BCRC on Facebook
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Quotas Increased
We have increased page quotas to 300 pages. The BCRC steering committee
is considering a "pay-per-page" model for printing. If you would like to have
input into the decision, please send your comments to bcrc-help@bio.umass.edu and the committee will be able to consider your remarks.
Print Release
We are updating the printing system in the BCRC. There is now a Print Release System that you can use to release your print jobs. The system counts the number of pages you're printing and sets a quota. We have set it currently to 100 pages. Please contact bcrc-help@bio.umass.edu if you have problems using the new system. Thanks for your patience while we work out the bugs.
Log In as You
You can now log into BCRC workstations using your student account username and password. The BCRC login will not go away immediately, but you should
start using your own login to get in the habit.
Authentication System Changes
We are moving to a new authentication system in the BCRC (and the department). Currently, you have about 7 places where passwords might exist. If you change your password, it will change three of them, but won't change several others. I encourage you to not change your password this semester and leave it set to your student number. Hopefully next semester this will not be an issue.
Course Accounts Ready
Course accounts have been created for Biology, Microbiology, and classes fromsome other departments. You can look up your username. Your password is set to your student number.
Sigelonta
The printer "sigelonta" can be accessed two ways: as a b/w printer
and a color printer. In order to conserve resources, the BCRC allows
color printing only of pages you authored yourself for a final-print
in a paper or poster. Toward this end, only staff users can print to
this queue. To print pages in color, you can ask a BCRC
staff member to authenticate for you and to print only those pages
you need in color. Black and white printing on sigelonta is available
to anyone with an account. Feel free to use this queue when provizonta
is unavailable or busy.
Updates
We've installed some recent updates in the BCRC -- we now have the newest
versions of Neooffice and Firefox. We're also tweaking configurations: the
mice in the BCRC should now let you right-click -- even though there's no right
button, the mouse can tell when you're right clicking.
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