FAQ

Frequently asked questions

I cannot see my quota

There is no quota system any more. You have your own volume on the nfs server. You can check this with 'df'. The free space in your home, is your personal free space.

Where is pine on the new Ubuntu installations ?

The short version: Pine development has stopped, the successor is now called alpine. They have to change the name because pine is a registered trademark and the associated license does not permit distribution of binary packages. If you want more information, have a look on their homepage [1]

Wrong colors on the white Fujitsu Siemens Machines

On this machines it happens that the colors get wrong, e.g. black instead of white. This issue can be fixed with restarting the X-Server. Log out, to get your session closed properly, and press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (<-). After that your colors should be ok.

On this machines we switched from the closed source Nvidia driver, which has severe performance problems, to the open source driver. The newer machines are fast enough, so that this problem does not lead to a noticeable difference.

Firefox and Thunderbird complain about running elsewhere

This is not a bug, this is a feature. This prevents running Firefox and Thunderbird with the the same profile on different host. If your computer crashes or the power fails these programs are not closed cleanly, the lock files remain and prevents firefox/thunderbird from starting.