The Computing Team are pleased to announce the launch of a new graphical remote login service. This service provides access to your normal DICE desktop environment from any Linux, MacOSX or Windows based client. This service uses the NX technology to handle remote X Windows connections, consequently you will need to download the appropriate client […]
As announced on sys-announce, to address security flaw in WordPress 3.6 and earlier, blog.inf.ed.ac.uk has been updated to the current version of WordPress (3.6.1). There will be some small changes, and you many notice pop-ups highlighting new options. If you run your own WordPress installation within Informatics, then you must upgrade your version too, as […]
To aid with a research project by ICSA’s Wireless & Mobile Networking (WiMo) Group, we have asked IS to reconfigure the wireless access points for the top three floors of the Forum temporarily. For the month of September the 802.11a (5GHz) channels have been turned off on these floors’ APs, to minimise interference with the […]
We have recently updated a number of Python modules on DICE which are useful for scientific data analysis. Here are the versions and links to the relevant documentation: numpy – 1.7.1 – docs scipy – 0.12.0 – docs pandas – 0.12.0 – docs matplotlib – 1.3.0 – docs We have also been looking at upgrading […]
We have some new SAN storage to bring on-line. It will be replacing the “head” of an existing SAN storage box, which will mean bringing it out of service while we replace the old head. We plan to do this at 9am on Sunday 1st of September 2013. This will mean that all data on […]
OpenAFS’s inability to use any encryption type other than single DES in the Kerberos tickets used to authenticate server-server and client-server communications has long been recognised as a major security shortcoming. 1DES’s relatively small key space renders it highly susceptible to a brute force attack and the wide availability of cheap distributed computing power, along […]
The 4th minor update to ScientificLinux 6 (which is based on RHEL6) is now ready for deployment to the Informatics SL6 DICE office and student lab machines. A minor update like this provides us with the opportunity to update important software and fix any bugs which are not security issues (we apply security updates as […]
capturED is an easy-to-use, cost-effective system for automatically capturing event and lecture presentations, including the facility to broadcast events live online. We have now completed the testing of the CapturED facilities that have been installed in the Forum in G.07 and 4.31. The capturED facility which is provided by IS has been used extensively in […]
If WordPress spam concerns you, there are some plugins and extras that you might find useful, namely: Akismet, Anti-Spam, reCaptcha, and Comment-Control. These are available on blog.inf, but will need to be activated from your blog dashboard. Akismet …is a hosted web service that automatically detects comment and trackback spam. It’s free for personal use, […]
In the late afternoon of Wednesday 19th of June, around 4:50pm, there was an unexpected glitch on the Informatics SAN (Storage Area Network). This caused some of our AFS storage to go offline for several hours. What follows is a recap of the event, and what we did to recover from it. Background First a […]
