TOM is not for introducing new, cutting-edge technology, but rather to highlight helpful, proven technologies.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2008
Most of us by now have received at least one email message where the original attachment is missing and the subject line preceded with {Filename} tag. It is usually accompanied by an attachment called Wesleyan-Attachment-Warning.txt that shows the name of the file that was removed. Some of the most common attachments that are removed are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2008
Wesleyan Events Calendar is the central repository for events that are held at Wesleyan. As you know, the campus is alive with many exciting events every day. We describe here how you can choose to receive a custom email listing of the events in the calendar.
These events are submitted to the system by clicking on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2008
Phishing refers to the technique used by criminal elements to “fish” for personal information by pretending to send official E-mails.
Wikipedia describes it as “In computing, phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2008
Over the past several years, we have seen tremendous growth in the need for centralized document storage, fueled by the increased use of the web for information dissemination as well as increase in the use of rich media (high quality images, music and digitized videos) in teaching and research. As we progressed, we accommodated these [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 1st, 2007
Discussion on the global climate crisis and Wesleyan’s role in providing leadership on this issue has been both informed and passionate. President Roth’s initial posting on the issue and the subsequent response by students, alumni, faculty and staff, have contributed to momentum towards helping Wesleyan become a more sustainable institution and community.
One component [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2007
Backing up the data on your computers is extremely important. Despite the fact that the reliability of disks have gone up tremendously in the recent years, they do fail and the effect of losing data can be devastating. In this posting we explain 1) what we do to backup files on our servers, 2) the [...]