News

August 2018

• Go greener with your printers

  This summer, Information Technology went greener with a new printing procedure.

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• Suspender Fridays!

  Do you really need to justify wearing the coolest thing ever? The answer is a resounding “No!”.

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• There’s more to us than just technology!

  The IT Solutions Social Committee, created at the beginning of this year, organizes events revolving around food. It seems that 1 Nicholas employees are always hungry ;)

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• Protect your privacy, close your browser

  We’ve all seen it. You logout from your favourite website or application and you’re asked to close your browser. Do you know why?

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• Impact of Spectre and Meltdown on High Performance Computing

  It is known that Spectre and Meltdown fixes can slow down computers substantially, commonly involving in some cases I/O operations and kernel calls.

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• MFA security coming to uOttawa

  Educational organizations are constantly bombarded with cyber threats.

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• Important information on Alertus

  An issue has been recently identified that may affect the operation of University of Ottawa’s alert desktop notification system (Alertus).

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• Agile Methodology for project management

  In the last few months, the Student Experience team within Information Technology has been integrating the Agile approach to manage projects. The Coop Navigator was used as a pilot for this transition.

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• Use High Performance Computing to speed up your research

  Faculty members and researchers can speed up computing time considerably using High Performance Computing (HPC).

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• Regular hours of operation

  Starting September 1st, we are reverting to our regular hours of operation.

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