Scheduled Network Maintenance

During this week's scheduled network maintenance on Wednesday, July 29th, personal and departmental web sites hosted on sites.lafayette.edu and depts.lafayette.edu will be briefly unavailable.

Banner Self-Service Access for Employees

Getting credentials for Banner Self-Service.

New Safe and Secure Computing Site

ITS announces a new site on Safe and Secure Computing. The site aggregates links to security-related content on the ITS Website.

ITS Coffee Break for 2/6/2009

Co-hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about a bunch of new projects underway for the spring semester, including Moodle usability testing, a WordPress MU pilot, and the official launch of Spaces for intercollegiate collaboration.

Conficker worm on the prowl

A new strain of the Conficker worm has been identified. See this page for steps for dealing with it, including downloading and running an updated version of Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool.

Changes to wireless network

On January 20, 2009, ITS extended its implementation of enhanced network security using NAC (Network Admission Control) to the wireless network. The major noticeable change is that authentication for wireless access is now through the Cisco Clean Access Agent instead of a Web browser.

Koobface Virus Targets Facebook; Hits Campus

A virus targeting Facebook is affecting users at Lafayette via emails with subject lines like "You look funny in this new video." The virus tries to get users to read the email and then download what it claims is an updated video player, but is actually the virus. The virus targets computers running all versions of Microsoft Windows.

ITS Coffee Break for 11/4/2008

On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley talk about Lafayette's Election Night Broadcast project and ask for ideas about how to improve Moodle, the college's open source learning management system. In Tech News, they look at using video games to encourage reading; check out a new ebook reader for Apple's iPhone; and discuss new research that claims surfing the web is good for your brain. Finally, in Help News, they talk about Adobe's Kuler web app for picking color palettes and give a rundown of upcoming brown bag lectures. Listen in iTunes or download from Soapbox.

ITS Coffee Break for 10/6/2008

Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist kick off the early October edition of the ITS Coffee Break with a discussion of fall projects, including a slew of student videos and "Spaces," a new intercollegiate workspace for faculty that's powered by Moodle and Shibboleth. In Tech News they look at new political and utility apps for the iPhone, check up on an Earth vs. International Space Station chess match, and consider Nintendo's answer to Apple's iPod touch: the DSi. Listen in iTunes or download from Soapbox.

ITS Coffee Break for 9/10/2008

Hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley kick off this episode of the ITS Coffee Break with a rundown of their summer projects, including the redesigned Library web site, a pilot for a new collaborative web site, and the newly-updated iTunes U. In Tech News they take a look at Google's just-released Chrome web browser and dig for tweets using Twitter's new search tool. Listen in iTunes or download from Soapbox.