March 6, 2007 -- Volume 4 -- Number 1
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* Will Early DST be the New Y2K?
Thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight savings
time (DST) will begin 2 weeks early starting this year.
To ensure that computer-based clocks, calendars, and
timestamps are not off by an hour, please take the time
to patch your operating system and other operating
environments (e.g., Java).
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/USDST/
* SAV Update for Windows
There's an important security update for Symantec AntiVirus
for Windows. You should now be at version 10.1.5.5000 or
higher. OIT supplies this software. For more information,
see: http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=3308
* Graduate Student Quota Increase
Because we increased both our home directory capacity as
well as our backup capacity, we silently increased the
graduate student default disk quota from 500MB to 1GB.
* HVAC Upgrades to Room 218 Complete
As many of you noticed, we replaced the air handlers for
the main machine room (218). Many thanks to the University
facilities department for accommodating our need to keep the
machine room operational during the upgrade.
* Cluster News
If you are a user of our clusters (e.g., "c2"), please
be sure to subscribe to the "beowulf" mailing list:
https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
If you have either massive computational needs or need
to collaborate with users outside the department, please
see OIT's TIGRESS website: https://tigress.princeton.edu/
* Security Updates
If the DST patch isn't reason enough, there are several
recent and important security patches. Please be sure
to keep your system up-to-date with respect to security
patches.