Author Archives: James Rudd

About James Rudd

Network Administrator at Sydney Boys High School

Moodle Assignment Editor showing HTML instead of GUI editor

Recently one of teachers noticed that some Assignments that had been copied between courses would show the assignment introduction as a plaint ext box with html markup visible. I tracked this down to Moodle recording the wrong format for the intro. To fix all … Continue reading

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IPMI Configuration on Rocks Cluster

The following is a step by step guide on setting up IPMI management on a Rocks Cluster. It is based on several great posts on Rocks Mailing list and Rocks userguide presentation Update: On Rocks Mailing list Philip Papadopoulos mentioned … Continue reading

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Compilation notes for Rocks cluster

This post is more to assist me when upgrading software on our Rocks cluster, but may be useful to others who are compiling similar software. Our cluster only has AMD nodes so we use PGI compilers. Also the backbone is … Continue reading

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Acrobat X – Bulk Printing and Custom Header

Every year we need to print off hundreds of enrolment forms to verify details of new students and current students. Each of these forms is pre-filled with students details and there is a separate PDF for each student. Previously I … Continue reading

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Bulk Converting Global Groups to Universal and Mail Enabling

We have started trying to better organise our groups into a more role based system, so that membership of one group is based on a role rather than a person. That way if the person holding a position changes (holiday, … Continue reading

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Encrypt Offline Files – Access Denied

On a Windows 7 laptop I was trying to set up Offline Files with encryption enabled. After syncing the files and going into Manage Offline Files -> Encryption -> Encrypt everything seemed to go OK, but it would then keep … Continue reading

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Fuji-Xerox Network Scanning: Error 027-516

As part of a test for removing legacy protocols from the network I disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP to see if any system would be adversely affected. After disabling NetBIOS for the server used by our Fuji-Xeros ApeosPort-II 4000 Photocopier, the … Continue reading

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