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On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 22:34, Andrew Rogers wrote:
I tried Lynx on the portal and I get authorisation failures, even when using -auth=user:pass. But it seems to work O.K. from Mozilla 1.0.
Okay, I'll try lynx and opera from home.
OT whinging: I think part of the network is managed by an external body.
Nope, none of the Uni network is run externally. However, the network itself is obviously part of a larger network, swurn - SW university's regional network, and ultimately JANET - the UK joint academic network.
I was really mad when I discovered that they had changed the IP address of my machine and others, they didn't even give any prior warning of the change. I work from home a lot of the time and use SSH to connect to my number crunchers there, I couldn't log in to them.
That's got to have been a vlan change I guess. Your departmental IT contact should have been notified of this and it is for him/her to inform all other departmental staff/students. If that didn't happen then I'd suggest either asking the contact why, or if they weren't told about it then contact the network manager and complain about it.
If that wasn't bad enough, they failed to update the DNS entries, and hostnames were pointing to the old IP addresses.
I maintain the DNS and can only change IP addresses that I am told about. There were several vlan changes some time ago and several departmental IT contacts informed me of the entries that required changing. As such the TTL is dropped to enable the changeover more quickly.
There was speculation that they would charge research groups £1000 per network socket, now where did I put that old modem...
'They' is the whole University - everyone will be charged for everything from room space (by estates), to the number of network sockets you have (by networking). It's part of the University's financial restructuring. Networking themselves will likewise be charged for room space and so on. Previously you 'paid' for these services but it was all done through top-slicing of the deparmental budgets. So in reality there is not much new about being charged for a socket - the amount you are charged may be interesting though!
Recently I can't access the POP server from home to read my email so I am forced to use some Microsoft Web Access thing that increases the network traffic ten fold.
Why can't you use pop? although I susepct that imaps would be preferred.
These new PCs are audited via the network and can be rebooted remotely. One of my colleagues has one of these new PCs and had it rebooted during a critical number crunching application,
Complain! I'm sure this 'rebooting' thing must cater for exceptions by some means. (I don;t know since it is not something I deal with.)
he can't install Linux as this would break the rules and the auditing.
Yes if you wipe out the RM windows installation. However, if you use vmware on top of XP then you can use linux. You may also want to talk to SoC; I was involved in trying to sort out some of the vmware problems with linux but I think they may have agreed to SoC using dual-boot machines. (The RM installation does not take all the disk space you could install linux on the spare disk space. It is the 'rebooting' thing that is the problem - it ensures patches etc are installed I gather and hence ensures the integity of the University's PC's....it says here :-) I can only go by what I hear; not being a windows user I tend to avoid all that stuff.) John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.