News & Notices

System Downtime Notice

Monthly backups will be carried out on a number of the School's systems in Hobart and Launceston on Sunday, July 5, at the following times:

- Hobart: 7:00am until 11:00am (alacritas)
- Launceston: 7:00am until 11:00am (lawson)

These activities will affect the listed Unix servers, and samba shares on lawson and alacritas (this includes the "M:" drive on Windows lab machines).

New Linux ISOs Available

The latest releases of Fedora (11) and CentOS (5.3) Linux are now available for burning in the School's labs.

On Macintosh systems, choose the "CD+DVD ISO Images" link in the Shortcuts folder of the Dock. Instructions for burning the images are in a text document inside this folder.

On PCs, select "Start->Computing Resources->CD Images on huntley" (Hobart), or "Start->Computing Resources->CD Images on liffey" (Launceston) to mount the share. Instructions for burning the images are posted on the lab walls, and in a PDF document inside the share.

Advanced Algorithmic Problem Solving & Programming Winter School

Do you have

• an HD in any of: KXT102 ( KXA154), KXT201 ( KXA251), KXT303 ( KXA353), KXT304 ( KXA354)?
AND
• are you free morning, afternoon and evening of 6th July to 10th July, and morning and afternoon of: 12th July, 19th July and 2nd August?

If so, you might be interested in the KXT312 winter school, which has intensive classes 6th to 10th July (only in Hobart, with School provided accommodation for Launceston students), and practical programming exams and presentations on the later dates above. Take a look at the Handbook entry for the unit for initial information, and if interested, e-mail R.Gibson@utas.edu.au by 26th June for further information.

CIS PC Labs Firefox browser change

In order to regularly update the Firefox web browser in CIS PC Labs, the administrative deployment method used to copy firefox to lab machines has changed. This means the local install of Firefox is now "branded" with a vendor name - in case of confusion, the browser shortcut is now called "FrontMotion Firefox" - this is still a normal standard firefox installation.

New Units for Honours or Masters students

If you are an honours or masters student there are now some new units on offer in 2009:
KXX775 Web and Database Application Development using Protium
KXT476 Java Programming for Advanced Topics
KXT776 Java Programming for Advanced Topics

KXX775 is offered as a short course program during the mid-semester break in July (1st to 10th) and is offered on Hobart and Launceston campuses. This unit is available for both Computing (MIT, MComp) and Information Systems (MIS, MeBus) masters students. For Computing honours students if you want to do this unit enrol in KXA437 (not KXX775). It is not available to IS honours students.

KXT476 and KXT776 are on offer in Hobart during semester 2 for Computing honours and masters students. If MIS or MeBus students want to do these units they should discuss their enrolment with Leonie Ellis.

For enquiries contact Nicole Herbert

Job Watch

Visit our job watch page for details of potential jobs that would be suitable for Computing students and/or Computing graduates.