Microsoft Security Bulletin for November 2008

Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for November, 2008.
There are 1 critical and 1 important updates.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates.

Printer server broke down completely over the weekend

Currently our printer server "leuggel" is not available. It broke down completely over the weekend. We are currently setting up a temporary replacement. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 13:37: The replacement printer server is up and printing is working again on all operating systems.

Use your D-PHYS account for OpenID authentification

OpenID is a distributed authentication infrastructure which allows you to use your preferred authentication provider with a vast number of OpenID enabled services (e.g. many WordPress powered blogs like our completely renewed isg.phys.ethz.ch, Plaxo social networking, Identi.ca microblogging, SourceForge open source project hosting, etc.) without the need to give them your password or remember the password you set there.

Now you can also use your D-PHYS account on all these sites with our new OpenID Authentication provider, you can login on these sites using the URL https://openid.phys.ethz.ch/<YOUR D-PHYS USERNAME> as your OpenID.

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Look Ma! No Squishdot!

We upgraded our outdated Squishdot NIC website to WordPress. Hope y'all like it.

Older news are here

We provide an archive of our old Squishdot news directory.

Xen Hosting

Even though the list of our services has reached quite some extend, there are some special needs we cannot cover with our standard services. In well-founded cases we now offer virtualized Xen machines with full root access.

Please contact us if you think this could be for you.

Windows login on LTSP Thin Clients

Incited by the success of our Linux-based noiseless thin clients we were highly motivated to further increase the benefit of these clients to our users.

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Windows logins on these machines.

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