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Lars Rohrbach

Whitelist and blacklist management unavailable

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The web interfaces to the EECS Barracuda Anti-Spam appliances (https://bc3.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/index.cgi and https://bc4.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/index.cgi) are used to manage whitelisted and blacklisted email addresses.

Currently, the login screens to these web interfaces are not allowing login, and instead respond with “Error: Invalid Username or Password”.

This appears to be a bug/problem unrelated to other recent problems we have had with IMAP and LDAP. Staff are taking the issue up with the vendor.
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Windows Vista Now Available

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We now have volume-licensed versions of Windows Vista Enterprise available for installation over the network or on DVD loan from the Helpdesk. Both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions are available, and they include Service Pack 1.

Instructions for installing and activating Windows Vista are available from our Windows installation FAQ page. If you wish to install Vista on a machine that supports booting via the network interface (PXE), we strongly recommend doing a network install.

Some email delayed

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There were some email delays on one of the inbound spam appliances. Staff were quickly made aware of the problem, and are working with the vendor to help prevent this from occurring in the future.

Service has been restored to normal.

Resolved as of 2009-02-25 12:45:00

Announcing New EECSbackup for Windows, MacOSX

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IRIS would like to encourage the EECS community to keep appropriate backups of important data. To that end, IRIS is making EECSbackup scripts available to Windows and MacOS users. We continue to recommend that important files be kept in your EECS home directory, where snapshots and backups are routine, to safeguard against laptop or desktop hardware failure; these backup scripts can help you simplify the copying of your important local data from your laptop or desktop to your EECS home directory.

EECSbackup scripts are currently being provided as a “public beta” release; feedback to help@eecs is welcome.

Please see the EECSbackup FAQ page for more information.

Initial Support for MacOS X Leopard

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The EECS Department is pleased to announce initial support for MacOS
X Leopard (10.5.3 or better). We also would like to announce that
a limited number of Leopard licenses and media are available for
purchase at the Helpdesk in 395 Cory.

With the 10.5.3 update to MacOS X Leopard, Macs are once again able
to mount shares on our department fileservers, home.eecs and
project.eecs. It appears that significant improvements to X11
have been done in Leopard since the initial release as well.

Licenses for MacOSX Leopard are available for purchase at the
Helpdesk for $39; the media (the actual Install DVD) will be $15
extra. For comparison, note that the retail price of a license
with a DVD is $129. If you wish to purchase just the license, you
may check out a loaner DVD from the Helpdesk for installation.
Purchasers may pay by chartstring or personal check (there is a small
surcharge for paying by check), but we recommend calling ahead to
make sure we still have licenses or media available.

The Helpdesk can be reached at 2-7777.