2011/01/13 | Power has returned to PAS. As usual, fire up the Nexus stations and leave them on 24/7. When powering things up, turn on the UPS [1] [2] first and wait 15 seconds or so until the on-line light is a steady green before turning on your computer. If printers weren't powered off before the shutdown, turn them off, wait 15 seconds and turn them on which will reestablish the network connection. |
| 2011/01/10 | 2011/01/13 | SPSS and AMOS expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. Update: SPSS/AMOS in the teaching labs and classrooms has unexpectedly expired early. The teaching license is a separate license handled by a license server on campus. ENG is in the process of getting a new license server in place and I'll pop an update here mid/late this week to let you know were things are at. Licenses purchased by faculty members will continue to work until Jan 31. |
| 2011/01/09 | 2011/01/11 | Power has returned to PAS. As usual, fire up the Nexus stations and leave them on 24/7. When powering things up, turn on the UPS [1] [2] first and wait 15 seconds or so until the on-line light is a steady green before turning on your computer. If printers weren't powered off before the shutdown, turn them off, wait 15 seconds and turn them on which will reestablish the network connection. Backups of D:\users won't happen this weekend so stash away extra copies of anything critical you are working on. |
| 2011/01/08 | 2011/02/17 | The remote control for the projector in the ABC (PAS 3026) has croaked. I'm trying to find a replacement. For now, use the Leafs flag that's left there to turn the projector on/off. As usual, be sure to utter "Go Leafs Go" when you raise the flag. |
| 2011/01/08 | 2011/01/09 | Late this afternoon (Friday) I'll run something to power down any Nexus stations where no one is logged in. Later this even I'll run something to power down the machine even if you are logged in. A pop-up will appear saying it will power down the workstation in 2 hours. Just let me know if you are really working on it and I'll delay the shutdown on the individual machine. |
| 2011/01/08 | 2011/01/09 | Power will be off in PAS Saturday January 8th from 6am-noon. A neighbouring building which our network connection runs thru will be down from noon-4pm so the network in PAS will not be available between 6am-4pm on Saturday. Please power down all computers and printers and also turn off UPSs [1] [2] before you leave on Friday. We'll be able to automatically power down any Nexus which are left on which will eliminate the chance of disk errors when the shutdown happens, but we won't be able to power off the UPSs (they will beep until the battery runs dry). Please don't power up any computers until after 4pm Saturday when the network is back. I'll saunter in on Saturday after 4pm and fire up faculty/staff Nexus stations in the office areas so that those folks can can connect to their Nexus stations with RDP but I'll leave the machines in other areas to individuals to power on. Obviously backups of D:\users won't happen this weekend. Watarts and artsweb will also not be available during this time. Email accounts on connect (faculty/staff) and mailservices (students) is housed in IST so no interruption there. |
| 2011/01/07 | 2011/01/08 | Folks on the 1st and 3rd floor might be getting pop-ups saying you haven't been backed up since Dec 24th or so. This would be for files stored in D:\users (your Nexus My Documents or lab shares are still being backed up elsewhere). D:\users backups should occur again on Thursday night so if you see the message again Friday, pop a note to Carlos. |
| 2011/01/06 | 2011/01/10 | SPSS and AMOS expired December 31, and we're in the grace period which allows it to work until January 31. I've sent a note to all faculty members indicating where SPSS/Amos was installed in 2010 and asking on what machines licenses should be renewed/purchased. If you need your advisor to purchase it for you again this year, please contact him/her asap in order to allow them to get their list to me by January 12. We don't actually have the CDs so we can't start the install process yet. I'll post another note here when we're ready to carry on. |
| 2011/01/06 | 2011/01/08 | The remote control for the projector in the ABC (PAS 3026) has croaked. I'm trying to find a replacement. For now, use the Leafs flag that's left there to turn the projector on/off. |
| 2011/01/06 | 2011/01/08 | Our two coops this term are Mike Ward and Adil Ahmed... Be gentle with them. |
| 2011/01/06 | 2011/01/08 | A tentative date of March 1, 2011 has been set to disable the uw-wireless logins. If you are using wireless and haven't already switched to Eduroam logins, please consider doing it sooner rather than later. If you are having trouble connecting to wireless with Eduroam, this has some troubleshooting tips (be sure to login with "youruserid@uwaterloo.ca") or feel free to stop by to see our coops, Mike and Adil, in PAS 4279 who will help you out. |
| 2011/01/06 | 2011/01/07 | Folks on the 1st and 3rd floor might be getting pop-ups saying you haven't been backed up since Dec 24th or so. This would be for files stored in D:\users (your Nexus My Documents or lab shares are still being backed up elsewhere). D:\users won't be backed up Wednesday night while things are being repaired so make an extra back up of anything critical you were working on today. |
| 2011/01/05 | 2011/01/06 | The remote control for the projector in the ABC (PAS 3026) has croaked. I'm trying to find a replacement. For now, just have someone tall turn it on/off with the Power button the on projector. |
| 2010/12/31 | 2011/01/19 | Nothing to see here! |
| 2010/12/22 | 2010/12/31 | Another UW directed phishing attempt is making the rounds. This one is addressed to "Dear University of Waterloo Webmail User". As usual, if you get it, just chuck it. |
| 2010/12/22 | 2010/12/31 | A tentative date of March 1, 2011 has been set to disable the uw-wireless logins. If you are using wireless and haven't already switched to Eduroam logins, please consider doing it sooner rather than later. If you are having trouble connecting to wireless with Eduroam, feel free to stop by to see our coops, David and Steve, in PAS 4279. |
| 2010/12/21 | 2010/12/31 | OCD Santa |
| 2010/12/21 | 2010/12/22 | A tentative date of March 1, 2011 has been set to disable the uw-wireless logins. If you are using wireless and haven't already switched to Eduroam logins, please consider doing it sooner rather than later. If you are having trouble connecting to wireless with Eduroam, feel free to stop by to see our coops, David and Steve, in PAS 4279. |
| 2010/12/17 | 2010/12/31 | A number of updates will be going out to Nexus stations over the holidays. Please leave them on over this time - no harm turning off the monitors though. |
| 2010/12/15 | 2010/12/31 | Dept backups (D: drive) are kept only for 2 months. Nexus backups (My Documents, psych-lab-* shares, etc) are kept for 4 months. You should make your own backups at least once a term so that you have something long term to fall back on if you need it. |
| 2010/12/15 | 2010/12/17 | Carlos is on holidays until January 5th. |
| 2010/12/10 | 2010/12/11 | A mail loop prevented emails to Amandine Lassalle, alassalle@uwaterloo.ca, from being delivered between December 1-9. The sender would not have received a bounce message. Things are now fixed so if you sent anything to Amandine during this time, resend it to her. |
| 2010/12/08 | 2010/12/13 | Bookit is being moved to Exchange Calendar this weekend. If you currently use Boookit, it's probably a good idea to print any items in your Bookit calendar before 11am Friday when it goes off-line. |
| 2010/12/07 | 2010/12/11 | Quotas for email accounts on mailservices (students) have been doubled to 2 Gb. |
| 2010/12/07 | 2010/12/08 | Carlos and I will be at the WatITis conference on Tuesday December 7. For any emergencies, feel free to catch up with with our coops, Steve and David, in PAS 4279, x37879. |
