Major updates have been provided for the firefox web browser and the thunderbird mail client on ScientificLinux 6 which will take us up to version 10 (Extended Support Release). These updates provide a large number of fixes for serious security holes as well as many feature enhancements. We have tested these updates and do not […]
In a previous post we mentioned that noise levels in the self-managed server room (i.e. B.Z14) of the Informatics Forum were higher than we might like. And users of that room can’t have failed to notice that it’s also been much hotter and stuffier than anyone might like … We’re pleased to say that alterations have […]
As a result of a 2009 EU directive, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (“PECR”) have been amended such that visitors to web sites must now give their prior consent to the placing of cookies. The way in which this is to be done is not specified by the regulations; the ICO’s […]
It is possible to set up self-managed machines to use kerberos with ssh to connect to DICE machines without entering a password and we strongly recommend that you do this. We have created step-by-step instructions to help you set this up under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. These instructions are also linked to from […]
An overview of what browsers are available on DICE
In early October 2011 we discovered that the School of Informatics SSH service had been seriously compromised. Since that time our Computing Team has been working very hard to thoroughly investigate the circumstances of the event and provide a robust response. As part of the response to this event we have written a detailled report. […]
We now have a web page which can wake sleeping computers. It should wake most of our desktop machines (though not HP 7900 computers – see below). You can find it at wake.inf.ed.ac.uk. It seems a bad idea to let anyone on the internet wake any of our computers, so there are a few restrictions: […]
Following this mornings unplanned restart of one of the Forum SAN storage machines, various AFS volumes (where your files are stored) have been affected. We are bringing these back on-line a partition at a time. Unfortunately there is a delay as we check each partition for file system consistency, to make sure there’s been no […]
Back in August in a post entitled Macs in Informatics I asked for views on, well, Macs in Informatics, but specifically on configuring them to access DICE services, and whether we should look at trying to provide some sort of automated help with that configuration. I had an excellent response – thank you very much, […]
LaTeX is part of the standard installation on DICE desktop machines. This installation includes local files which can be found in the following directory on SL6 machines: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/informatics/ The support team will maintain the local .sty, .cls and .def files and therefore you should request any changes to these files using the support form which […]
