Have questions about Windows 7 licensing, the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) deployment schedule, migration issues?  If so, then join Greg Neville, David Eckert and others at a Carolina Technology Consultants (CTC) update on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 12:30 p.m. in Peabody 08.

The agenda for the event includes presentations on:

• Software licensing issues – Greg Neville, ITS User Support and Engagement
• CCI schedule of Windows 7 deployment – David Eckert, ITS User Support and Engagement
•  Wake Forest University’s Windows 7 rollout – Patrick Morton, Wake Forest University ITS

The UNC-Chapel Hill Shareware Distribution site has a new antivirus package for UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff that use personal computers at home. The “Home Use” SEP 11 antivirus package is set to scan a computer monthly, allowing the user to schedule additional scans at specific dates and times. In addition, updates for virus definition will be retrieved whenever the computer is connected to the Internet. 

ITS Software Acquisition now offers online software ordering for UNC-Chapel Hill students. Students can log into the new secure student ordering page using their ONYEN and password.

“Previously, orders were placed on a static order page, which was time consuming for everyone,” said Greg Neville, ITS Software Acquisition Manager. “Since our soft launch two months ago, the Software Acquisitions office has successfully processed almost 500 ordered items.”

CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology), a digital arts and humanities festival, will take place at UNC-Chapel Hill Feb. 16-20.  The festival will draw together the diverse digital resources of the Triangle area in a series of performances, discussions, exhibitions and workshops.

The CHAT festival’s events will showcase existing collaborations while exploring the ways digital technologies are transforming the practices of the arts and humanities, including how we learn, think, know, teach and express ourselves both as individuals and as communities.

And behind the scenes, ITS is helping to support the event.

For his 12th birthday, Chris Florio received a surprise present:  an Apple IIgs computer.  Within two years, he was the system operator (SysOp) of a Bulletin Board System (BBS).  A BBS was one of the precursors of the Internet which allowed users to share, upload and download files via a phone line.   At 14 years old, Florio sent echo-mail using the BBS from his house in Connecticut to a friend in San Francisco.  It took three days.

“In the late 1980’s the future of technology was not as obvious as it became in the ‘90’s. But my mother really saw the value of nurturing my interest in computers.  She recognized that it would be a good skill in the long run,” said Florio.  “My dad was a fireman, my mom a schoolteacher.  My first computer represented big money to them.  I was very lucky.”

At the February Webmasters meeting, the UNC Webmasters group will be joined by the Carolina Adobe User Group (CAUG). Alicia Orth, from the UNC School of Medicine’s Web and Multimedia group will provide Photoshop training for both groups. The meeting will take place at the Graduate Student Center on Thursday, Feb 4 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The training will be aimed at new Photoshop users but will be beneficial to those who are more experienced.