February 2006 Archives
February 28, 2006
Systems Slow Tuesday AM
Mathserv was bogged down for about two hours late Tuesday morning; email access and the msprime stations felt sluggish as a consequence. We are working to pinpoint the cause and reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
February 21, 2006
Serious Safari Vulnerability
Safari, the default browser in OS X, has been discovered to have an easily exploitable vulnerability which could result in arbitrary code being executed on a Mac.
The vulerability, which involves automatic execution of code in ZIP files, is described at Secunia.com; the same Web site also has a safe demonstration.
Continue reading Serious Safari Vulnerability.
February 20, 2006
MATLAB Clean Up
Having heard no objections, I have made MATLAB R14SP3 the default on the bayes, freesurface, bluespruce and the msprime systems (in place of R14SP2). That is, the command matlab will now invoke R14SP3.
MATLAB R14SP2 and R14SP3 may be invoked specifically via the commands matlab14sp2 and matlab14sp3.
I have also removed these versions (where present) from the msprime workstations and the compute servers: R13, R14, R14SP1.
February 16, 2006
Maple Moved from Spruce to Bluespruce
We have transferred the maple license used by spruce to bluespruce. Spruce no longer has maple available.
Mathserv ssh Problem Thursday Morning
Mathserv began refusing ssh connections sometime after midnight, giving the error
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. It was corrected at 10:30 am. No other services (mail, web, workstation) were affected.
