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New Information Technology website now live

Posted on by lcarlin

The new Information Technology Services (ITS) website is now “live” at www.k-state.edu/its. This new website is one of our key 2009 initiatives to improve communication within ITS and with our campus users regarding available services.

The website is being implemented in several stages, with this initial version focusing on making it easier for users to find the services they need and presenting the newly consolidated ITS and its service units as a coherent, branded IT organization serving K-State. The website replaces www.k-state.edu/InfoTech as the entry to ITS services.

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Spotlight: Who’s behind that website? Use WHOIS tool

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

A tool that has been around for many years has been the query/response protocol querying databases to find out who the registrant for a particular domain name or IP address is. The registrant of a domain is the one who controls its administration. Network Solutions offers a simple WHOIS interface to help users discover a site’s registrant.

WHOIS

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Spotlight: Find computers through geolocation IP address searches

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Think you can go online and visit websites and post to social networking spaces anonymously?  Think again.

Most websites collect Internet protocol (IP) address information, which is unique to each computer on a network.  A fairly recent feature of IP-address look-ups involves the layering of the geospatial aspect — the actual location of the computer user.

The following is a screenshot of the geolocation of a K-State computer and its origins, as verified by the free www.hostip.info (“host IP”) site.

HostIP

Distance-ed giveaway site offers more free downloads

Posted on by rvail

These days, what’s better than getting something for nothing? K-State’s distance education giveaway website, part of the Options Plus marketing campaign, now includes four more items that can be downloaded from the site free as PDFs.

Whether you’re a K-State student, alumni, sports fan, faculty/staff member, a kid, or if you just want some free stuff, visit the giveaway website to find the following new items: Continue reading “Distance-ed giveaway site offers more free downloads” →