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 […]
Of interest to users of the Informatics OpenVPN service: Please note that – as announced via email to the sys-announce list – an updated set of configuration files for our OpenVPN service was put in place in late July 2015. The old configurations will be turned off on Monday 2nd November, 2015 – so, if […]
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 […]
As posted to our announcements mailing list, we’ll be upgrading both of our commodity PostgreSQL servers “pgteach” and “pgresearch” this week (Wednesday 16th Sep, for the avoidance of doubt!) to the latest major version, 9.4. The process is usually fairly painless as it can be performed “online” with only a few minutes of downtime, and […]
One of the consequences of the move from SL6 to SL7 is that we have switched from using the AMD automounter (which isn’t available on SL7) to Autofs. In making this switch, we have taken the opportunity to clear out many old and broken automounts, particularly within /group. We have also removed the /legacy automount […]
Currently the Forum print rooms located in the North East corner of the building have both a Xerox Multi-function device capable of printing in colour and a small monochrome printer. These mono printers are very old now and becoming more and more expensive to keep in service. Usage figures don’t justify their replacement and so […]
For many years we’ve supported multiple versions of MATLAB across our managed DICE environment. We’ll continue to support requests for alternative versions (whenever possible), but our upcoming move to DICE SL7 has provided a sensible moment to simplify the default MATLAB versions on our desktops and servers. So last night our users mostly received the […]
