http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu Biodesign Information Technology Services Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:56:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Obviously the future of audio and video media is electronic formatting. The days of CD’s and DVD’s will most likely morph into a world with almost no “touchable” media. As this occurs, electronic media format control has fallen into the hands of corporations like Apple and Sony which have a ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/announcements/2009/11/digital-media-formats-and-what-they-mean-to-you/ The latest release of Apple Inc's Mac OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, is now available. Biodesign IT Services (BITS) can assist with the upgrade of your Apple Intel based desktop or laptop currently running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard) to the latest version. Our BITS staff can ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/announcements/2009/09/snow-leopard-mac-os-x-106/ How-to: Access the Biodesign Institute file share server (peptide.biodesign.asu.edu) from an off-campus location BITS email: bits-q@asu.edu Page 1 of 3 Latest Revision: 6/15/09 Before using the Biodesign Institute Peptide file server, please be sure to read the confidentiality statement and mandatory computer security requirements available on the Biodesign Institute Intranet web site at: https://intranet.biodesign.asu.edu/bits/ About the Biodesign ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/announcements/2009/06/connecting-to-biodesign-servers-from-home/ The newest “major” threat to internet security – and most reported- is the “Conficker” worm. This worm, which infects an estimated 10 million computers and gathers personal information about the computer’s users (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker), is set to undergo a change in the way that it operates on April 1, 2009. While ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/security/2009/03/the-conficker-worm-has-your-pc-taken-the-bait/ Yes you do. The ASU University Technology Office (UTO) will be changing the way you connect to ASU resources from off campus. This project is a joint venture between UTO, The Cronkite School of Journalism, and The Biodesign Institute. The change is due to some issues between the Secure Remote ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/security/2009/03/got-vpn/  I remember clearly the day I bought my first hard drive…A 20 MB hard drive the size of a brick. “I’ll never fill this up!” I thought to myself, and was very relieved at not having to swap floppies every time I wanted to run a program. It seems so ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/announcements/2009/02/early-spring-cleaning/ If you have an Apple based workstation or laptop running Mac OS X (version 10.4.11 or 10.5.6 or higher) and would like to upgrade your current version of iWork and/or iLife to the '09 versions, please send a note to the BITS help desk at bits-q@asu.edu to schedule a time ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/announcements/2009/02/iwork09-and-ilife-09-for-mac-os-x/ Listed below are the educational license costs for the latest versions of the Adobe CS4 standard and premium suites, the stand alone version of Acrobat 9 Professional and EndNote. A special thanks to our BITS staff coordinator Amber Hall for putting the numbers together: Adobe Acrobat Professional Mac and Win 9.0 (create, ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/announcements/2009/01/how-much-is-adobe-and-endnote/ Since the inception of commercially available software, patches have been part of our lives. Patches are released for a number of reasons but the majority are security related. We have all seen the news reports surrounding certain Microsoft patches in the past. Every good software manufacturer has released a patch ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/security/2009/01/sew-some-patches-on/ So your center is sposoring a conference and you would like a place to host the web site.  Look no further than biodesign IT.  We realize that not all information finds a home on our current web site(biodesign.asu.edu)  so we can now offer web hosting to the centers, labs, and ... http://bits.biodesign.asu.edu/services/2009/01/web-hosting-we-have-you-covered/