Monthly Archives: October 2014

Seven.

You may remember that DICE Linux is not getting the major upgrade this summer (DICE teaching platform upgrade – postponed) that we optimistically forecast in February (Upgrade of DICE desktops to Scientific Linux 7). This post explains what’s been going … Continue reading

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New staff NX server

On Tuesday 4th November we plan to replace the staff NX server named central which hosts staff.nx.inf.ed.ac.uk with a machine named northern. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on Tuesday we will change the DNS aliases to … Continue reading

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New NX server

On Tuesday 28th October we plan to replace the NX server named bakerloo which hosts nx.inf.ed.ac.uk with a machine named piccadilly. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on Tuesday we will change the DNS alias to point … Continue reading

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SATABeast2 disk failures

Yesterday evening, our SAN storage device satabeast2, suffered 2 disk failures. We can cope with 1 disk failure (RAID5), but following that first disk failure there is a period of time, while the redundancy is restored, that should a second … Continue reading

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