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Wonder of wonders: last night I couldn’t get internet access; after an hour of diagnostics, I zeroed in on a firewall issue with my Zone Alarm software; here is the CNET news item describing what I found.

It turns out the subject Microsoft patch was attempting to fix this fascinating security vulnerability in the internet’s DNS system.

Last week and this week at the CU: we installed a new Dell server that replaced the server installed 3/2002 which had the Windows NT 4 operating system (this is ancient software that Microsoft no longer supports). This would have been a big deal a year ago but we changed processing architecture last year and significantly decreased the use of this old server to run core applications (most everything is done on a dedicated server at our data processor via a T1 broadband connection). So, the only processing at risk was accounting. So far, everything is working smoothly.