May
02
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.
Apr
30
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, May 2, 2012 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
Mar
27
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied tomorrow, on Wednesday afternoon, March 28, 2012 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
Mar
14
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.
Mar
12
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, March 14, 2012 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). Since this is a larger update than usual we expect the systems to be back up by 6:00pm.
Mar
07
The updates of firefox, thunderbird, and the flash-plugin on coxeter are completed. Please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu if you experience problems with these newer versions.
Mar
07
The departmental server coxeter will have software updates for firefox, thunderbird, and flash-plugin applied this afternoon (Wednesday, March 7, 2012) at 4:15pm which will require that those processes be terminated and unavailable for about 10 minutes while they are updated.
More extensive software updates (requiring reboots) on all our systems, will be applied next week.
The updated thunderbird has tabs (similar to firefox) and a somewhat different look on the toolbar at the top of the window. If you wish to have the “original Toolbar buttons” that will be more familiar to you then you need to select the menu:
Help -> Migration Assistant
then:
1) click on the “Next” button
2) do NOT change the settings on this page (there is not enough diskspace on coxeter to “Synchronize” your folders); simply click the “Next” button again
3) on this page select “Keep your original Toolbar buttons” (as you choose between that selection and “Message Buttons Toolbar” options your thunderbird window will change and you can choose the display you prefer); then click the “Close” button
Feb
16
The following is an informational posting from the portal (Blackboard):
This is to provide advance notice that the U of T Portal is scheduled for extended maintenance on Friday, February 17th 2012 between 4:00 and 10:00 p.m.The Portal will be *unavailable* for up to 6 hours in order to upgrade our database. The version currently in use is approaching the end of its supported lifespan. If work should be completed earlier than expected then service will be resumed immediately.
Thank you for your patience during this unusually long service disruption.
- the Portal Help Team
Feb
15
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.
Feb
14
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied tomorrow, on Wednesday afternoon, February 15, 2012 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.