Monthly Archives: October 2015

Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac

Office 2016 for Mac is available to Informatics staff for new installation or upgrade from version 2011 on University owned equipment. The software is provided on a USB memory stick to facilitate easy installation and is available to borrow from … Continue reading

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subversion upgrade on SL6

As announced by mailing list: The default version of the subversion (svn) revision control software will change on DICE SL6 desktop and compute servers. This brings the version into line with our new SL7 desktops and will allow working copies … Continue reading

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OpenVPN configuration file updates

Of interest to users of the Informatics OpenVPN service: Please note that – as announced via email to the sys-announce list – an updated set of configuration files for our OpenVPN service was put in place in late July 2015. … Continue reading

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Another web server (with a bit more security)

The web-page hosting services homepages.inf and groups.inf have been complemented by a new service, sweb.inf, which allows users to publish AFS-based web pages that have a greater degree of protection than the mechanism currently employed on existing services. The new … Continue reading

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New: SL7 Virtual DICE

We’re delighted to announce a new release of Virtual DICE. Find out more in the Virtual DICE help pages. The download information is here. Virtual DICE is DICE Linux, but running in a virtual machine. It can run on any … Continue reading

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