Post by Logan Fairfax on Jul 30, 2009 5:21:47 GMT
Hello and welcome to the 6th iteration of Somnium’s Technology Blog. This blog is open to all students and staff and its highly recommended that they check it often. I welcome all users to leave comments, complaints, or songs of praise. Contained within this blog, you will find tidbits such as:
*Technology related updates and how they affect you at Somnium*
*News about the networks and PCs on campus*
*Other random things that may benefit your lives*
As always, this is your all knowing, yet benevolent Network Administrator,
Logan Fairfax (L.fairfax@somnium.edu)
XioFax9 is currently playing: Resident Evil 5, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, & Final Fantasy VI
*Technology related updates and how they affect you at Somnium*
*News about the networks and PCs on campus*
*Other random things that may benefit your lives*
As always, this is your all knowing, yet benevolent Network Administrator,
Logan Fairfax (L.fairfax@somnium.edu)
XioFax9 is currently playing: Resident Evil 5, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, & Final Fantasy VI
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Email Boxes
I’ve harped on this more times that I can remember but we’re still having problems with storage on our email server. Somnium has a lot of students and a fair amount of staff too. Each person is allotted 1gig of space for their messages (Inbox, Sent, Deleted, Spam, and Archived.) The average text based email is only 5-15 kb. There is no reason for your email boxes to be nearing the full capacity. Here are some things you can do to cut down on your email size.
- Get a Gmail account. Its free and they give you 7-8 gigs worth of space
- Empty your Deleted Items and Spam folders regularly.
- Empty your Inbox and Sent Items folders annually.
If you use your school email address to sign up for newsletters or updates, remember that they can pile up if you don’t delete or archive them. See step 1 and maybe use that email account for newsletters. Also, if you use your school email address to sign up for things online, chances are you’re going to get Spam mail…Even if you don’t use your school email, it is your responsibility to check it regularly or have the mail forwarded to another account.
If your email box is nearing capacity, you will receive a message from me sometime today. In the event your box is full, you will be receiving an unpleasant phone call from me instead. I’m going to give everyone a week to clean up their email. If, after that time, I find any users whose boxes are near capacity, they will find that all their messages have been purged.
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Dozer Threat Contained
The Dozer Worm released onto our system last week has been contained and eliminated. Only a small number of PC’s were affected, but I would remind those using their own PCs to keep their antivirus software up to date. Also, when you receive a link from someone on MySpace, please make sure you know the person and/or check that they sent it to you BEFORE you click the link. *glares at the idiot who released the virus* And yes, I know who you are and I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt and not banning you for a month. See? I can be a nice person sometimes.
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Pellets
Scheduled Network Maintenance this Tuesday from 1:00am to 4:00am. Email may be unavailable during this time.
Standings from last week’s Call of Duty 4 Tournament:
1st: Nth Division
2nd: XioFax9
3nd: Be3r_Me
Nth Division, your ass is mine next time around…Good match all!
Upcoming Game Nights/Tournaments:
Monday: Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
Wednesday: Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
Friday: Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360)
Saturday: 3rd Annual Doom Day!
Doom 95, Doom II, Final Doom, Doom III +Free play+ +Custom WAD’s welcome with my approval+ (computer lab; all day event)
As usual, and unless otherwise noted, all game nights are held in the Student Recreation Room from 8pm to whenever the last person passes out or the Headmaster kicks us out. Signups are only required for the Friday tournaments (free play will be available after the tournament. Observers welcome.) All game nights/tournaments are free and open to all students and staff. Some food and beverages will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. Please contact me or leave a comment if you would like more information (we could always use more consoles / tv’s too…)
