IT News

Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

June 9, 2025

In our ongoing efforts to enhance security and user experience across the Berkeley Lab community, IT is preparing for a significant upgrade to our authentication methods with the planned Lab-wide rollout of Passkeys later this year. As an initial step in this transition, we will soon be releasing an update to the authentication screens you… Read more »

Recharge for CPU usage starting Jan 1 2011

January 12, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jan 12, 2011 When we originally launched the Lawrencium cluster project, we said there might be a possibility of a charge for CPU cycles to recover some of the costs. Unfortunately, that time has come and we will start recharging for cycles. The good news is that the charge will only be… Read more »
Purchasing EPEAT Monitors and Computers

January 10, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jan 10, 2011 (the below message went to the most frequent purchasers of monitors at LBL) As part of our overall sustainability program, the Laboratory tries to purchase sustainable products, including computers and monitors that are EPEAT registered. Registered computers and monitors are confirmed to use significantly less energy and meet our… Read more »
Google Docs LaTeX Equation Shortcuts

January 7, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Jan 07, 2011 The Google Docs equations editor now supports a variety of LaTeX shortcuts for equation entry. More information is available here: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160749 Read more »
Cloud Computing – An Update

December 7, 2010

Adam Stone posted on Dec 07, 2010 It’s been over three years since IT began a program to aggressively evaluate cloud services and ensure that every new service we consider includes an evaluation of available cloud offerings. We believe that cloud services have the potential to offer better, more frequently updated features and additional security while… Read more »
Time Zone support added to Google Calendar

December 7, 2010

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 07, 2010 A much requested feature has been implemented by Google. It is now possible to create an event and select a timezone for the meeting (the start and end times can each specify a different timezone). This is how it looks when you click on the timezone link. Read more »
Chrome Recommended for Google Access

December 2, 2010

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Dec 02, 2010 We often think of Cloud Services like Google Apps as keeping the strain off your desktop or laptop, but many of these services actually require quite a bit of horsepower from your browser. Google Chrome was built by Google to have excellent javascript performance which allows Gmail and… Read more »
11-23- Google Calendar intermittent failures

November 23, 2010

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 23, 2010 We are experience some issues with Google Calendar (starting around 8am this morning, for some users). you may get a server error message when trying to load calendar. In some cases, you may not be able to add an event or see events a few months out. Ticket… Read more »
Linked – How Google Docs won me over (at Cnet)

November 22, 2010

Adam Stone posted on Nov 22, 2010 Posts marked Linked are links to blog posts, websites, and news stories that we think the Berkeley Lab community might find interesting… How Google Docs won me over – Stephen Shankland With a single new feature added to its online word processor yesterday, Google has diminished many concerns I… Read more »
Edit Google Docs from Mobile

November 19, 2010

Adam Stone posted on Nov 19, 2010 Google is rolling out the ability to edit your google docs from your mobile device, including iPad and iPhone. More information>>> Read more »
Google Calendar intermittent failures

November 15, 2010

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 15, 2010 We have received reports that Google Calendar is failing to load for a number of Berkeley Lab Customers. (as of 8AM) We submitted a ticket with Google and noted that their applications dashboard is now indicating an issue. http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en UPDATE: 10:25AM – According to Google, the Calendar problem… Read more »
GCal – Optional attendee feature

November 11, 2010

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Nov 11, 2010 Google is gradually rolling out another enhancement to the Calendar Product. The ability to label guests as “optional” when you create a meeting is being deployed. We understand that this will be completed by November 16 for all enterprise customers. The following screen shot gives you an idea… Read more »
Partnering for a More Efficient Data Center

November 10, 2010

Adam Stone posted on Nov 10, 2010 Over the past four years, Berkeley Lab’s IT and EETD Divisions have been working on a number of cooperative projects around greening our data centers. At an event on Tuesday with industry partner synapsense, EETD researchers and IT’s data center managers discussed the innovations made possible by realtime monitoring.… Read more »