The good news this month is that by the
time you read this, our new equipment for the training room should have
been delivered and is being made operational. We have twelve new
computers each having 1 gigabyte of memory, 160 gigabytes of disk
space, and powered by AMD 64 3000 chips. They will be configured
as multiboot systems running Windows XP Professional and at least one
version of Linux. This should enable our Training Manager, David
Gill, to schedule some interesting training courses.
The bad news is that the PCUG web site was hacked and the home page
replaced by outside intruders. The majority of the site was back
within an hour or so, but we had to disable all PHP scripts on the
server until we could upgrade our security on these. This has
been done, but as a result some existing scripts may not run on the new
configuration. If you encounter this with any PCUG scripts,
please let the admins know (admin at tip.net.au). If it occurs with any
of your scripts, please either upgrade to a current version, or rewrite
using current, secure, PHP coding standards. Thanks to Lawrie Brown and
other admins who assisted in getting the system working again.
Finally, the TIP connection to the Internet was upgraded at the end of
April. Hopefully, all TIP users are experiencing slightly better
Internet performance as a result.
Allan Mikkelsen