Monthly Archives: September 2013

Virtual DICE – please help us test it

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Chris Cooke

We’re delighted to announce Virtual DICE. It’s like a DICE desktop, but running in a virtual machine. It’s currently in a testing phase – see below. Everybody in the School of Informatics is welcome to use Virtual DICE, but you … Continue reading →

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Introduction to AFS tutorial

Posted on September 25, 2013 by squinney

If you are a new member of Informatics and use AFS (e.g. for access to your home directory or group file space) or would just like a refresher then we would like to invite you to attend our annual Introduction … Continue reading →

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New remote graphical login service

Posted on September 17, 2013 by squinney

The Computing Team are pleased to announce the launch of a new graphical remote login service. This service provides access to your normal DICE desktop environment from any Linux, MacOSX or Windows based client. This service uses the NX technology … Continue reading →

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blog.inf.ed.ac.uk updated to WordPress 3.6.1

Posted on September 13, 2013 by neilb

As announced on sys-announce, to address security flaw in WordPress 3.6 and earlier, blog.inf.ed.ac.uk has been updated to the current version of WordPress (3.6.1). There will be some small changes, and you many notice pop-ups highlighting new options. If you … Continue reading →

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Temporary wireless network reconfiguration on Forum upper floors

Posted on September 3, 2013 by George Ross

To aid with a research project by ICSA’s Wireless & Mobile Networking (WiMo) Group, we have asked IS to reconfigure the wireless access points for the top three floors of the Forum temporarily.  For the month of September the 802.11a … Continue reading →

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