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Your Lab Deskphone is a Critical Link in Lab Safety

May 6, 2026

The desk phone in your Berkeley Lab office/work space is a critical tool in keeping you safe while you work at the Lab. Just as cyber security helps you work online safely, your dedicated Berkeley Lab office line has significant safety and emergency response benefits. Earlier this year, we discussed the benefits of calling 911 Read more »

IT Booth at Lab Earth Day Fair

April 22, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Apr 22, 2011 IT joined other operations divisions and vendors for the Lab’s annual earth day fair on April 20th. Our table featured information about our green(er) data centers initiative, how to configure your computer’s power settings, and why personal printers make the pandas sad. Read more »
Matlab – Simulink Seminar Update – April 26

April 19, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 19, 2011 Mathworks will be at the lab on April 26, Bldg 50 auditorium. Optional advanced registration can be done here. Agenda Presenter: Doug Eastman, Senior Application Engineer 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Registration and sign-in. Walk-ins are welcome. 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 1: Data Analysis and Visualization in MATLAB Read more »
OriginLab Survey

April 12, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 12, 2011 The IT Division is exploring the idea of making OriginLab software available for download on the IT Software site. If you have purchased an Origin license in the past or are thinking about purchasing one in the future, we would like to hear from you. Responses to survey will Read more »
eRoom Upgrade – Sunday April 17

April 11, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 11, 2011 An upgrade to eRoom is planned for Sunday April 17 between 9:30am and 2:30pm. This upgrade will provide support for later versions of IE and Firefox, as well as implement some bug fixes. Update: eRoom is operational again, as of 12:30pm, April 17. Notes: (1) the eRoom Plugin Read more »
Reading Lounge

April 8, 2011

Michael V Golden posted on Apr 08, 2011 The new Reading Lounge is now open in 54-002, the room underneath the Cafeteria. The lounge is currently open Monday – Friday from 6:30 am – 5:00 pm, and is staffed from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Staff can be reached at 495-2176. This newly renovated lounge is Read more »
Registration for 2011 IT Security Symposium (June 15-16, 2011) is open!

April 7, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 07, 2011 We hope you can join us for two days of in-depth guidance and instruction on critical computing and network security topics, plus plenty of opportunities to network with your security peers from throughout the University of California. The low registration fee of $95 gives you access to lectures, panel Read more »
BLI – Class on Archiving Files, Records on April 18

April 5, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 05, 2011 Are you running out of space in your office? Are you moving to a new office? Is the size of your office being reduced? Are you responsible for dealing with the records of retiring (or already retired) scientists? Are you wondering what to do with all the files you Read more »
Mathematica Latest On-line Seminars

April 4, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 04, 2011 THESE SEMINARS ARE PROVIDED BY MATHEMATICA AND NOT BY IT =============================================================================== New seminar titles featuring the latest technologies in Mathematica 8 are available to the technical computing community. Here is what participants are saying: “The GPU team at Wolfram Research has accomplished a minor miracle with GPU programming, providing Read more »
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Scifinder Meeting

March 31, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Mar 31, 2011 On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, LBNL’s Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) representative Jennifer Sexton will be visiting LBNL from 10:30am-11:30am in Pers Hall (54-130). Registration is encouraged by filling out the online form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/lbl.gov/viewform?formkey=dGlITWVnU2RPcHhUSEN6amhYZk1lc3c6MQ Jennifer will present the latest features shown below. View experimental procedures 1. View experimental procedures (covering Read more »
GMail-Gcal Class scheduled for Tuesday March 22

March 18, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 18, 2011 If you are confused by the Web version of Gmail or just need more information on the functionality of Google mail and calendar, consider registering for a hands on Class Tuesday morning, March 22. Register for ITD0200 here. Class Content Using Google Mail, Google Calendar & Organizing Contacts Overview Read more »
Powerful New Commenting Features in Gdocs

March 17, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Mar 17, 2011 Google has launched a set of powerful new commenting features in Google Docs. Now, you can group comments together, use @mentions to call out people for comments, respond to comments via email and have those appear seamlessly in the document, and resolve and collapse comments to remove them from Read more »
Webspace Outage 3-25 6pm

March 17, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Mar 17, 2011 Webspace, the online file storage service provided by IT, will be down for maintenance beginning at 6pm on Friday, March 25th. The outage is expected to last five hours. The upgrade is generally intended as a ‘bug fix” release, but there are a couple of functional improvements worth noting: Read more »