| 2010/12/04 | 2010/12/11 | A tentative date of March 1, 2011 has been set to disable the uw-wireless logins. If you are using wireless and haven't already switched to Eduroam logins, please consider doing it sooner rather than later. If you are having trouble connecting to wireless with Eduroam, feel free to stop by to see our coops, David and Steve, in PAS 4279. |
| 2010/12/03 | 2010/12/21 | Reincarnation |
| 2010/12/03 | 2010/12/04 | Another UW directed phishing attempt is making the rounds. This one is addressed to "Dear University of Waterloo Internet User". As usual, just chuck it. |
| 2010/11/27 | 2010/12/03 | There, it's done. |
| 2010/11/27 | 2010/12/03 | Avoid storing files and folders on your desktop on Nexus stations. If you bump up against your quota limit, you will lose files. Rather, store files in your My Documents folder and create shortcuts to the files on your desktop. This way, since the files are stored in your My Documents folder, they will be backed up every hour. Files and folders on your desktop are not backed up unless you successfully logout (no profile pop-up messages indicating files can't be saved). |
| 2010/11/25 | 2010/11/27 | Yeah, it's that time of year again when you will probably see a lot of holiday hoax/trojan/virus emails which you'll want to avoid opening or forwarding to others. Here's one that's starting early: Facebook Christmas Tree Virus Hoax Spreading |
| 2010/11/25 | 2010/11/27 | Flossoraptor |
| 2010/11/21 | 2010/11/25 | Symantec EndPoint (AntiVirus) will be upgraded to a newer version in the late hours of the next few days. |
| 2010/11/19 | 2010/11/21 | On Thursday afternoon I popped a link on the wwwowwww's line (now removed) to: 200 students admit cheating after professor's online rant Here's an update: UCF Cheating Scandal Video Surfaces |
| 2010/11/18 | 2010/11/19 | There was an issue with one of the mail servers in cluster which was causing email delays. It was resolved at about midnight last night. On an unrelated note, myWaterloo has been down since this morning. For the time being, you can use the mailservices interface, but keep in mind the addressbook is not shared between the two. |
| 2010/11/12 | 2010/11/17 | Apple OS X 10.6.5 Patches 131 Security Flaws - we don't have a means of updating Macs automatically so patch 'em if you got 'em. |
| 2010/11/12 | 2010/11/13 | The time on watarts and artsweb was behind by 1 hour between October 15 5pm and November 7 2am. If you were collecting time senstive web studies during that time and need to know the time of day that forms were submitted, you will need to adjust your data. |
| 2010/11/12 | 2010/11/13 | The SPSS license server for teaching labs is down at the moment. ENG (where it is housed) will hopefully have it repaired soon. SPSS purchased by faculty members will still work, but in our various teaching labs (3022, 3274, 3245, 4289, 4268, WORC room) and classrooms across campus (including ABC, 3012, 4288) it will not run until the license server is fixed (hopefully later today). |
| 2010/11/09 | 2010/11/17 | Canada |
| 2010/11/09 | 2010/11/12 | Another phishing email going around. This one attempts to look like it's coming from the Canada Revenue Agency (although the from address is @onlineupdate.com). The link in the text appears as www.cra-arc.gc.ca, but it'll really take you to the bad guys site at rd.freedommafia.net. |
| 2010/11/08 | 2011/03/11 | Files stored on the psych-lab-* shares are being counted towards your personal quota. If your quota hits 90%, please contact Carlos or myself before you lose files. The ACO is hoping to have things fixed "later in November." Avoid storing files or folders on your desktop as files won't get transferred to the network drive and backed up until you logout. Since it may take several minutes to transfer large files/folders from your dekstop when you logout, you'll probably have your coat on and will be down the hall before you can see the popup that will appear telling you that it could not save your files/profile (if you see the pop-up, you can login the same day and your files/folders will still be there and you can move them elsewhere). Check the Psych Nexus Notes for all the gory details. |
| 2010/11/06 | 2010/11/08 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign |
| 2010/11/03 | 2010/11/06 | Firesheep In Wolves - Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily |
| 2010/10/30 | 2010/11/06 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign Bingo and Survivor Bingo - congrats to the first winner Maureen "One Liner" Stafford and the second winner Nadia "X" Martin. We're now playing for a full card. |
| 2010/10/30 | 2010/11/03 | A new Adobe Flash bug is currently being exploited by the bad guys on Windows, Macintosh and Linux/UNIX systems. You could be compromised by opening a malicious PDF file (from web link, email attachment, etc). Nexus stations are safe. Be sure to follow the instructions for a workaround on any non-Nexus machines including home machines and laptops. |
| 2010/10/29 | 2011/01/28 | The WatIAM password change will now change both your WatIAM and Nexus password at the same time (they will then be the same). Unfortunately things are broken in Arts so if you do attempt to change your password anytime after October 27th, please see Carlos or myself to complete the process. The ACO is hoping to have things fixed "later in November." |
| 2010/10/29 | 2010/10/30 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign Bingo and Survivor Bingo - congrats to the first winner Maureen "One Liner" Stafford and the second winner Nadia "X" Martin. We're now playing for a full card. THE Annual Halloween Pizza Lunch Fri Oct 29 at 12 noon including costume contest, door decorating contest, pumpkin carving, and raffle tickets (now on sale, great prizes). 
Guess the number of jelly beans and chocolates in the jars in the display cabinet outside the mailroom (PAS 3021A). Check here for all the gory details. |
| 2010/10/28 | 2010/10/29 | The Daily Bulletin had something today encouraging people to change their WatIAM password which would sync their WatIAM password and Nexus password to the same thing. Hold off on doing this for a bit - things are broken in Arts so it will not sync as expected. If have have already changed things on the WatIAM password page this week, logout and stop by to see Carlos or myself ASAP and we can complete the process so that you won't run into problems. I'll pop something here to indicate when things are fixed (the ACO indicated "a few weeks"). |
| 2010/10/27 | 2010/10/29 | Another UW direct phishing email is making the rounds. This one has the subject "Dear UWATERLOO.CA Email account owner". As usual, if you get it, just chuck it. |
| 2010/10/26 | 2010/11/09 | Yes, computer controlled. |
| 2010/10/26 | 2010/10/29 | Overnight on Wednesday Oct 27, IST will be moving Arts faculty/staff accounts to an upgraded Exchange email server. If you are using email at that time you may be disconnected. When this happens, quit your email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, OWA, etc) and wait at least 3 minutes. When you login again, things should be hunky-dory. |
| 2010/10/23 | 2010/10/26 | Nasty sites may try to trick users into installing malware. Here's an example. Nexus stations are safe against attempts to infect the system, but be cautious of this sort of thing on non-Nexus machines, laptops and home machines.
 Here's another example. |
| 2010/10/21 | 2010/10/26 | Another UW directed phishing attempt is making the rounds. This one addressed to "Dear Nexus myWaterloo Horde Webmail Account Owner". As usual, just chuck it. |
| 2010/10/21 | 2010/10/23 | Nasty sites may try to trick users into installing installing malware. Here's an example. Nexus stations are safe against attempts to infect the system, but be cautious of this sort of thing on non-Nexus machines, laptops and home machines. |
| 2010/10/20 | 2010/12/04 | Connecting to wireless with Eduroam |
| 2010/10/20 | 2010/10/29 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign Bingo and Survivor Bingo - congrats to the first winner Maureen "one liner" Stafford. We're now playing for an "X". THE Annual Halloween Pizza Lunch Fri Oct 29 at 12 noon including costume contest, door decorating contest, pumpkin carving, and raffle tickets (now on sale, great prizes).
