Computers

With the absence of a formal System Administrator, significant development of the computer system has been put on hold. Nevertheless, progress has been made in:

• Introduction of centralized software serving which will be extended to serving home directories,
• Regular backups (previously, all NOT staff have been entirely vulnerable to data loss through disk crashes).
• A new printer has been purchased for the SLO.
• An internal domain name server has been setup to avoid dependence on ING (who, in principle, could interrupt observations and other work at NOT with a failure).

The reliability and bandwidth of network connections to the outside world have improved considerably.

A security hole which allowed the theft of usernames and passwords (but not their actual use) has been closed.

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Last modified: December 12 2022