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Headlines for the Week of June 5, 2006

A message from the CLC department:

To assure your experience at Chicago-Kent College of Law is a positive one, the Center for Law and Computers is available to assist you with your computer and technical questions and concerns. You can reach a member of our staff by calling (312) 906-5300 (6-5300 house phones)
or sending an email to helpdesk@kentlaw.edu. We are located in suite 540 if you would like to stop by our offices.



Instructions

 

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Print Account balances were reset on May 22nd

The Center for Law & Computers will reset printing accounts to 400 pages on May 22, 2006. For students continuing on at C-K, any print jobs on or after May 22, 2006 will count towards your 400 page limit for the Summer semester. For May graduates, printing accounts will be terminated on May 22, 2006, and your network and email accounts will remain active until July 31, 2006.

May Graduates you are required to pay your print accounting balance-in-full in order to receive your diploma and to be certified to take the Bar Exam. Your print accounting balance should be paid no later than June 30, 2006 in order for us to certify you for the July Bar.

Please contact the Center for Law & Computers at 312-906-5300 or at helpdesk@kentlaw.edu if you have any questions.

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Printing and E-Mail Termination

CONTINUING STUDENTS
The Center for Law and Computers will reset printing accounts to 400 pages on May 22, 2006. For students continuing on at C-K, anything printed on or after May 22, 2006 will count towards your 400 page limit for the Summer semester.

*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CONTINUING STUDENTS
You must settle your student printing account with the Bursar's Office before receiving your 400 pages alloted for your next semester. Students with outstanding balances will have their Kentnet accounts deactivated until the outstanding balance is paid in full.

 

GRADUATING STUDENTS
For those of you leaving us for greater ventures, we want to wish you the best. We'd also like to share the below information regarding your email, network, and print accounts.

For May graduates, printing accounts will be terminated on May 22, 2006 (day after commencement), but email and network accounts will remain active until July 31, 2006.

On July 31, 2006 (first Monday after July bar), all May 2006 graduates network, H: drive, and email accounts will be terminated.

*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MAY GRADUATES:
Graduating students with a delinquent printing balance will not receive their diplomas or be certified to take the Bar Exam until the accounts are paid in full.

May Graduates you are required to pay your print accounting balance-in-full in order to receive your diploma and to be certified to take the Bar Exam. Your print accounting balance should be paid no later than June 30, 2006 in order for us to certify you for the July Bar.

For December 2005 graduates, network, H: drive, and email accounts will be terminated on July 31, 2006.

If you are at the Chicago-Kent DTC and need to print, we offer the option for newly graduated students who have special projects over the summer to extend printing privileges to labs 700, 760, and 900. Please contact the Center for Law & Computers at (312) 906-5300 or Helpdesk@kentlaw.edu for further information.

Best wishes to all and Good Luck to those taking the July Bar exam!

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Free E-Mail available to Chicago-Kent alunmae/i at alum.iit.edu

December 2005 and May 2006 Graduates:

For those of you leaving us for greater ventures, we would like to wish you the best. We'd also like to share the below information with you regarding your email, network, and printing accounts

For May 2006 graduates, your printing account will be terminated after commencement on May 22, 2006.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind you that your kentlaw.edu user account will expire on July 31, 2006. Now that you have graduated, it is time to think about closing this portion of your law education. Please help us by removing all email messages and files from the C-K network as soon as possible so we can make room for the incoming students.

By being an alumnus of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law it is our pleasure to offer you free email service. A separate e-mail message with details on alumni e-mail will be sent to your kentlaw.edu account and posted to the CLC Record page.

Best wishes and good luck to all!

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Summer 2006 Semester - The Cost to Print Increases on KENTNET

On Monday, May 22, 2006 the cost to print will increase from 5 cents per page to 7 cents per page. As a student you will continue to receive 400 free pages each semester; however, when you exceed the 400 free pages your cost will increase to 7 cents per page.

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CLC Policies - Students are required to show C-K photo ID card for loaner computer equipment

Help Desk Policy! The CLC has implemented a procedure that requires all students to present their Chicago-Kent ID card for service..

The CLC Help Desk does provide the service of temporarily loaning laptops to students. This service is restricted to those who have purchased their own laptop and the laptop has been serviced by a technician at the CLC Help Desk. Once the technician has determined that the laptop needs to be sent to the manufacturer for repairs or is inoperable a student will be loaned a laptop.  The laptop loans are for a one (1) week period only.  In addition, the CLC Help Desk does not loan power adaptors or any other laptop accessories for laptops. In order for this service to benefit everyone, this policy must be strictly adhered to.

Once a user returns a laptop, that same user cannot have another laptop loaned to him/her for at least two (2) consecutive weeks.

The Help Desk will make a photocopy of student's ID when loaner computer equipment is requested. The procedure was implemented to best serve the needs of all Chicago-Kent student's.

We appreciate your cooperation in adhering to this policy.

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Windows Update

It is critical to update your Windows operating system and Internet Explorer software regularly. Just as it is important to update the virus definitions of your antivirus software, it is equally important to update the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer software on your computer. Just like virus definitions, Windows and Internet Explorer should be updated weekly. Fortunately, Microsoft makes this process fast and easy with their "Windows Update" web site.

Please click on the link listed below under instructions to print out the full documentation on how to update windows.

WinupdateInstructions.pdf

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Remove Unnecessary Files on the Network

The Center for Law and Computers provides access to the Network for Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff in support of the educational mission of the university. In recent months we have noticed an increase in the amount of personal storage space being consumed on our network. As we continue to maintain and scan the network drives we are noticing numerous occurrences of non-educational types of materials (i.e., MP3, .wav, .mov, .avi). We understand that there are occasions when storing these types of files on the network for educational use is legitimate.

As you may well be aware, court decisions potentially makes us liable if members of our community engage in infringing activity. As a reminder to all students, a portion of the IIT Computer Use Policy states, "Network users must abide by the terms of all software licensing agreements and copyright laws, and may not make copies of or make available on the network copyrighted material, unless permitted by a license. Network users must not perform acts which are deliberately wasteful of computing resources or which unfairly monopolize resources to the exclusion of others..." The complete Computer User Policy can be found at:

http://ots.iit.edu/policies/acceptable_use.php

When you save and store large music, image, video, or other types of non-educational related material on the network it increases the time it takes for system backups and virus scanning; the large downloads also consume unnecessary bandwidth. Please be considerate of your colleagues and remove or transfer to your laptop ALL files in violation. If files are not removed, the Center for Law and Computers is authorized by the administration to permanently remove them for you.

We ask that you purge all unnecessary messages and files as often as possible from your network and email accounts to help us preserve space on the C-K server. As a reminder, in Outlook mail, you must delete messages from your "Deleted Messages" folder for them to be permanently removed from the mail server. It is also a good maintenance procedure to delete any unneeded messages in the "Sent" folder.

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CLC Monthly Network Maintenance Schedule

The Center for Law and Computers will conduct regular monthly maintenance windows on the first Tuesday of every month (5a.m. - 7a.m. in the morning) for "Patch and\or Update" management on systems that need to be rebooted.

Remember too that there may be "emergency" times when manufacturers release "critical" update patches that need to be installed immediately. The CLC will make every attempt to send out an announcement in advance when the "critical" updates need to be installed and systems rebooted (however, we cannot always guarantee advance notice since certain patches/updates need to be applied ASAP before a breach is made).

All network services including Internet access, email, webmail, network drives, and network printing will be down during the above scheduled time.

Maintenance will be conducted on the following days:
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Chicago-Kent's Internet Service Provider (Illinois Century Network) backbone maintenance window is on Fridays from 2:00am - 7:00am. During this maintenance window it is possible that the Downtown Campus building may experience intrmittent Internet connectivity.

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Latest McAfee DAT file as of 6/5/2006 is sdat4775

VirusDetectionSoftware.pdf

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CLC Contact Information and Office Hours

Technical Support Help Desk Hours of Operation - Office 540
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Email: helpdesk@kentlaw.edu

Phone: (312) 906-5300
Fax: (312) 906-5165

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