Network maintenance scheduled for PTC and 407 S. Craig St.
On Friday, November 13, 2009 The leased fiber lines connecting the Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh campus to
the Pittsburgh Technology Center and 407 South Craig St. will be switched over to a new vendor.
Details
Network maintenance scheduled for Gates Hillman Centers 8th and 9th floors
On Thursday, November 12, 2009 SCS Computing Facilities will be performing maintenance on the network
switches used on the 8th and 9th floors of the Gates Hillman Centers Details
LINUX.GP operating system upgrade scheduled
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 SCS Computing Facilities will begin upgrading
the Linux general purpose servers (linux.gp.cs.cmu.edu) from the current OS
FC5 to F10. Details
Windows 7 Information Update
On October 22, 2009 Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system. Vendors will be shipping new PCs with this new OS.
SCS Computing Facilities does not currently support this new OS.
SCS Computing Facilities is currently testing this operating system with our standard baseline software.
Please contact help@cs.cmu.edu or call the SCS Help Desk (x8-4231) if you have questions regarding Windows 7 support.
Thank you for your attention,
SCS Help Desk
October Urgent: Critical Windows, Office and Adobe patches released
Microsoft released new patches for critical Windows and Microsoft Office vulnerabilities on October 13, 2009. Adobe also released patches for
critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Details
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Information Update
Apple has recently released OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and all new Macs are shipping with this new OS. SCS Computing Facilities does not currently support this software release but will provide a best effort support until Mac OS X 10.6 is fully supported. Details
Change: SCS Computing Facilities GHC Help Desk temporary location
On Monday, August 31, 2009 the SCS Computing Facilities temporary GHC Help
Desk will move into GHC 6109 and return to normal business hours of 9:00AM -
5:00PM Monday through Friday. Details
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