One fo the department cluster nfs server, nerds, was hung on a soft reboot. It needed a hard reboot to come back up. Once nerds was back online, rejoined it to the department nfs cluster. There was a 90 sec blip for linux users who were connected to its cluster …
Due to the "A Day On College Hill" events, the upgrade of wireless access points in the CIT building is rescheduled for Friday, 4/24/15, starting at 8:30am. The Networking Technology Group will be turning on the new APs and disconnecting the old ones. They will be working one floor at a time …
CIS Network Technology Group will be upgrading the wireless access point in the CIT building starting Wednesday, 4/22/15, at 8:30am. They will be turning on the new APs and disconnecting the old ones. They will be working one floor at a time and it's not known exactly how long each floor will …
A major upgrade of the software that drives the CS Department website rolled out today, promising easier and faster editing, and many improvements.For web authors, the most obvious change is much-improved on-page editing, using CKEditor.Django CMS version 3 focuses on usability, and a more natural page-editing workflow. Django sites have …
We've been alerted by Facilities that National Grid will be performing emergency repairs to one of the principle branches providing electrical power to the campus. The entire campus is fed by four feeder lines. In preparation for this work, Facilities will be transferring the load from the affected line to …
Available for Download: 12pm on 4/2/2015
From: https://software.cs.brown.edu
Tstaff will be renewing the CA Root Certificate used to provide the SSL certificates for our VPN service. As such, the new .ovpn configuration files will be made available for VPN users to download from https://software.cs.brown.edu. The server changes and the corresponding .ovpn files …
CIS just alerted us to some upcoming wireless changes:On Wednesday, April 1st, 2015, CIS will be replacing the wireless certificate for the Brown network. When this happens, your computers, phones, and tablets may disconnect from wifi. To reconnect, use the same process as you have in the past: connect to …
The power outage went quite smoothly, in fact the work was completed about an hour ahead of schedule. We did have a few unexpected machines go down when the "A" side of the building power was taken offline, including:dblade05 - dblade10dblade25 - dblade30dblade55 - dblade60cslab0a, babbage, tesla, maple, robby (on the …
The start time of the Saturday power outage has been moved up by an hour. Everyone must vacate the building by 5am and no one will be permitted access starting at 5am until the work is complete. In accordance with this, we will now be shutting down supported desktops and …
The main CS server room has approximately 140 servers. The vast majority of these servers are partnered up, so a loss of any one server automatically fails associated services over to it's partner and the service continues to be available; albeit after a momentary blip as the services fail over. …