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Computing news and announcements
Old news items
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March 14, 2008
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AppleTalk support on Earth Sciences network ends April 7
The obsolete AppleTalk protocol will no longer be supported
on the Earth Sciences network beginning April 7. Existing
Macintosh printer setups that use AppleTalk will break, and must
be recreated to use TCP/IP instead, according to the instructions
in the news article.
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March 14, 2008
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Obsolete pangea services end on April 7
Rarely used and obsolete services provided by pangea will be
terminated on April 7, 2008. See the news item for details on
whether you are affected by the termination of:
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The pangea "msgs" electronic bulletin board.
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Print spooling for Windows and Unix/Linux workstations.
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AppleShare file sharing for "Classic" Mac OS (the
pangea Aufs
server).
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PC/NFS access to pangea files for Windows workstations.
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Time-sharing computing cycles for teaching or research.
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December 19, 2007
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Pangea and IT service outages during winter break
Stanford University will be closed December 22, 2007 through January 2,
2008. In general, there will be no information technology services or
support available in Earth Sciences during that period.
The pangea server will be
down
all day on Friday, December 28, 2007, for annual hardware and software
maintenance.
There will be no electrical power (or computer network) in Mitchell
Building on Thursday, December 27, 2007.
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November 2, 2007
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Email service on pangea terminated on November 1, 2007
As promised in news items and numerous email announcements,
email service on pangea was terminated on November 1, 2007.
Pangea is
forwarding email
that it receives, or returning it to
sender if there is no forwarding address. Forwarding service
will end on June 30, 2008.
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August 16, 2007
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**Act Now** Pangea email services END November 1, 2007!
In order to save limited staff time and finances for more important IT
services, we are phasing out local email service on pangea.
Local email service for existing pangea accounts ends on November 1, 2007.
New accounts created since July, 2007, do not have any local email
service at all. Everyone using a pangea email address
must switch to another email account by November 1.
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June 25, 2007
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Plain telnet and ftp service on pangea ends July 16, 2007
The insecure, plain text versions of the network connection services
telnet
and
ftp
will be disabled on the School of Earth Sciences server, pangea,
on July 16, 2007.
The secure alternatives
ssh
and
scp or sftp
must be used instead, starting on July 16.
Although
ftp
logins with normal pangea accounts will end, the
anonymous ftp service
will continue on pangea.
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June 22, 2007
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Earth Sciences network firewall tightened on June 25, 2007
A final change to the Earth Sciences network firewall rules at 9:00 a.m.
on June 25, 2007, blocks all incoming connections to random TCP ports.
Only the connections listed in the
Earth Sciences firewall ruleset
will be allowed. This change will increase security, but may block many
peer-to-peer file sharing programs.
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June 7, 2007
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Improved anonymous ftp service on pangea
"Anonymous ftp" is a method for allowing anyone on the
Internet to access files in a special directory on pangea's disks.
It can be used to distribute files to colleagues or collect files
from them. This service has been recently improved so it can be used
without any special setup.
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May 18, 2007
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Computer network firewall coming on May 30!
A "firewall" will be enabled on May 30 to protect the Earth Sciences
computer network from hacker probes of insecure services and
self-propagating virus and worm attacks. Incoming connections will
be filtered; outgoing connections will not. Average computer users
will see no change; power users and research groups may find some
services on their Earth Sciences computers are now blocked.
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