Firstly a welcome to Karl Schaffarczyk who has joined the Computer Unit until the end of the year. He will be here on several afternoons each week to help everyone with their computing needs.

The other Computer Unit staff news which is not unconnected with the first, is that Piotr Wielopolski has been seconded to the Department of Engineering until the end of the year.

The disks on the Schools Sun workstations are being changed to being uniformly named. The names are of the form

For instance the new home directory for pam will be

If you use only the machine rsc, then in general the change should work without you having to do anything.

If you need to leave a telephone message, then you can use the Computer Unit's voice mail on 4089. The other telephone numbers in the Computer Unit are 5653 and 3496.

If at any time you have a computer problem, then you can also email help. If you email help, then the message is seen by everyone in the Computer Unit.