Monthly Archives: April 2014

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Software

The University’s license for the Kaspersky Anti-Virus software expires on 30th April 2014. If you are running a copy of Kaspersky on a self-managed machine using the University License, you must remove it manually and replace it. The replacement anti-virus … Continue reading

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Informatics Computing Plan 2014

The School produces an annual computing plan which :- states our current strategic objectives reports on goals set in the previous year’s plan lists goals for the current calendar year provides feedback and input to Information Services The plan is … Continue reading

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Windows XP – end of life

Windows XP was first launched in 2001 and Microsoft have now withdrawn support for XP as of 8th April. There is a useful page giving full details: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/end-support-help It does recommend upgrading to Windows 8.1 but you may find that … Continue reading

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Virtual DICE

DICE is also available as a virtual machine. We call it Virtual DICE. It can run in a variety of environments – Windows, Linux, Mac, and so on. The computing help pages give details on how to download, install and … Continue reading

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