A new SSG site, to replace this aging site, is on it's way!

Click here for hints, tips and how-to use Mercurial here in Computer Science.

The Student Academic Success Center offers drop-in tutoring and small group tutoring. Click here to find out more about Chemistry/Biology, Math/Stats, and Writing tutoring.

Looking for documentation on how to use the CS Cluster? The cluster has a useful webpage at: http://elvis.cs.ucdavis.edu

We are upgrading the wiki server this week. The upgrade includes upgrading the main virtual server, so we moved the virtual services off the main server to some lesser hardware.

During this transition some brief outages will occur, probably less than 5 minute outages, and less than one a day. So, if you have a hard time reaching this page later, just try again in a few moments.

Following up on my previous email regarding blocking outbound email traffic (SMTP), we will be implementing the new firewall rules at the CS network border at noon (PST) tomorrow, Wednesday April 4 2007. It is possible, although unlikely, that you will not be able to send email to us in case you have a problem following this change. In that case, please contact us by telephone, click here for our numbers.

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Ken Jones
Director of Computing Services

For further information on mail services click Read More (below).

Recently the Systems Support Group has been helping people with issues surrounding their email client. Many of these problems would not have happened if the size of the Inbox involved was smaller. For details on how you can save your Inbox from such troubles, please read Email Archiving with IMAP - Why and How.

Microsoft Windows systems, Microsoft Windows Outlook and Microsoft Windows Exchange all are effected by a "heap-based buffer overflow in the way Microsoft Windows processes embedded web fonts may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. "

Get your Microsoft Windows updates now!

Microsoft has released the patch for the Microsoft WMF Vulnerability. The procedure below covers removing the WMFHotFix patch and installing the new Microsoft update.

Installing the Windows WMF security patch:

Synopsis
If you did not install the WMFHotFix patch: Perform a Windows Update

If you installed the WMFHotFix patch: Using Add or Remove programs, remove the WMFHotFix MSI Version...” program. Perform a Windows Update, Restart.

For details and Step by Step instructions, click "Read More"

The mysql server that serves the Support and CSIFDocs web servers went down last week. The mysql services have been temporarly moved until the mysql server can be rebuilt.