Tomorrow Tue September 8, starting from 0730, we will upgrade our Roundcube installation. Expected downtime: about 15 min.

Update Tue 0734: upgrade done.

On Thursday, the 27th of August 2009 around 16:00 we will start upgrading the operating system and the webserver software of our main webserver zwoelfi. This may lead to a downtime of many websites at D-PHYS including www.phys.ethz.ch and isg.phys.ethz.ch. Update 21:20: All services should be back to normal again.
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We installed new linux kernels for our systems and the machines need to be rebooted to run the new kernel. We will reboot the D-PHYS Linux Workstations this evening after 08:00 pm. Please log out this evening before you go home, save all unsaved work and don't start any long running jobs. You may also reboot your workstation yourself earlier.

Due to a critical condition on our systems we were forced to shut down our backup servers. This means there will be

No backup during this weekend.

Please be aware of this temporary limitation when producing large or important amounts of data. We apologize.

Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for August, 2009.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates.

Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for July, 2009.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates.

We will upgrade our LTSP server "plimpy" the next Wednesday, 24 June 2009 starting at 7 pm. Please save all your open documents and log out until that time. The machine should be ready again the next morning. You don't have to back up your data on /scratch since we will do that. Find the details on the software changes here.

While performing the upgrade to Debian "lenny" we will switch to a 64 bit kernel since finally also Adobe flash player, the last missing mission-critical app, is now available for 64 bit Linux. Unfortunately Adobe still doesn't ship 64 bit Linux versions of Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader). You can still fill Adobe Reader PDF forms and even create and edit PDF documents on the Windows RDP Server "ramora" which you can access via the ETH Zurich menu, Microsoft Office (or the full-screen login, see above link).

Of course 'UPGRADE YOUR ETHZ E-Mail-Konto.' is a phishing attempt. And not a bad one at that. The German is halfway correct and they even used different From: and Reply-To: addresses. But still: no administrator worth her title would ever ask for a password. Please delete.

Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for June, 2009.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates.

Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for May, 2009.
There is 1 critical update.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates.