Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Professional RTM is to be released through the MSDNAA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance) on August 14th. This means that Windows 7 is available to Academics a full 2 months before it is available at retail. Hopefully this will make the retail release much smoother, and allow a lot [...]

After the scheduled power-down on August 2nd, services have finally been restored. There was a small issue with the boarder firewall not booting one of the ethernet cards when the power was restored, and thus the site was offline until 1030 today. The server power-down worked flawlessly, and the server backups were not needed. I [...]