It is possible to set up self-managed machines to use kerberos with ssh to connect to DICE machines without entering a password and we strongly recommend that you do this. We have created step-by-step instructions to help you set this up under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. These instructions are also linked to from […]

LaTeX is part of the standard installation on DICE desktop machines. This installation includes local files which can be found in the following directory on SL6 machines: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/informatics/ The support team will maintain the local .sty, .cls and .def files and therefore you should request any changes to these files using the support form which […]

The open access printers in Appleton Tower are now part of the University’s central printing system. This means you have to have credit in your University “Print and Copy” account before you can print. All undergraduate students and taught MSc students have been given an initial credit. Further information about the charges and how to […]

A Lot of Trees Over 200000 sides of paper per month are printed within the School during term time, more than half of them emerging from the 6 AT computing lab printers. At a rough cost of 5p per side for mono printing and 30p per sheet for colour, this adds up to a considerable […]

We have now installed a new sl6_64 login server for staff. You can access it by using the alias, staff64.login. This will replace the existing staff.login machine and also the machine that is pointed to by the somewhat redundant aliases – atstaff.login, fhstaff.login, kbstaff.login, bpstaff.login and jcmbstaff.login! For now, we will leave the old aliases […]

We have recently measured the average noise levels in the ‘self-managed server room’ (i.e. B.Z14) of the Informatics Forum. The noise levels are not excessive, and they don’t present any Health & Safety issues given our expected working practices – but they are higher than we might like, and some people might find them uncomfortable. […]

I’m pleased to be able to announce the availability of a much requested backup service for self-managed machines running most varieties of Linux/Unix, Windows (XP, Vista and 7) and Mac-OS. Full details of how to start using the service can be found at https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/view/DICE/ServicesUnitInstallingTibsClient. This service uses the same software, hardware and backup intervals as […]

There was a brief interruption to Institute websites this morning (10:34-10:40). This followed the creation of a new Plone website, and was due to a race condition in the automatic configuration process that stopped the web server daemon from restarting. It appears that apache tried to restart before the cosign configuration process had created a […]