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Accessing HelloSign: Important Update

April 28, 2025

Due to recent changes implemented by HelloSign (now part of Dropbox Sign), the service is no longer accessible through the Google App Launcher, often referred to as the “waffle” menu. Users who previously relied on this quick-access feature will need to adjust their workflow to continue using HelloSign. To access HelloSign moving forward, go directly… Read more »

Changes Planned for Identity Management Services

March 30, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 30, 2012 Significant changes to our Identity Management Services are underway. LDAP Directory Services One Time Password (OTP) Services Increase in use of our Single Sign-on and Federated Authentication Service The first two are targeted for initial deployment the first week of May. In the case of the OTP service,… Read more »
Version Control System – Now Available

March 20, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 20, 2012 IT recently concluded efforts to provide Bitbucket, a distributed version control system for software developers, to lab users. We are in the early stages of rollout and are looking for some early adopters. Bitbucket supports both Git and Mercurial, works on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems and includes… Read more »
Archives and Records Class on April 10

March 15, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 15, 2012 Are you running out of space in your office, moving to a new office, or tasked with processing the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Learn more about files that need to be kept, which can be archived, which can be disposed of, and DOE and Lab compliance… Read more »
Whats New in Matlab

March 6, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 06, 2012 R2012a Release Highlights for the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families For those of you are Matlab users, a 30 minute video concerning the latest improvements can be found here For a short intro to a variety of products impacted by this release, go here. Read more »
Supercluster downtime scheduled, Mar 6th, Tuesday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

March 5, 2012

Krishna Muriki posted on Mar 05, 2012 HPCS team has scheduled a downtime to the Lab supercluster on March 6th, Tuesday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm to peform regular maintenance. Users will not be able to access the login nodes, cluster queues or the data on the cluster filesystems. This is a downtime for all… Read more »
Mailstop Changes in Lab Directory

March 2, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 02, 2012 Background Direct (self service) update of location, phone, fax, mailstop, and personal web page was implemented last Fall. At the time, we noted there was some work to be done to re-engineer the process involving mailstops. This work has been completed. Over the past several weeks, Facilities has… Read more »
LabTech 2012

March 1, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 01, 2012 LabTech – The Berkeley Lab Computing and Technology Event By and For Lab Staff This page is about LabTech2012, if you’re looking for information about LabTech2013 coming up on October 10, visit: http://go.lbl.gov/labtech Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11AM-6PM What is LabTech? LabTech is a free event created… Read more »
February 8 Google Apps Classes

February 3, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Feb 03, 2012 IT Division is currently offering introductory courses, taught by a Learn iT instructor, on Gmail/Google Calendar and Google Docs. We still have room available for our Wednesday, February 8 classes. Other upcoming classes include MS Power Point and MS Office 2010. To take advantage of these and other classes,… Read more »
Understanding Google’s Privacy Policy Changes for Google Apps at Berkeley Lab

January 31, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jan 31, 2012 Earlier this month, Google made big headlines with a major overhaul of its privacy policies. Google has described these changes as necessary to both simplify its policies and enable more customized content across its services. Critics have charged that the new policies make changes that are privacy-unfriendly and that… Read more »
New Video Conferencing Services and Improvements

January 30, 2012

Adam Stone posted on Jan 30, 2012 2012 – The Year of Videoconferencing OK, maybe too grandiose, but between technology/usability improvements, new products, travel budget pressures, and sustainability goals, things seem like they’re at a real turning point with videoconferencing. IT is excited to announce four new services around videoconferencing (with three products you can try… Read more »
Calculating What’s in the Universe

January 27, 2012

Nina Lucido posted on Jan 27, 2012 Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)… Read more »
GQueues – added to LBL Google Apps

January 24, 2012

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jan 24, 2012 On January 20, we added a Google Marketplace application called GQueues to the portfolio of applications we are offering LBL Google users. We have a one year subscription for the Lab – enough time to find out if LBL can make effective use of this tool. GQueues provides… Read more »