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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 Miranda Migrated to SunFire V880
Miranda is now available on the new Academic and Research Computer, arc1.
Please run your Miranda program on the new system. If you have any questions
please contact our Helpdesk (email: Helpdesk@UWindsor.Ca or phone: 253-3000
ext. 4440).
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Monday, March 17, 2003 New Academic and Research Computer now available
Effective today, Monday, March 17, 2003, the new Academic and Research
Computer (arc1.uwindsor.ca) is now available for early production. For a
list of available software please check Hotnews at
http://www.uwindsor.ca/its/hotnews. You can access the new system in the
same way as the SGI by simply replacing server.uwindsor.ca with
arc1.uwindsor.ca. From the login prompt, enter the same USERID and PASSWORD
that you currently use to login to the SGI system. Users' home directories
and associated files will be available from both the old SGI system and the
new arc1 system. If you have any questions or concerns please contact our
Helpdesk (email: Helpdesk@UWindsor.Ca or by phone at ext. 4440).
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Thursday, December 19, 2002 NFS File Server upgrade complete
Our NFS file server was replaced this morning, as planned, with a newer
system.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact our Helpdesk (email:
Helpdesk@UWindsor.Ca or by phone at ext. 4440).
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Tuesday, December 17, 2002 NFS File Server upgrade
Our NFS file server will be replaced over the next few days with a newer
system. As a result the web data directory trees /usr/local/ucc/courses
and /usr/local/ucc/www-docs will be unavailable from Wednesday, Dec. 18th
at midnight (12:01 a.m.) until Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. To convert home
directories and other file systems, node server (SGI Challenge XL) will be
unavailable on Thursday, Dec. 19th at midnight (12:01 a.m.) until Thursday
at 8:00 a.m. If additional conversion time is required it will be scheduled
at Friday midnight.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact our Helpdesk (email:
Helpdesk@UWindsor.Ca or by phone at ext. 4440).
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Thursday, October 3, 2002 Java upgraded for security
Java and its libraries have been upgraded for security reasons. If you use
Java please read http://web2.uwindsor.ca/public/java.html. This web page
describes the changes that Java customers need to be aware of. If you have
any questions or concerns please contact our Helpdesk
(email: Helpdesk@UWindsor.Ca or by phone at ext. 4440).
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Wednesday, September 11, 2002 compiler messages addressed
For the past several months compiler customers have intermittantly
received warning messages about the license manager. These long messages
indicated that the compiler "Cannot connect to license server". As of
today this problem should no longer occur. If you have comments or
questions, please contact our Helpdesk (email: Helpdesk@UWindsor.Ca or
phone: 519-253-3000 ext. 4440).
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Friday, September 28, 2001 System Maintenance Schedule
In order to provide the best service possible with the fewest possible
interruptions, testing is normally done during test time. During test
time the SGI server is unavailable to its customers. Please do not log
in during test time. The SGI server test time hours are Monday through
Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Infrequently, we also perform system maintenance on the weekend when
longer slots of time are required. These test times are announced in advance
and occur on Saturday between 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. or on Sunday from
6:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
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Saturday, January 13, 2001 New Internet Service Provider
As of today, the University's Internet Service Provider (ISP) has changed
to Telus. For more information please see the HotNews at
http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/its/website/helpdesk2.nsf/(w-hotnews)
If you have any questions or concerns please contact our HelpDesk
(email: HelpDesk@UWindsor.Ca or phone: 519-253-3000 ext. 4440).
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Monday, May 8, 2000 (Updated Jan 9, 2002) Maple version 6 installed
A new version of Maple has been installed on the system. If you want to use
the previous version(Version 5) please give the command mapleold or xmapleold.
The Update Source file converter (updtsrc) takes a Maple source file that
contains code written in Maple V Release 5 and updates it to conform with
changes in Maple 6. For old man pages enter "man mapleold".
You can view the Update Source help page by typing ?updtsrc at the Maple
prompt or by giving the command "man updtsrc" at the % prompt.
If you need more information, please call Helpdesk at ext. 4440 or send
email to Helpdesk@uwindsor.ca
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Wednesday December 22, 1999 ITS SYSTEMS SCHEDULE UPDATE
All systems will be running unattended after December 22, as is done every
Christmas holiday. If you encounter system problems please send email to
HelpDesk@UWindsor.Ca or leave voice-mail at 519-253-3000 ext. 4440. Non
system related problems will be dealt with after the University reopens in
January.
