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.

Today at 07:04 a software upgrade of a core router performed by Informatikdienste caused an avalanche of errors in our server cluster, leading to an outage of printing and some other non-critical services. It took us till around 08:00 to get the systems back to normal. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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.

Today at 16:41 a process on our terminal server plimpy freaked out and consumed all memory + swap, causing a complete halt of all other processes. We had to reboot the machine. We're currently looking into ways to prevent this problem from appearing again in the future. Sorry for your inconvenience.

Today around 0715 we experienced a series of power outages in our water-cooled racks in HIT, leading to a shutdown of our most crucial servers. It took us almost two hours to get the systems up and running again, during which time most of our services were not available.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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.

Today around 14:20 the D-PHYS network started acting up. After about 20 minutes the problem could be tracked down to a machine running amok. Unfortunately, the terminal server plimpy did not survive the downtime and had to be rebooted at 16:10. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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.