April 11, 2016 Today's topics: Unscheduled power outage, Mon Apr 11 Shortly before noon on Monday, April 11, we experienced a campus wide power outage, which las...
Configuring Eduroam for CLASSE laptops CLASSE managed laptops cannot easily connect to eduroam because they try to use CLASSE authentication. That can't work. As ...
April 4, 2016 Today's topics: Beware of Ransomware The past two weeks have seen a dramatic rise in ransomware attacks both in the outside world and here at Corne...
March 28th, 2016 Today's topics: Firefox updates CLASSE Windows computers will get security patches to Firefox and Flash tonight during our standard update perio...
March 21, 2016 Today's topics: CLASSE IT Privacy Statement The CLASSE IT group takes the privacy of our users' electronic data very seriously, and we make every ...
March 14, 2016 Today's topics: Second Test of CLASSE Computer Quick Notification System * CLASSE IT has been working on a system to quickly notify users of CL...
March 7th, 2016 Today's topics: New Antivirus Software on CLASSE Managed Computers We have tentatively scheduled the switch over from Symantec Endpoint Protectio...
Setting Permissions Linux Introduction For a general introduction to Linux file permissions, see this link. Viewing Permissions 1. login to any CLASSE Linu...
February 29th, 2016 Today's topics: Logitech and other brands of Wireless Keyboards and Mice: potential local security vulnerability * We have become aware of...
February 22nd, 2016 Today's topics: Antivirus (AV) software will be changing at CLASSE Cornell will stop providing Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) in the next...
Requesting New Computers New computers are supplied by the Computer Group, but are charged against various WBSs. This document is to give you an idea of the categ...
Hardware Development Systems Background CLASSE highly recommends dedicating individual systems to the development and control of critical lab hardware. In other...
Monday, February 15, 2016 Today's topics: Linux Developer Toolsets Update As previously announced, on Tuesday 2/16/16 the Red Hat Developer Toolset 4 will be i...
End user instructions 1 In Calendar, on the Home tab, in the Manage Calendars group, click Open Calendar, and then click Open Shared Calendar. 1 Type it cla...
February 8th, 2016 Today's topics: Stock Computer Models The CLASSE Computer group keeps several "classes" of computer models and peripherals available for the l...
January 25, 2016 Today's topics: ELOG Software Update Noon Tuesday, January 26 All of the CLASSE ELOG servers will be updated at Noon Tuesday, January 26. Sig...
January 11th, 2016 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows Computers IE11 Update * Is now approved for install during the next possible update window. For many...
October262015 Today's topics: Brief network outage at 11am on Tuesday, October 27th At 11am on Tuesday, 10/27, there will be a brief network glitch (pause or out...
December 21, 2015 Today's topics: Major milestone reached: 40,000 tickets! Well, it took us almost 16 years, but on December 16, 2015, we received our 40,000th s...
December 14th, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows computers Flash update Adobe Flash will be updated to 20.0.0.235 during normal updates tonight. CLASS...
December 7th, 2015 Today's topics: Internet Explorer 11 for CLASSE Managed Windows Computers How does this affect me? * CLASSE IT supports Firefox for all we...
November 30th, 2015 Today's topics: Firefox and Flash updates for CLASSE Managed Windows Computers During our standard third party update window we will update t...
November 23, 2015 Today's topics: LNX201 reboot 10am Tuesday 11/24 LNX201 will be rebooted at 10am Tuesday, 11/24, and is expected to be down for approximately...
November 16, 2015 Today's topics: Another bogus phish: do NOT "Update your Cornell University Webmail" Many people have received yet another attempt to steal the...
Monday, November 9th, 2015 Today's topics: Brief network outage at 10am on Tuesday, November 10th At 10am on Tuesday, 11/10, there will be a brief network glitch...
FAQ: I would like to put information online. Where should it go, and how can I get started? ANSWER: We have several different types of web pages here at CLASSE:...
Deprecated 2015 11 06 Publishing Web Pages at LEPP Information about publishing your own Web pages using LEPP servers can be found in the following locations: ...
Deprecated 2015 11 06 Website Guidelines A Word to the Fore This is, unabashedly, an advocacy piece, which explains the principles that guided the design of t...
Deprecated 2015 11 06 Wiki Access For a list of available wikis, please see ClasseWikis. For an introduction on using CLASSE Wikis, please see WikiIntroducti...
Monday, November 2, 2015 Today's topics: Suggestions for configuring Outlook's "Clutter" service Brian Heltsley recently provided the following information about...
