Dear Colleagues, Summary: Appleton Tower DICE lab desktops and PGR compute servers offline from Friday 28th June 19:00 until the morning of Monday 1st July. As you may know, the Appleton Tower (AT) power will need to be switched off for important work on Saturday 29th of June. Because of this, all of User Support […]
As you may have heard, on Saturday 29 June there will be no electricity in Appleton Tower. That’ll mean a weekend shutdown for some servers and services which are run by the Informatics Systems Unit. The affected services will be down for the entire weekend and will be brought back on Monday 1st July. They […]
Various services run by the Informatics Research and Teaching Unit will be affected by the Appleton Tower power down of Saturday 29th June 2024. The complete list of services is listed below. Although the power down only affects the Saturday, all services below will be unavailable until Monday 1st July. PIP The Personal Information Processor […]
The homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk web service is due to update dated from SL7 to Ubuntu Jammy (the same a normal DICE desktops and servers). This provides version changes for many packages, the most notable being Python and PHP OSSL7Ubuntu JammyPython2.73.10PHP7.38.1 Any existing code you have that uses these packages is likely to need checked and fixed if […]
List of various services affected by the Appleton Tower power down on 13 of January 2024
The sweb.inf.ed.ac.uk service is due to update dated from SL7 to Ubuntu Jammy. This provides version changes for many packages, the most notable being Python and PHP OSSL7Ubuntu JammyPython2.73.10PHP5.48.1 Any existing code you have that uses these are likely to need checked and fixed if they are to remain working. A temporary version of sweb.inf.ed.ac.uk, […]
During the summer of 2023 all the student lab machines were upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) to 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). Since then the Computing Team has been busy upgrading the user-accessible servers to the same platform. To ensure the ongoing security of our systems and provide a consistent environment for all users, we now […]
authenticator.cc is a handy way to generate MFA codes – those numbers that are sometimes demanded by Microsoft online services such as Teams, email and SharePoint. It’s a web browser extension, and it works with Firefox, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge. It gives you a button on your browser which, when you click it, generates […]
As of today, 29/03/2024, the blog service is now running on Ubuntu Jammy and has been updated to the latest version of WordPress (6.4). The biggest difference is the editor used for pages and posts, but the previous editor can be enabled via the “Classic Editor” plugin. If you notice any blog posts have disappeared […]
The computing team has been reviewing the services it provides to the School in order to identify and withdraw support for those services which are no longer seeing significant usage, can be replicated by a centrally provided service, or present a significant maintenance challenge. Originally introduced in 2007, iFriend has provided a means for users […]
