IMPORTANT: If you use eces as your CU mailhome (most of you do not), then you need to pay attention to this:

Eces has been listed on CU's spam blocklist on and off for the last few days.

This DOES NOT AFFECT INCOMING EMAIL.

This only affects your ability to use eces.colorado.edu for outgoing e-mail.

There is very little information as to why, and it is possible that there is nothing I could have done to prevent this.

I will be reconfiguring eces to only accept authenticated connections, this might help clear it from the blacklist eventually.

Meanwhile, and in general, I welcome those of you using eces.colorado.edu as your outgoing smtp server to simply switch to smtp.colorado.edu. The proper settings are: authentication, TLS, port 25. Use your IDENTIKEY to authenticate.

ECES had a difficult Fall Break.

Two things were scheduled to happen to Eces over the Fall Break.

First, the ECE server room was scheduled to be rewired by the ITS wiring contractors. This is part of a campus-wide initiative to replace older cat-3 cabling with shiny new cat-5e cable. It is generally a good thing.

Second, Eces was scheduled to be down on Tuesday, 11/20, for scheduled disk maintenance. This maintenance would address the recent problems we've been having with the quota system on Eces.

Unfortunately, the rewire work caused a significant disruption to the normal cooling and airflow in the ECE server room and this resulted in a hardware failure on Eces.

This hardware failure was resolved at approximately 10am on Wednesday, 11/21.

At this point, I was able to begin the scheduled disk maintenance. This lasted until approximately 8pm on Wednesday, 11/21.

On Friday, 11/23, I was notified that Eces was not correctly routing traffic from the ECE Undergraduate Labs. This problem was quickly corrected.

New for the Fall 2007 semester:

We've been busy!

Many of our labs have relocated:

ECEN3100 aka Logic Lab --> Now in ECEE 2B39.
ECEN4613 aka Embedded Design Lab --> Now in ECEE 2B37.
ECEN4623/33 aka Embedded Real Time & Hybrid Lab --> Now in ECEE 2B37.
ECEN4610 aka Capstone Lab --> Now in ECEE 1B24 and 1B32.
ECE Cad aka ECE Linux Lab --> Now in ECEE 283.

There is now a printer located in 2B39.
To use it, just do Start:Run \\blacksun\logic-printer.

We have also given up a portion of the Circuits Lab to the Aerospace Department.
The Circuits Lab is now ONLY accessible through ECEE 281 (not ECEE 275).

ECEE 287, formerly the CAD Lab, will be used as recitation space for Circuits Lab classes.

Also...

There is a new, easy to use, menuing system on eces.colorado.edu

If you SSH to eces.colorado.edu, you will be presented with a menu that will allow you to easily change your passwords and perform some other basic tasks.

If you want/need to access a Unix commandline interface, you can SSH to eces-shell.colorado.edu.

You can still access your eces/METAVERSE files by connecting to eces.colorado.edu with SCP.

New for the Spring semester:

There are new computers and monitors in the Components and Logic Labs.

We've been having some issues with PLUS setting passwords correctly.

If you try to create an account with PLUS or set your password with PLUS, and it does not work, please try again. This time, use a password that contains only capital letters, lowercase letters, and numbers.

Thank you.

E-mail problems:

Due to some misconfigurations on Saturday, e-mail address resolution was not wor king correctly. This has now been repaired.

Maintenance on Saturday, January 15 took longer than expected, and ECES was down from aproximately 9:15am until aproximately 1pm.

Unfortunately, we were unable to correct all of the problems encountered on Satu rday, and ECES will once again go down for maintenance from 12pm to 4pm on Monda y, January 17.

We regret the inconvenience, but these short down times early in the semester sh ould prevent problems in later, more critical periods.

Roaming Profiles Changed/Reset
You can find the text of the e-mail you should have received concerning this here:

Roaming Profile Changes -- The E-Mail

07/12/2004

New Certificates
ECES has new ssl certificates for secure web browsing and for secure IMAP and POP e-mail access. As before, these are self-signed certificates. They are not meant to "authenticate" that you are talking to eces, just to encrypt that communication.

12/23/2003

Upgraded SpamAssassin to v.2.61, SquirrelMail SA config to 2.3.2
New SpamAssassin should help with spam filtering. The SquirrelMail plug-in for SA config was also upgraded. Unfortunately, system-wide Bayesian filtering is still not going, but we are working on it.

PGP/GPG SquirrelMail plug-in installed
On an unrelated note, we installed the PGP/GPG SquirrelMail plug-in. You'll need to figure out PGP/GPG keys for yourself, but the encoder/decoder is there.

12/07/2003

Non-ECE Major Accounts Expire 12am 01/01/2004
ECES Users whose accounts are set to expire 01/01/2004 have received an e-mail from ecehelp. You have until 12/19/2003 to purchase a copy of your data on CD for $5. After 01/01/2004 a CD of your data will cost $10. CDs can be purchased in ECEE 1B10A.

Of course, the easiest thing is for you to simply copy your data off of ECES by 01/01/2004

11/06/2003

New ECES Policies Concerning Use and Processing
Everyone needs to go read two new sections on the ECES Policies web page: "Use and Purpose of ECES" and "Processing and User Binary Policies for ECES".

10/20/2003

New Printer in Circuits Lab
Last week, we installed a new Dell M5200N Printer in the ECE Circuits Lab. The M5200N is faster and more efficient than the old HP 8150, but it currently does not support double-sided printing.
You can print to the M5200N without reinstalling the \\blacksun\circuits printer, but to gain the full functionality and correct printer options, we suggest removing and re-adding the printer. This will update the drivers in your roaming profile to better match the new printer.

10/07/2003

Quota increase on ECES
Based on the number of users and the available disk space on eces.colorado.edu, we were able to increase students' disk space quota to 665600K or 650MB: roughly the capacity of one CD-R. Before taking advantage of your newly available storage space, please review the Data Storage Policies on the ECES Policies page.

09/25/2003

Reminder to get data from eceuglab-pdc
This is just a a reminder that the old ECE Lab server, eceuglab-pdc, will be brought down on 11/01/2003. To get your old data to your new eces account, follow the directions here:
ECEUGLAB-PDC Data Transfer

09/05/2003

Password Problems
A few users have had problems logging in to the labs despite being able to connect to the server with ssh. We believe this is due to a problem which existed when their accounts were created and which has since been fixed. If you expereince this problem, you can try resetting your password with PLUS or you can e-mail ecehelp@colorado.edu or come by ECEE 1B10 to have your password reset by us.