Friday I received our regular Apple education pricelist. Nothing unusual about that however it was announced that the white macbook which we are currently using has been discontinued. Parts will likely be available without issue for the rest of our cycle (we’re at 1.5 of 4 years) however for our expected refresh we will need […]
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Internet Packet Loss
Good Monday morning all. This is to inform you that the performance issues for traffic going through Fort St John’s RNC have been fixed. Following a vendor fibre repair, service was returned to its original route therefore eliminating packet-loss and latency from our circuits. Since Saturday Feb 4th at about 7:00PM, performance should be back […]
Toner Cartridge Recycling
Technology Services as a department policy commits to reducing, reusing, and recycling wherever possible. We currently recycle computers, monitors and peripherals that no longer have a useful life in the district or elsewhere. Schools had been recycling printer toner cartridges themselves or through other schools until recently through a commercial return program. Unfortunately that program has been […]
Internet Degradation
The latest update we have regarding this incident is that the vendor identified a Fiber cut outside of Grand Prairie AB which is affecting connectivity to the Fort St-John RNC. A maintenance crew is working at fixing the problem but no ETR has been made available as of yet and service degradation continues. We will […]
Discussion on Billing – Department Policy
It was requested that we clarify our department policy on billing. The past practice of our department has been to bill costs for work that has been initiated by the school or that is over and above what we would normally provide. Examples of this would be a school asking for new ethernet runs to […]
Planned Outage – Sunday Feb 5, 2012
Please be aware, there will be a five minute outage on Sunday, February 5th anytime between 7:01am and 10:00am for network maintenance. RFC# 80378 Location(s): Fort St. John RNC – All users Window: 2012-02-05 06:01 through 2012-02-05 09:00 PST ( 7:01-10:00 MST) Impact: 5 minute outage for network maintenance
Owner
This device is owned by School District 60 in Fort St John, British Columbia – as per the acceptable use agreement it is to be used for educational purposes only. If you believe this device to be stolen please forward it to the nearest law enforcement agency. You can also contact Technology Services at 250-785-4357
Twitter phishing example – think before you click
Think before you click. That’s one of the themes of several talks that I do, or emails out to staff around nefarious communications that we receive digitally. One I haven’t talked much about is people using twitter as the medium to get you to click through instead of via email. I received this tweet below […]
Teachers on Leave
Laptops and other technology provided to teachers must be submitted to their administrator if they go on a leave. The administrator will forward the laptop to technology services who will add another account to the laptop for the teacher covering the leave. At the return of the teacher, if they are still assigned to a […]
Planned Outage
RFC # 78145 Location(s): Dawson Creek and Fort St John RNCs – All Users Window: 2011-12-13 23:00 through 2011-12-14 05:00 PST Impact: Multiple outages during this Vendor requested network maintenance window.