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Tuesday, December 21, 1999 Upgrade of iSPF and REXX
Today, the versions of iSPF and REXX were upgraded to the lastest versions
in order to ensure Y2K compliance. iSPF is now at version 1.33 and REXX is
at version 2.97.
If you need to run the previous versions, use ispf.old or rxx.old.
If you have any questions, please contact the HelpDesk at ext. 4440.
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Monday, November 22, 1999 IRIX 6.5.6 and Netscape 4.7
Today, patch maintenance was applied to node server (SGI Challenge XL).
Included in this maintenance is a new versions of Netscape, v4.7.
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Thursday, September 23, 1999 Java Upgrade
The Java compiler has been upgraded to version 1.2 Beta. This was
done in order to resolve some security issues with version 1.1.6. There are
some known performance related issues which are expected to be resolved in
the final release.
For more information, please see the following URL:
http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/java.html
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Tuesday, August 10, 1999 C, C++, Fortran, and Java upgrades
Along with the installation of patch maintenance which brought the system
up to IRIX 6.5.4 in mid July, the MIPSpro compilers (C, C++, and Fortran)
were upgraded to release 7.3. While these change should be transparent for
most customers, more information on these are available at
http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/mips73features.html
Later this month a new version of Java scheduled to be installed. This
is a port of the SUN's Java2 SDK, v1.2.1. More information is available at
http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/java.html
If you require early access to this version of Java, please send email to
root@server.uwindsor.ca.
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999 NEdit
NEdit has been upgraded from version 4.0.3i SGI to version 5.0.2.
NEdit is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) style text editor.
If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact the
HelpDesk at (519)253-3000 ext. 4440, or send email to 'helpdesk@uwindsor.ca'.
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Thursday, January 7, 1999 EMACS upgrade
The emacs editor has been upgraded from version 19.30.2 to version 19.34.1
Enter "man emacs" for details. If you have any questions or problems,
please feel free to contact the HelpDesk at (519)253-3000 ext. 4440, or send
email to 'helpdesk@uwindsor.ca'.
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Monday, December 21, 1998 IRIX 6.5.2 upgrade
The upgrade to IRIX 6.5.2 of this system, node server (SGI Challenge XL),
is complete. Information about this upgrade is available by issuing the
command "public upgrade" (without quotes) or on the WEB at
http://www.uwindsor.ca/public/upgrade.html
If you have questions, concerns or problems about this upgrade, please
contact our HelpDesk by email at HelpDesk@UWindsor.Ca or by phone at
253-3000 extension 4440.
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Monday, October 19, 1998 Laser printing and print queues lp & lp2
Effective today, the "laserprt" command in now available to send your
output to the laser printer in the basement lab of the University Computer
Centre. For example
laserprt FILENAME
will send a file named FILENAME to the laser printer queue. As with the PCs,
your card is required to print the job. However, you should enter your SGI
userid instead of the PC location when prompted for a userid.
Effective today, print queues lp (UNIX default queue) and lp2 have been
routed to this laser printer queue. IT Services recommends that you use
the "laserprt" command to send jobs to laser printer instead of directly
accessing these queues using the "lpr" command.
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Wednesday, September 16, 1998 Reducing Paper Wastage
This semester, IT Services is introducing a new printing procedure in the
lab located in the basement of the University Computer Centre building. This
procedure is designed to reduce wastage of printer paper and to improve the
quality of printing. The 24 pages per minute laser printers will significantly
decrease the printing delays. Students will see a major improvement.
To cover the cost of the equipment and the consumables such as paper and
print cartridges, there will be a charge for printing. A "cash card" based
system will be used for charging. The rate is established on the "cost
recovery" basis. Compared to other universities and community colleges who
have been charging, our rate of 7 cents per page is one of the lowest. The
rates range from 7 cents to 10 cents and most of them are 8 or 9 cents. Signs
will be posted in the lab with details.
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Thursday, Feb 12, 1998 Unsolicited Electronic Mail (junk mail)
Computing Services realizes that unsolicited electronic mail (junk mail)
can be an unwanted intrusion into your life, however, responding to these
email messages does NOT work. It only creates extra load on our systems,
our network and the internet. Instead, Computing Services asks that you
simply delete these unsolicited electronic mail messages.
