Additional information regarding the power outage can be found here:

http://www.ucsb.edu/campus-update/power-outage-index.shtml

As of 10:09:25, 2008-09-12 this page gave the following info:

Campus Electrical Power Outage
Sunday, September 14

The UC Santa Barbara campus will be without electrical power most of this coming Sunday, September 14, while Southern California Edison installs new equipment to complete the campus’s Electrical Infrastructure Renewal Project. It is expected that power will be restored to the campus by about 6 p.m. Sunday.

During this outage, access to university Web sites will be limited. For those seeking to pay undergraduate fees, the Office of the Registrar, in an effort to address any hardship or difficulties caused by the power outage, has extended the Fall 2008 Fee Payment deadline by 24 hours to 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 16. Students and parents are encouraged to pay fees early. Only PARENT USERS will be able to access the Gaucho E-Bill Web site on Sunday and view billing statements and make payments on line. A special link to that site will be provided Sunday on the temporary UCSB home page.

Campus personnel are advised to turn off all electrical equipment when leaving work on Friday.

Existing building emergency generators will operate during the electrical outage. Facilities Management personnel will be on site to ensure the generators have started and address any issues that may arise.

For information on the electrical outage on Sunday, there will be a recorded message available at 893-2800. This information will be updated every two hours.

UC Santa Barbara thanks you in advance for your patience and understanding while work on this essential electrical upgrade is completed.

The CSIL and EI labs will be closed on Friday June 13th, 2008 at
5:00 PM and will remain closed throughout the Summer for renovation.
The CAD Lab will be closed for maintenance from 8:30 AM on
Monday June 16, 2008 until 8:30 AM on Thursday June 19, 2008.

Effective immediately all ECI machines will be rebooted at 05:30 each Sunday. 

Per the ECI FAQ:

         All ECI workstations are scheduled to be rebooted 
        once per week. Users on the systems are warned 15 minutes 
        before the reboots, so that they will have enough time to 
        save all their work and log out.

        Note: All the processes on the systems will be killed during 
        the rebooting process.