FSX staff meeting July 21, 2009 Attending: Ranjani, John, Alex, Tommy, Joyce, Joanne, Jon, Oliver * Heather Anne Drupal training - Not yet ready - Who wants editor privileges? Oliver Thomas Ranjani Saigal Jon Reed Alex Prengel * Wikis 3.0 update - Kickoff meeting update - New version test mode at - Jeff Pankin Quickstarts - Should we do an FSX only quickstart? - Jon will ask Jeff Pankin to see if he's willing to do an early preview - Plan is to go with a service desk triage model for wikis.mit.edu support, with the SD escalating ed tech related things as appropriate * Connie Beal in Langer lab meeting - Comments in wiki page - 3 questions - Document mgmt - Collaborative proposal writing - Knowledge management - Ranjani will also check with Jim - Will need to be careful to suggest only solutions that are actually sustainable and managemeble for them (since there is no real local IT support); central support or off the shelf preferred * Macintosh software (alexp) - Quick win major discovery - Running Mac OS software out of OpenAFS - