Blog Highlights: Did You Know?

9.19.2005

• With the addition of the Martha Miller Center, Hope has 82 different classrooms.
• The total capacity of these rooms is over 3400 students.
• All of these rooms have an Internet connection available.
• 73% of these rooms (60 / 82) have a permanently placed computer and projector.
• If the College's 10 portable computer/projector systems are used, 3211 students in 70 different rooms can simultaneously utilize the technology (that's 194 more students than are on campus this semester).
  

9.1.2005
45 student computers were looked at during today's ConnectHope Fair. For more statistics, see the 2005 ConnectHope Fair Stats page.

This was the last evening ConnectHope Fair. Please contact CIT at x7670 if you need assistance with your computer.

8.29.2005
69 student computers were looked at during today's ConnectHope Fair. For more statistics, see the 2005 ConnectHope Fair Stats page.

8.27.2005
20 student computers were looked at during today's ConnectHope Fair. For more statistics, see the 2005 ConnectHope Fair Stats page.

8.26.2005
30 student computers were looked at during today's ConnectHope Fair. For more statistics, see the 2005 ConnectHope Fair Stats page.

8.25.2005
20 student computers were looked at during today's ConnectHope Fair. For more statistics, see the 2005 ConnectHope Fair Stats page.

8.23.2005
22 student computers were looked at during today's ConnectHope Fair. For more statistics, see the 2005 ConnectHope Fair Stats page.

7.27.2005
On a normal day, about 50,000 e-mail messages are handled by the Webmail server. That doesn't include the 50,000 - 100,000 spam messages a day that are automatically deleted by another server. Yesterday (7/26/05), the Webmail server handled nearly 437,000 messages, or almost 9 times the normal amount. The reason for the increase? Over 350,000 messages were sent to a blank Hope e-mail address. With regular mail, it would be kind of like putting the address on a letter without a name. The Webmail server doesn't know which of the 5000 Hope accounts to deliver these messages to, so it deletes them. Fortunately, this doesn't slow the server down by any noticeable amount, but it does make it work a little harder.

Where do these messages come from? Most likely a virus somewhere on the Internet. It's hard to say for certain though. This doesn't happen every day, and when it does happen it's usually not of this volume (we've seen up to 60,000 messages in a day previously). We track these numbers daily, and we'll be keeping an even closer eye on them in upcoming days to be sure this doesn't become a problem.

7.5.2005
Hope College owns 1466 computers. That includes those in labs, classrooms, and offices.

With an estimated 90%+ of students bringing computers, that means that during the school year there are over 4000 computers located within an area of about 40 acres.

6.13.2005
On the typical day, about 40 gigabytes (GB) of data travels across Hope's Internet connection. That's 42,949,673,000 bytes (nearly 43 billion!), the equivalent of over 1 million one-page Microsoft Word documents each day. .

6.8.2005
Did you know that as of today, CIT staff members have completed 121,119 work orders since March 1993? What's a work order? A work order is our documentation of any phone call, meeting or email that requires follow-up and cannot be solved immediately. It could be a simple task that takes only 15 minutes or a large-scale campus project logging more than 100 hours.

In case you're wondering, Pauline has entered 41,078 of those work orders herself.