This summer student email accounts were migrated to the new Zimbra service, so if http://webmail.stanford.edu/ seems different, you're not imagining it. The new site also includes an integrated calendar system, which allows students to create specialty calendars and share them with others. Faculty and Staff are currently scheduled to migrate later this Fall.

For more information on the service, see: http://www.stanford.edu/services/emailcalendar/

For a list of tips, see: http://www/dept/its/projects/integratedemailcalendar/tips.html

This summer a permanent and robust wireless infrastructure was added to all Row Houses that didn't already have it, which was virtually all of them. For the last three years, pre-configured and managed Wireless Access Points have been loaned to Row RCCs for temporary placement in locations of their choosing in the Fall, and collected in the Spring. While this allowed wireless access quickly and with no infrastructure changes, it was labor intensive, provided uneven coverage, and left the houses with nothing over the summer when filled with conference attendees (or being serviced by Housing in between).

Over the course of the summer, contractors went through the houses and installed wiring for, and mounted, a vast number of ceiling-height and otherwise unobtrusively placed WAPs. This project was managed by IT Services wiring staff, funded and scheduled by Student Housing, used WAPs provided and configured by IT Services networking, and was overseen by Residential Computing. Next on the agenda is to improve wireless coverage in houses that need it, over the course of this academic year.

Following a pilot this summer, a firewall has been rolled out to a number of residences, and other residences will most likely follow into Autumn Quarter. Currently the active firewalls include Crothers Memorial, and all undergraduate residences except: Kimball, Mirrielees, Wilbur, and Row Houses north of Mayfield Avenue. All residents are being asked to select a level of protection when they register their network connections, even if rules aren't being enforced in their residence yet.

The residential firewalls protect computers against intrusions from outside of the local network by preventing distant computers from initiating contact. They do not protect against computers in the same building and in some cases the buildings nearby, nor do they provide protection when using computers in other locations around campus. Communications initiated from students' computers are not be affected. Students can change their selected levels of protection at any time simply by updating the registrations for their in-room network connections.

The residential firewall is brought to you by IT Services, as a part of the ongoing departmental firewall project. For more information see: http://www.stanford.edu/services/firewall/residential/

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/info/survey/2007-2008/graduate.html

For more information see: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/sh/wpprod/?page_id=249

For more information on the project see: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/projects/integratedemailcalendar/

For more information on the project see: https://www.stanford.edu/services/firewall/

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/info/survey/2007-2008/undergraduate.html

Student Computing, ResComp's parent organization, is serving as the event sponsor for the Virtual Goods Summit at Annenberg Auditorium here at Stanford on Friday, June 22. From the website:

The Virtual Goods Summit is a one day conference focused on the emerging market opportunity for virtual goods and economies. Once restricted to the world of online gaming, virtual goods and currencies are beginning to influence the development of social networks, community sites, and many other new and exciting markets.

This year's conference will bring together leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technologists, and industry participants to spend the day discussing the present and future of this exciting new space.

For more information, click the logo above or visit http://www.vgsummit.com/.

(1) Summer Conference Computing Coordinator
(1) Summer Central Technician
(4-6) Summer Cluster Technicians

Part-Time and Full-Time Jobs Available.

Summer Room and Board is Subsidized (though you're not required to live on campus).

Pay rates ranges from $14 to $16 an hour.

Application process is online at: http://resjobs.stanford.edu/applicant/summer-conference/

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/info/survey/2006-2007/graduate.html

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/info/survey/2006-2007/undergraduate.html

http://resjobs.stanford.edu/applicant/grad-rcc/