Developer Contest – Travel Apps
Prizes worth a total of £2,800 are up for grabs! The Stride Project is looking for developers interested in travel and transport to build fun, useful and innovative applications using data from our...
View ArticleComputer Laboratory lecturers awarded Pilkington Prizes
Lecturers Dr Alastair Beresford and Dr Andrew Rice have been awarded Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. The Pilkington Teaching Award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching, making...
View ArticleProfessor Andy Hopper named one of the UK’s 100 leading practising scientists
Andy Hopper, Professor of Computer Technology and Head of Department, has been named in the Science Council’s list of the country’s 100 leading practising scientists.
View ArticleFurther NTP related changes
With the new routers, Lab machines lost the ability to NTP probe machines on the internet, as we lost stateful UDP reflexive rules. With the recent NTP amplification attacks, we have added rules which...
View ArticleProfessor Andy Hopper featured in the Sunday Times list of the 100 most...
Andy Hopper, Head of Department and Professor of Computer Technology, has been named in an illustrious list of Britain’s 100 most influential movers and shakers of the 21st century. The list, published...
View Articlewww-dyn(1) upgrade
The server providing the www-dyn1 and www-dyn services is to be upgraded. Users are recommended to check that any pages they publish work on the www-dyn2 and www-dyn3 servers. See...
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The last main pool of Virtual Machines will be upgraded (6.0 to 6.2) soon, probably over the Bank Holiday weekend. Attempts to do a “smooth” migration failed for the last three pools, so this time it...
View ArticleLab PhDs awarded Google European Doctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Flora Ponjou Tasse and Ionel Gog who have been awarded a Google Europe Fellowship. Flora, a PhD student in the Graphics and Interaction Research Group under the supervision of...
View ArticleTesting new slogin / ssh-remote server
The main Lab Linux TSS is currently running CentOS 5. We plan to move to Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, so have set up a testing server “sandy” (AKA slogin-new and ssh-remote-2.cl.cam.ac.uk). Please try it...
View ArticleWireless outage
The report I have received from the UIS about today’s wireless outage is slightly inconclusive. It seems that there was a malfunction of the central controller that looks after our access points,...
View ArticleComputer Laboratory hosts 2014 GNU Tools Cauldron
The 2014 GNU Tools Cauldron was recently held at the Computer Laboratory (July 18-20). The event brought together researchers and developers working on the GNU Tool Chain (the GNU Compiler Collection...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.04 lucid libc bug
A libc bug involving nscd may cause some Ubuntu 10.04 systems to fail in various ways. The quick fix is to run “cl-asuser service nscd stop” and “cl-update-system” to install a fixed libc. Ubuntu 10.04...
View Articlenew slogin-otpw server – generate a new pad
mgk25 has just released version 1.5 of OTPW which does not need to use $HOME for the pad. This allows per-host local pads, removing the problems on NFS sec=krb5 systems. The DNS name slogin-otpw now...
View ArticleJava 8 in Action, co-authored by the Lab’s Prof Alan Mycroft and...
Java 8 in Action, co-authored by the Computer Laboratory’s Professor Alan Mycroft and PhD student Raoul-Gabriel Urma, along with Mario Fusco, has been released. The book is a clearly written guide to...
View Articlenetwork and Xen problems
A misconfiguration in the networking kit caused an outage yesterday afternoon. This caused many Linux Xen VMs to loose access to their root filesystems, so they mounted them read-only. After rebooting...
View ArticleSeptember edition of ‘The Ring’ now online
The September edition of ‘The Ring‘ is now available. Please contact cam-ring@cl.cam.ac.uk for more information on the Computer Laboratory’s graduate association.
View ArticleLab PhD wins Ubicomp 2014 Best Paper Award
Chloe Brown has received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2014). The paper “The architecture of innovation: Tracking...
View Articlecondor pool moved to NFS sec=krb5
As emailed to all recent users of condor, the execute machines have now moved to NFS sec-krb5. The documentation has been updated. If anyone has problems, please email sys-admin.
View ArticleInternal Lab facilities may not be available
Certain commands used to do “privileged” things within the Lab may not be working for a while. If some feature you particularly need does not work, please email details to sys-admin
View ArticleRemoval of avahi-daemon from Ubuntu 14.04 systems
It appears that the avahi-daemon causes the gtk+ library on Ubuntu 14.04 systems used by many GUIs (e.g. firefox and chrome) to hammer the print spooler by opening hundreds of simultaneous...
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