Attention CU People fans: You now have 10 more megabytes to fill with photos, Flash animations, favorite links, personal essays, original music or short movies, artwork or whatever you'd like to share with the world about who you are. In response to user requests and to keep up with other free web hosting services, the CU People team has increased each user's web space from five megabytes to 15 megabytes.
CU People provides free space for personal web pages of Cornell faculty, staff and students. More than 1,500 faculty and staff and 6,700 students have accounts. Find out more at http://www.people.cornell.edu/.
"The tool is a sanctioned piece of software that should not cause the kinds of problems experienced at Cornell and at a few other locations," said Gail Honness, CorporateTime administrator, "so it's been vexing for us and for Steltor."
The problem caused CorporateTime to respond very slowly on Windows systems or seem frozen on Macintosh systems, for up to four minutes at a time, whenever someone used the third-party tool to access the main CorporateTime server, which hosts the 5,400 calendars. Sometimes people would see strange error messages.
In working with Steltor on the problem, CIT had to restart the server and do other procedures that temporarily disabled CorporateTime. Most work was done over weekends, and except for one instance on Feb. 14, no calendar information was lost.
For now, the people using the third-party tool have agreed to stop until a fix being developed by Steltor can be implemented.
Currently, more than 6,000 faculty and staff use CorporateTime, a calendar-management service free to all Cornell colleges and units. For information, see http://www.cit.cornell.edu/calendar/.
If you use CorporateSync, the tool that lets you synchronize your CorporateTime information between your desktop computer and your Palm, Pocket PC, Windows CE or Psion device, you may need to renew the license. CorporateSync licenses purchased between Dec. 1, 2000, and Nov. 30, 2001, need to be renewed in 2002. It costs just $7 and can be done quickly at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/software/swl/corpsyncrenew/order.cgi.
Under Cornell's software licensing agreement, you cannot legally use CorporateSync if your license has expired. Also, you will not be able to download the installer or upgrade to newer versions. If you'd like to start using CorporateSync, visit http://www.cit.cornell.edu/software/swl/corpsync/order.cgi.
The "@cornell.edu" column is edited by Beth Goelzer Lyons of Cornell Information Technologies (CIT). Please send suggestions to citnews@cornell.edu.
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