Comments on: EC3 at the University of York http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2010/02/ec3-at-the-university-of-york/ Hi. I'm a student at the University of York, in the Computer Science and Maths departments. I recently finished working at GlaxoSmithKline in London. And this is my blog. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:58:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex Muller http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2010/02/ec3-at-the-university-of-york/#comment-25178 Alex Muller Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:21:41 +0000 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/?p=608#comment-25178 <p>Thanks very much Tim, great to hear!</p> Thanks very much Tim, great to hear!

]]> By: Tim Ngwena http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2010/02/ec3-at-the-university-of-york/#comment-25171 Tim Ngwena Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:59:01 +0000 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/?p=608#comment-25171 <p>Late to the game but UNI has now done a 180 on this with Google now having serveres available in Ireland to run the service. Long story short, servers based in the US put some of the data protection policies under question given american law on data protection, however now that they are in ireland and in the EU ... its made it possible.</p> <p>Either way its good thin for everyone with not just email but timetabling, global adress boks and many of the other google apps features which have moved on in the last year.</p> Late to the game but UNI has now done a 180 on this with Google now having serveres available in Ireland to run the service. Long story short, servers based in the US put some of the data protection policies under question given american law on data protection, however now that they are in ireland and in the EU … its made it possible.

Either way its good thin for everyone with not just email but timetabling, global adress boks and many of the other google apps features which have moved on in the last year.

]]> By: Alex Muller http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2010/02/ec3-at-the-university-of-york/#comment-9627 Alex Muller Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:48:25 +0000 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/?p=608#comment-9627 <p>Farhan: changing my email provider to Google with this domain was as simple as changing a few DNS records. I’m not sure how it’d be for the uni though…</p> <p>Chris & Tim: True; I hope they’ll be investigating (somewhat short-term!) decent webmail software now. While you could use decent webmail software, moving to Google Apps or Microsoft Live@Edu would remove the need for that, while providing other benefits (and problems, of course).</p> Farhan: changing my email provider to Google with this domain was as simple as changing a few DNS records. I’m not sure how it’d be for the uni though…

Chris & Tim: True; I hope they’ll be investigating (somewhat short-term!) decent webmail software now. While you could use decent webmail software, moving to Google Apps or Microsoft Live@Edu would remove the need for that, while providing other benefits (and problems, of course).

]]> By: Tim http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2010/02/ec3-at-the-university-of-york/#comment-9625 Tim Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:04:21 +0000 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/?p=608#comment-9625 <p>yeah, apparently the next project is to "evaluate a range of new or upgraded systems to be hosted internally", according to that <a href="http://www.york.ac.uk/services/cserv/offdocs/projects.yrk/ec3/" rel="nofollow">EC3 page</a>. You just know they'll get it finished for next september when it won't affect me.</p> yeah, apparently the next project is to “evaluate a range of new or upgraded systems to be hosted internally”, according to that EC3 page. You just know they’ll get it finished for next september when it won’t affect me.

]]> By: Chris N http://alex.mullr.net/blog/2010/02/ec3-at-the-university-of-york/#comment-9621 Chris N Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:41:55 +0000 http://alex.mullr.net/blog/?p=608#comment-9621 <p>I think you're making two issues which are very different the same. There is decent webmail software, the University just doesn't use it (but are presumably now looking into upgrading), and you can get that without necessarily having off-site e-mail.</p> I think you’re making two issues which are very different the same. There is decent webmail software, the University just doesn’t use it (but are presumably now looking into upgrading), and you can get that without necessarily having off-site e-mail.

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