News

New Greeter

Our clients will successively switch from KDM to LightDM. This change comes with a new, custom greeter featuring a different design. If you encounter any problems please write an email to problems@cip.cs.fau.de.

-- Timur Perst

CIP Powerdown

Due to a planned power outage on Feb 15 all CIP clients won't be useable on this day from 6am to noon. This includes remote access via ssh or remote-cip. Our gitlab instance and the terminal server cipterm0 remain reachable.

-- Timur Perst

ICPC Wintercontest

On 28.01.2023 fau organizes the ICPC Wintercontest in the CIP2. Therefore, the corresponding PCs won't be accessible on that date. Furthermore we will test our setup on the 26.01. evening in the BibCIP. These PCs also won't be accessible between 17:00 and 21:00.

-- Benjamin Haag

Power outage CS

Due to a planned power outage all CIP-Pools and all CIP-Services will not be (fully) available on 2022-10-19 and 2022-10-26. (this also includes gitlab.cs.fau.de, remote.cip.cs.fau.de, account.cip.cs.fau.de as well as the CIP-VPNs)

-- Michael Panzlaff

Maintenance work

Due to maintenance work all CIP-Pools and all CIP-Services will not be (fully) available on 2022-09-05 and 2022-09-06. (this also includes gitlab.cs.fau.de, remote.cip.cs.fau.de, account.cip.cs.fau.de as well as the CIP-VPNs)

-- Thomas Preisner

ircbox, cipterm0 Maintenance

On 3rd August ircbox and cipterm0 will be rebooted. Both will be unavailable between 10pm-12pm for a short period of time.

-- Michael Gebhard

New Print Accounting

Since April printouts at the CIP printers can be paid for via the RRZE print accounting. The RRZE print balance is used automatically as soon as the CIP print balance is depleted. Details can be found at https://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cipPools/equipment.en.html and the posters near the printers. Recharging your print balance is now only possible at RRZE help desks. The remaining CIP print balance can be used up until April 2023.

-- Michael Gebhard

ICPC in CIP2 and CIP8 (Bib-CIP) at 25.06.

At 25.06. the ICPC takes place in CIP2 and CIP8 (Bib-CIP). During this time the computers in those CIPs are unawailable.

-- Benjamin Haag

Cipterm0 and ircbox reboot at 10.06.

At 10.06. both ircbox and cipterm0 will be rebooted. During this the IRC might be not accessible and many users will get logged out.

-- Benjamin Haag

CIP1, CIP6 Power Shutdown 2022-04-21

Tomorrow, Thursday 21st April there will be a power shutdown on the first floor of the main CS building between 6:30am and 8am. All clients which are located in CIP1, CIP1-N and CIP6 (WinCIP) are not available during the shutdown.

-- Timur Perst