Data Recovery Seminar

Uh-oh, that drive is toast!
Or is it?

Join our own Andrew Johnson, Information Technology, to learn about recovering data from damaged drives.

He'll demonstrate both free and purchased applications to use on hard drives.
There will be group activities to determine if a drive can be recovered.
Also, because you may need to dispose of a drive, Andrew will talk about how to safely erase a drive.
You'll learn about retrieving deleted data.

Don't miss:

The Data Recovery Seminar
Saturday, Sept 25th
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
St. Albert's Hall, A102
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox
Joliet, IL 60435

RSVP to Ruth Weldon

Sponsored by the USF Computer Science Club/IEEE Student Branch

Intern/Part time employee opportunity

A consulting firm in Bolingbrook is looking for someone for as an intern or a part time employee.

From the firm's email:
"an intern position or something part time in the "IT" field for about 25-30 hours per week. We would expect that this person would already have their A+ and Network+ certifications or have taken the course equivalency. Also our preference is for someone who has light programming skills or has had an introduction to some type of software technology."

Your microcomputer systems and networking courses would be the course equivalency.

If you are interested please see Ruth for the contact information.

They will be looking for a resume!

A new lab, a new look!

Welcome back to a new semester!

By now you’ve seen our newly remodeled lab. New furniture, new workstations, two flat screen tv monitors, webcams, a scanner, a printer, and a collaboration workstation. The nine workstations are equipped with Visual Studio 2010, Java SDK, and Oracle. The flat screen TV can display the images from the end workstation. At the opposite end of the room the flat screen is hooked up to a KVM
(Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch that can handle four laptop hook-ups so that students can collaborate on projects and take turns displaying what they’re working on. The lab is still on an isolated network with Internet access so that networking classes can experiment. There is a password protected wireless hotspot in the lab.

In addition, there is a relaxation station with a couple of chairs.

But the lab is not the only new thing this semester. The Computer Science server room got a fresh reload over the summer.

Through our participation the VMWare Academic Program we have VMWare products to use for virtualization. There’s a Remote Desktop that is accessible in any lab on campus or from home. VPN is set up on our server so that you can access most of the server facilities from home or dorm.

The servers provide access to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Sharepoint Server, CentOS Linux, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. An educational license of CPanel allows web access of designated web pages. There is also a server devoted for student creation of virtual machines.

Our lab upgrade was funded by the Academic Computing Fund.

The lab is a fun place to work and relax. Be sure and drop in to not only work on your labs, but catch up with your friends.



Thanks to everyone who dedicated so much effort during the summer to ensure that the lab was a show place - especially to the USF IT staff, Tim Archer, Ben Gunnink, Dave Senior, Jerry Kickul , alumni, Kevin Beckman & Scott Walton, and the students.