Welcome to the ESSC Computing wiki web

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Quick Links (See bottom for other wiki sections)

• Status page, for updates on faults and developments involving IT related equipment and services
• News
• Green Impact web, including power saving guidelines
• Meteorology Department IT Web Site
• Setting up for seminars

Introduction

This wiki is intended to be a repository of information about the computing facilities at ESSC. Please contribute to the Information Sharing section by adding new information and correcting or updating existing information. The information in the information sharing section can only be read and edited by registered ESSC staff and students, who must first login to the wiki system before being able to access the information. Despite this password protection, it is important not to put up any information relating to user accounts or passwords.

ESSC staff and students are invited to join the ESSCcomputing Google Groups mailing list. To join the group you must first set up a Google Account using an existing e-mail address you use regulary, your Reading University address for example. This does NOT require you to enter any personal details or to sign up for a Google e-mail account. If you already have a Google account (if you have registered to use Google Calendars for example) you can use that. To create a new Google Account, go to http://groups.google.co.uk and click on the "Sign In" link in the top right. There you can go to "Create an account now". When you have created your account you can request to join the ESSCcomputing group by going to http://groups.google.com/group/essccomputing/about?hl=en.

Once added to the list, members' e-mails sent to essccomputing@googlegroupsNOSPAMPLEASE.com are distributed to all the other members. The aim of the list is to share advice and experience about ESSC computing issues, and to quickly match up people who have problems with people who have the solutions. The advantage of using Google Groups rather than a conventional mailing list is that the group message archive can be searched using Google's powerful search facilities. The aim is for the group archive to become a repository of useful information that complements the information in this wiki. Messages must not contain any information relating to user accounts or passwords.

These are the other main sections of the ESSC Computing wiki web (not already listed under Quick Links).

• Wiki Help - Getting Started
• Off-site access to ESSC
• NX remote Linux desktops
• Thin client user guide
• e-Mail Help, including information about migration to the University's Exchange system
• ESSC Cluster
• WiressNetwork
• Using the scanner in the Computer Lab
• Upgrading Sophos Anti-Virus to Endpoint Security and Control
• EsscPrinters
• RocksCluster
• System documentation and inventories (registered wiki users only)
• Information Sharing (registered wiki users only)

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