Guess the number of jelly beans and chocolates in the jars in the display cabinet outside the mailroom (PAS 3021A). Check here for all the details. |
| 2010/10/20 | 2010/10/23 | IST shut down the servers for the old version of Symantec AntiVirus on October 15th. If you haven't already upgraded your non-Nexus machines, laptops and home machines, you can download the latest Symantec EndPoint for free. Be sure to uninstall your old antivirus before installing the new one. |
| 2010/10/20 | 2010/10/21 | |
| 2010/10/16 | 2010/10/20 | Watarts was back on-line around 5:25pm on Friday. Let us know if you notice any problems. |
| 2010/10/16 | 2010/10/20 | IST shut down the servers for the old version of Symantec AntiVirus on October 15th. If you haven't already upgraded your non-Nexus machines, laptops and home machines, you can download the latest Symantec EndPoint for free. Be sure to uninstall your old antivirus before installing the new one. |
| 2010/10/16 | 2010/10/20 | Connecting to wireless with Eduroam |
| 2010/10/12 | 2010/10/19 | Conquering for Corey |
| 2010/10/12 | 2010/10/16 | It's official... Mark Witherall takes home the Rogue Puck(TM) as the 2010 beeHive Baseball Pool Champion. Please pay homage to all the previous pool winners. |
| 2010/10/08 | 2010/10/12 | 
Conquering for Corey |
| 2010/10/06 | 2010/10/20 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign Bingo and Survivor Bingo - you can still snarf cards from from Louise (PAS 3023) or Theresa (PAS 4005). 'We've Got You Covered' Coat Sale - donations greatly appreciated - coat sale is Oct 18/19 THE Annual Halloween Pizza Lunch: Fri Oct 29 |
| 2010/10/06 | 2010/10/12 | Ontario Partnership for Adults with Aspergers and Autism |
| 2010/10/05 | 2010/10/08 | Please send me UWuserids of any users which should be added or removed from your Psych Security Groups (login with your WatIAM userid/password). |
| 2010/10/05 | 2010/10/06 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign Regular and Survivor Bingo starts Monday October 4 - get your cards and survivor numbers from Louise (PAS 3023) or Theresa (PAS 4005) before 1pm today. 'We've Got You Covered' Coat Sale - donations greatly appreciated - coat sale is Oct 18/19 THE Annual Halloween Pizza Lunch: Fri Oct 29 |
| 2010/10/04 | 2010/10/08 | Bragging rights and another Rogue Puck (TM) is up for grabs in the beeHive Hockey Playoff Pool. Deadline for entries is Thursday October 7th at 7pm EDT. Enter early so that you don't miss the deadline. If you decide you would like to change your picks later, just re-submit and I'll only keep your last entry. |
| 2010/10/01 | 2010/10/05 | Please send me UWuserids of any users which should be added or removed from your Psych Security Groups (login with your WatIAM userid/password). This list has been updated and is current as of 3pm Thursday. |
| 2010/10/01 | 2010/10/02 | As of about 3:45pm, UW's big pipe to the outside world is broken. Network traffic is now being handled through a smaller tube so you'll notice accessing off campus sites is slower than usual. IST is investigating. |
| 2010/09/30 | 2010/10/08 | On October 15 IST is shutting down the servers for the old version of Symantec AntiVirus. You'll need to upgrade to the new version before that time to ensure you continue to be protected. All Nexus stations have already been updated, but you'll need to manually check all other machines including laptops and home machines. You'll see one of the following two icons in the system tray in the bottom right corner beside the clock:  old Symantec AntiVirus (need to upgrade)
 Symantec Endpoint Protection (current product) If you need to upgrade, you can download the latest Symantec EndPoint for free. Be sure to uninstall the old version before installing the new one. |
| 2010/09/29 | 2010/10/05 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign Regular and Survivor Bingo starts Mon Oct 4 - get your cards and survivor numbers from Louise and Theresa 'We've Got You Covered' Coat Sale - donations greatly appreciated - coat sale is Oct 18/19 THE Annual Halloween Pizza Lunch: Fri Oct 29 |
| 2010/09/28 | 2010/10/01 | Please send me UWuserids of any users which should be added or removed from your Psych Security Groups (login with your WatIAM userid/password). |
| 2010/09/28 | 2010/09/29 | Psychology's 2010 United Way Campaign |
| 2010/09/22 | 2010/10/08 | Pure Laziness |
| 2010/09/22 | 2010/09/23 | As of around 1:00am, the artsfile file server is still unavailable. It has been patched, but the file system is in the process of being repaired and verified. Hopefully it will be ready by the time morning rolls around. I'll post a note here as soon as I get any other updates from the ACO. Feel free to stop by my office to confirm where things are at before you attempt to login in the morning. I'll pop a note on my door if I have to leave the office. I'll also update my voicemail with the status as well, x36638, in case that's more convenient for you to check. Anything stored on the Arts file server will be unavailable. This includes web studies housed on the artsweb server. If you are teaching in a classroom and need to login to a Nexus station anywhere on campus while the artsfile server is down, we'll need to arrange for a temporary Nexus account from another faculty (since only Arts is affected). Contact me asap if this is the case. Alternatively a laptop could be used (and hopefully your talk is also stored somewhere besides artsfile). BTW, if you have RAs or people working in your lab from other faculties, they can login to any Nexus station and carry on as usual (aside from accessing the various psych-lab-* shares obvisouly). Only people in Arts with files/folders stored on the Arts file server are affected. |
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| 2010/09/18 | 2010/10/08 | When using wireless, rather than logging in at the initial screen that comes up, click eduroam at the bottom of the page. This will provide a secure connection and also, you won't have to login as often. |
| 2010/09/18 | 2010/09/30 | I'm hugely backlogged. If you are waiting for something from me, thanks for your patience. |
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| 2010/09/17 | 2010/09/22 | Natural Selection |
| 2010/09/17 | 2010/09/18 | Hopefully no wireless issues today, but let me know. |
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| 2010/09/16 | 2010/09/17 | IST bumped into some limits on wireless Tuesday which caused some issues. This morning an additional controller was put into place and they were hoping that would solve the problems. Unfortunately there seems to be problems which started around 11:40am. If you are currently logged into wireless, things work, but it's not allowing new logins. I talked with IST - they are looking at things, but also had to battle a power outage on that side of campus. They are hoping to have things back to normal by Thursday morning. If you get in and have have problems at that time, let me know and I'll start pestering them. If you hear your neighbour cursing, let them know. |
| 2010/09/16 | 2010/09/17 | A while ago we mentioned Symantec AntiVirus 10 was approaching its end of life - it dies October 15th (moved back from the original September 15th plan). If you had previously installed Symantec AntiVirus from UW on a laptop or home machine and haven't upgraded already, you can download and install the new FREE version of Symantec EndPoint from UW. Be sure to uninstall your old antivirus before installing the new version. |
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| 2010/09/15 | 2010/09/22 | Yeah, ignore those phishing emails from "Webmail Upgrade Team". |
| 2010/09/15 | 2010/09/16 | IST reported they are experiencing higher than expected users on the wireless network. As a result they are hitting the user limits of the controllers causing instability and unexpected behaviour. They have configured another controller that will be placed into service Wednesday morning to handle the additional load. In the meantime there may be additional interruptions until this occurs. As usual, let us know if you are having any problems - they need to know there are problems before they can fix things. |
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| 2010/09/14 | 2010/09/15 | Dopey me. I forgot to add the new grad students to the department mailing lists last week. If you sent something to psycgrad or psycmail, it wouldn't have gotten to the new grads so just re-send it. Things are updated now. Psych mailing lists |
| 2010/09/11 | 2010/09/17 | If you are logging into UW wireless, use the new "eduroam" (at the bottom of the login screen) rather than the regular login option. You'll need to specify your userid as "youruserid@uwaterloo.ca". A number of universities use eduroam so if you are visting, it may also allow you to connect to the wireless on other campuses. |
| 2010/09/11 | 2010/09/15 | GRAD STUDENTS: if you are changing your WatIAM preferred email address from an off campus email address to your @uwaterloo.ca address, do this: - login to WatIAM
- click "WatIAM User Access" then "Update Profile" and change the "Email forward" field to: youruserid@mailservices.uwaterloo.ca - yeah the "mailservices' portion you do need to specify here.
