Kickstart started giving a strange error about 'xfs' not being a valid default filesystem type - though it is. I have replaced the initrd and vmlinuz served by the tftp servers with the ones from the centos/7/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot directory and it seems to be … [Read more...]
LT0 AV ideas
Networking for the new AV system for LR4 has forced us to consider the AV strategy for LT0 more closely since the booth in LT0 is 'en-route' in networking terms. We've been working this week on flushing out the details (scribbling on a piece of paper!) of an infrastructure … [Read more...]
Mail problems with Outlook 2013
We have encountered a serious bug in Outlook 2013 which we believe could lead to lots of email being stored only locally, even though it appears to be stored on the server. This makes shared accounts impractical, and means that important emails are not backed up, even though … [Read more...]
Extron AV Control Programming
After a helpful visit from Craig Stonall of Extron (and some prompt network lashing by Adam and Paul), I've been moving forward with the design and programming of the control system for LR4. Feel free to pop in to IE1-35 if your interested at taking a look... The … [Read more...]
Half the DPO didn’t boot to linux on Monday morning.
Monday morning saw half the DPO failing to boot into linux, which caused some minor disruption (fortunately the practicals could use x sessions on x-access from windows to work around). The problem appeared to be that the PXE boot session wasn't getting any DHCP replies, … [Read more...]
Centos 7 Gnome Desktop configuration
Session selection The cogwheel which appears after you have given a username, but before you have given a password, lets you select between the various sessions available to the system. Out of the box this includes a couple of KDE options, Gnome Classic (which is the … [Read more...]
Div S Doc
Before deciding upon the design of (or need for) a help system as such, I think documention policy needs to be clarified. Are we sufficiently future-proofed? Policy Attitude to System Documentation - Do we write enough system documentation? We have doc for the … [Read more...]
LR4 AV upgrade- new control systems and racks on the way…
LR4 has been selected to be fast tracked through a complete AV refurbishment to act as a flagship installation. Much of my work over Xmas has involved the procurement of an integrated rack lectern and control system for this purpose with an intention of installing by … [Read more...]
Centos 7 ro nfsroot DPO desktop
Overview This is intended as a braindump of the steps I've taken to correctly configure a Centos 7 server and client machine to allow the latter to nfs mount it's root partition ro from the former. It's currently evolving as I discover how to redo things I've done before … [Read more...]
Hoax emails early January 2015
One which isn't as convincing as some, but fairly pervasive. This variant blocked by our filters since Wednesday afternoon. Subject: NUCSOFT-Payroll (followed by a date) From: eliza_fernandes@nucsoft.co.in Content: Word document Another one, harder to block - if … [Read more...]