Dear faculty, students, and staff, I am pleased to announce that Education City’s Internet connection has been upgraded from 1Gbps to 5Gbps (gigabits per second) in stages over the past few months. The first two stages of upgrade took place
Internet connectivity maintenance Saturday from 8am to 11am
Dear faculty, students, and staff, Our building’s connectivity to the outside world (including the Internet) will experience short interruptions on Saturday (March 26) morning from 8am to 11am. These are due to maintenance work being done to upgrade the building’s
Audiovisual system upgrade in conference rooms begins
Dear faculty, students, and staff, The audiovisual (AV) system upgrade in conference rooms has begun. In the coming few weeks, we will replace the existing (and 8 years old) standard definition system with new high definition system. The touch panels,
RE: IT Help Center email issue
Dear faculty, students, and staff, We’ve resolved the technical issue with the help center email address (helpcenter@qatar.cmu.edu). Thank you for your patience. — Nasser Alaeddine, Ph.D. | Director of Educational and Media Technologies From: Nasser Alaeddine Sent: Sunday, March
Internet outage on Friday (11 Mar 2016) morning
Dear students, staff, and faculty, QF will be performing some configuration changes to the Internet connection. The Education City’s Internet connection will be shutdown from 6am to 1pm on Friday, March 11. If you are in the building during this
Ransomware: a new kind of malware
Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff, Ransomware is malware designed to cripple or restrict access to a computer or files in order to extort money from the victim. To restore access, the ransomware demands that you must pay a ransom (hence
Phishing attack: attempt to capture your usename and password
Dear faculty, students, and staff, The email below is a phishing attack designed to capture your username and password. If you get a similar email, please delete it. If you are not sure, then please forward the email to us
NTP Synchronized Digital Clocks in Classrooms and Lecture Halls
Dear faculty, students, and staff, IT is pleased to announce that we have installed digital clocks in all classrooms and lecture halls. The time on the clocks is kept synchronized with a time server over the network using the Network
CMU Qatar Website and Mailing Lists Service maintenance at 11PM tonight (March 3rd 2016)
Dear faculty, students, and staff, We will be performing maintenance on the CMU Qatar Website (www.qatar.cmu.edu) and the Mailing Lists Service (lists.qatar.cmu.edu) at 11PM tonight (March 3rd). The duration of this maintenance for both services is expected to be less
Outgoing email issue
Dear faculty, students, and staff, We have been experiencing an outgoing email issue for a day or so. Some of the emails being sent out of our mail systems are bouncing (i.e., not being accepted by recipient’s system). We have