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UGA IT NewsUGA BookstoreThe Help Desk gets questions about purchasing computer products on campus. The Computer Store in the UGA Bookstore sells hardware and software to the students, faculty and staff of the University of Georgia. For more information, please see: http://www.bookstore.uga.edu/ComputerStore.html Christmas holiday unattended modeThe EITS central facility machine room will be placed into unattended mode of operations for the upcoming Christmas holiday period. Unattended mode will begin at midnight on Tuesday night, 24 December 2002. Unattended mode will continue until midnight on Wednesday night, 1 January 2003, at which time normal operations will resume. During unattended mode computing services will continue to be available. Operator specific functions such as printing and manual tape mounts will not be available. Cartridge tapes residing inside the IBM 3495 Tape Library Dataserver and inside the IBM 3494 Tape Library Dataserver will be available for use on the MVS/JES3 system. Cartridge tapes residing outside the 3495 and all round tapes will not be available for use during the unattended mode period. If this schedule will cause problems for you or your department, please contact Larry Tucker at 542-4755 or ltucker@arches.uga.edu.
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Regional IT NewsUniversity offers Apple iBooks to on-campus studentsIn recent years, many institutions that had embraced Macintoshes have moved to diversify their on-campus computing, but Saint Leo University in Florida is bucking the trend by offering an iBook laptop to every on-campus student and full-time faculty member. http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002120301t.htm
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National IT NewsCREN Board votes to dissolveThe CREN Board of Trustees has approved a resolution for the membership to vote to dissolve the corporation effective as soon as appropriate so that reasonable care can be taken to transition services and personnel. If approved by the CREN membership, the venerable higher-education technology association will close down after more than twenty years of service to the higher education community. For the complete story, please see: Free web research link closed under pressure from pay sitesThe United States Department of Energy shut down PubScience, an Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it competed with commercial services. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html Researchers say swapping music online cannot be stoppedA paper prepared for an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) workshop on Digital Rights Management dismissed record industry attempts to stop swapping of music files over online networks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2502399.stm Copyright crackdown at U.S. Naval AcademyLate last week officials at the U.S. Naval Academy seized approximately 100 student computers suspected of improperly having copyrighted material on them. Several weeks ago, media groups sent a letter to colleges and universities asking that the institutions take measures to restrict copyright infringement, which is said to be rampant on college campuses. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-971130.html Complaints lead to power reduction on WLAN linkThe High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) has cut back the power it uses on a 72-mile WLAN link between San Diego and San Clemente Island. The cutback was announced after Computerworld published an article about HPWREN that resulted in numerous complaints that the network was in violation of FCC power limits. http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,76118,00.html Grid Computing: The next big thing?Many experts say that the next wave in computing, particularly for universities, will be grid computing. Grids are networks of computers, databases, and applications that offer users huge gains in computational speed and the amount of resources available. http://chronicle.com/free/2002/11/2002112701t.htm Recording industry plans to accelerate complaints about illegal file sharingThe recording industry plans to increase the number of complaints it lodges with colleges when it believes students are using file-sharing programs in violation of copyright law, an entertainment-industry official said last week. http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002120202t.htm Left gets nod from right on copyright lawIn a recent speech, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner, one of America's most prominent jurists, warned of an "enormous expansion" of intellectual-property law. Posner's critique is significant because until now much of the attack on the expansion of intellectual-property rights has come from the left, whereas Posner is a conservative. To learn more about Posner's concerns, please see: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966595.html
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Virus and Security AlertsTechWeb: New worm adds insult to injuryAntivirus vendors are warning users about a new e-mail worm that has the potential to wreak havoc on computer systems and audaciously calls the user "foolish" while it does its damage. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/11/28/insult.worm/index.html Bugbear, Klez continue to threaten InternetThe Bugbear and Klez worms continued to spread via the Internet and network shares in November, fending off newcomer Braid worm as the top threats of the month, according to several antivirus software vendors. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci866871,00.html Report: Chernobyl virus rises againAntivirus company Panda Software has detected a new strain of the W95/CIH10XX virus--commonly known as the Chernobyl virus--which can be so damaging to some computers that it will render some BIOS chips, and even entire motherboards, unusable. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975695.html?tag=cd_mh Virus payloads bigger, nastierVirus specialist Daniel Zatz predicts that next year viruses will be more prevalent and more damaging, with a "tall poppy syndrome" keeping Microsoft as the top target. The software giant is good at putting out patches, Zatz says, but it is "hard for it to keep up". http://www.idgnet.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/57F452030DFA2A88CC256C830004435A!opendocument For the latest virus informationVisit the EITS anti-virus Web site for the latest campus virus advisories and fixes:
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UGA IT Positions AvailableIT employment opportunities are available at UGA. For more information, please see: http://www.busfin.uga.edu/employment/joblist_technical.html
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