This blog will be taking some time off for Christmas and New Year’s and will be back in January 2008. Happy Holidays to everyone!

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Our Internet Services folks have made a small change to the University’s home page that makes searching a lot easier: the Search box is now located in the top right corner of the home page. You no longer have to click the Search Tab. Once you enter a search term, you are taken to the [...]

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Mondays thru Fridays
beginning December 6th to December 21st
8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday December 22nd – Wednesday December 26th
CLOSED
Thursday, December 27th – Monday December 31th
8:00am – 5:00pm Closed Weekends
(Limited Services will be available)
Tuesday, January 1st
CLOSED
Wednesday, January 2nd – Sunday, January 6th
8:00am-5:00pm
Closed Weekends
(Limited Services will be available on January 2nd)
Monday January 7th – Sunday, January 13th
(IT Service Desk) 8:00am-6:00pm
Closed [...]

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Robert Jackson, our high performance computing guy, will be offering training on using the UTPA high-performance cluster on January 7-8, 2008 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at ASB Room 2.128. for more information please see www.utpa.edu/it/hpcc.
The class will cover the following topics:

Starting up
Customizing your user environment
Finding and using applications
Building your own applications
Running applications and [...]

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UTPA Information Technology’s mission has always been accomplishing the University’s strategic goals through the application of computer and network technology. The University is in the midst of a journey to becoming learner-centered research institution, and that means increased focus on grant-writing (and hopefully grant-winning) activities. Grant money is very important because it allows us to [...]

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A complaint we hear from time to time is that important UTPA dates don’t appear in our Microsoft Outlook calendars. When is the 12th Class Day? When will Commencement be? How about those UTPA holidays? To that end, we’ve created a little file that will load all the important UTPA holidays and other dates into [...]

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For the past few years, the University of Texas System has been using Shibboleth to allow people to access resources away from home, using their local name and password. For instance, I recently attended a meeting at UT Arlington. When I wanted to log onto the wireless network, I was sent to a page that [...]

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