In the long term Computing Services has established a committee to
address the junk mail issue. Thank-you for your cooperation.
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Tuesday, August 12, 1997 (Updated: May 8, 2001) EMail Usage Policy
Remember your in-box is only a temporary storage for e-mail.
For users getting mail on server(Challenge XL) an automated
program will be run daily from August 13, 1997 to enforce
controls on in-boxes on server. For more details see
- June's 1997 Insight,
- check on the web at http://web2.uwindsor.ca/public/mail.html, or
- contact the HelpDesk at (519) 253-3000 ext. 4440 or by e-mail at
'helpdesk@uwindsor.ca'
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Friday, August 1, 1997
On Tuesday, July 29, 1997 an addition 0.75GB (768MB) of memory was
installed in preparation for the fall. The total amount of memory in
node server (SGI Challenge XL) is now 1.75GB (1,792MB).
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Tuesday, October 22, 1996
Please avoid using MUDs as they can impact system performance.
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Friday, September 13, 1996 (Updated: Friday, September 10 , 1999)
As announced last semester there is a software bug with "irc" that causes
the system to crash. When the system crashes all users are forced off as the
system restarts (reboots) itself. As you can imagine this is inconvenient to
everyone. As a result, Computing Services has found it necessary to disallow
the use of "irc" on the SGI Challenge XL (node server). Instead we encourage
irc users to use irc on node socr. This computer is administered by the
student group called SOCR. The instructions to access SOCR's IRC service are
available using a WEB browser (netscape) at
http://socr.uwindsor.ca/homepage/irc.html
We appreciate your co-operation in not running "irc" on node server.
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Monday, August 12, 1996 (Updated: May 8, 2001) Miranda upgrade
Miranda, "mira", (A functional programming language) has been upgraded from
version 2.018 to version 2.020. For more information please review
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/public/miranda.html.
If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact the
HelpDesk at (519)253-4232 ext. 4440, or send email to 'helpdesk@uwindsor.ca'.
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Thursday, May 9, 1996
CUSTOMERS GOING OFF-CAMPUS: Recently we added an additional ethernet
interface to service off-campus traffic. Customers both on and off campus
can continue to connect to the SGI Challenge XL using the name
server.uwindsor.ca. Some customers going off-campus to connect to secure
remote sites may need to inform the remote site that the off-campus
address of this system has changed from server.uwindsor.ca (137.207.32.2)
to server.campus.uwindsor.ca (137.207.92.12).
If you have questions please contact the helpdesk at extension 4440.
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Wednesday, April 3, 1996
Ever have a file that you could not remove or look at? Does it contain
blank spaces or other characters. These files can now be fixed by executing
the program fix_bad_file at the SGI UNIX prompt. See the man pages for more
details.
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Wednesday February 28, 1996 (Updated: Feb. 29 1996) Size Limits on printers
Only files less than 120,000 characters(Approximately 10 - 15 pages) should
be sent to lp and lp2. If large files are sent to these printers only part of
the file will be printed and you will get the following lpr message
"copy file is too large" . To print large files use "PRINT " or "lpr -Pstd "
and collect your printout at the Service Counter.
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Saturday, February 24, 1996
An electronic chain letter has made its way through the internet and onto
our campus. No, the internet is not shutting down for maintenance on
Feb. 29th. Please IGNORE any chain letters that you receive.
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Wednesday, February 21, 1996
For users of the student dial-up service, to see your modem usage charges
after login use the command "modemuse" at the command line. This information
may also be viewed from the toolchest (X-window menu in the upper left corner)
click on "Help and Documentation" then select "Current Announcements".
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Tuesday, December 12, 1995
Effective today, modem connection information will be display following
this login message for all active customers of the student dialup service.
Please, remember to hit the enter or return keys after viewing this message
to see your modem usage information, if applicable, and get the prompt.
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Monday, November 20, 1995
Computing Services is pleased to announce the start of our new dial-in
service effective today, Monday, November 20, 1995. The phone numbers are:
STUDENTS: 252-8484
FACULTY/STAFF: 971-3679
Information on using the system is available in this month's InSight,
available in all labs and at the Helpdesk. Information is also available on
the help server. Use the SGI command HELP and follow the links to Computing
Services Communication Page (http://server.uwindsor.ca:1101/comm).
