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The New NELL
We have received a new Alpha Server to use as our administrative
computer, NELL. On Friday, March 31st, we will do the standalone backups
on the old NELL, and will take the system down for the conversion
on Saturday and Sunday, April 1st and 2nd.
Ada,
Allin1, WordPerfect, and WpsPlus will not be available on the new
NELL. Student accounts (STD) have not been created for NELL for the
past two years. We will remove the remaining student accounts at this
time.
Your username and password will remain the same. The new NELL will
be approximately twice as fast as the old NELL. It will also give
us the ability to expand with additional processors in the future.
If you have any questions about the upgrade, send mail to Helpdesk@shsu.edu.
New Workstations
We just upgraded the
specifications for the workstations we build. We now use Celeron 466
Mhz based machines. These provide the same benefits of a Pentium III
466 Mhz at a lower cost. The UltraATA66 on-board controllers allow faster
hard drive access ...twice the throughput we did have. The new machines
come with 64 MB memory. The new machines also have video cards with
32MB memory, using Advanced Graphics Ports (AGP) 4x, Savage 4 based
video accelerator chips; which will provide faster graphics processing
(twice the current video throughput).
If
you would like to order new workstations for your staff members, the
order form is
available online.
SamInfo-Web
You can now change your PIN via the Web. Click SamInfo,
Registrar, PinChange. You must know your current personal identification
number to use this.
Faculty
evaluations are being done online for the College of Education and
Applied Science. Almost 700 have been completed at this time.
Training
 Many
of you have expressed interest in taking various Faculty/Staff training
sessions but have found it difficult to attend at the scheduled times.
The University is now adding an alternative via ElementK. ElementK is an
online training source. Some of the classes offered include: What's
New in Office 2000, Dreamweaver, HTML, Excel, Macromedia Director,
Photoshop, and Word. You can review the entire course list offered
there by accessing www.elementk.com
Click What is ElementK, then Extensive Course Catalog. If
you see a class you're interested in, send e-mail to ucs_jws.
We will then pay the tuition and add you to the ElementK system. You'll
have the same username as your on-campus one, and your initial password
will be your PIN. You can take as many classes as you'd like in this
next calendar year.
Some
of the classes are Tech Experts; you take an online computer-based
class whenever you want---no textbook or time frame required. Some
of the classes are Instructor-Led. These are held for specific time
periods and may require a textbook. You or your department can purchase
the textbook via credit card or purchase order from ZDU. Continuing
Education Units are available with this; however, they also require
an additional fee per course for the certificates.
Classes
will continue to be offered here on-campus also. The schedule is always
posted and available via the Faculty and Staff links from the University
web page. The PCs in AB1, Room 316 are being upgraded at this
time---so your next training experience will be faster and smoother!
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