Science & Engineering Node Services (SENS)

Science & Engineering Node Services (SENS) is a full-service, customer-oriented support organization at the University at Buffalo that provides computer and technical support and assistance for five of the six departments of UB Engineering (SEAS) and the five departments of the College of Arts and Sciences who comprise the Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NSM) disciplines. For CSE support, please visit their consulting site.

SENS maintains a diverse set of facilities and provides a variety of services including local account creation, timeshare services, email hosting, official and personal web site hosting, consulting, and many other functions for a community of about 7,000 users. For more about SENS, please read our "About SENS" page.

Now that we've introduced ourselves, we welcome you to SENS and encourage you to read how to get started working in our environment.

SENS Alerts!

UB Phishing Scam Reported

28 Feb 2008 — If you receive an email with the subject "UPGRADE YOUR UBmail ACCOUNT NOW", please ignore it and do not reply. It is part of a widespread "phishing" scam to collect user names and passwords. For more information: http://ubit.buffalo.edu/virus/ If you have already replied to it, please send an email to "senshelp@buffalo.edu".

 

Did You Know … Some Emails from "Us" are Hoaxes?

If you receive an email from the "eng.buffalo.edu user support team", the "nsm.buffalo.edu team", or something similar, warning you that your computer has been compromised and you need to open the attached document, don't do it! This is a hoax, and will lead to your computer being infected with a virus. We always identify ourselves as "SENS", and we almost never send attachments. The best thing to do with such emails is to erase them immediately.


Latest SENS News & Updates

Adobe Reader 8.1.2

09 Apr 2008 — We have been informed that all Grants.gov applications will soon require Adobe Reader 8.1.2 to open application packages, as well as to prepare and submit applications. Use of any other version of Adobe may result in unknowingly corrupting an application package causing its rejection after submission. Adobe Reader 8.1.2 can be downloaded from here. If you are using a SENS-managed computer and need assistance please send email to SENShelp.

Home Directory Quotas Increased

19 Jan 2008 — Home directories for all SENS users have had their quotas raised from 300 MB to 500 MB. Please note that this change pertains to your "/eng/home/UBITname" or "/nsm/home/UBITname" directory, and not to any other server space you may be using.

DNS Change

09 Jan 2008 — If you have a computer at home or at another off-campus location that is configured to use the SENS DNS servers, you will need to change them as we are removing off-campus access to this service. You should be using the DNS servers from your ISP, and should contact them for more information. If you need assistance or advice from us, please send an email to "nodehelp@eng.buffalo.edu" or "nodehelp@nsm.buffalo.edu".

Unix and Linux Software Updates

24 Oct 2007 — The following updates have been applied:
Mathematica 6.01 is now the default version. This can be accessed via the UB menu or type "use mathematica" from a terminal. To access Mathematica 5.2 type "use mathematica5.2" from a terminal.
Maple 11 is now the default version. This can be accessed via the UB menu or type "use xmaple" from a terminal. ("use maple" for the command line version) To access Maple 10.05 type "use maple10.05" from a terminal.
Matlab 7.4.0 (R007a) is now the default version. This can be accessed via the UB menu or type "use matlab" from a terminal. To access Matlab 7.3 type "use matlab7.3" from a terminal.
Pro Engineer Wildfire 3.0 is available for Solaris and Linux. Type "use wildfire3.0" from a terminal. ** Do not run Wildfire 3.0 on a timeshare from a Linux machine**.
GoogleEarth 4.2 for Linux has been installed.  To access type "googleearth" or "/util/bin/googleearth"

For all news items see our News page. An RSS feed RSS Feed is also available.

 

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