LabraNet student accounts will be purged during the summer break. Everything in your profiles, home-folder (also known as the Z: drive), or on the student server will  be gone. The accounts will first be disabled on June 23rd, and deleted some time after.

Anything left on LabraNet workstations will also disappear during the summer.

If there is some compelling reason why your account should be kept intact, get in touch with us.

New accounts will again be generated in the fall based on course enrollment.

Please also notice that \\ghost\Temp will be purged during the summer break.

Our migrating from F-Secure to windows firewall broke automagic active ftp, and it’s likely to remain out of order for the foreseeable future. We’ve specifically excepted the WinSCP installed on our workstations to allow active FTP to work with it. Passive ftp continues to work regardless.

Note that WinSCP defaults to passive mode. To go active you need to change the file protocol on the login screen to FTP, tick ‘Advanced options’, and change it under the ‘Connection’ node.

UPDATE 10.03.2011: SOLD OUT

We’re selling 30 surplus graphics cards.

Sapphire HD 4850 1GB GDDR3

• HDMI, VGA and DVI outputs
• Crossfire-capable
• Requires the additional 6-pin PCI-E power connector
• Actively cooled, two slot form factor
• The cards are about 18 months old and have been in light use

We’re selling the bare cards in anti-static bags, no accessories. Guaranteed to work only, no extended warranty.

Price is 40€ per card. We only accept cash and only take exact change.

For inquiries or purchases, see the laboratory engineers in room D325.

Due to a script malfunction, the mysql instruction files on student got overwritten with new versions. As such, they contain an invalid password. If you need to use your mysql database and don’t know the password, get in touch with us and we can reset the password for you.

We will be fixing this programmatically for currently empty databases.

EDIT: 03/12/10: Credentials have been regenerated for empty databases and correct mysql_instructions files have been generated. If you don’t have a mysql_instructions file and can’t access your database, you will still need to get in touch with us.

The problem that was with connecting from JAMK’s WLAN to LabraNet’s VPN service have been fixed. According to our comprehensive tests the problem is history.

However if you still have problems connecting to LabraNet’s VPN from JAMK’s WLAN, please contact us so we can further investigate.

Due to some issues with our virtualized firefox, we will be moving back to a local install on all workstations. Starting this wednesday (10.11),  LabraNet computers will have both the virtualized and non-virtualized versions present. The virtualized firefox will be expired at the end of next week (19.11), leaving you a bit over a week to migrate your bookmarks and such over to the local version.

The locally installed version will be accessible from the desktop and from all programs\mozilla firefox (local)

The virtualized version will be accessible from all programs\mozilla firefox

During the maintenance performed during week 42, a part of the profile data of certain users became displaced.  No data has been lost, and if you want your profile reverted please log out of any computers you might be logged into and come see us at room D325.

Please note that it is advisable to store data on the Z: drive rather than in the profile itself, as large profiles result in slower login times.

LabraNet administration will perform maintenance tasks during week 42. Some of the LabraNet’s services might be out of reach for short periods of time.

Due to a printer driver update first login to LabraNet workstations may take longer than usually. New drivers are installed during first login and after installation login times should return back to normal level.

LabraNet’s server room air condition will be renewed on 24th of August. LabraNet’s services will be down for few hours depending on the renewal.

During the outage:
- Users can not logon to the workstations
- All servers will be down

UPDATE (09:50 24.8.2010): For now it looks like there will be no downtime.