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Issue #78 February 2009ContentsSupport needed for a University site licence for SASSAS: Business Intelligence Software and Predictive Analytics Monash is considering a University site licence that will allow all staff to access SAS software. But the University requires financial support from interested Faculties. The site licence will include:
If you would like to support a SAS site licence, please email software@med.monash.edu.au by Tuesday February 17, 2009, 5:00pm Please include if you are currently using SAS or if you would like to use the product and how many computers in your office / laboratory / team would use this software if a site licence was initiated. | Contents | Chemdraw Software - Faculty of Science Site LicenceChemDraw includes Struct=Name, ChemDraw/Excel and ChemNMR. Create stereochemically correct structures from chemical names, and get accurate IUPAC names for structures. Estimate NMR spectra from a ChemDraw structure with direct atom to spectral correlation. The ChemDraw ActiveX/Plugin adds chemical intelligence to your browser for querying databases and displaying information. The Faculty of Science purchased a site licence this year to cover their Faculty. TSG would like to know if any staff are currently using Chemdraw and would like to be able to use the Faculty of Science's site licence. If you would like to support the CHEMDRAW site licence, please email software@med.monash.edu.au by Tuesday February 17, 2009, 5:00pm Please include if you are currently using CHEMDRAW or if you would like to use the product and how many computers in your office / laboratory / team would use this software if a site licence was initiated. | Contents | NEVER respond to requests for your computer passwords!There has been another round of e-mails targeted at Monash staff and students requesting authcate usernames and passwords. Please note that Monash University, banks and financial institutions etc will NEVER ask for your account password via email or via telephone. | Contents | Why am I receiving bounced emails from emails I did not send?Occasionally staff will receive bounced return emails from emails that they did not send. These emails will have the staff members correct address as the sender. | Contents | Computer worms: Everything you need to know"A computer worm is a software program that is designed to copy itself from one computer to another, without human interaction. Unlike a computer virus, a worm can copy itself automatically. Worms can replicate in great volume. For example, a worm can send out copies of itself to every contact in your e-mail address book, and then it can send itself to all of the contacts in their e-mail address books." For more information, visit: | Contents | HP Printers - potential security vulnerabilityA potential security vulnerability has been identified with certain HP LaserJet printers, HP Color LaserJet printers and HP Digital Senders. The vulnerability could be exploited remotely to gain unauthorized access to files. The printers affected are:
If you have one of these printers, please log a request with your local IT to have your printer checked. | Contents | NVivo Software Training from Monash SDUNVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package for research. it is used to code and analyse qualitative data, such as: filled in questionnaires, open-ended surveys, transcriptions of focus groups, transcripts of interviews or other text-based data. | Contents | FREE Adobe CS4 Roadshow: Melbourne - February 26You're invited to attend the FREE Adobe Creative Suite 4 Roadshows. Staff can register with Adobe: | Contents | Protect Yourself with Genuine Microsoft Office SoftwareOn February 3rd 2009, Microsoft Australia turned on the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications to help customers learn whether or not they are running genuine Office. If you're using a non-genuine version of Office, you’ll receive a pop-up dialogue box alerting you that your Office Software is not genuine. Both the dialogue box and/or the visual reminder will disappear once you get genuine Office. For more information, visit the Microsoft Website . | Contents | Update: supply of IT equipment to Monash University by Leading SolutionsOver the last few months Leading Solutions, one of Monash’s endorsed suppliers of IT equipment and services including HP desktops and laptops, has been unable to deliver goods to Monash in a timely manner. Monash has been a client of Leading Solutions for over 10 years and this is the first time such a situation has occurred. Leading Solutions have communicated to us that they have experienced long delays in the shipment of products to due to: * an extraordinarily high level of client orders being placed during the November-December period as clients tried to beat imminent vendor price increases due to the devaluation of the Australian dollar * pressure to reduce all credit facilities, industry wide, due to the impact of the current global economical environment, which in turn has meant that their available trading terms have been constrained.
| Contents | Unscheduled Outage - MNHS Data Storage ClusterOn Wednesday February 18th 2009 from approx 2am until 10:30am the MNHS Data Storage Cluster was offline due to an error caused by our servers losing time synchronization with the centrally provide time service. During the outage users where unable to connect to the MNHS Storage Cluster to access data files. Our staff are currently investigating the incident and working with our software vendors to avoid a repeat outage. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this unscheduled outage.
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