Monthly Archives: January 2015

In order to maintain the integrity of our systems we need to reboot all DICE desktops over the next few days. We understand that reboots can be very inconvenient so you can be assured that we will only ever schedule … Continue reading →

As described in my November posting, we’re making some changes to our OpenVPN configuration, partly to support new devices, partly to add capacity, and partly because one of the features we currently use is being phased out. The server-end changes … Continue reading →

When the Forum meeting rooms were set up, we configured the wired network in them to use the “office self-managed DHCP” subnet.  This seemed appropriate at the time, as most users were expected to be Forum occupants.  The ground-floor meeting … Continue reading →

On the evening of 6th January, one of the disks in the IBM storage array used to provide storage for KVM guests at the Forum decided to go faulty. As with other storage arrays, this should not have been a … Continue reading →

As many of you are aware, the standard versions of various developer tools provided in Scientific Linux 6 (e.g. gcc) have now become quite old. To gain access to newer versions you can now have various software collections added to … Continue reading →

We have now resolved the hardware problems with the new hardware for the staff NX server so we can reschedule the planned upgrade. On Tuesday 6th January we plan to replace the staff NX server named central which hosts staff.nx.inf.ed.ac.uk … Continue reading →