Almost There…
Following a break from routine yesterday (I went to Sheffield to attend TEDx, where I learnt that I should listen to the Beatles, build cool things with Arduino, use my right brain more, disrupt...
View ArticleThe Students are Back!
Hooray, it’s Freshers’ Week! Today involves having to negotiate the swarms of scared looking freshers as they look in a confused manner at maps of campus. It’s also the day when ICT is watching the...
View ArticleMagic Print Gateway
We’ve finally come up with a working print solution for use on-campus, with support for off-campus users not far behind! Yes, coming soon (as soon as we’ve gone through a meeting, approved it and built...
View ArticleIt’s coming…
Yes, it’s true. Printing from your own PCs - the #2 item on student surveys about IT for quite a while now - is just around the corner and should be open for use by Week 6 (just in time for all those...
View ArticleIPP over HTTPS, the acronyms continue!
Following our massive success of printing using SMB, and being told it was a security hole we then evaluated IPP. IPP works fine, as long as we clobber it so that it works over HTTP. Trouble is, of...
View ArticleSMB vs HTTP vs HTTPS
So… more on printing. Alongside documenting the service (and cobbling a nice new stylesheet together to replace the old, somewhat kludgy one) I’ve been doing some work with a stopwatch on the relative...
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