FNWI asks lecturers and students to fill in a survey about the computer labs. The reason is that the Faculty of Science plans to remodel its teaching rooms in a multifunctional way, with computer labs that use ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD). This means that the existing computer labs (terminal rooms, TK’s) in the Huygens building will be phased out in the coming years. In order to plan the further implementation, we would like to request your input on the current use of the computer labs by means of a survey in order to determine the pace and which alternatives may be needed to replace the various current uses of the current computer labs....

A new version of Mathematica (13.0.0) has been installed on all C&CZ managed Linux systems, older versions can still be found in /vol/mathematica. The installation files for Windows, Linux and macOS can be found on the Install-disk, also for older versions of Mathematica. Installation and license info can be requested from C&CZ.

In the process of handling the Log4Shell vulnerability, it was decided to use the Intrusion Protection of the FortiNet firewall for all RU network traffic. Don’t hesitate to contatc us if you experience drawbacks.

In the C&CZ operated GitLab service, GitLab Docker Container Registry service has been enabled. For more information, please have a look at the GitLab documentation.

For the majority of the services C&CZ uses free software and open source software. Therefore, some time ago the idea emerged that the C&CZ employees would vote each year which projects would receive a donation from C&CZ. This year the Mozilla Foundation was chosen. Many people will know the Mozilla Firefox webbrowser and the mailclient Mozilla Thunderbird and maybe use it hours a day. But the Mozilla Foundation does a lot more to try to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to us all....

C&CZ has a workaround that one can try if on a self-managed/BYOD Windows pc one has problems printing due to the RU Peage PrintNightmare issue. This workaround can be found at the C&CZ Peage page.