Lunch and Learn: “Website Accessibility Tuneups” on Jan. 27

Do you have questions about your website's accessibility but don't know who or what to ask? Bring your questions and website URL to the OIT Lunch and Learn series workshop, “Website Accessibility Tuneups,” on Friday, Jan. 27 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Faculty Senate Chambers of D.H. Hill Library.

During this informal and fun session, Greg Kraus, University IT Accessibility Coordinator, will provide you with easy steps to tune up your website and make it more accessible. To register, visit Classmate.



New SAS licenses are now available for download

OIT Software Licensing Management is now offering new SAS licenses for SAS 9.2, JMP Pro 9.0 and JMP Genomics 5.  

Users of SAS 9.1.3, SAS 8.2 and JMP 8.0.2 will be required to update their software before applying the updated licenses. Please note that licenses for these older versions of SAS software will remain active until March 31. OIT is also working with SAS to offer SAS 9.3 in the near future.

You can download new licenses via the Software @ NC State website. If you have any questions or issues when trying to use new licenses or upgrade your software, please email sas_help@ncsu.edu.

A Financial upgrade!

The Financial System will be upgraded from Version 8.9 to Version 9.1 on March 26. The Financial System provides financial management applications for accounting, budgeting, contracts and grants, and purchasing for the entire university.

A joint project with Finance and Business, OIT and campus users, the upgrade will maintain vendor support from Oracle and offer efficiencies in processing and sharing of electronic attachments. In addition to electronic workflow improvements, the new Financial System will certify compatibility with browsers, desktop applications and operating systems. For more information on the upgrade, visit the Financial System Upgrade website.

New area code coming to state!

Effective March 31, North Carolina residents who have dialed 919 as their area code will soon have to get used to a second area code – 984 – and dialing 10 digits to make local phone calls. All campus telephone numbers beginning with the prefix 512, 513 or 515 will remain in the 919 area code.

Due to the increase in the number of cell phones and other mobile devices, phone numbers in the “919” area code are being depleted. The new 984 area code will overlay the entire existing “919” area, and only new telephone numbers will be assigned the 984 area code. That means that if you live in the Triangle, your next new telephone number might be in the 984 area code while your work, home or cell phone number might be in the 919 area code. You will also have to dial all 10 digits (the area code plus the full telephone number) to make local phone calls.

OIT Communication Technologies (ComTech) is testing university telephone systems for compliance and will publish more specific dialing instructions after testing is complete.  

Get Yo’ Git On at FOSS Fair 2012

Are you interested in free and open source software? Then come learn about the Git fast version control system at the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Fair 2012. The event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 18 beginning at 9 a.m. in Room 3211 of Engineering Building 2 (EB2) on NC State’s Centennial Campus. In addition to “Get Yo’ Git On,” other proposed sessions for this year include “Android Development” and “Google Apps Manager.”

OIT Campus Linux Services together with Red Hat, Inc. will bring you this year’s unconference-style event, which is completely driven by its participants. Any topic relating to free and open source software is welcome. You can suggest a session, volunteer to give a talk, and register for the event on the FOSS Fair 2012 website.

To get more information about this year’s conference, contact Jack Neely, event coordinator, at 513-1522 or visit the FOSS Fair 2012 website. Lunch will be provided for registered participants only.

Spend the month helping to raise awareness on your campus about privacy issues, ranging from information security and protecting personally identifiable information to how interacting with social media impacts privacy.

Starting on Jan. 4 and continuing throughout the month of January, EDUCAUSE will host several data privacy webinars.

Read more about easy ways to increase awareness and celebrate Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28, 2012) or the entire month.

Announcing the Google-Announce list

With all NC State students, faculty and staff now using Google Apps @ NC State, OIT is introducing the Google-Announce list.

Subscribe to this list to keep abreast of changes to the Google Apps @ NC State environment. When Google makes significant changes—to add new features and applications, to remove discontinued features and applications, or to change the way existing features and applications work—you’ll hear about those on this list. The list may also be used to announce tips and best practices, and major performance, reliability, availability or maintenance-related issues affecting the Google Apps @ NC State environment.

This is a “one-way” list. You can only receive from it; you cannot post to it. To subscribe, send an email tomj2@lists.ncsu.edu, leave the subject line blank, and put subscribe google-announce in the body. You may unsubscribe at any time.

SAR training scheduled for March 6

Security Access Request (SAR) training for campus requestors and approvers of access to secured university data will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, March 6 in ITTC Lab 2 of D.H. Hill Library. Please visit Classmate to view available classes and to sign up for training.

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