Author Archives: Pirjo
Version control systems at the University of Oulu
The University of Oulu offers a version management service at version.oulu.fi, which can be used by both students and staff of the University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences. The service is based on the Gitlab Community Edition and runs as a Git version management system. The use of the service is free […]
Personal WWW home pages (UO students and staff & Oamk staff)
Personal home pages could be created in any web server to which one has a user account. In practice the University of Oulu’s students have user accounts on the Tuomi server and the University and Oamk staff have user accounts on the Koivu server. Both of the servers are Apache web servers and the users […]
OpenAI Whisper
OpenAI Whisper is general-purpose speech recognition model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation and language identification. The contents of this instruction: Supported languages Cluster Loading data to Lehmus computing environment Preparing the transcribe job template Preparing the job Lataustulokset Supported languages Supported languages are: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, […]
The University of Oulu’s Carpo2 computing cluster has been replaced with Lehmus
See Lehmus: High Performance Computing at the University of Oulu
Password policy
The contents of this instruction: Password requirements AD Password Locking Policies for Entra ID logins Password Locking Policies for AD/LDAP logins Password requirements AD The password must be at least 12 characters long. It must not contain any part of the username or the user’s name. It must include characters from at least three of […]
Software on student workstations (Oamk)
Oamk student workstations are computers maintained by ICT Services and they are either fixed workstations in classes and lobbies, or laptops that can be borrowed from laptop vendors. This page is about computers and laptops software intended for use by Oamk students. The computer classrooms have been meant primarily for teaching use. You may use these workstations within […]
IBM SPSS Statistics (UO)
ICT services have stopped selling the IBM SPSS program to students and staff of the University of Oulu; the IBM SPSS activation code is no longer available in the shop.oulu.fi online store. In the future, the IBM SPSS license can only be purchased by a university unit. Students can use the SPSS program through the university’s […]
Meeting invitation and reservation of a room on campus
If you want to arrange a meeting between more people and at the same time book a suitable room, make a reservation in your Outlook calendar of O365 service. The facilities reserved for the university are as resources on the O365 service and appear in the room list. This instruction will tell you how to […]
Email forwarding
The primary address of a student is the organization’s email address with the ending @student.oulu.fi/@students.oamk.fi. Forwarding mail to external addresses is not recommended, but it is nevertheless possible for students. Instead, university and Oamk staff cannot redirect their mail from @oulu.fi and @oamk.fi addresses, as the university’s email rules indicate that forwarding or redirecting official […]
Did you click on a phishing simulation link? No problem!
The goal of a simulated phishing message is to demonstrate currently circulating and modern phishing messages to the staff members in a safe environment. The possible clicking of a phishing simulation link is not tracked on a personal level as the goal of the phishing training simulation is educative. The ICT Services occasionally carries out […]