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At long, long last after many months which were entirely this former Secretary's fault, the AMH Committee website is back online at the new address of http://www.andrewmelvillehall.org.uk/. I'll try to get it onto google before the fresher's get their info pack. Long live the AMH Committee! Cheers, ...

Tried a friend's card and it looks like the motherboard is screwed. So thanks to those who offered.

Cheers,
Niall

Today my main computer died, and I think but am not sure it's the graphics card. I have a 4x AGP slot, so that's 1.5v rather than 3.3v or 0.8v. The problem is that everyone I know has too new an AGP card to try swapping it in to see if it's the video card or its the motherboard. If someone has a sec...

Pah who wants to know about Earls and foreign princes anyway!

You should only concentrate on Marquesses or above. Between them and Dukes, they form the closest circle around the monarch. Earls and Lords are a dime a penny ...



Cheers,
Niall

Hi Ian, Further to what I mentioned today, the program is called LionShare (http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main/) and is Penn State University's solution to sharing academic files between academics, students and the same in other universities. A number of other US universities are also involved. If so...

I was very tired at the meeting, so my apologies if I have forgotton anything or my memory is at fault. Discussion did ramble somewhat and went off-topic a lot, so it's hard to be sure. The upshot is no VPN's as not enough kit supports it reliably. They want to bring in a thing which via DHCP dumps ...

Quoting teh cow from 23:33, 2nd Nov 2005 (1) --------- Put another way, if the machine is properly firewalled, it won't get remotely infected. ----------- Utter rot. Network exploits just happen to be the easiest vector. I've seen virues last year picked up from email, from the web, from peer to pe...

Just to remind everyone that there shall be a meeting hosted by the Union with IT Services about the network connectivity issue next Friday 4th Nov at 11am in the Union Conference Room. All Senior Students have been asked to nominate someone to go, but if your hall remains unrepresented then email B...

Quoting Ben Reilly from 00:01, 27th Oct 2005 Quoting ned6 from 19:35, 26th Oct 2005 2x Western Digital 7200rpm WD1000BB 100Gb drives in RAID 0 Suicide RAID??!! Well, the low mean time to failure (MTTF) of hard drives is caused by powering them on and off every day through expansion and contraction,...

2x Athlon 1700 MP Tyan Tiger MP Dual Processor Motherboard 1Gb ECC RAM 2x Western Digital 7200rpm WD1000BB 100Gb drives in RAID 0 ATI Radeon 32Mb All In Wonder graphics card Sharp 1280x1024 16" TFT Monitor with DVI-D connection Back when I built this in 2002 it was the fastest x86 workstation class ...

Quoting Ben Reilly from 01:37, 24th Oct 2005 Oh, one thing that I thought was interesting was that it seems that at the end of last year fully a third of machines on resnet were infected with one worm or another. I think strictly speaking, a third of machines got infected at some point rather than ...

Quoting Slash wannabe from 15:59, 18th Oct 2005 I find all of this just fucking stupid. If people can't protect their own computers from viruses then they deserve to have it happen. There is no reason why the rest of us have to have less access because some crap artist didn't install decent softwar...

Quoting Nickel from 02:04, 18th Oct 2005 Speaking as the other person teh cow mentioned, I am a little unclear as to how this would be implemented. Was your suggestion to run this script over the intranet and have ITs only allow access to the internet to people that had taken these steps? Yes. All ...

Quoting teh cow from 23:31, 17th Oct 2005 I believe your proposal will not work. The reasons are: 1. The range of virii (and their infection mechanisms) involved is too great to be covered by a script written by any human being. Further, viruses and new variants of existing viruses arrive in hundre...

Quoting The Fallen One from 19:44, 11th Oct 2005 As I write, I can see 36 iTunes users online. I don't know if there is a limit we haven't reached yet, or if the whole 31 user per subnet issue only affects AMH. Having talked to IT Services last week, they say that different residences have differen...

This morning I had a meeting with IT Services regarding the Network Connectivity issue and it was most productive. It was agreed that the port blocking solution is not a good solution to the worm & virus problem for a whole host of reasons, including that infected machines remain infected and it's p...

Quoting The Fallen One from 14:48, 7th Oct 2005 Question: How do you use internal mail here? I've never used it. I'm ned6@st-and... etc. Secondly, I'd like to add that VNC, gaming and iTunes still work perfectly within New Hall. The only thing is you can't get out of the network to play games acros...

Quoting The Fallen One from 14:48, 7th Oct 2005 Question: How do you use internal mail here? I've never used it. I'm ned6@st-and... etc. Secondly, I'd like to add that VNC, gaming and iTunes still work perfectly within New Hall. The only thing is you can't get out of the network to play games acros...

Quoting The Fallen One from 14:48, 7th Oct 2005 Question: How do you use internal mail here? I've never used it. I'm ned6@st-and... etc. Secondly, I'd like to add that VNC, gaming and iTunes still work perfectly within New Hall. The only thing is you can't get out of the network to play games acros...

You'll find the petition at http://amh.st-andrews-uni.net/files/IT%20Services%20Petition.doc The first page is the petition, and the second page the signature sheet. Change the top of the signature sheet to your Hall of Residence and print as many as you feel you need. Signatures are best collected ...