Monthly Archives: May 2012

homepages.inf and groups.inf cookie crawl

Posted on May 21, 2012 by neilb

To further track down possible use of cookies within Informatics, and to make sure we comply with the current legislation *, we’ve searched the homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk file space and the groups.inf.ed.ac.uk (and similar) file space for files containing the word “cookie” … Continue reading →

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Website hacking/spamming

Posted on May 10, 2012 by neilb

Below is a post from Information Services, warning about website hacking incidents that have happened recently within the University. If you are responsible for a website, or even just web pages, but particularily if you use a self run blog/wiki/WCMS, … Continue reading →

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A Farewell to Samba

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Craig Strachan

For many years, the School of Informatics has provided Windows and MacOS users with access to its file and printing resources via Samba. Since the introduction of the OpenAFS file system and the CUPS printing system, there have been better … Continue reading →

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