K-State Zimbra supports both the @ksu.edu and @k-state.edu mail domains. Thursday morning, Aug. 27, technical issues caused error messages when sending to @ksu.edu. This was resolved in conjunction with K-State’s Zimbra partners by 11:15 a.m. that Thursday. Information Technology Services regrets this inconvenience.
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Union Computer Store launches online shopping
In June, the Union Computer Store quietly launched an online store in time for New Student Orientation. The new shopping experience is also linked from the store’s homepage at www.k-state.edu/computerstore.
The online store contains a limited selection of the most purchased products, and it has proven to be popular. Online orders were placed on the first day of the site going live, and orders continue to roll in daily with K-State Back to School in full swing.
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Illegal filesharing on campus: What you need to know
Sharing copyrighted music, movies, and games is against the law and K-State policy.
The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 makes it the responsibility of the university to educate K-Staters about the dangers of illegally sharing files through Peer-2-Peer (P2P) networks.
To help protect K-Staters from lawsuits and to abide by this mandate, K-State’s IT security team created a new website and an informational handout (PDF) to inform students, faculty, and staff.
What is Peer-2-Peer?
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Office 2007 Enterprise lower price for back-to-school
Through November, Office Enterprise 2007 for Windows will be offered by the Union Computer Store to K-State faculty/staff and students at the same $79.95 price in place of Office Professional 2007 as a back-to-school special.
This special deal is being made by Microsoft to schools participating in the Microsoft Student Licensing Program as a back-to-school special. Office Enterprise 2007 is considered a step up from Office Professional 2007.
Office Professional 2007 includes Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Publisher 2007, and Access 2007. Office Enterprise 2007 adds OneNote 2007, Groove 2007, and InfoPath 2007. See Microsoft’s Office Enterprise 2007 site for complete details on the programs it contains and system requirements.
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Union Computer Store hours for back-to-school
The Union Computer Store will be open extended hours for BTS (Back to School) beginning Sunday, Aug. 16:
| Date | Store hours |
| Sunday Aug. 16 | noon-6 p.m. |
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Monday Aug. 17-Saturday Aug. 22 |
8 a.m.-7 p.m. |
| Sunday Aug. 23 | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. |
| Monday Aug. 24-Wednesday Aug. 26 | 8 a.m.-7 p.m. |
| Thursday Aug. 27 | 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (open late for Activities Carnival in Union) |
| Friday Aug. 28 | 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. |
| Saturday Aug. 29 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. |
| Sunday Aug. 30 | Closed |
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Social bookmarking with Diigo
Social bookmarking is the process of users storing and organizing webpages and web content in an open and public fashion. The end result of this is something called a folksonomy. Where a taxonomy is a strict categorization of the formal structure of a given thing, a folksonomy is a categorization and organization of the structure of a given entity by the common people (“folks”) who choose to help organize the information.
This organizational schema is created by individual users “tagging” bookmarks with keywords that the user think can be attributed to the content (and is usually expressed using a “tag cloud” — see image above). Different from the concepts of folders, tagging allows any individual piece of information to be attributed with a countless number of keywords or “tags”.
More than a subtle shift, the development of social bookmarking — which helped reconceptualize organizing information through the use of tags instead of folders and resulted in the creation of a human-powered folksonomy — is one of the foundational elements to the current dynamic and ultra-networked Web (2.0).
Firefox 3.5 released with great speed improvements
Last week, Mozilla Corp. released Firefox 3.5, the next iteration of the Firefox web browser.Visually, Firefox 3.5 is practically identical to Firefox 3. The majority of the changes are behind-the-scenes.
Firefox 3.5’s biggest improvement is speed. Javascript execution (which virtually every website uses) is now two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2. Mozilla also added support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard including open audio and video.
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Simplify Internet browsing by using tabs
During the course of any web-browsing session, you may end up with several telescoping treks into many different sites. An alternative to opening 20 windows is to use browser tabs instead.
Browser tabs are supported in every major browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari). Think of a tab like adding a new page to the current window that can have a completely different website loaded in it.
For example, here’s a screenshot of my current tabs in Firefox:
Not only do browser tabs simplify your browsing experience, they can also save system resources and time. For instance, if you frequent a website that is slow to load, you can flip to a different tab and read that webpage while the other one loads.
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Save the date: All-day security training Oct. 5
Mark your calendar: Monday, Oct. 5, is the date of the fourth K-State Security training event. This time around, K-State’s IT security team and Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) will be joining with members of the Kansas Board of Regents Information Security Council to present a full day of computer security training. The event will be open to K-Staters and to security personnel from other universities throughout the state.
This full-day training will feature sessions by computer security officers from K-State as well as from other Regents universities.
Mark your calendars now so you don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about securing your corner of cyberspace.
Newsletter updates: Full-text issue, plus archived “view by issue”
While the current version of InfoTech Tuesday offers a wide range of features not possible on the previous platform, updates are still being made to the site to make it a more user-friendly vehicle for technology news at K-State. In this vein, a couple of improvements have been made to the site:
- An improved archives that allows “viewing by issue”.
- A new “full-text version” that allows readers to read an entire issue all on one webpage.
Improved archives with “viewing by issue“
Long a desired feature, an improved archives section has always been on the list of things to update. In the past, the only way to view archives was on an article-by-article basis. So, when looking chronologically at the archives, it was possible to view a listing of all articles in a given year or month. However, since InfoTech Tuesday is published on a “weekly issue” basis, the previous archives did not reflect this structure and allow for the browsing of articles on an issue-by-issue basis.
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