Author Archives: roger

blog.inf upgrade to SL7

We are planning to upgrade the WordPress server providing blog.inf from SL6 to SL7, and to this end a clone of blog.inf running on SL7 has been set up. If you wish to test that your blog and any associated … Continue reading

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Disruption to Informatics services based in Appleton Tower

Following on from the recent reminder of disruption to Informatics and central University systems on Tuesday 10th January, here is a bit more detail. A fault was recently identified in the Appleton Tower “essential services” electrical supply, which amongst other … 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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Fighting back against WordPress spam!

If WordPress spam concerns you, there are some plugins and extras that you might find useful, namely: Akismet, Anti-Spam, reCaptcha, and Comment-Control. These are available on blog.inf, but will need to be activated from your blog dashboard. Akismet …is a … Continue reading

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Finding DICE software

In order to make the process of searching for particular software packages slightly easier, there is now a web page available at: http://pkgsearch.inf.ed.ac.uk …which will allow you to search our local repositories using a single keyword or RPM string, with … Continue reading

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Informatics new Blogging Service

The blogs currently available on blog.inf – which has been not-a-service since its inception in 2009 – have moved to a new host, running the latest version of WordPress. This is now a supported service. The upgrade and transfer process … Continue reading

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Unscheduled interruption to Institute websites (around 10:35am, 26.Apr)

There was a brief interruption to Institute websites this morning (10:34-10:40). This followed the creation of a new Plone website, and was due to a race condition in the automatic configuration process that stopped the web server daemon from restarting. … Continue reading

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