- wait about 5 minutes and test by sending an email to: youruserid@uwaterloo.ca and it should be delivered as expected.
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| 2010/09/10 | 2010/09/15 | Adobe Acrobat, Reader Under Attack From Zero-Day Exploit - Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux systems are all vulnerable. Avoid opening PDF files in emails you aren't expecting. |
| 2010/09/10 | 2010/09/11 | If you are logging into UW wireless, use the new "eduroam" (at the bottom of the login screen) rather than the regular login option. |
| 2010/09/10 | 2010/09/11 | GRAD STUDENTS: if you are changing your WatIAM preferred email address from an off campus email address to your @uwaterloo.ca address, do this: - login to WatIAM
- click "WatIAM User Access" then "Update Profile" and change the "Email forward" field to: youruserid@mailservices.uwaterloo.ca
- wait about 5 minutes and test by sending an email to: youruserid@uwaterloo.ca and it should be delivered as expected.
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| 2010/09/09 | 2010/09/15 | For password changes, go to: Nexus Login Password Change and WatIAM. You will also need to see Carlos or myself to complete the Nexus password change process. |
| 2010/09/08 | 2010/09/15 | The Password Meter - don't check your real password here, but check something similar to see how strong it is. |
| 2010/09/08 | 2010/09/10 | Microsoft Warns Of Malware Faking Virus Alerts |
| 2010/08/31 | 2010/09/25 | RELIVE LAB: Participants needed for a study of how active house-hunters explore and form preferences for different styles of houses |
| 2010/08/31 | 2010/09/08 | On Monday (August 30th), it will be required that Nexus passwords are at least 8 characters long. If your's isn't, you won't be able to login. We typically recommended 8 character passwords so hopefully this won't affect anyone in Psych. You can change your Nexus password with Nexus Login Password Change, but the password change mechanism is broken in Arts so you will also need to stop by to see Carlos or myself to change your password for the artsweb/artsnexus components of your Nexus account otherwise you will see some breakage. While you are at it, you can also change your passwords for the following (passwords can be the same or different on each): WatIAM
(passwords for connect, mailservices, HRinfo, ACE, Quest) watarts, artsservices or other servers on campus
(login to the Server where you want to change your password, then click Password at the left) |
| 2010/08/28 | 2010/09/08 | The move of artsmail account to mailservices has completed. Emails to artsmail will be forwarded to mailservices. If you were previously on artsmail, check your folders to ensure everything made it to mailservices. To view what was previously on your artmail account, login to mywaterloo and select the server 'vortex'. |
| 2010/08/28 | 2010/09/03 | Faculty members on connect using Entourage on a Mac will have problems reading email after a server update on Wednesday morning. To work around the problem, go into Tools/Account Settings, double-click the server name and in the "Exchange Server" feild change the reference to "connect.uwaterloo.ca" to "connhub1.connect.uwaterloo.ca". Apparently the Macs don't handle the load balancing jump and a specific server needs to be specified. |
| 2010/08/28 | 2010/08/31 | On Monday, it will be required that Nexus passwords are at least 8 characters long. If your's isn't, you won't be able to login. We typically recommended 8 character passwords so hopefully this won't affect anyone in Psych. You can change your Nexus password with Nexus Login Password Change, but the password change mechanism is broken in Arts so you will also need to stop by to see Carlos or myself to change your password for the artsweb/artsnexus components of your Nexus account otherwise you will see some breakage. While you are at it, you can also change your passwords for the following (passwords can be the same or different on each): WatIAM
(passwords for connect, mailservices, HRinfo, ACE, Quest) watarts, artsservices or other servers on campus
(login to the Server where you want to change your password, then click Password at the left) |
| 2010/08/27 | 2010/09/16 | A while ago we mentioned Symantec AntiVirus 10 was approaching its end of life - it dies September 15th. If you had previously installed Symantec AntiVirus from UW on a laptop or home machine and haven't upgraded already, you can download and install the new FREE version of Symantec EndPoint from UW. Be sure to uninstall your old antivirus before installing the new version. |
| 2010/08/27 | 2010/08/28 | On Monday, it will be required that Nexus passwords are at least 8 characters long. If your's isn't, you won't be able to login. We typically recommended 8 character passwords so hopefully this won't affect anyone in Psych. You can change your Nexus password with Nexus Login Password Change, but the password change mechanism is broken in Arts so you'll need to stop by to see Carlos or myself to change the password for the artsweb/artsnexus components of your account. While you are at it, you can also change your passwords for the following (passwords can be the same or different on each): WatIAM
(passwords for connect, mailservices, HRinfo, ACE, Quest) watarts, artsservices or other servers on campus
(login to the Server where you want to change your password, then click Password at the left) |
| 2010/08/27 | 2010/08/28 | Faculty members on connect using Entourage on a Mac will have problems reading email after a server update on Wednesday morning. To work around the problem, go into Account Settings, double-click "Exchange Server" and change the reference to "connect.uwaterloo.ca" to "connhub1.connect.uwaterloo.ca". Apparently the Macs don't handle the load balancing jump and a specific server needs to be specified. |
| 2010/08/26 | 2010/08/27 | On Monday, it will be required that Nexus passwords are at least 8 characters long. If your's isn't, you won't be able to login. We typically recommended 8 character passwords so hopefully this won't affect anyone in Psych. The password change mechanism is broken in Arts so if you would like to change your password, stop by to see Carlos or myself. |
| 2010/08/25 | 2010/09/08 | Check your password - is it strong? |
| 2010/08/25 | 2010/08/28 | The move of artsmail account to mailservices has completed. Emails to artsmail will be forwarded to mailservices. |
| 2010/08/24 | 2010/09/14 | Meanwhile, in Australia |
| 2010/08/24 | 2010/08/26 | Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes |
| 2010/08/21 | 2010/09/03 | Users of mailservices (mostly students) can now login with either their Quest/WatIAM password or their Nexus password. |
| 2010/08/21 | 2010/08/25 | The move of artsmail account to mailservices has completed. Emails to artsmail will be forwarded to mailservices. We've had one instance of a folder being lost so do a once over to ensure nothing is missing. If you notice any problems, let us know. In this process, a misconfiguration caused email sent to about 30 students in Arts to be lost between 10am Wednesday and 4pm Thursday (you would not have received a bounce message). The Psych grad students on the list were: ammckinl ampolano cbainerm cdaniels efallis jlmccart jtomaszc l2goldbe lozen nbarr ra2fergu sgoyert tmewhort vhuyder UPDATE: aknyhout, apalanic, awudarze and cmeza had email lost emails until Friday at 2:30pm. The problem has been corrected so just resend things to them and it will arrive. |
