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2009-12-14Google and Personal Privacy
Eric Schmidt’s privacy policy is one scary philosophy// <![CDATA[// Published on NetworkWorld.com Community (http://www.networkworld.com/community) Eric Schmidt's privacy policy is one scary philosophy By Google Subnet Created Dec 11 2009 - 5:57pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation was one critic among many concerned over Eric Schmidt's statements on how Google should respect privacy. According to Gawker, when he was [...]
2009-11-12Apple File Protocol (AFP) going away for good
Apple File Protocol or AFP will be shut down on Hurricane for faculty and staff home and work directories. This will be done in anticipation of an upgrade to Windows Server 2008 and this protocol is no longer supported. You will still be able to access your files using a different protocol (SMB) [...]
2009-11-04Campus-Wide Network Outage this weekend!
Network Outage Sunday November 8th 7 AM to Noon Network Services will be doing maintenance to the main network storage on Sunday November 8th. Most network services will be offline from 7 AM until noon on Sunday. Internet access will still be available. This is the second and final outage related to this [...]
2009-11-04Interesting article on botnets
Botnet production eerily like commercial code practice Misguided youth in Netherlands feeding the botnet monster? By Ellen Messmer , Network World , 10/13/2009 People don't understand why their machines are infected as they've beenrunning antivirus continuously," says Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research at Damballa, a security start-up specializing in botnet detection. "They're stumped."
2009-10-15Network Outage October 25th!
Most of the servers on campus will be shutdown on Sunday morning, October 25th from approximately 7am to noon. This will affect the majority of campus technology services so be prepared to not be able to connect to Academic or Administrative services for a few hours Sunday morning. While Network Services furiously replaces [...]

