Become a Gmail Ninja

Now that you have moved to Gmail, it's time to hone your skills. Google has created a handy set of tips with the catchy title "Become a Gmail Ninja." You can choose your level: white belt, green belt, black belt, or Gmail master, then learn skills to make you more efficient.

If you want to keep a quick reference sheet handy, you can also print out the tips using this "PDF document."

Go and learn wisely, Grasshopper!

Email is now being delivered to Gmail

As of Tuesday, June 23, e-mail sent to any of the Oregon School District email addresses is being delivered to your Google Apps Gmail inbox.

This includes messages sent to addresses ending in any of the following:

• oregon.k12.wi.us
• oregonsd.org
• oregonsd.net

Many thanks to Zach for coordinating the dozens of DNS record changes with Google Apps, WiscNet, GoDaddy, and our own servers to make this happen smoothly.

Email will automatically go to Gmail soon

There is a slight delay in making the DNS changes necessary to make mail sent to xyz@oregon.k12.wi.us arrive in your Gmail Inbox. This should not have any effect on most staff, who have already configured Gmail to check GroupWise mail via POP.

If you are one of the people who has not configured Gmail to check your GroupWise mail (meaning that you still have to manually check both inboxes), this means that, for a couple more days, you'll have to continue checking both.

We'll provide more status updates when we make the actual DNS record changes.

Planned Internet Outage June 26, 1-5 AM

From: "NOC Change Management" <NOCChangeManagement@chartercom.com>

Date: June 15, 2009 4:54:20 PM CDT
Subject: Charter Communications Maintenance Notification  -  MNT 191939

Charter Communications will be performing maintenance that will affect your services.


Date/Time (local time zone): 6/26/2009 (1:00 AM - 5:00 AM)

Description of Maintenance: Madison, WI -

Expected Down Time: 60 mins

Affected Sites or Services: Oregon School District

Circuit ID	Circuit Description/Location	Impact
CNTWI08.11823	123 E. Grove Street, Oregon, WI	60 mins

What's the most annoying thing of the day? Opachki A

The annoying pest/virus/trojan malware that it driving us nuts has been identified. Not solved, but at least identified. At least we now know what to call it when we curse under our breath: Opachki A.

Brief Internet outage (it wasn't just us)

You may have noticed a brief Internet outage today. I certainly did. We scrambled a bit before realizing that it wasn't on our end. Here are the details:

Network:           WiscNet
Type:              Unplanned Outage
Location:          Charter
Ticket Number:     090528-0255
Party:
Start Time:        5/28/2009 14:27 Central Daylight Time
End Time:          5/28/2009 14:43 Central Daylight Time
Description:       Routing Loop

Engineers:


Reporters:

Affected:
  BarabooSD
  BeloitCity
  BeloitColl
  BlackhawkTC
  CalumetCO
  CampbellsportSD
  JacksonCO
  MarianUniv
  MonroeSD
  MoraineParkTC
  OregonSD
  PalmyraEagleSD
  RiponColl

Notices:

Maria Accuardi @ 2009-05-28 14:57:24
  Contacted Charter and this outage was caused by a routing loop.
     They suspect one of their VLANs dropped and started flooding
     another VLAN.  Outage resolved at 1443.

Maria Accuardi @ 5/28/2009 14:57 Central Daylight Time

For more information, please call the NOC at (608)265-6761, pick 1 or email noc@wiscnet.net.  You can also visit our outages web page at:

http://my.wiscnet.net/outages/outages.php

Middle School computers to be removed June 16

Our plan is to begin removing computers from OMS on June 16 so we have room for the new ones coming in. If you are an OMS teacher, don't count on being able to use your computer after June 16. (We know office staff work longer into the summer, so we'll work around those few exceptions.)

(This assumes, of course, that we can still afford to buy computers. We'll see how the state budget gets worked out.)