Tag: education

Winners of the Astaro Orange Summer Photo Competition 2010

When we started our photo competition this summer for the first time, we were curious about what kind of pictures would be submitted. In retrospect, finding out about where and how the Astaro community spends their Orange Summer did not disappoint! The community was invited to vote for their favorite picture in our gallery of submissions and the voting session closed on 22nd September 2010. The Winning 5, who have each won a pair of RayBan sunglasses, can be seen below: Click here to see the full gallery

How to Use Social Networks at Schools

Facebook , Twitter, email and other online social networks play a major part in the lives of today’s youth. Students as young as kindergarten have cell phones that can access the Internet and students expect to have access to this online world at all times. Technology, especially social network sites, can distract students from classroom activities; however they can also be used for educational purposes .     Finding the right balance between acceptable use and what is unacceptable use in schools can be a difficult task for school administrators

Status Update – Software error in old Astaro versions

As previously communicated, on Friday August 27th we released a pattern which includes a fix for the y2k38 issue for all “old” versions (ie earlier than 7.507 and 8.001). This fix was applied successfully by the pattern script, but the script had the unwanted side effect of removing a directory on the disk. This directory contains some temporary data used internally by the Astaro system and also, on version 7 systems, it contains a copy of some system libraries.

Software error in old Astaro versions – update required

Dear Astaro Partners and Customers, We work constantly to ensure all our customers' networks are secure and connected no matter what version of the Astaro Security Gateway they are running. This is why we wanted to inform our partners and customers of an upcoming software challenge we have identified that may affect installations using older versions of the Astaro Security Gateway. Please read below: What is the issue?