Charging will start for the Student service on January 1st. In early
December your accumulated monthly connection information will be
automatically displayed when you login into the SGI. The display will show
your accumulated connect time as well as the amount charged (December's
charges will be $0). More charging information is available both in
InSight and on the Communication Page.
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Tuesday, April 11, 1995
Improper or wasteful use of system resources can have detrimental effects
upon the performance of the entire system.
Please clean up and remove any unneeded files in your own disk space.
Try to be more aware of the resources needed to run any jobs that you have
in the system. And do not waste resources with programs such as ".what",
and ".friend" etc.
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Monday, March 20, 1995
For security reasons, .plan and .project files which are pipes/FIFO's
will no longer function through the "finger" program.
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Monday, November 7, 1994
The SGI (server) has three batch queues, b1, b2 and b3. For more information
on submitting batch jobs, enter: "public nqs" (without the quotes).
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Monday, October 31, 1994
Effective today, you can use the 9-track tape attached to the SGI Challenge
XL. To use this drive your tape(s) must already be in the machine room.
New tapes may be checked in at the I/O window. For information on accessing
the 9-track tape drive use the command
man with
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Thursday, October 20, 1994
Effective today, the EXINIT environment variable has been altered to allow
the use of a per directory configuration file called ".exrc". This allows
vi(1) customers to have a different configuration file in each directory.
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Wednesday, September 7, 1994
The high-speed printer located in operations (lpr -Pstd) is
available as of now.
The graphical viewer xli has been installed. This package can display a
wide variety of graphics formats. See the manual pages for more details.
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June 28, 1994
Effective today, security has been enhansed with the implementation of
the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1. To run jobs off campus and display them locally
using X or to use multiple userids on campus using X Windows, choose
"Remote X Connection" from the "Connections and Communications" menu of
the toolchest. (The toolchest is located in the upper left corner of the
X Windows screen).
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Mar. 28, 1994
Beginning Monday, April 4, 1994, the /tmp directory will be purged at boot
time. If you require extra disk space use "loandisk".
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Mar. 24, 1994
For those people that require additional hard disk space, loandisk for
SGI Challenge is now available. For more information see the manual page
by typing "man loandisk" at the UNIX prompt.
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Jan. 24, 1994
Reminder: Please be sure that you understand the code of unsolicited
shell scripts before executing them. Even programs that you receive from
friends may have hidden viruses and could cause problems both for you and
other computer users. Games and 'cute' messages are particularly suspect.
The Computing Consultants at ext. 4440 or helpdesk@uwindsor.ca would be
happy to help with any questions.
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February 24, 1993
Effective February 22, 1993, a new command called "bsp" has been
installed on the SGI. This command will allow the user to set their
preferences for a backspace/delete key. Different preferences can be
set for each terminal type and each architecture (SUN or SGI).
This command will also be made available on the Computer Science
and Engineering networks. For more information on "bsp" use the following
command:
man bsp
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August 15, 1992:
Effective August 15, 1992, disk quotas have been installed.
To see you quota on an ASCII terminal use the command:
quota -v
To see your quota on an X-terminal, choose "Show Quota" from the "Files and
Editors" menu.
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March 11, 1992:
As of this date, Scroll Bars have been added to "xterm" windows.
These Scroll Bars allow you to look over previous output. The Scroll Bar
area is made up of two regions; the shaded region indicates output
currently shown on the screen and the white region indicates previous
output. To see previous output, move you pointer into the white region
of the scroll bar area and click the middle button on the mouse or track-ball.
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March 9, 1992:
As of this date the default creation mask for files will change so
that group and world will no longer have default access to files. If you
wish to change a file's protection use the "chmod" command.
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January 22, 1992:
Starting on this date you will automatically be informed of the time
your account was lasted used to log into the SGI. An example login is given
below for the user "example"
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IRIX System V.3 (SERVER)
Welcome to the University of Windsor SGI 4D/320S
login: example
Password:
Last login: Tue Jan 21 11:08:34 from network.uwindsor.ca
IRIX System V Release 3.3.2 SERVER
Copyright (c) 1988,1989,1990 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
< An optional notice to users is given here.>
(1)%
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The line
Last login: Tue Jan 21 11:08:34 from network.uwindsor.ca
indicates that user "example" last logged into the SGI on Tuesday,
January 21, at 11:08 a.m. If you find that your Last Login time is not
what you expect it to be, change your password. If problems persist,
contact the Department of Computing Services.
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