Peer to Peer File Sharing at CLASSE Please do not run peer to peer file sharing software like Gnutella or BitTorrent on systems connected to the CLASSE network. ...
October 19th, 2015 Today's topics: 2000 NetID passwords compromised every year Every year more than 2000 Cornell NetIDs have their passwords compromised, resulti...
Mail Migration After a successful migration of all LEPP users from local mail accounts to Exchange (in part, when CU increased their mailbox limit from 300MB to 5...
October 5 , 2015 Today's topics: Project Management After extensive research and evaluation, the CLASSE IT group recently deployed Active Collab (https://www.act...
EMAIL Forwarding CLASSE Unix e mail account 1. Log into any Linux computer (e.g. LNX201) using ssh. Windows users can click here for instructions on connectin...
E Mail Migration Cornell's central mail service is now on a Microsoft Exchange Server. To access it, please use Outlook, Outlook Web Access, or Apple Mail, not Th...
DATE Today's topics: Temporary Printing solution We have a temporary solution for those users who have had occasional problems printing. Here is the temporary ...
PrinterFix We have had multiple reports of some Windows 7 computers having all the printers greyed out. When this happens, rebooting does not help. If this happen...
September 14, 2015 Today's topics: Brief network outage at Noon on Tuesday, September 15th At Noon on Tuesday, 9/15, there will be a brief network glitch (pause ...
Monday, August 31, 2015 Today's topics: General computing outage Noon Wednesday 9/2 There will be a general computing outage from approximately Noon to 1pm Wed...
August 24, 2015 Today's topics: General computing outage 10pm Tuesday 8/25 There will be a general computing outage from approximately 10pm to 11pm Tuesday nig...
August 17, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Central Filesystems In order to ensure the security and availability of your data, it is important you store them in centr...
June 1st, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE IT Help Desk hours suspended in Newman and PSB Mike Roman has been injured in a bike accident and will not be in for a bit....
August 10, 2015 Today's topics: Partial Power Outage and Scheduled IT maintenance on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 Please plan for a general CLASSE (including CHESS) ...
August 3rd, 2015 Today's topics: Partial Power Outage and Scheduled IT maintenance on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 Please plan for a general computing outage on Augu...
Monday, July 27, 2015 Today's topics: Partial Power Outage and Scheduled IT maintenance on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 The East and Central Modules will be without ...
Requesting Windows Update Install In some cases you may want to get pending Windows updates immediately on CLASSE managed Windows computers. Procedure 1 Click...
DATE Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Computers Flash Player updates Linux Adobe Flash Firefox Plugin Security update on Tuesday 14 Jul 2015 * The patched Adob...
June 29th, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Computers Flash Player updates Linux Adobe Flash Firefox Plugin Security update on Tuesday 30 Jun 2015 * The p...
Working with PDFs CLASSE provides PDF XChange 2012 with our Base Image to allow you to print to PDFs with PDF XChange Printer 2012. You can view, edit, and scan t...
June 22, 2015 Today's topics: Firefox Graphics Hardware Acceleration * New releases of Firefox enable graphics hardware acceleration. If you experience slown...
Monday, June 15, 2015 Today's topics: New Cornell Login page: clear your browser cache Please clear your browser's cache. Cornell's "CU Web Login" page is changi...
June 8th, 2015 Today's topics: Logitech Video conference Cameras: unavailable in Wilson conference rooms June 15 19. The Logitech video conference cameras in Wil...
January 27, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Authentication for additional web services. On Tuesday, 1/28, the CLASSE IT group will work to transition several remaini...
July 14, 2014 Today's topics: Usage of lnx201 Over the past year, we have been promoting lnx201.classe.cornell.edu as a general purpose Linux login node, to be u...
May 11, 2015 Today's topics: Summer students arriving soon Because of space limitations, a small number of this year's summer students will be assigned to comput...
May 4, 2015 Today's topics: CESR Cluster Maintenance Noon Tuesday May 5 At approximately Noon on Tuesday, May 5, the CESR Linux cluster will reboot and undergo...
April 27, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Cluster maintenance on Tuesday, April 28. If you are working on samba or NFS file systems, save and close your work before ...
April 20, 2015 Today's topics: Update to SL6.6 on Tuesday, April 28 Starting Tuesday morning, 4/28, all CLASSE SL6 systems will update to Scientific Linux 6.6. ...
April 13th, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Windows Managed Computers Firefox update April 13th, 2015 This will update Firefox to ESR 31.6.0 during our normal Window...
