Most of you should now be aware that the College recently introduced a policy requiring the encryption of mobile devices and desktops, particularly where these are likely to be used for handling sensitive data. Sensitive data can include :- email from students to personal tutors or from staff to their line managers about their health […]

IPv6 update… Since my previous post announcing the start of the IPv6 investigation project, good progress has been made: IPv6 support has been tested on the variety of network switches that we run.  As expected, it’s generally good on our newer models, but unreliable or non-existent on our older models.  Our ongoing rolling replacement of […]

As you were reading Johanna’s email last month on the encryption of personal computing devices, you may have noticed that this advice is but one part of a College of Science and Engineering action plan on data security (this plan was included in Johanna’s message). There are several actions which Schools are required to perform […]

If you have a DICE SL7 desktop you will be prompted to reboot over the next few days. This is required to make an important configuration change which can only be safely applied at boot time. We understand that reboots can be very inconvenient so you can be assured that we will only ever schedule […]

Some staff and postgrads who haven’t yet had their DICE desktop upgraded to SL7 have been having trouble logging in at the start of the day, after waking their machine from sleep. We’ve been gathering evidence on this problem, but so far the cause is not fully understood. We do know that on affected machines […]

Office 2016 for Mac is available to Informatics staff for new installation or upgrade from version 2011 on University owned equipment. The software is provided on a USB memory stick to facilitate easy installation and is available to borrow from the Computing Support area on level 2 (2.07). New features in Office 2016 Word The […]

As announced by mailing list: The default version of the subversion (svn) revision control software will change on DICE SL6 desktop and compute servers. This brings the version into line with our new SL7 desktops and will allow working copies to be shared between all DICE machines again. The change will take place early in […]

The web-page hosting services homepages.inf and groups.inf have been complemented by a new service, sweb.inf, which allows users to publish AFS-based web pages that have a greater degree of protection than the mechanism currently employed on existing services. The new server, sweb.inf, uses AFS space that is accessible from anywhere (as normal) and is editable […]

We’re delighted to announce a new release of Virtual DICE. Find out more in the Virtual DICE help pages. The download information is here. Virtual DICE is DICE Linux, but running in a virtual machine. It can run on any machine supported by VirtualBox. This release of Virtual DICE is based on the SL7 version […]

A number of staff have already moved to using the latest version of our operating system – SL7 – so we have now started to upgrade the remaining DICE desktops. If they haven’t done so already, support will contact you individually to arrange a suitable date and time. We aim to have all DICE desktops […]