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Issue : October 3, 2007 |
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Security and
Internet Services
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SPAM AND VIRUS STATS.
For the month of September (Aug 27 through Sept 30):
Attempted: 117 million
Accepted: 23 million (20%)
Blocked: 73 million (62%)
User Unknown: 10 million (9%)
Grey-listed: 11 million (9%)
Messages were blocked because of the following reasons:
Unauthorized access: 41 million (56%)
Spam source: 4 million (6%)
Dynamic: 4 million (5%)
Insecure: 16 million (22%)
Protocol Violation: .4 million (1%)
DNS problems: 7 million (10%) |
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Network and Telecommunication
Services
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GOPHER MESSAGING REVISITED.
Useful Gopher Messaging
Tips: • when calling a person on
campus, press your phone's # key to skip over the person's introductory
message; • disable
your own voicemail's long options list (the
one with the menu) via
http://go4msg.umn.edu: log in, select "Options
-> Voice Mail -> Messages," choose 'Edit,' and un-check "Play
other system options after playing your greeting to the callers."
VOICE MAIL MESSAGES VIA EMAIL.
To send a copy of your voice messages/faxes
to your central email account,
log in to Gopher Messaging from your web browser, (go4msg.umn.edu),
select “Options-> Mail Filters, choose 'Edit,' and check "Forward
All Mails
Enabled, and Keep a Copy." Type in your central email address,
then click
'update.'
SPEED UP YOUR LOG-IN TO VOICEMAIL.
By default, Gopher Messaging
waits 4 seconds (before considering that all
digits have been entered). To speed up your initial log-in, enter
your
password and then press your phone's # key. The system will process
your
password immediately.
SET TIME STAMP & SENDER INFORMATION.
"Time Stamp and Sender Information" is
a standard Gopher Messaging feature; to activate it on your phone,
press * + 5 to go to the Main Menu, select (4) Personal Options,
then select option (8).
NEED MORE GOPHER MESSAGING INFORMATION?
On-line Gopher Messaging
Guides are available on the NTS website
http://www.umn.edu/nts/go4msg/; view the Gopher Messaging on-line
tutorial at http://uttc.umn.edu/training/tutorials/go4msg/index.html.
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Academic and
Distributed
Computing
Services
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REMINDER: HIGH-SPEED INTERNET OPTIONS.
The University
of Minnesota modem pool service will be decommissioned on December
31, 2007. NTS offers a variety of providers for discounted
residential fee-based Internet service. University Faculty, Students,
Staff, and Alumni with active email accounts may purchase this
service
directly from selected vendors through UMart (http://umart.umn.edu).
Options include Cable Modem, DSL, and Dial-up Modem.
UPDATED DREAMWEAVER AND PHOTOSHOP CS3 COURSES!
Using Adobe CS3
to work with web sites or digital images? Dreamweaver CS3: Creating
Basic Web Pages can help you get started creating a new web site
or updating an existing one. Photoshop CS3: Basics can teach
you techniques for manipulating images and text, and creating
composite graphics. Find out more by clicking on "What's
New" at http://uttc.umn.edu.
MORE MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 COURSES!
E
xplore Visio 2007 for creating
visual diagrams such as process maps, mind maps, and organizational
charts. Or learn more about using Excel 2007 charts for quick
and effective ways to interpret your data. For information on
these and all our Office 2007 courses, click on Office 2007 Training
in the "Featured @ UTTC" section of http://uttc.umn.edu.
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Digital
Media
Center
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OCTOBER 10 TEL SEMINAR: MEDIA LITERACY AND NEW
MEDIA.
Panelists will discuss media literacy in higher education,
or the skills
and knowledge students need to actively engage emerging new media
forms, at the first TEL seminar of the fall series: October 10,
12:00-1:30 p.m., 402 Walter Library. See item below and at http://dmc.umn.edu/issues.shtml#1.
OCTOBER 10 ETF MEETING: PODCASTING, VODCASTING, STREAMING VIDEO.
Campus
educational technology designers and developers will socialize
and discuss “Capture the Classroom: Podcasting, Vodcasting,
and Streaming Video” at the next Educational Technologists
Forum meeting: October 10, 3:00-4:30 p.m., 402 Walter Library.
See: http://dmc.umn.edu/etf/.
OCTOBER 30 SHORT COURSE: USING WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO ENHANCE LEARNING.
Explore
how blogs, podcasting, wikis, social cataloging, and social
networking tools can be used to achieve learning goals for research,
reflection, writing, interaction, and the collaborative construction
of
knowledge. Fees are waived for eligible faculty members. See:
http://uttc.umn.edu/training/courses/description.jsp?secName=TEL131.
RESULTS: FACULTY TECHNOLOGY SURVEY.
This past spring, we surveyed Twin Cities faculty to gather information
about their experiences with and perceptions of educational technology.
Read a report about the results: http://dmc.umn.edu/surveys/.
MODELING MEDIA LITERACY: WALT JACOBS, THE TEACHER AS TEXT.
Prof.
Jacobs, interim chair of African American & African
Studies, believes
that the use of media is ubiquitous in students' lives—so
it's vitally
important for them to have an understanding of how modern media
work and how messages and products of popular culture are constructed.
Learn more about new media literacy at the Oct. 10 TEL seminar,
read the article about Prof. Jacobs in the October issue of "UMart," or
see:
http://dmc.umn.edu/projects/jacobs/.
LEVINSON AND LIU, DMC PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS, WIN NSF AWARD.
Profs. David Levinson and Henry Liu have received a $500,000
NSF award to develop web-based simulation modules for undergraduate
transportation engineering courses. Liu and Levinson have each
received TEL grants, and Levinson was a DMC Faculty Fellow in 2005.
For more info, see:
http://dmc.umn.edu/fellowship/2005/levinson.shtml,
http://dmc.umn.edu/grants/2007/awards07.shtml, and
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0717504.
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