Older status page information has been moved to oldstatus so that this page could be made easier to read and more up-to-date. New information will continue to be added near the top of this page.
Nov 20, 2009
The departmental servers www and mail were temporarily unavailable during the early hours due to a power outage/spike problem which caused a network switch to partially fail. Connectivity was restored around 8:30am.
Nov 12, 2009
Further to the note of November 10, if you want text files to be presented with ISO-8859-1 encoding then you can append .iso88591 to a file ending with .txt (so file.txt.iso88591 would be used if your text file is encoded as ISO-8859-1).
Nov 10, 2009
Due to the way the new web server (www) serves pages, if you want to use ISO-8859-1 encoding for characters on an HTML page then you will have to append .iso88591 to your filename (so file.html.iso88591 would be used if your html is encoded as ISO-8859-1, as opposed to the default UTF-8 encoding). The meta tag no longer works inside web pages to set the encoding.
Nov 4, 2009
The departmental servers sphere, www, and mail are back online. coxeter will undergo a final reboot and it should be back up by 5:00pm.
Nov 4, 2009
A new update was released today that will require that we reboot coxeter, sphere, and mail. So those machines will be going offline at 4:15pm. We expect that they will be back by 5pm.
Nov 2, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, www, and mail will have software updates installed at 4:15pm on Wednesday, as is normally scheduled. Rebooting may not be necessary but certain programs such as firefox and kpdf will have to be restarted (if you leave them running they will not work properly after the upgrade). We expect that the updates will be finished by 5:00pm.