Comments for ITS news @ W&L

Comment on Drawing winners announced by Karin O'C

Karin O'C — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:37:56 +0000

Woo Hoo! We all knew Laura was/is a winner!
Karin

Comment on Drawing winners announced by Laura Turner

Laura Turner — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:34:04 +0000

Thank you so much, ITS! My 9-year old is helping me set it up now!!!

Cheers and Happy Holidays,
Laura Turner

Comment on FRAUD: Update Webmail Now by Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:48:37 +0000

This is your basic Phishing type email.
It is unlikely it came from on campus, but instead from somewhere off campus.

Comment on FRAUD: Update Webmail Now by S. Ali

S. Ali — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:04:21 +0000

I doubt that anyone with that command of basic grammar and spelling would ever be allowed to hold a WLU account, lol.

Comment on FRAUD: Update Webmail Now by itsnewswlu

itsnewswlu — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:32:04 +0000

This e-mail uses some trickery to make it appear that it’s coming from a legitimate Washington and Lee address. This is a common tactic of those who send fraudulent e-mail to extract personal information. The takeaway is, don’t trust e-mail that doesn’t seem right, even if it appears to come from a legitimate source.

Comment on FRAUD: Update Webmail Now by P. Rinderknecht

P. Rinderknecht — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:49:17 +0000

If this email is coming from a wlu account, I would hope that the perpetrator of this can be found and that s/he will be SEVERELY punished.

Comment on Having trouble changing your password? by mary abdoney

mary abdoney — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:11:16 +0000

I love it! I’ve been thinking about doing one of these for the library!

Comment on Excel, CS5, other books available through Safari by itsnewswlu

itsnewswlu — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:52:49 +0000

Thanks for this additional information, Dick!

Comment on Excel, CS5, other books available through Safari by Dick Grefe

Dick Grefe — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:57:37 +0000

The direct link to our Safari collection provided above probably will not work for off-campus W&L researchers. Thus, W&L users ought to use this link:
http://library.wlu.edu/details.php?resID=1493

Comment on W&L doubles Internet connection by itsnewswlu

itsnewswlu — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:06:49 +0000

Thanks for your comment. We appreciate your concern, and we’re eager to meet the needs of students, faculty and staff.

The doubling of our connection to the Internet is really just an interim move, as we’re presently in competition for a federal grant that could significantly expand our bandwidth and other capabilities. We are evaluating several long-term options for expanding our bandwidth, and will be better prepared to make a decision when we know the outcome (probably in September) of the federal grant process. Also, for what it’s worth, please know that being in this area of Virginia leaves us few options for bandwidth vendors, and the best prices for institutional-sized bandwidths are still about 10 TIMES the costs we would pay if our location was, say, near D.C.

The good news is that when it comes to a shared Internet connection, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Yes, the 200 mbps connection is shared by all students, faculty and staff at W&L, but switching and bandwidth-shaping technology help produce a satisfactory experience even when many people are using the network at once. Our current 200 mbps connection puts us about in the middle of 38 peer institutions (members of CLAC, http://www.liberalarts.org) that recently participated in an informal survey on bandwidth.