A Sight for Sore Eyes

We've just rolled out a bunch of new widescreen monitors for our new workstations:



Besides an awesome 20" of viewable goodness and 1680x1050 resolution, you can also rotate the screen:



If you haven't visited our lab in awhile, come by and check out our new hardware, and if you don't already have an account, go get one!

Slow Web Services

Our web server is currently being overwhelmed by a flood of spam. We're working on blocking the spam and restoring our web services.

UPDATE: I think we've got everything under control. Our web services should be working normally now. Send us an email if you notice anything strange.

LDAP and Kerberos Migration

As of Wednesday, April 16, the OCF has begun using a new and improved account storage and authentication framework. Among other things, this transition brings faster and more reliable Windows printing and single-sign-on support for the Unix clients. It also means that you MUST sign on to at least one OCF service (Windows or Unix clients, webmail, POP, IMAP, online account tools, SSH (WITH YOUR PASSWORD), etc.) sometime in the next six months, or else you will become an obligatory beta tester for the password migration tool, coming in the fall.

OCF downtime Thursday 3/27 from 10 AM to 5 PM

Eshleman Hall is scheduled to be dark this Thursday (3/27) from 10 AM to 5 PM for construction work. Since our connection to the campus network and the rest of the world runs through Eshleman, we'll be offline during this period. Incoming mail should be queued by senders and delivered normally after the outage, so it won't be lost.

Reminder: PHP 5 now the default

As previously announced, the default PHP interpreter is now PHP 5 as of today. See the previous post or our documentation for more information on what this means and how to ensure your web applications continue to work.

OCF general meeting Thursday 3/20

There will be a general meeting Thursday, March 20, at 7 PM in 109 Wheeler, to discuss amendments to the OCF bylaws and constitution. See http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sluo/draft-bylaws.txt for details of the proposed changes. Everyone is welcome to attend, and food will be provided.

Print Queue Online and In Real Life

We've talked about it, and now it's here! The print queue is now available on display in lab on a dedicated machine and monitor by the printer, as well as online at your convenience. It was formerly accessible only via command line (lpq -s) and printing status windows in Windows, neither of which were visible enough for the majority of our users to notice. Thank you Aaron Oaks, Genevieve Wong, and Mike Gasidlo for working on making this happen.