April 6, 2015 Today's topics: Print Server Upgrade The main CLASSE print server used by Windows, Linux, and OS X will be updated in the early morning of Tuesday,...
March 30, 2015 Today's topics: Print Server Upgrade The main CLASSE print server used by Windows, Linux, and OS X will be updated in the early morning of Tuesday...
March 23rd, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows Firefox and Flash update March 23, 2015 We are updating Firefox and Flash for security patches during the...
Printing from a Public Linux system at CLASSE This page contains instructions on printing from a public linux system at CLASSE. All of CLASSE's printers should b...
DATE Today's topics: Linux Adobe Flash Firefox Plugin Security update on Tuesday 17 Mar 2015 * The patched Adobe Flash Firefox Plugin Security update (version...
March 09, 2015 Today's topics: Improved CUDA support in CLASSE Compute Farm The CUDA resources in the CLASSE GridEngine Compute Farm are now available to both ba...
March 2, 2015 Today's topics: VPN upgrade tomorrow (Tuesday, March 3rd) As mentioned last week, at 10AM tomorrow: * There will be a 30 minute outage of VPN se...
February 23, 2015 Today's topics: VPN Upgrade March 3rd 10AM The CLASSE VPN will have a 30 minute outage starting at 10AM for updates to the server. As part of t...
February 16th, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Flash Update on Windows We are again updating flash tonight for CLASSE managed Windows computers. CLASSE Conf...
64 bit Computing This page contains notes on running on a 64 bit OS. For notes specific to Scientific Linux 5 (not just 64 bit SL5), please see ScientificLinux5....
February 9th, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Computers: Flash updates Adobe has had many updates in the last two weeks. Each time there is an update, Mozill...
February 02, 2015 Today's topics: GHOST: glibc vulnerability In response to the recent GHOST glibc vulnerability, sshd and all other forward facing services will...
January 26th, 2015 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows updates Computer may REBOOT * Tonight during the normal updates, your computer might reboot if a P...
PC Doctor This is a full featured hardware testing suite that is commercially supported. We have one diagnostic kit in LT107 and one in James' filing cabinet (sec...
DATE Today's topics: Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.0 The Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.0 package is now installed locally on every CLASSE Linux system and provides t...
Powering Down Your Computer (Winter holiday, December 25, 2014 January 4, 2015) To the CLASSE Computing Community: As in recent years, the CLASSE computer gro...
December 15th, 2014 Today's topics: Flash Update on CLASSE Managed Windows computers We are updating Flash to v16 during our normal Windows Updates schedule. I.e...
Compaq ESL/CSLG Program Procedures at Cornell University Policies and Procedures of the Compaq Education Software Library and Campuswide Software License Grant at...
DIGITAL Unix (OSF/1) Upgrade Questions DIGITAL Unix (OSF/1) Upgrade Questions for Tru64/DIGITAL Unix/OSF 1 system administrators at Cornell University. January 7,...
Posting software problems at Cornell: CSLG L Posting software problems at Cornell CSLG L Folks, The old mailing lists, DEC CONSULT L and DEC DSN L have been disco...
DECUS Anaheim '96 Summary DECUS Anaheim '96 Summary Linda thought she sent this to the list, but I did not see it immediately. It may be a repeat. Includes the no...
Open Source Software Collection CD ROM README Open Source Software Collection for Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (This is the html version of /mnt/README) Greetings Welcom...
Open Source Software Collection CD ROM README Open Source Software Collection for Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (This is the html version of /mnt/README) Greetings Welcom...
December 8th, 2014 Today's topics: CLASSE Managed Windows computers Firefox Update We will be updating during our standard updates the following browser softwa...
December 1, 2014 Today's topics: Compute farm outage, Dec. 9 11 In order to upgrade the network connection between the compute farm and the central file systems,...
November 24, 2014 Today's topics: Compute farm outage, Dec. 9 11 In order to upgrade the network connection between the compute farm and the central file systems...
November 17, 2014 Today's topics: Autodesk Design Suite upgraded to version 2015 During this past weekend, all computers with Autodesk Design Suite (Inventor, Va...
November 10, 2014 Today's topics: Firefox update to ESR 31 profile reset As previously announced, all CLASSE computers should already be updated to ESR 31. Whe...
November 3, 2014 Today's topics: /nfs/acc/temp, /nfs/acc/libs, and Accelerator SVN Repository maintenance At 10am on Tuesday 11/4, we will begin maintenance on t...