| 2010/08/21 | 2010/08/25 | A number of software packages were updated on Nexus stations during their reboot in the wee hours of Thursday morning. If you use Thunderbird, the first time you run it, it will ask if you want to "make searches quicker" (or something like that). Say "No" to this, otherwise it will create a copy of all your emails in your Nexus file space and since it's a network drive, things won't actually be quicker anyway. |
| 2010/08/20 | 2010/08/21 | The move of artsmail account to mailservices has completed. Logout and login again and if you notice any problems, let us know. In this process, a misconfiguration caused email sent to about 30 students in Arts to be lost between 10am Wednesday and 4pm Thursday (you would not have received a bounce message). The Psych grad students on the list were: ammckinl ampolano cbainerm cdaniels efallis jlmccart jtomaszc l2goldbe lozen nbarr ra2fergu sgoyert tmewhort vhuyder The problem has been corrected so just resend things to them and it will arrive. |
| 2010/08/20 | 2010/08/21 | A number of software packages were updated on Nexus stations during their reboot in the wee hours of Thursday morning. If you use Thunderbird, the first time you run it, it will ask if you want to "make searches quicker" (or something like that). Say "No" to this, otherwise it will create a copy of all your emails in your Nexus file space and since it's a network drive anyway, things won't actually be quicker anyway. |
| 2010/08/19 | 2010/08/21 | Users of mailservices (mostly students) can login with either their Quest/WatIAM password or their Nexus password. |
| 2010/08/19 | 2010/08/20 | The ACO is moving all remaining student accounts from artsmail so email will be unavaiable for a period of time if you hadn't been moved previously. This process started at about 10am Wednesday and should finish sometime Thursday morning. We moved email accounts of most grad students in Psych from artsmail to mailservices last fall. If you weren't able to arrange a time to do this with use previously, it will appear all your email is gone. I'll post something here once the moves are finished and you should be able to logout and login again after that time and see all your usual email folders. |
| 2010/08/16 | 2010/09/09 | If new grads arrive early, hold off on sending them to see Carlos or myself for their accounts. We'll be meeting with all the new grads on Wednesday September 8th for an intro session and will give them their accounts at that time. This will save us from having to regurgitate info to each person individually. Thanks. |
| 2010/08/12 | 2010/08/16 | | I'm on vacation until Monday August 16th... |
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| 2010/08/11 | 2010/10/08 | There's a problem with the way quotas are currently being handled on the artsfile file server. If you bump into any quota issues, please contact Carlos or myself. |
| 2010/08/11 | 2010/08/18 | If you find your computer is too stable and too reliable, try adjusting these settings. |
| 2010/08/04 | 2010/08/06 | Auroral Activity |
| 2010/07/29 | 2010/08/11 | There's a problem with the way quotas are being handled on the artsfile file server. At the moment, files stored in the shared lab space (e.g., psych-lab-gfong), count towards your personal quota (My Documents, web space, profile settings). The ACO is looking into the problem. When you logout, hang around until the usual login screen appears (where it asks to press ctrl-al-del) to login. If you see any message during the logout process which indicates a problem saving files or your profile, let us know and we'll pester the ACO to bump up your quota. With being over quota, you will lose saved files or settings. You will definitely lose files stored on your desktop so, as usual, don't store files on your desktop. |
| 2010/07/29 | 2010/08/11 | Once your web studies are finished, be sure to backup your data and remove the folders from your public_html folder on the web server so that folks can no longer access things. |
| 2010/07/25 | 2010/07/29 | Once your web studies are finished, be sure to backup your data and remove the folders from your public_html folder on the web server so that folks can no longer access things. There's a problem with the way quotas are being handled on the artsfile file server. At the moment, files stored in the shared lab space (e.g., psych-lab-gfong), count towards your personal quota (My Documents, web space, profile settings). The ACO is looking into the problem. When you logout, hang around until the usual login screen appears (where it asks to press ctrl-al-del) to login. If you see any message during the logout process which indicates a problem saving files or your profile, let us know and we'll pester the ACO to bump up your quota. With being over quota, you will lose saved files or settings. You will definitely lose files stored on your desktop so, as usual, don't store files on your desktop. |
| 2010/07/20 | 2010/07/25 | There's a problem with the way quotas are being handled on the artsfile file server. At the moment, files stored in the shared lab space (e.g., psych-lab-gfong), count towards your personal quota (My Documents, web space, profile settings). The ACO is looking into the problem. When you logout, hang around until the usual login screen appears (where it asks to press ctrl-al-del) to login. If you see any message during the logout process which indicates a problem saving files or your profile, let us know and we'll pester the ACO to bump up your quota. With being over quota, you will lose saved files or settings. You will definitely lose files stored on your desktop so, as usual, don't store files on your desktop. |
| 2010/07/20 | 2010/07/23 | We're getting down to crunch time for having things done before the start of next term. Since much of September is usually a write-off, if you need new systems in place before October, please ensure we place the orders before Thursday July 22nd so that we can get things set up in August. |
| 2010/07/13 | 2010/07/20 | There's a problem with the way quotas are being handled on the artsfile file server. At the moment, files stored in the shared lab space (e.g., psych-lab-gfong), count towards your personal quota (My Documents, web space, profile settings). The ACO is looking at the problem. When you logout, hang around until the usual login screen appears (where it asks to press ctrl-al-del) to login. If you see any message during the logout process which indicates a problem saving files or your profile, send a message to Carlos (I'm off this week) and he'll pester the ACO. With being over quota, you will lose saved files or settings. You will definitely lose files stored on your desktop so, as usual, don't store files on your desktop. |
| 2010/07/10 | 2010/07/20 | Another phishing email making the rounds. This one tries to convince you that it's from the Canada Revenue Agency and that there's a refund coming for you. The URL you would need to click on has a convincing look to it, aside from the ".cc" at the end which means it's located somewhere in either Turkey or the Cocos Islands off of Australia. |
| 2010/07/10 | 2010/07/18 | | I'm on vacation until Monday july 19th... |
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| 2010/07/10 | 2010/07/13 | There's a problem on the artsfile file server at the moment for some people with the way quotas are being handled. The ACO is looking into the problem. Please send an email if you see a error relating to "no more space" so that we can collect info and troubleshoot. Thanks |
