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How to find out your current usage.

Your current mailbox usage is on the bottom left of your webmail inbox.

To ensure that your email continues to work at maximum efficiency please take the following steps to clear up some room in your account.

1. Go to http://webmail.lava.net
2. Click on “Trash” in the left column of the screen
3. Either select all messages by clicking the check box directly above the messages with the down-arrow next to it, or you may filter through all the deleted mail and select only what you wish to delete.
4. Click the “Delete Forever” button.

In most cases, these steps have never been taken so there may be a considerable amount of mail in the trash. If this is removed it can potentially free up a lot of room in your mail account.

The city of Honolulu and IBM are transforming how citizens interact with government. By providing transparent and secure access to city data, Honolulu supports services in a cloud. This enables citizens to create exciting new services themselves which fosters greater civic engagement and encourages dialog between government and the public.

Connecting people to data
Although Honolulu had successfully overhauled its infrastructure, this was only the starting point for another major project. When the city underwent a change in political leadership, the then elected mayor, Peter Carlisle, shifted focus toward improving government transparency. Gordon Bruce took note of the mayor’s goal: “The mayor was behind transparency from the beginning. He wanted to make real data available to citizens—data they could actually use.”

In addition, the city wanted to increase citizen participation in government and improve efficiency, but achieving each of these goals would require new approaches to take full advantage of Honolulu’s new IT systems.

 notable applications available to Honolulu citizens include:
· Honolulu Tsunami Evacuation Zones: Provides information and maps on tsunami evacuation zones
· DaBus: Provides exact, real-time bus locations and estimated wait times for riders
· Adopt-a-Siren: Enables citizens to adopt tsunami sirens in their neighborhoods, checking to ensure siren functionality and reporting this information to the city
· Kokua: Provides real-time traffic report information for Honolulu
· Festivals of Hawaii: Provides information on events such as film, music, and food and wine festivals
· Honolulu Map and Walking Tours: Provides maps and self-guided walking tours of the city

Providing an IT solution to support custom applications like these introduced a new level of citizen involvement for Honolulu. The city also learned a valuable lesson and a benefit to using its cloud environment. Instead of relying on city employees to create applications, which often required excessive time and effort to complete, the city could put unfinished applications into the cloud and enable citizens to help with development. Delivering new services with numerous benefits to the community, Honolulu’s solution helped the city to provide previously closed information to its citizens. This provided more transparency and helped to improve citizen participation in government. With its new cloud environment, Honolulu empowered the general public to create citizen-centric applications with access to years’ worth of city data. The city’s new work order system also employed citizens to report problems and improved the city’s efficiency for performing repairs. These innovative measures enabled the community to take full advantage of Honolulu’s IT systems and the city’s data.

Become an involved citizen take the first step by checking out what is currently available take a look into the future and see how you can help. Click here to get started.

Until next time best wishes from your Lavanet support team……

Whether setting up your LavaNet email account on a PC, MAC, Smart Phone, or Tablet setting up your LavaNet email is a snap. One of the benefits of setting up your email account in this fashion is that anything sent will be logged in your web mail sent box. To set up your LavaNet email account follow the steps below.

• Gmail SMTP server address: smtp.gmail.com
• Gmail SMTP user name: Your full lava.net address (e.g. example@lava.net)
• Gmail SMTP password: Your password that works @ http://webmail.lava.net
  
• Gmail SMTP port: 465
• Gmail SMTP TLS/SSL required: yes

For a list of supported browsers click here.

Until next time best wishes from your LavaNet Support team…………………

When Bad Things Happen, Simply Reboot!

Faronics’ Deep Freeze is an application that, as the name implies, “freezes” your system so that any changes that are made are never permanent. If the system becomes unstable for any reason, say a virus or perhaps a driver misconfiguration, simply reboot! Within seconds, Deep Freeze will restore the system to the state it was in when last frozen. Just like magic, everything that had been done since then becomes undone and you are back up and running in no time. 

Once installed, Deep Freeze has two states, “thawed” and “frozen.” As you might have guessed, when thawed you configure your system precisely the way you want it to be restored. When frozen, the system will then be restored to that state on the next reboot. You can freeze and thaw as needed to update the system with any changes you’d like to keep.  

Features
Customized configuration makes setting up Faronics Deep Freeze for your unique environment a breeze. Using the Deep Freeze Configuration Administrator, you can specify multiple passwords, select drives to be Frozen, create ThawSpaces to save data, create workstation tasks, schedule maintenance and set advanced networks. You can also create multiple customized installers with different configurations.

System Requirements
• Deep Freeze is supported on:
— XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8
— Deep Freeze requires 10% of the hard drive to be left as free space
— Both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows are supported
— Windows XP x64 must have Service Pack 2 or later installed
• Faronics recommends a minimum of 256 MB of system memory in the protected systems
• The Deep Freeze Configuration Administrator and Enterprise Console are supported on:
— XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2003, 2008 and 2012
— 32 and 64 bit versions are supported

Until next time Mahalo…………………………..

Is your DSL not as fast as it once was? Does your DSL seem to slow down during a certain time of Day? Pages seem to take forever to load? The answer LavaNets premier Keepyourisphonest monitoring program can assist in pinpointing issues that cause latency, dropped packets, also helps you ensure you are able to push the bandwidth which you pay for monthly, and allows you to receive SMS/Email alerts and confirm outages. 

When it comes to security Lava.net can also stop your users from accessing restricted websites. This is particularly useful in keeping users from accessing pornographic web sites or social media sites during working hours. If this applies to you or your business give LavaNet a call you don’t have to put up with slow speeds. LavaNets support staff are standing but to take your calls.