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===October 15, 2010===
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We have finished the rollout of Debian Squeeze on all of our shellservers and mortals.  We think we have a complete development environment for most languages on them- but if you find something not there that you want, [[Website:Contact|let us know]] and we'll get it installed.
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===September 13, 2010===
 
===September 13, 2010===
 
We are in the proccess of moving our shellservers and mortals to a more recent version of Debian ("squeeze"), so please let us know if there are any bugs that need to be fixed. Login may be unstable for the next day or two as we reboot the machines to load the new images, but they should be stable after that.
 
We are in the proccess of moving our shellservers and mortals to a more recent version of Debian ("squeeze"), so please let us know if there are any bugs that need to be fixed. Login may be unstable for the next day or two as we reboot the machines to load the new images, but they should be stable after that.
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===June 21, 2010===
 
===June 21, 2010===
 
An unexpected power outage in Winnett from 2:00 to 6:00 AM resulted in massive service disruption (aka the whole cluster was down) for about four hours.  Any mail sent during that time was collected offsite and has since been delivered.  All services and servers should now be up and running.  If you have any questions, please email the sysadmins.
 
An unexpected power outage in Winnett from 2:00 to 6:00 AM resulted in massive service disruption (aka the whole cluster was down) for about four hours.  Any mail sent during that time was collected offsite and has since been delivered.  All services and servers should now be up and running.  If you have any questions, please email the sysadmins.
 
===June 17, 2010===
 
We've moved all the shellservers to a new 64-bit image, and the lab has been cleaned and reorganized.  There are some small changes to the new image that need to be made, so if you notice anything out of place please email the sysadmins.
 
 
===May 23, 2010===
 
We now have two machines, terpsichore and minthe, that have high-performance graphics cards (Nvidia GTX 260), as well as 4gb ram and a quad-core processor.  These computers were purchased with a grant from the [http://www.deans.caltech.edu/gwhfund.htm Housner Fund]
 
 
===April 13, 2010===
 
[[Website:Office_Hours|Office hours]] this term will be be Mondays from 10-11:30pm.
 
 
===March 22, 2010===
 
We will have some [[Website:Mar_2010_downtime|downtime on Monday, March 28]] starting at 12:01am and lasting until 6am at the latest.
 
 
===January 6, 2010===
 
[[Website:Office_Hours|Office hours]] for this term will start next week and run from 7:30-9pm.
 
 
===December 2, 2009===
 
[[Website:Office_Hours|Office hours]] tonight will run from 7:15-8:00pm.
 
 
===November 4, 2009===
 
The [[Documentation:Mortals|Mortals]] cluster is back up.
 
 
===October 18, 2009===
 
We had some brief downtime on posiedon, our webserver, this morning from 9:30 to 11:30.  All services should be back up- please let us know if you have problems.
 
 
===October 6, 2009===
 
We are going to start holding [[Website:Office Hours|Office hours]] in UGCS.  Current office hours times are Wednesdays 7:30pm - 9pm, but are subject to change- see the page for updates.  Come by to say hi, get your password reset, or ask questions about Linux or UGCS.
 

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October 15, 2010

We have finished the rollout of Debian Squeeze on all of our shellservers and mortals. We think we have a complete development environment for most languages on them- but if you find something not there that you want, let us know and we'll get it installed.

September 13, 2010

We are in the proccess of moving our shellservers and mortals to a more recent version of Debian ("squeeze"), so please let us know if there are any bugs that need to be fixed. Login may be unstable for the next day or two as we reboot the machines to load the new images, but they should be stable after that.

August 13, 2010

One of our AFS servers (apollo) failed to reboot around 11am, causing an AFS outage. Mail bounced for about 20 minutes, but none was silently dropped. As of 12:30pm, things are on their way back up.

August 8, 2010

Air conditioning failure in the UGCS server closet caused a number of difficulties. Apollo crashed, taking the AFS root volume with it, and so homedirs, the website, and mail were temporarily unavailable. Furthermore, the mortals subcluster was turned off to save heat. All mail should have been now delivered, and homedirs should now be available. For further information or questions, email the sysadmins.

June 21, 2010

An unexpected power outage in Winnett from 2:00 to 6:00 AM resulted in massive service disruption (aka the whole cluster was down) for about four hours. Any mail sent during that time was collected offsite and has since been delivered. All services and servers should now be up and running. If you have any questions, please email the sysadmins.

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