This is for people who use multiple job numbers to pay for their printing. Unfortunately it's not in the form of a standard Mac package. You need to be on a wired or CUED connection: 1. Open this location in Safari: smb://cued-fs/kace/papercut/pcclient When it … [Read more...]
AV Updates- Easter 2017
Electrical Engineering Building The 1st floor now has a new boardroom comprising a 65" screen with control panel and AV inputs/power mounted on the desk. The ground floor seminar room has also been upgraded with a drop down screen, projector, lectern and touch control … [Read more...]
Security Awareness
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IMAP Issue still affects Outlook 2016
Previously I've blogged about an issue with Outlook 2013. Briefly Outlook gets into a state where it has folders displayed locally which are not actually on the server, and it does not display any errors in normal usage, so can go unnoticed. At the moment those with shared … [Read more...]
iscsi/CHAP notes
Having switched off unauthenticated access to the SAN on the SAN, I had to work out how to set CHAP secrets on a per-host basis and modify iscsid.conf accordingly. Cue considerable trial and error, but it seems to be working now. The salient points being: There is an … [Read more...]
Dictation on Apple devices
Recent releases of OS X have a dictation feature for entering text, which is activated by pressing the fn key twice (once more to cancel). By default this feature relies on a network connection, and sends speech data to Apple's servers for processing, but this can be … [Read more...]
hot spares that go bad (lsi megaraidsas controllers)
I've two identical and identically configured fileservers with LSI megaraidsas controllers. They've each got 12x 3TB (haha, that's 2794GiB to you, sunshine) disks, configured as a RAID6 array over disks 0-10, with 11 as the hot spare. At some point in the last mumble … [Read more...]
CO Forum Discussion on Simple Web Forms
There was some discussion at today's CO Forum about quick ways of creating simple web forms for collecting information from people which admin offices can then use. Some suggestions: From Tim: Moodle's Quiz feature is shown … [Read more...]
ubuntu, nvidia drivers spontaneously stop working, bizarreness
My desktop machine broke itself on a reboot last Friday evening, so that was a nice thing to look forward to fixing on a Monday morning ... I'm still trying to characterise the problem (it feels like a problem with the underlying nest of symbolic links that is the debian … [Read more...]
I/O, I/O, it’s off to work we go…
...Or, balancing between infrastructure maintenance and project delivery, and hoping that you don't fall off … [Read more...]