Why I love my Slice
A few days ago it was announced that my preferred hosting provider Slicehost had been purchased by the big hosting company Rackspace. In addition to buying Slicehost, they have also included Jungle Disk in their spending spree. Hopefully this will all be good news for the respective companies, but it has reminded me of a [...]
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Lessons from teaching DSpace
Yesterday I spent the day with a colleague delivering a training day aimed at new or potential DSpace administrators as part of my role working with the Repositories Support Project (known as the RSP).
We had a fun, interesting and busy day talking about DSpace, but a few hiccups along the way.
With each event we run, [...]
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Remotely killing RDC users
Part of my job involves me having to log in to Windows servers for one reason or another. Unless the machine has died, it is usually easiest and quickest to do this from my desk. However… often other people forget to log off from the same server, and take up all the connections, meaning that [...]
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