If you use the Informatics OpenVPN, you must download a new config file and set up a new username. Otherwise, you can stop reading. As part of the ongoing Ubuntu upgrade, we’re migrating the OpenVPN endpoints to new servers. This is also a major version upgrade and some config changes to improve security (e.g. turning […]
As part of the critical upgrade from SL7 to Ubuntu, we are replacing the core Linux routers serving each of our sites over the coming weeks. The Linux routers are our edge (and sometimes internal) firewalls as well as providing routing between our subnets and EdLAN, and onwards to the internet. They are connected to […]
This summer we are upgrading the operating system of the approximately 300 DICE machines in Appleton Tower student labs from the current version Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) to the newer Noble Numbat (24.04) in time for the new teaching Semester. Some versions of software packages may differ in the new OS. As part of this […]
Many Informatics users are already making use of the centrally provided research data services. To illustrate the wide variety of services available, and the uses to which they can be put, here are a few user stories to give you some ideas of what you might use these services for. Stashing on DataStore One of […]
We would like to remind any users of Ubuntu Focal Fossa (20.04) that it will reach the End of Standard Support in May 2025, also known as End Of Life (EOL).
As a part of our plans to drop or automate services, we plan to drop services that are duplicated centrally. blog.inf.ed.ac.uk is one such service. blog.inf has been closed to new blogs for sometime, so now we are looking to migrate the remaining active blogs on blog.inf to the central blogs.ed.ac.uk service. In an example […]
As part of the critical upgrade from SL7 to Ubuntu, we are replacing the core Linux routers serving each of our sites over the coming weeks. The Linux routers are our edge (and sometimes internal) firewalls as well as providing routing between our subnets and EdLAN, and onwards to the internet. They are connected to […]
As part of the critical upgrade from SL7 to Ubuntu, we are replacing the core Linux routers serving each of our sites over the coming weeks. The Linux routers are our edge (and sometimes internal) firewalls as well as providing routing between our subnets and EdLAN, and onwards to the internet. They are connected to […]
This is for the attention of all those who have a self-managed computer (i.e. not MDP Windows or DICE Linux) using a wired network connection in either the Forum or Bayes Centre. This wired connection will be at risk next week – read on for details. Please be aware that we plan to replace the […]
For some years we’ve run a website called computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk. As the name may suggest, it contains advice and information about how to use the computers here in the School of Informatics. In fact, it’s the place to look for such information. In the old days, help for computer users was spread over a number of […]
