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 […]
I’ve posted some information about the future of alpine on DICE on my blog. But don’t worry, it’s good news.
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 […]
