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• Network service to the Mars Center for Science and Technology will be interrupted 5/24

  May 21, 2012
  Who: Mars Center Network Users What: Network Maintenance Why: Activate Redundant Connections When: 5/24/12 5pm-8pm Details: Network service to the Mars Center for Science and Technology will be interrupted for a maintenance window to activate redundant network connections to the building.  While this work is being performed wired and wireless network service in the building [...]

  Who:	Mars Center Network Users
  What:	Network Maintenance
  Why:	Activate Redundant Connections
  When:	5/24/12 5pm-8pm

  Details: Network service to the Mars Center for Science and Technology will be interrupted for a maintenance window to activate redundant network connections to the building.  While this work is being performed wired and wireless network service in the building will be intermittent.

  If you have any questions or concerns please contact Steve Hess by email (shess@wheatonma.edu).

• Recommended Tune-up of anti-spam settings

  March 12, 2012
  We will be performing some back-end changes to the Barracuda Anti-Spam mail server, for more information please view this post.

  Who:	Wheaton College Faculty, Staff, and Students
  What:	Maintenance to the Barracuda Anti-Spam mail server
  Why:	Recommended Tune-up of anti-spam settings
  When:	Thursday, March 15, 2012  4:30pm - 5:00 pm

  Details: In our continuing effort to improve LIS services, we will be performing some back-end changes to the Barracuda Anti-Spam mail server to help increase accuracy. There will be no downtime during this process and it will not require any action on your part.

  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this outage, please contact Brian Gibson by email (gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu).

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act- The DMCA at Wheaton

  March 12, 2011
  Distributing copyrighted materials without the consent of the owner is against federal law, for more information please view this post.

  Who:Wheaton College Faculty and Staff
  What:Digital Millennium Copyright Act- The DMCA at Wheaton
  Why:Reminder - Distributing copyrighted materials without the consent of the owner is against federal law. It is Wheaton policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement
  DETAILS:DMCA infringements over the last 6+ years:
  2006 – 37 infringements
  2007 – 111 infringements
  2008 – 19 infringements
  2009 – 18 infringements
  2010 – 23 infringements
  2011 - 40 infringements
  2012 - 7 infringements (so far)

  Though file sharing through Peer to Peer (P2P) software has become commonplace in its use in distributing copyrighted material it is a violation of Federal Law. You may be familiar with some Peer-to-Peer (P2P) sharing programs, Ares, Bearshare, BitTorrent, Kazaa, Limewire, Morpheus, or Instant Messenger file transfers but their use for sharing copyrighted materials is illegal.

  Directions to remove Peer to Peer file sharing programs
  Please visit http://wheatoncollege.edu/technology/started/networks-wheaton/remove-file-sharing-programs/ for more information about file sharing and for directions on how to remove Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing programs from your computer. Please note- Offenses listed on this page pertain to students only.

  If you have any questions please contact: Sue Morgado at smorgado@wheatonma.edu, or Technology Support at extension 3900, support@wheatonma.edu