Due to a couple of incidents at the weekend, where two of our web servers were made inaccessible due to either accidental or malicious activity, we are now denying access from IP addresses attempting lots of simultaneous web connections. Once a single IP attempts an additional connection above a certain threshold, those subsequent connections will […]

The Informatics Computing Plan for 2011 is now available. This plan reviews progress with respect to the previous plan for 2010, enumerates our key aims for 2011 and makes a stab at identifying likely aims for 2012. Comments are very welcome.

As a security measure we are now blocking outbound ssh connections from the cvs and subversion server cvs/svn.inf.ed.ac.uk. There should be no need for users to be ssh’ing from cvs.inf and so no one should notice any change in behaviour. Those needing to ssh onward can use the hosts student.ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk or staff.ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk.

Development of new computing services by the computing staff is now scheduled in project periods (three per year). The next project period starts in January 2011 and the process of prioritising which projects will be resourced starts now (end Nov). This is a call for project proposals for the next project period. Please add any […]

With the recent increased scrutiny of public sector expenditure, it is more important than ever that we follow correct procedures for purchasing IT equipment. The following link outlines how we should go about purchasing IT equipment :- http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/procurement/