Kategorie: ‘Employees’
Healthy Well-Being When Working From Home – Part 3
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“Sitting is the new smoking” – everyone has probably heard this saying. Research in recent years has also shown that this is not just an empty phrase: Just 30 minutes of daily exercise has a positive effect on physical and mental health, such as strengthening the cardiovascular system or reducing the tendency to depression, etc. In part 3 of our series, we would like to give you some useful tips for feeling good and staying fit at home.
Changeover Within the GitLab Login Process
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On May 3, 2023, the login process for our GitLab instances (git.rwth-aachen.de and git-ce.rwth-aachen.de) will be updated as part of a necessary maintenance.
However, in order to be able to log in to the GitLab instances of the RWTH after the maintenance, the primary e-mail address stored in GitLab must match the contact e-mail address in the Identity Management of the RWTH. Otherwise, if the e-mail addresses are different, you may get a login error after the system changeover.
Family-Friendliness At The IT Center
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Once again this year, RWTH Aachen University has awarded the “Famos for Family” prize to family-friendly heads of an organizational unit. The prize is endowed with 500 euros and honors heads of facilities and teams at RWTH Aachen University who are committed to a family-friendly work-life balance. We are delighted and congratulate our IT Center Director, Professor Matthias Müller, for receiving this award this year.
New Design: IdM Role Administration
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Finally, the time has come: The IdM Role and Group Management will shine in a new modern look from May 3, 2023, which you already know from the IdM HomePage, the IdM PasswordReset and the IdM Selfservice.
The usability has been considered and optimized as well. The range of functions remains the same for the time being. Read the rest of this entry »
We Are There for You During Our Company Excursion!
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On Friday, April 21, 2023, our annual company excursion will take place. As a result some employees of the IT Center, including the IT-ServiceDesk, won’t be available on this day. Therefore, there may be occasional delays in ticket processing or availability by phone.
However, the opening hours of the IT-ServiceDesk will not be affected: Read the rest of this entry »
Coscine Passes into Regular Operation!
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The time has come! Coscine – the platform for research data management (RDM) is moving into regular operation as of April 2023 and we are popping the corks!
Find out more about how Coscine came to be and what it means for you in this blog post.
Training Finished – What Now? Part 2
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been providing you with information about the training program for management assistants in dialogue marketing. With this article, we have now reached the end of the blog series on the DiMa training program. We have presented the profession in the form of a profile, explained the application process, and one of our current trainees has described the training and the path to it from his perspective. In the previous article, you could read reports on the experiences of internal former trainees.
In order to provide you with the final exciting perspectives, Katharina and Nina will now report on their experiences. Both have successfully completed their training in contact centers and are now working at the IT center. Read the rest of this entry »
HPC Events – This was PPCES 2023
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2023 – the year that promises a turnaround to normality again after Corona pandemic.
At least for us at the IT Center!
Indeed, the first events are already taking place again on site.
World Backup Day – Back Up Your Data Today!
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In an increasingly digitalized world where we create, exchange and store countless pieces of information every day, the topic of data backup is becoming more and more important. We all depend on our data, whether at work, in education or in our private lives. But this valuable information can be lost quickly, for example, due to technical failures, cyberattacks or even human error. The number of incidents in which companies and private individuals suffer data loss is increasing every year. An effective data protection strategy is therefore more important than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »
New software environment and operating system
for CLAIX
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Maybe you have already noticed – the changeover to a new Linux distribution on the CLAIX has been going on for some time. Now it goes into the final phase, so that the old operating system CentOS 7 will be replaced by Rocky Linux 8.7. It is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise and brings a few changes.
