Mailing Lists Fixed (Forever)
Some of you may have noticed some…irregularities with the mailing lists of late. We’ve been in the process of switching from our old dying server to a new one, and the mailing lists were one of the last things we moved, so there have been some issues associated with that. While we were moving it, we also ran into some unexpected problems, so there were some more urgent issues with that (i.e. all the lists stopped working).
If you sent mail between about 10pm and 1am, and it hasn’t gone through yet, odds are it was lost — especially if you got an error message in reply. Now, though, all should be working — if not, let us know ASAP at staff@sccs.
We know there’ve been a lot of intermittent problems with mailing lists over the past two years or so. They were all related to that crashy server; from now on, things should run more smoothly. (Fingers crossed.)
What The Spaces Look Like (Or, Dougal Plays With A Camera)
One of the most comfortable couches on campus. No lie.
Those are the shiny new CS-department reject monitors, instead of the prehistoric CRTs that were three times deeper than their screen size. A little sad to see those go, but, like, not really.
Those Mac Classics, I’m sad to say, are no longer our primary user computers.
Everyone’s favorite.
We’re watching you….
Recent Issues
Some of you have been having trouble with posting to mailing lists of late. We believe we’ve solved the problem; if it happens again, let us know (staff@sccs).
As a mostly-unrelated issue, there was some downtime this afternoon. There seems to have been a hard drive-related problem with our main server — don’t worry, all the data is still there, plus we have backups. We’re still investigating, but hopefully this won’t happen again.
And another, totally-unrelated thing: I’ve changed the webmail link to go to roundcube rather than squirrelmail, since it’s a much nicer interface. There’s still another link to squirrelmail underneath it, for those of you who prefer it.