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Updates as of January 12, 2009

Pine Email

As we have been reminding you for the past eleven months, Pine email service on Socrates will be shut down on January 31, 2009. Customers using Pine should begin migrating to an alternative email client. Options include the following:

• Obtain a workstation version of Pine from the University of Washington at the following link: http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/
• Download Thunderbird from the Software Central web site: http://software-central.berkeley.edu/software/61-Thunderbird.
• Use the web mail client at https://calmail.berkeley.edu/, which like the server-based Pine, allows roaming access to email.
• Use Outlook Express, which is included with Windows.

If you need assistance, please refer to the Socrates email FAQs at http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/email_faqs or contact .

Web Hosting

Web hosting services on Socrates and Arachne were discontinued on Friday, December 19, 2008. Web sites hosted on these servers are no longer publicly available. Files may be accessed through January 31, 2009 to complete migration to another service. Socrates customers who have not moved their sites may still access the files until January 31, 2009 at oldsocs.berkeley.edu. Please direct questions to or refer to the web hosting and other technical solutions listed below.

Web Hosting Pilot Program

IST has created a pilot program to offer affordable web hosting solutions sourced from an external service provider, Dreamhost. This program is only available to current Socrates or Arachne customers with web sites that do not include restricted data. Instructions for both options and detailed information are available here.

Shared Hosting

Approximately 67 former Socrates sites are now using this option. Examples include:

• Professor H. Dreyfus: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/
• Berkeley Physics 111:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~phylabs/
• Cultural Analysis Journal: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/
• Robertson Lab: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lynnlab/

For more information and to sign up for this service click here.

Direct Hosting

Roughly 42 former Arachne sites are now using this option. Examples include:

• Goldman School of Public Policy http://gspp.berkeley.edu/
• Classics http://classics.berkeley.edu/
• Office of History of Science and Technology http://ohst.berkeley.edu/

For more information and to sign up for this service click here.

IST web hosting solutions

In addition, IST offers a variety of in-house web hosting solutions. Please see our Web Hosting Comparison Chart to determine if one of these solutions meets your department’s requirements.

Approximately 40 former Socrates and Arachne sites have chosen IST services. Examples include:

• The Museum of Paleontology - http://evolution.berkeley.edu
• Multicultural Student Development - http://multicultural.berkeley.edu
• Division of Undergraduate Education - http://teaching.berkeley.edu
• Public Health Research Services - http://shortellresearch.berkeley.edu

Statistical and Math Packages

IST is working with Professor Merrill Shanks at SSCL to develop a solution for moving your files and setting up replacement software. We realize that time is running out for the 1/31/09 shutdown date; and will therefore extend the Socrates service for your user community only until the end of February 2009. Further information will be available as soon as alternative is established. Please refer questions to