Maintenance
Oracle Upgrade Scheduled
The Binghamton University Oracle business systems will be upgraded beginning at the close of business on Thursday, Feb. 22. Oracle will remain unavailable to the campus until Tuesday morning, Feb. 27.
Date: Feb 20, 2007
Mac OS X Daylight Savings Time Updates
Apple is providing software updates for Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 and later based on worldwide time zone information available as of January 8, 2007.
Date: Feb 16, 2007
StatMart Upgrades Made
"Cruncher", a two-cpu, dual-core Sun Fire V490 Server has recently replaced StatMart as an ITS "high performance computing" platform for research and statistical computing. This machine will provide users with a number of improved capabilities on the older machine.
Date: Feb 13, 2007
Daylight Savings Time Changes Influence Some Computer Functions
The rules for daylight savings time are different this year because of a change in federal law. Beginning in 2007, most of the U.S. will begin Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and revert to standard time on the first Sunday in November.
Date: Feb 12, 2007
BINGNFS1 and BINGSUNS Shutdown on 2/14 for Software Patches
BINGNFS1 and BINGSUNS will be shutdown at 5 am, Wednesday, February 14, to apply software patches for the new changes to Daylight Savings Time. The systems should be back up around 8:30 am.
Date: Feb 12, 2007
Optical Scanner Being Replaced
The Computer Center’s current Optical Mark Reader has reached the end of its normal life expectancy and will be retired on Monday October 30, 2006. Replacing it will be a Pearson NCS Opscan 8 running ReMark OMR 2.5 software.
Date: Oct 24, 2006
