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alpine on DICE

I’ve posted some information about the future of alpine on DICE on my blog. But don’t worry, it’s good news.

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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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PostgreSQL upgrades

As posted to our announcements mailing list, we’ll be upgrading both of our commodity PostgreSQL servers “pgteach” and “pgresearch” this week (Wednesday 16th Sep, for the avoidance of doubt!) to the latest major version, 9.4. The process is usually fairly … Continue reading

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MATLAB Upgrade, Sep 2015.

For many years we’ve supported multiple versions of MATLAB across our managed DICE environment. We’ll continue to support requests for alternative versions (whenever possible), but our upcoming move to DICE SL7 has provided a sensible moment to simplify the default … Continue reading

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Backing up users’ crontabs on DICE

I’d like to draw users’ attention to the following, recently posted on one of our CO blogs: “The Research and Teaching unit recently noted that users’ crontabs (sometimes required, for example, on research servers to start or check on custom … Continue reading

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