| 2010/07/09 | 2010/07/13 | Another Facebook scam to watch for. |
| 2010/07/09 | 2010/07/10 | There's a problem for some people in trying to save to a network share (a quota setting went awry). The ACO is working on the problem and hopefully you can save things to the share again before 5pm. If you need to leave sooner rather than later, save your stuff under D:\users and copy things over to the network share when you get in on Friday. |
| 2010/07/08 | 2010/07/09 | UW will be testing the emergency warning system on Wednesday afternoon. All Nexus stations have the Emerge software installed which will generate a pop-up if an emergency message goes out. If you are running subjects and would like to avoid the test message on a specific machine, let us know the name of the machine (on the yellow sticky on top of the machine) and we'll disable it for the day. You'll also get phone messages, but we can't stop those. |
| 2010/07/07 | 2010/07/08 | UW will be testing the emergency warning system on Wednesday. All Nexus stations have the Emerge software installed which will generate a pop-up if an emergency message goes out. If you are running subjects and would like to avoid the test message on a specific machine, let us know the name of the machine (on the yellow sticky on top of the machine) and we'll disable it for the day. |
| 2010/06/26 | 2010/07/03 | | I'm on vacation until Monday July 5th... |
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| 2010/06/23 | 2010/06/25 | The Lenovo Support Site had some malicious code injected into it on the weekend. Here's more details in case you are interested. If you have a ThinkPad, you may see a "Solve PC issues" icon in the bottom right corner notifying you of updates. It's probably a good idea to hold off going to the site for a week or so until things are tidied up. BTW, the "Solve PC issues" icon is normal and expected (it doesn't mean you are infected). If you see this icion, there are probably valid updates to install, but just hold off on applying the updates for week or so. |
| 2010/06/23 | 2010/06/25 | Here's the latest Psych Phone List. |
| 2010/06/23 | 2010/06/24 | | I won't be in on Wednesday morning... |
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| 2010/06/18 | 2010/07/13 | World Cup Calendar |
| 2010/06/18 | 2010/06/22 | Symantec Endpoint (the antivirus software) will be upgraded on all Nexus stations in Psychology on Fri/Sat/Sun between 6pm-midnight. If you are doing data collection and would prefer to not have the software installed on specific machines during this time, just let me know the name of the machine(s) before 3pm on Friday June 18. |
| 2010/06/17 | 2010/06/22 | Marg Ingleton's 4 year old grandson, Colton, did an interview about the FIFA World Cup with Adele on the Beat 91.5... |
| 2010/06/16 | 2010/06/17 | Marg Ingleton's grandson, Colton, did an interview about the FIFA World Cup with Adele on the Beat 91.5. |
| 2010/06/15 | 2010/06/16 | You can ignore those phishing emails with the subject "Your Mail Box Quota Has Exceeded The Set Limit" from "System Administrator". A few dead giveaways that it's not valid is that it goes off campus (in this case freehostia.com) and also the From address isn't local either. |
| 2010/06/14 | 2010/06/15 | You may have noticed a couple junk pages printed on your printer - one with "Get / HTTP/1.0" and another with just "HELP"... Turns out IST was doing some security scans and accidentally tapped the printers. |
| 2010/06/14 | 2010/06/15 | Quotas have been re-enabled on Nexus. Besure you keep the default settings for warnings (90%/50 0.000000or the Ndrive/Profile) so that you have elbow room to tidy things up if you approach your quota limit. Don't bump the warnings to 1000therwise you will run into problems. Feel free to Carlos or myself if you see any quota warning messages. Since quotas were off yesterday and are on today, if you logout while being over quota, you may loose files. Faculty/Staff quotas have been increased to 2Gb on your network drive. Grad students still have 500Mb. Also, I can't talk about quotas without a reminder that it's a bad idea to store files/folders on your desktop. If you want icons on your desktop for easy access to items, create shortcuts instead. |
| 2010/06/13 | 2010/06/15 | It's official! Adam Zanna takes home a Rogue Puck(TM) in the 2010 Playoff Hockey Pool. Check the standings for some humble words from the winner. |
| 2010/06/13 | 2010/06/14 | Quotas have been re-enabled on Nexus. Besure you keep the default settings for warnings (90%/50 0.000000or the Ndrive/Profile) so that you have elbow room to tidy things up if you approach your quota limit. Don't bump the warnings to 1000therwise you will run into problems. Feel free to Carlos or myself if you see any quota warning messages. Since quotas were off yesterday and are on today, if you logout while being over quota, you may loose files. Faculty/Staff quotas have been increased to 2Gb on your network drive. Grad students still have 500Mb. Also, I can't talk about quotas without a reminder that it's a bad idea to store files/folders on your desktop. If you want icons on your desktop for easy access to items, create shortcuts instead. |
| 2010/06/12 | 2010/06/15 | Microsoft warns of help flaw in Windows XP, Server 2003 If you don't want to think about it too much, avoid clicking on links starting with hcp:// in emails and you should be ok. |
| 2010/06/12 | 2010/06/14 | You may have noticed a couple junk pages printed on your printer - one with "Get / HTTP/1.0" and another with just "HELP"... We're looking into it... |
| 2010/06/12 | 2010/06/13 | Quotas have been re-enabled on Nexus. Besure you keep the default settings for warnings (90%/50 0.000000or the Ndrive/Profile) so that you have elbow room to tidy things up if you approach your quota limit. Don't bump the warnings to 1000therwise you will run into problems. Feel free to Carlos or myself if you see any quota warning messages. Since quotas were off yesterday and are on today, if you logout while being over quota, you may loose files. Faculty/Staff quotas have been increased to 2Gb on your network drive. Grad students still have 500Mb. Also, I can't talk about quotas without a reminder that it's a bad idea to store files/folders on your desktop. If you want icons on your desktop for easy access to items, create shortcuts instead. |
| 2010/06/11 | 2010/06/12 | Quotas have been re-enabled on Nexus. Besure you keep the default settings for warnings (90%/50 0.000000or the Ndrive/Profile) so that you have elbow room to tidy things up if you approach your quota limit. Don't bump the warnings to 1000therwise you will run into problems. Feel free to Carlos or myself if you see any quota warning messages. Since quotas were off yesterday and are on today, if you logout while being over quota, you may loose files. Faculty/Staff quotas have been increased to 2Gb on your network drive. Grad students still have 500Mb. Also, I can't talk about quotas without a reminder that it's a bad idea to store files/folders on your desktop. If you want icons on your desktop for easy access to items, create shortcuts instead. |
| 2010/06/10 | 2010/07/07 | If you've installed Symantec EndPoint (SEP, the antivirus program used on campus) on laptops or home machines, you will soon see a pop-up asking you to update it. Quit any programs you have running and go ahead with the update, it'll take 10-20 minutes so let it finish before you do anything else and once it's done, reboot your system. If you see the yellow shield in the tray with a small green circle, you're good. |
