Monthly Archives: March 2012

Flood in the server room (not for real!)

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Alastair Scobie

Periodically, we test our preparedness for disasters by holding a mock disaster exercise. On 27th February, the computing staff were told that part of the roof of the Forum server room had collapsed due to flood damage and that this … Continue reading →

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firefox and thunderbird updates

Posted on March 27, 2012 by squinney

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 … Continue reading →

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Self-managed server room – ventilation and noise levels

Posted on March 9, 2012 by idurkacz

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 … Continue reading →

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