Fri 03 Sep 2010 Break in network connection - Tuesday 7th Sept 7.54AM
There will be no network connection for a few minutes on this day.
Next Tuesday morning, 7th September, at around 7:54AM, there will be a brief period (<10 minutes) where the Faculty will be disconnected from the internet. During this time, the telephones will not work, there will be no internet connection for web browsing or email, and it will not be possible to connect remotely in or out of the building. Internal connections (such as those between desktops and the economics servers for f: drives, etc) will also be down.
This is due to reconfiguration of Computing Service hardware, and cannot be avoided. It is expected that the outage will be around 3 minutes, but might be slightly longer.
Mon 24 May 2010 Spam alert: 'Update New Version PDF Reader'
There is an email circulating that you should be aware of.
If you get an email encouraging you to update PDF Reader or to install PDF Reader 2010, please delete it. This is an attempt to get you to buy something, not a security update to Adobe Acrobat Reader
Mon 12 Apr 2010 Free Training Courses
The UCS Easter 2010 Training Programme is now live at:http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/training
The UCS Easter 2010 Training Programme is now live at:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/training
New this term:
* Screen Recording: Create Video Tutorials using Camtasia (useful if you want to screencast your documentation rather than type it all in or not do it at all!)
* Project 2007: Scheduling a New Project
* Publisher 2007: Creating Professional Publications
* Visio 2007: Organisational, Gantt and Flowcharts
* Excel 2007: Top Ten Tips
* PowerPoint 2007: Top Ten Tips
* Word 2007: Top Ten Tips
* How to Give a Better Presentation
* RSI: Prevent Repetitive Strain Injury
Updated:
* Excel 2007: Analysing and Summarising Data (Self-paced)
* Excel 2007: Functions and Macros
* LaTeX: An Introduction to Text Processing
Wed 31 Mar 2010 Hermes vacation message, useful option
Learn how to modify Vacation Messages: automatic replies which can be sent by Hermes to tell people you are away.
Vacation messages are automatic replies which can be sent by Hermes to tell people you are away.
By default Hermes does not send this message to every email you get, but assumes that once it has replied to a person, it does not need to tell them again within a set time period. The default for this time period is 31 days, and this applies even if you turn the vacation message off and on again in that period. It is advisable to change this default to 1.
Wed 24 Mar 2010 Security terms - Phishing
Phishing is when an email appears to come from and reputatble and trusted source, for example a bank, a website or email provider, but is in fact from somebody trying to get hold of your password.
The email will have a link to a website, and will give a reason why you should click this link and login. If you click the link, you will be taken to a website which is a convincing copy of the website you would expect to get to. This copy website has been set up by the scammer to capture your password, which can then be used by the scammer.
Treat all emails asking you to login in this way as suspicious.Most reputable companies do not send out this type of email. Most email programs will display somewhere on the screen where a link is directing you to when you hold the mouse over the link. Check that the address of the website that you are going to looks right. If you are still not sure ask your College or Faculty IT staff to check the email.
Be particularly careful about your email passwords. If a scammer gets hold of these they can email everbody in your addressbook pretending to be you, and also access all the personal information stored in your email.
For more information and a history of this term see Threatsaurus - Phishing