| 2010/06/09 | 2010/06/10 | Network printers will be unavailable between 7am-8:30am Wednesday June 9 while the ACO installs several patches on their servers. |
| 2010/06/06 | 2010/06/09 | At the moment the ACO had quotas turned off on your Nexus accounts. They are doing some account cleanup after the move to the new file server. If you notice your quota usage is 0%, your files haven't disappeared - they are still there. But, as usual, avoid storing files on your desktop so you don't run into any problems when they turn things back on. |
| 2010/06/06 | 2010/06/09 | A Security Advisory for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat went out late Friday regarding a means for the bad guys to take control of a PC, Mac or Unix/Linux machine. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited so I've removed the authplay.dll file from our Nexus PCs to disable the exploit. You may want to do the same for any non-Nexus PCs (including Macs on Nexus), home machines and laptops. See the link above for details on how to do this. Removing the dll file will cause Acrobat to crash if you try to view a PDF with Flash content (the means for the exploit to occur), but that's better than the alternative. :-) If you have a PDF file with Flash content from a source you know is safe, let me know and I'll pop the file back into place temporarily on your Nexus PC so that you can view it - I suspect not too many legitimate PDFs will have Flash content though. |
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| 2010/06/04 | 2010/06/06 | That's useful... Ctrl-Backspace deletes an entire word in things like Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. |
| 2010/06/04 | 2010/06/05 | As well, the ACO is applying patches to several servers on Friday morning so printing may be unavailable between 7:00am and 8:30am. |
| 2010/06/04 | 2010/06/05 | A number of updates will be going out to Nexus stations tonight (thursday). Please be sure to logout before you leave tonight. Don't shutdown the machine - just make sure it's powered on and at the login screen. In the wee hours, the machine will reboot and the updates will be applied. This will save you from having to wait 10-30 minutes while the updates happen the next time the machine is booted. I may check machines after 10pm this evening to see if anyone is logged in and force a logout after a an hour or two (you'll see a pop-up). If for some reason you'd rather not have me do this, let me know the name of the machine and I'll exclude it from my scripts. Please also pass this message on to your RAs in case there are any issues there (hopefully not, but no harm including them). |
| 2010/06/03 | 2010/06/05 | Another phishing email is making the rounds. As usual, just chuck it. |
| 2010/05/23 | 2010/05/28 | The scammers are using another phishing phishing attacked directed at UW. |
| 2010/05/22 | 2010/05/23 | You can "Insert Coin" at Google today. |
| 2010/05/15 | 2010/05/22 | Another phishing email directed at UW is making the rounds. As usual, just chuck it. |
| 2010/05/13 | 2010/05/28 | Our computer support coop students this term are Zach Frenette and Maithem Munshed. Be gentle with them. |
| 2010/05/12 | 2010/05/15 | Annual Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture Dr. John Dovidio, Yale University Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Suppression of Stereotypes But the Perpetuation of Bias Friday May 14 3:00pm
MacKirdy Hall (room 201), St Paul's College |
| 2010/05/12 | 2010/05/14 | Because of various problems, the ACO has reverted back to the the old print server. This will restore printing to how it was last week. The ACO will proceed with migrating to the new print server after more testing has been done and they are more sure of the successful implementaion. |
| 2010/05/09 | 2010/06/09 |  The frequency of backups on Nexus has been increased significantly. Backups of your My Documents folder and the network shares (e.g., psych-lab-dbesner, etc) will occur about once an hour. This means that if you have been working on something and saving regularly, if you accidently clobber the file, you should be able to get a backup which is less than an hour old. Hourly backups will will be available for the previous 48 hours. As well, Nexus backups will now go back 17 weeks (about 4 months). See the Backups section in the Psych Nexus Notes for additional details on how to restore files yourself. |
| 2010/05/09 | 2010/05/15 | 7-Zip is now installed on all Nexus stations and should properly handle old files created in WinZIP with a password and AES encryption. Whenever you double-click on various compressed files, including .zip or .7z files, it should open with 7-Zip. Google for 7-zip tutorial and you'll find a few helpful tidbits to get up to speed with 7-Zip. |
| 2010/05/08 | 2010/05/15 | The notices this week are getting a bit long. If you've made it this far, here's something that hopefully makes it all worth your while... A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator, in a calm, soothing voice, says: "Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: "Okay, now what?" |
| 2010/05/08 | 2010/05/12 |  The ACO is attempting another upgrade of the print server on Monday May 10 between 8am and 9am. Avoid printing before 9am and if you notice any problems after that time, please let us know as soon as possible. |
| 2010/05/08 | 2010/05/09 | 7-Zip on Nexus stations should properly handle files created in WinZIP with a password and AES encryption. If you would like 7-Zip to be the default unzipper to open when you "double-click" on a .zip file (on Nexus stations, laptops, home machines, etc), do this: - right-click on a .zip file and select "Open With..." then "Choose Program..."
- check the box beside "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and then click the "Browse..." button.
- in the "Open With..." window, browser to "C:\Program Files\7zip\7zFM.exe" and click "Open".
- click "OK".
Now whenever you double-click on a .zip file, it should open with 7-Zip. You may need to follow the same routine if you save .7z archives (or any of the other available compressed formats). The reason WinZip was replaced on campus was because the cost of the license to purchase it on all Nexus stations on campus was prohibitive. Individuals can still purchase WinZip themselves if desired, but I'd suggest to hold off and go with the flow and use 7-Zip instead. 7-Zip is free to download and install from http://www.7-zip.org/ in case you want to get it on any laptops or home systems. People you are collaborating with can also download and install it. In addition to compressing files, you can also encrypt them with a password. Google for 7zip tutorial and you'll find a few helpful tidbits to get up to speed with it. |
| 2010/05/07 | 2010/05/08 | 7-Zip on Nexus stations should properly handle files created in WinZIP with a password and AES encryption. If you would like 7-Zip to be the default unzipper to open when you "double-click" on a .zip file (on Nexus stations, laptops, home machines, etc), do this: - right-click on a .zip file and select "Open With..." then "Choose Program..."
- check the box beside "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and then click the "Browse..." button.
- in the "Open With..." window, browser to "C:\Program Files\7zip\7zFM.exe" and click "Open".
- click "OK".
