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News in brief
University Cabling
Standards
A new revision of the University IT
Cabling Standards has been issued, with
many changes since the last version was
issued in 2007.
http://iss.leeds.ac.uk/itcablingstandard
High Performance
Computing facility
The new HPC facility is now complete
and in full service. The system consists of
1,952 processor cores and 3.3 TeraBytes
of memory. Following a successful
funding bid by the School of
Mathematics, the system will be further
extended later in the year.
Windows 7
Jane Lord and Phil Worsley have set up
a Windows 7 Steering Group. This will
oversee a programme of projects which
will eventually include the roll out of
Windows 7 to PCs on Campus. An initial
project is looking at the creation of a
maintained Windows 7 64bit image for
use on staff PCs and will test Windows 7
compatibility with corporate systems.
And finally...
Virtual friends
How many friends do you have
on Facebook? Do you accept
every request, from friends of
friends, people you haven’t seen
since primary school or even total
strangers, or quietly ignore most
of them?
New Scientist takes a look at the
research around how we interact
with these friends and
acquaintances.
http://tinyurl.com/2v54576
Office 2007
Tips and Tricks
Tips for Outlook calendar
Adding public holidays
You can quickly add all public holidays to
your Outlook calendar by selecting
Options from the Tools menu, then
choosing Calendar Options. Click on
Add Holidays, choose UK, click on OK,
and all public holidays will be imported
into your calendar. They will appear as all
day events and shown as ‘free’ time.
Jump to a specific date
To jump to particular date, just press
Ctrl+g, select the date and click OK.
Display several days at once
You can display your calendar a day,
week or month at a time by clicking the
buttons along the top of the calendar. But
you can also display any number of days
at once: in the Date Picker panel, just
hold you left mouse button down and
drag your mouse to select the dates you
want to display. In the example below, 10
days have been selected from the Date
Picker on the left, and displayed in the
main pane on the right.
Gesture-based computing
The 2010 Horizon report
(http://tinyurl.com/yasr4mq)
suggested that gesture-based
computing was one of the
technologies to watch for the long
term. Game companies are already
making use of it (think of the Wii).
Find out about some of the latest
developments here:
http://tinyurl.com/2dua49m
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