ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during the holidays'
The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Wednesday, 24th of December
2008 and Sunday, 4th of January 2009. During this time, we can only provide
limited support. Please follow these rules to save us from superfluous work:
Switch off printers
Switch off your personal workstation and notebook except for the following:
Do not switch off our managed Linux and MacOS X workstations.
We will try to follow our e-mail, but you may also have luck and meet some of
us in our IRC channel.
We also plan to maintain some of our infrastructure servers during the
holidays, but this should not disrupt any essential service.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/22/computer-support-during-the-holida…
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Best regards,
Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Solution for PDF printing problems on Windows'
We found the solution for our long term PDF printing problems, which occurred
mostly on Windows computers.
The latest workaround was to use the option print as image in Adobe Acrobat.
This was very slow, and some times even that didn't work.
Please follow the instructions in this readme, if you have such problems!
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/19/solution-for-pdf-printing-problems…
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Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance downtime of D-PHYS mail server on
Friday, 5pm'
For kernel security updates and other maintenance work, there will be a
downtime of the e-mail server of the ETH Department of Physics from 17:00 on for
about one hour.
During the downtime you will not be able to access your mails on the server nor
be able to send mails via the server. The XMPP service will be affected by the
downtime, too.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/18/maintenance-downtime-of-d-phys-mai…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for December 2008'
Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for December,
2008.
There are 6 critical and 2 important updates.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update
to install the Security Updates.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/10/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-de…
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Patrick Frei
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration and Downtime of our Authentication
Server on Tuesday, 6pm'
On Tuesday, the 2nd of December 2008, beginning at 6pm, we will migrate the
services on our current authentication server to our high-availability cluster.
During the migration you will not be able to login on any of our managed
workstations, home and group drives or web services. Existing login sessions on
workstations should survive the downtime, but it is usually better if you log
out before migration. Additionally, *.dhcp.phys.ethz.ch dynamic hostnames will
not work either.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/12/01/migration-and-downtime-of-our-auth…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Backup service for laptops and lab PCs'
Since Netbackup can't handle backups of PCs with intermittent network access
(e.g. laptops or seldomly used lab PCs) nor MacOS X 10.5 or Windows Vista, there
is a rising demand for backup of computers. For D-PHYS-owned laptops, laptops
holding a relevant amount of ETH D-PHYS data, and for D-PHYS lab PCs, we now
offer a backup service specifically targeted at computers with intermittent
network access. It uses the free backup system BackupPC which does not need a
local backup client to be installed on the computers to be backed up.
We ran the service in beta test for a couple of months and gathered a lot of
experience with BackupPC. So we can now offer easy and regular backups of
computers running any flavour of Linux and MacOS X, and---with the addition of
locally installed 3rd party software (Cygwin)---also for Windows XP. Windows
Vista as well as Windows XP without 3rd party software will follow. Read more
about this service in our documentation wiki.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/11/20/backuppc/
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Axel Beckert
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Printer server broke down completely over the weekend
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2008/11/10/printer-server-broke-down-completel…
Currently our printer server "leuggel" is not available. It broke
down completely over the weekend. We are currently setting up a
temporary replacement. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Xen hosting
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1225785453
Even though the [1]list of our services has reached quite some extend,
there are some special needs we cannot cover with our standard
services. In well-founded cases we now offer virtualized Xen machines
with full root access.
Please contact us if you think this could be for you
References
1. https://wiki.phys.ethz.ch/readme/summary_of_the_services_we_provide
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Windows login on LTSP Thin Clients
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1225459893
Incited by the success of our [1]Linux-based noiseless thin clients we
were highly motivated to further increase the benefit of these clients
to our users.
Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Windows logins on
these machines.
Read on if you're interested in giving it a try.
References
1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1204219612
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New or updated readmes
Readme
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1
Windows Terminal Server login on LTSP thin clients
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/251
Printing with SMB (Windows)
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/8
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Downtime of D-PHYS Webserver this evening
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1225197664
To resolve some performance issues with our main webserver "zwoelfi"
by updating its BIOS, there will be short downtime of the webserver
this evening at about 17:30.
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