Now whenever you double-click on a .zip file, it should open with 7-Zip. The reason WinZip was replaced on campus was because the cost of the license to purchase it on all Nexus stations on campus was prohibitive. Individuals can still purchase WinZip themselves if desired, but I'd suggest to hold off and go with the flow and use 7-Zip instead. 7-Zip is free to download and install from http://www.7-zip.org/ in case you want to get it on any laptops or home systems. People you are collaborating with can also download and install it. In addition to compressing files, you can also encrypt them with a password. Google for 7zip tutorial and you'll find a few helpful tidbits to get up to speed with it. |
| 2010/05/06 | 2010/06/06 | At the moment the ACO had quotas turned off on your Nexus accounts. They are doing some account cleanup after the move to the new file server. Your files haven't disappeared - they are still there. But, as usual, avoid storing files on your desktop so you don't run into any problems when they turn things back on. |
| 2010/05/06 | 2010/05/28 | If you have RAs coming or going from your lab, send me their userid so that I can add or remove them from your lab group. Their Nexus userid needs to be associated with your lab group in order to access your printers and lab shares. |
| 2010/05/06 | 2010/05/07 | UPDATE: The following should be fixed by a patch which will go out to all Nexus stations on campus on Wednesday night. A few updates to all Nexus stations on campus went out at the start/end of term and it looks like one of the things that happened was that Winzip was replaced with a package called 7-zip, but unfortunately, the way things are at the moment doesn't let you double-click on a zip file to open it. As a workaround, rather than double-clicking on a zip file, in the Start Menu, select "Accessories/7zip File Manager". The first time, it might open in your "My Documents" folder. If you want to get to the D: drive or elsewhere, click the "Up Folder" icon beside the address a few times to get to your computer and you can select the D: drive from there. Unfortunately trying to do a file association to zip files doesn't seem to stick which prevents you from setting things to and being able to double-click on a zip file or right-clicking on a zip file and selecting "Open with 7zip". I left a message with the folks in Eng who are maintaining this package so hopefully it gets fixed soon. The reason WinZip was replaced on campus was because the cost of the license to purchase it on all Nexus stations on campus was prohibitive. Individuals can still purchase WinZip themselves if desired, but I'd suggest to hold off and go with the flow and use 7zip instead. 7zip is free to download and install from http://www.7-zip.org/ in case you want to get it on any laptops or home systems. In addition to compressing files, you can also encrypt them with a password. Google for 7zip tutorial and you'll find a few helpful tidbits to get up to speed with it. |
| 2010/05/05 | 2010/05/06 | UPDATE: The following should be fixed by a patch which will go out to all Nexus stations on campus on Wednesday night. A few updates to all Nexus stations on campus went out at the start/end of term and it looks like one of the things that happened was that Winzip was replaced with a package called 7-zip, but unfortunately, the way things are at the moment doesn't let you double-click on a zip file to open it. As a workaround, rather than double-clicking on a zip file, in the Start Menu, select "Accessories/7zip File Manager". The first time, it might open in your "My Documents" folder. If you want to get to the D: drive or elsewhere, click the "Up Folder" icon beside the address a few times to get to your computer and you can select the D: drive from there. Unfortunately trying to do a file association to zip files doesn't seem to stick which prevents you from setting things to and being able to double-click on a zip file or right-clicking on a zip file and selecting "Open with 7zip". I left a message with the folks in Eng who are maintaining this package so hopefully it gets fixed soon. |
| 2010/05/04 | 2010/05/05 | The Monday problems accessing Psych network shares (e.g., the psych-lab-dbesner folder) have been solved so things should again be working as expected. If you notice any problems, let us know. |
| 2010/05/04 | 2010/05/05 | A few updates to all Nexus stations on campus went out at the start/end of term and it looks like one of the things that happened was that Winzip was replaced with a package called 7-zip, but unfortunately, the way things are at the moment doesn't let you double-click on a zip file to open it. As a workaround, rather than double-clicking on a zip file, in the Start Menu, select "Accessories/7zip File Manager". The first time, it might open in your "My Documents" folder. If you want to get to the D: drive or elsewhere, click the "Up Folder" icon beside the address a few times to get to your computer and you can select the D: drive from there. Unfortunately trying to do a file association to zip files doesn't seem to stick which prevents you from setting things to and being able to double-click on a zip file or right-clicking on a zip file and selecting "Open with 7zip". I left a message with the folks in Eng who are maintaining this package so hopefully it gets fixed soon. |
| 2010/05/02 | 2010/05/03 | The artsfile server is being upgraded this Sunday May 2 between 8:00am to noon. Nexux accounts will not be available during this time. BEST ADVICE IS TO NOT LOG IN TO NEXUS DURING THIS TIME. Sorry for the late notice. Unfortunately the ACO just announced this early Saturday morning... I suspect artsweb will not be available during this time either. |
| 2010/05/01 | 2010/05/03 | Sharepoint will not be available Saturday May 1 between 9am and noon. |
| 2010/04/30 | 2010/05/05 | Avoid placing computers on the floor. Cleaning staff are instructed to not move things and as a result, there's a lot of dirt and dust in most rooms. If a computer is on the floor, it will basically act as a very costly air cleaner. Computers need to circulate air to cool themselves, the air gets pulled into the computer and the elctro-static charge causes the dirt and dust to stick to the computer components. Unfortunately the coating of dirt and dust prevents the components from cooling causing overheating and failure requiring $$$ to fix. Anyway, keep computers on your desk, or if you have room, consider putting it on the bookshelves behind your desk. |
| 2010/04/27 | 2010/04/28 | UW-ACE will be down for the day on Tuesday April 27 for upgrades. |
| 2010/04/24 | 2010/04/26 | Many services will be shut down this weekend on the other side of campus. Critical IST systems in MC should stay running allowing email to continue to flow and access to the the campus network should be available from the real world... should... |
| 2010/04/23 | 2010/04/30 | Our Dept backups and the Nexus backups are only kept for a few months at most. I really recommend to people to make permanent backups of files on all machines (offices, labs, home, laptops) at least once a term - and now is as good a time as any. If you are purchasing CDs or DVDs from a UW account, see Helen and she'll be able to order things for you. "CD -R" or "DVD -R" discs are probably best for archiving files (longer shelf life), but +RW's will probably also do the trick. Consider making two copies of critical stuff (it's not a backup unless there's two). Be sure to store them in a dark, cool, clean area and not on your window sill. Things won't last forever so also consider recopying old discs. In the same way, if you are copying things to an external disk disk, be sure you have a second copy of everything as all drives will also fail eventually, and probably at the worst time possible. |
| 2010/04/22 | 2010/04/23 | The email problems from Tuesday night have been solved. Feel free to give a yell if you notice any other problems. |
| 2010/04/21 | 2010/04/22 | There seems to be an intermittent problem with email not arriving on the connect server (used by faculty and staff) Tuesday evening. I've left a voicemail with IST so hopefully it's solved by Wednesday morning. |
| 2010/04/19 | 2010/04/21 | There was a power outage over the weekend. If your machine is off, turn the UPS on first, wait until the lights stop flashing, then fire up your monitor and machine. Then check if your neighbour got things going OK. |
| 2010/04/17 | 2010/04/19 | There will be free public electronic equipment recycling on Saturday April 17th, 2010 between 8:00am and 4:00pm at ECH, 263 Phillip Street (Central Stores). Normally there's a $10/item drop off see at the landfile, but old CRT/LCD Monitors, Computers, TV's, Laptops, Keyboards, Mice, Speakers, Printers, Copiers, Scanners, VCR's, DVD Players, Stereo's, Telephones, Cell Phones, Cartridges, etc can be dropped off at no cost. |
| 2010/04/14 | 2010/04/15 | I went into a book store. They said they specialized in hard-to-find books. Nothing was alphabetized! |
| 2010/04/13 | 2010/04/17 | Still another Rogue Puck (TM) is up for grabs... Deadline for entries for the 2010 beeHive Hockey Playoff Pool is 7:00pm Friday April 16th. |
| 2010/04/13 | 2010/04/15 | Congratulations to Corey Bainerman who claims a Rogue Puck (TM) as the winner of the 2010 Regular Season beeHive Hockey Pool. Respectively submit yourself to some humble words from the winner. |
| 2010/04/10 | 2010/05/08 | Psychology's Bingo and Survivor Bingo proceeds go to the United Way. |
| 2010/04/09 | 2010/04/13 | Some printserver maintenance will be taking place Monday morning so there may be a brief delay in printing (no more than a minute or so though). If you have any problems, let us know asap. |
| 2010/04/09 | 2010/04/13 | Non-Nexus installs of SPSS/AMOS will need to be done manually from CD. If you've purchased licenses for SPSS/AMOS, stop by to borrow a CD and remind me to email you the license codes to do those installs. |
| 2010/04/09 | 2010/04/13 | If you were running web studies on artsweb and expecting participants to complete forms at certain times, the times you see saved in the output.txt file will be behind by 1 hour between March 14th 2am and April 4th 2am. |
| 2010/04/09 | 2010/04/10 | You can still pick up cards for Psychology's Bingo and Survivor Bingo from Louise in 4020. Proceeds go to the United Way. |
| 2010/04/09 | 2010/04/10 |
Another Rogue Puck (TM) is up for grabs in the 2010 beeHive Baseball Pool. Deadline for entries is 7:00pm today. Check the Past Pool Winners. |
| 2010/04/06 | 2010/04/09 | Waterloo Copyright FAQ |
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