The OCF laboratory in Heller Lounge will be closed throughout the day as we relocate to our new location in Eshleman Hall.
We apologize for the short notice. Please contact us via email or IRC if you have any questions or concerns.
We just upgraded our webmail and documentation server to a machine with more than four times the processing power and RAM. Combined with the changes we made last semester, our webmail and documentation should be faster than ever.
We haven't forgotten about our other services, though, and we're working on moving them to faster and more reliable hardware this summer. We know that many of you have been suffering with the occasional slowness in our services, and we're working on fixing it! Please be patient as upgrades to our other services require lots of planning and testing.
Before I go, I'd like to extend a special thank you to Sun Microsystems, who provided us with the hardware that made this upgrade possible. They make awesome server hardware!
The OCF's network access was just restored, and we're checking to see if everything works. I'll provide updates to this post if anything comes up.
Our upstream network provider is having some network problems, rendering the OCF inaccessible. We're investigating the problem and trying to restore network access to the OCF as quickly as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
As announced in March, we have ended our support for PHP 4. Any remaining PHP 4 users must migrate their code to PHP 5.
We've just rolled out a bunch of new widescreen monitors for our new workstations:
Besides an awesome 20" of viewable goodness and 1680x1050 resolution, you can also rotate the screen:
If you haven't visited our lab in awhile, come by and check out our new hardware, and if you don't already have an account, go get one!
Our web server is currently being overwhelmed by a flood of spam. We're working on blocking the spam and restoring our web services.
UPDATE: I think we've got everything under control. Our web services should be working normally now. Send us an email if you notice anything strange.
As of Wednesday, April 16, the OCF has begun using a new and improved account storage and authentication framework. Among other things, this transition brings faster and more reliable Windows printing and single-sign-on support for the Unix clients. It also means that you MUST sign on to at least one OCF service (Windows or Unix clients, webmail, POP, IMAP, online account tools, SSH (WITH YOUR PASSWORD), etc.) sometime in the next six months, or else you will become an obligatory beta tester for the password migration tool, coming in the fall.
Eshleman Hall is scheduled to be dark this Thursday (3/27) from 10 AM to 5 PM for construction work. Since our connection to the campus network and the rest of the world runs through Eshleman, we'll be offline during this period. Incoming mail should be queued by senders and delivered normally after the outage, so it won't be lost.
As previously announced, the default PHP interpreter is now PHP 5 as of today. See the previous post or our documentation for more information on what this means and how to ensure your web applications continue to work.