ISG News has posted a new item, 'Emergency downtime of D-PHYS mail server
today'
There will be an emergency maintenance downtime of the D-PHYS mail server later
today (Tuesday, 27th of December) due to unexpected hardware issues.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/27/emergency-downtime-of-d-phys-mail-…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration Home Directories'
In order to gain more flexibility and performance, the home directories will
move to our new SAN setup.
This will be done on Thursday, 5. January 2012, between 18:00 and 22:00.
During this time the home directories (winhome, machome, unixhome), the mail
services and some websites will not be available.
To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, we strongly
recommend you close all open files on the home directories before the
migration.
Since we have switched to generic names for our services, the home directories
will still be accessible the same way as before after the migration is over, so
you don't have to change anything.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/22/migration-home-directories-2/
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Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during christmas holidays'
The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Monday, 26th of December 2011
and Monday, 2nd of January 2012. During this time, we can only provide limited
support. Please follow these rules to save us from superfluous work:
Switch off printers
Switch off your personal workstation and notebook except for the following:
Do not switch off our managed Linux workstations.
We will try to follow our e-mail, but you may also have luck and meet some of us
in our IRC channel.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/22/computer-support-during-christmas-…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Network Interruption Today from 7pm to 8pm'
Today, the 7th of December 2011, around 7pm, there will be a complete network
interruption in the whole Department of Physics for about one hour. The central
ETH IT Services (“Informatikdienste”) will replace the hardware of the core
router to the HPx network zone (includes the HIT building).
Wireless LAN should not be affected, but as the servers will be offline, too,
you won't have access to files or mails on the servers, i.e. don't expect to be
able to work during the network downtime. The technicians will reconnect the
servers first, so access to the servers from the outside of the Department or
via WLAN will be restored earlier than 8pm. Workstations and printers will get
network access back afterwards.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/07/network-interruption-today-from-7p…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'plompy terminal server: unscheduled maintenance
reboot'
Today at 13:00 we had to reboot plompy, one of our LTSP terminal servers. We're
sorry for any inconvenience. In order to prevent those terminal servers from
clogging up memory in the future, we hereby announce the following maintenance
reboot schedule:
plompy: first Sunday of each month, 02:00 am
plimpy: third Sunday of each month, 02:00 am
There will always be one functioning terminal server and upon login your thin
client will choose the right one. Please don't forget to save your data when
leaving for the weekend before those two Sunday dates (that's always a good idea
anyways).
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/11/04/plompy-terminal-server-unscheduled…
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail Server Upgrade on Wednesday, 5th of
October'
On Wednesday, 5th of Octobre 2011, starting at 16:30, we will upgrade the
operating system on several servers of our mail server cluster. This will result
in temporary unavailability of most e-mail related services we provide: sending
and receiving e-mails, mailing lists and webmail access.
Due to the maintenance e-mails may have some lag and arrive a few hours later
than usual.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/10/03/mail-server-upgrade-on-wednesday-5…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'We're moving!'
After 3 years in our current offices in HPT D floor we will move to our new (and
hopefully final) location in HPT H. Tuesday to Thursday this week our services
will be somewhat limited, but the helpdesk will be staffed at all times.
We're looking forward to welcoming you in our new quarters!
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/10/03/were-moving/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Increased Number of Viruses'
As some of you may have noticed there are a lot of viruses these days that
arrive by e-mail and that slip through the virus filters. The current pattern
involves ZIP attachments that contain executable code (EXE) inside it. The mail
pretends to come from DHL, UPS, FedEx, or Xerox. We expect other fake senders
like airline or hotel reservation systems to follow. We also expect to see
infected PDF or MS office attachments.
The current viruses appear long before their signatures make it into the lists
of the major anti-virus (AV) software. By the time the signature appears in the
official lists the virus wave is usually already over. Be aware that no AV
software can protect you reliably form viruses. All the AV software can do is
keep the old known viruses at bay.
We are currently working hard to find such viruses and we keep our internal list
of unofficial signatures. Once we recognize a new virus we clean them out of the
user inboxes and move them to the SpamBox. However, we cannot garantee that we
find all viruses.
Please be vigilant and do not trust attachments. ZIP and EXE are almost always
bad. PDF are often OK but sometimes bad. Mail senders can be faked so make sure
that you really expect an attachment from the sender.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/09/21/increased-number-of-viruses/
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Elmar Heeb
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Hardware upgrade in the student computer room
HPV F 7.1'
We updated the hardware of 5 computers in the student computer room HPV F 7.1.
With 4 GB of RAM and 3.0 Ghz processor from AMD they now have much more
performance than the older ones. For identification, we have marked them with a
blue label. These computers are available for public use within the usage policy
while they're not being used for exercises.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/09/05/hardware-upgrade-in-the-student-co…
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isg
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Power Outage at ETH Hönggerberg'
Sunday Aug 21, 2011 around 2:30-2:40 pm the ETH Hönggerberg campus experienced
a power outage. For some buildings (and/or power lines) the interruption was
short and led to reboots of the affected computers. The HCI building remains
without power as of this writing (4:30 pm). The server room at HIT D 13 seems
not to have been affected by the power loss.
Some of our IT services are affected among them one of our DHCP servers and some
of our backup servers. We will have to wait until power is restored in HCI to
restart the affected services.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/08/21/power-outage-at-eth-honggerberg/
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