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[ISG News] No more Mailman password reminders in the future
by Axel Beckert 12 May '10

12 May '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'No more Mailman password reminders in the future' Since the monthly password reminders of our mailing lists software Mailman have caused more confusion and unnecessary work than they seemed to help, from now on they are globally disabled on our mailing list server. If you lost or forgot your password for the subscription of any of our mailing lists, you can always go to https://lists.phys.ethz.ch/listinfo, choose the appropriate list, scroll down to the bottom of that page, enter your e-mail address, click on "Unsubscribe or edit options", and then click on "Remind". Your password will be sent to your e-mail address. Additionally, the next generation of Mailman doesn't seem have password reminders anymore, anyway. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/05/12/no-more-mailman-password-reminders… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Homeserver Maintenance Downtime
by Schmid Patrick 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Homeserver Maintenance Downtime' Because of performance problems on our Homefileserver we need to reboot the server tomorrow Wednesday, 28th of April 2010. This will cause a downtime between 07:00 and approximately 07:30. This will result in a short service interruption for the home directories! To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, it is best to close all open files on the home directories. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/27/homeserver-maintenance-downtime/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Schmid Patrick schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Printing problems
by Christian Herzog 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Printing problems' Printing currently doesn't work on most Macs. We're still trying to find the source of the problem. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/19/printing-problems/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Maintenance Downtime of IDL License and Condor Master Server on 14. April, 5 pm
by Axel Beckert 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance Downtime of IDL License and Condor Master Server on 14. April, 5 pm' Because of hardware problems with one of our infrastructure servers we couldn't perform the planned software upgrade on the IDL license server and Condor master server during the big maintenance downtime last week. Those hardware problems are fixed now and so we will install the software upgrade on the IDL license and Condor master server tomorrow, Wednesday, 14th of April 2010, starting at 5 pm. Duration of the maintenance downtime will be approximately two hours. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/13/maintenance-downtime-of-idl-licens… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] New computation node plumpy
by Christian Herzog 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'New computation node plumpy' In order to relieve our Terminal Server plimpy of some of its computational burden, we assigned it a new sidekick specifically targeted at number crunching tasks: plumpy.ethz.ch So if you've been using plimpy to perform calculations in the past, please ssh into plumpy from now on and do your work there. This should make both you and the plimpy users happy. Thank you. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/08/new-computation-node-plumpy/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Maintenance Downtime of all Services on Wednesday, 7th of April 2010
by Axel Beckert 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance Downtime of all Services on Wednesday, 7th of April 2010' On Wednesday, 7th of April 2010, starting at 6pm and lasting until approximately 9pm, there will be several maintenance downtimes for nearly all of our services due to several software upgrades and relocation of servers. So if you're using one of our managed workstations or thin clients, or use data residing on group drives, please save all your work and preferably log out/disconnect before Wednesday, 6pm. And even if the services seem back after the first short downtime, don't expect to be able to work again from that point on since we will have several short but also some not so short service downtimes in a row. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/01/maintenance-downtime-of-all-servic… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Nearing End of Life support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2
by Patrick Frei 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Nearing End of Life support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2' On July 13th 2010, Windows 2000 Server/Professional and Windows XP Service Pack 2 will no longer be supported with security updates by Microsoft. Machines running these operating systems should be upgraded to newer versions like Windows 7 or Server 2008 if they are directly connected to the D-PHYS network. The IT Use Policy of ETH does not allow systems without an active patch cycle to be connected to the ETH network. Please make sure that all computers running any of the affected operating systems have been migrated by July 13th 2010. The same also applies to even older systems like Win 9x or NT 4.0 of course. More information about Microsoft Support Lifecycle can be found here. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/03/08/nearing-end-of-life-support-for-wi… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Patrick Frei frei(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Mail Server Migration Part 3: Webmail
by Axel Beckert 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail Server Migration Part 3: Webmail' On Thursday, 4th of May 2010, starting at 5pm we will migrate our webmail service to the new mail server. Since there are no version upgrades of the webmail applications Roundcube and Twig, it will be a smooth transition and you shouldn't even notice the migration. The only thing which can happen is that you get logged out of webmail if you use webmail while the DNS entry changes to the new server address. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/03/01/mail-server-migration-part-3/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Windows 64bit printing problem resolved
by Schmid Patrick 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Windows 64bit printing problem resolved' We are happy to announce that our printer server now accepts print jobs sent by Windows 64bit-Clients. Read our instructions if you are using our printer server. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/03/03/windows-64bit-printing-problem-res… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Schmid Patrick schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Plimpy maintenance reboot
by Christian Herzog 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Plimpy maintenance reboot' Our terminal server plimpy (uptime: 80 days) is slowly clogging up with runaway processes, eating up memory and CPU. Since we cannot tell apart good processes from bad ones, we schedule a maintenance reboot for tomorrow, Wednesday February 24 at 18:00 in order to give the system a fresh start. We ask all users to save their data and log out of their thin clients. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/02/23/plimpy-maintenance-reboot/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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