Smith College TechNotes blog

Check out this recent post at Smith College Mac User: Make your PowerPoint Presentations PC-Compatible

Over the past year, the college has received 70 notices from the RIAA, with 11 arriving in the last week. Please remember that copyright infringement is against Smith’s Acceptable Use Policy, and that violation of this policy can result in the “removal of network access privileges” on the Smith Residence Network.

If you receive a notice indicating that the RIAA has detected illegal file sharing from your computer, it is important that you respond to the notice from ITS immediately and remove all peer-to-peer (P2P) software from your computer.

If you do not respond, you will no longer be able to use the Smith College Network until all P2P file-sharing software is removed from your computer, regardless of academic responsibilities. Students who violate the Smith College Acceptable Use Policy on copyright infringement may also face the Smith College honor board.

So, with classes about to end and exams just around the corner, please be extra vigilant about your network use! (Read more…)

As a follow-up to last week’s post on extending the life of your laptop…

You probably can’t count the number of times you’ve been told to “Backup your data!” This phrase also probably doesn’t mean much to you unless you’ve ever lost some important data (and whether it was a term paper, your iTunes music library, or all your photos from spring break, it’s all data). (Read more…)

What can you do to keep your laptop healthy? Aside from regularly running antivirus and spyware removal software, there are a number of steps you can take to extend your laptop’s life. (Read more…)

Hot on the heals of the Valentine Storm Worm e-blast are more emails spoofing well-known e-card services. These spoof emails pose as e-cards but actually attempt to install trojan virus software on your computer. (Read more…)