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[15 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 153 views]
GANAHL ON MEDIA: State Of News Media

OK, I admit it: I’m an addict…a stat-addict. To be sure, I’m not alone, there are many stat-addicts: sport-stats, market-stats, caloric-stats, you name it. Me, I’m a…

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[1 May 2009 | Comments Off | 467 views]

Got wireless! BU’s wireless internet network has recently expanded to dorm buildings and the Quad. Get ready for the next nice day!

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[20 Mar 2009 | One Comment | 341 views]

Before you schedule your classes for next fall, you might want to think about doing some research about the professor you’re going to spend five months working with. At Ratemyprofessor.com, students turn the tables and grade their professors based on their teaching skills. Take a look closer look at this tool and the way students use it at Bloomsburg.

BU Technology, Gaming »

[17 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 203 views]

From 3 p.m. until around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 21st the ACM will be holding a LAN party in Kehr Union Multipurpose A/B. You can bring your own PC or console. If you can’t do either, there will be consoles set up with the action.

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[16 Jan 2009 | 8 Comments | 715 views]
Campus Wireless Access in the Dorms

Over the holiday break, the network staff added wireless access points in almost all of the on-camps residence halls.

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[23 Nov 2008 | 6 Comments | 375 views]
Peer-to-Peer Filesharing…That’s Some Ruckus!

Here at BU, filesharing programs such as the more popular Limewire and others have been banned completely from the network…And just tonight, my friend told me about a whole new program named Ruckus.

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[9 Oct 2008 | 5 Comments | 538 views]
Special Cigarettes NOT Covered by Smoking Ban

In a world where electronics and technology have taken control and altered our entire culture, is it really outrageous that there is now such a thing as an electronic cigarette?

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[15 May 2008 | One Comment | 284 views]

During the last few weeks before students left for summer break, several of them received phishing spam to their university e-mail accounts, partially due to out-of-date e-mail protocols. Samuel Josuweit, of network services, said that the messages were generated by virus-infected, off-campus computers. “The virus uses e-mail addresses harvested from the infected computer as targets and sources.The e-mails requested students’ usernames and passwords. Of the 12,000 student e-mail accounts, about 600 of them received the spam, and only 6 of them responded to it. Because of the anti-spam system, those …

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[12 May 2008 | 2 Comments | 286 views]

Several Bloomsburg students have now received at least two phishing spam e-mails to their university e-mail accounts.  These e-mails request information about their usernames, passwords, a “secret question” and a “secret answer.”  Student have been directed by the Office of Technology to not respond to any such e-mail because it is phishing spam.  The office said that one possible way to solve the problem is to prevent all internet e-mails from coming into student mailboxes, but that would also block all internet e-mails that are legitimate as well.
The last e-mail was sent with …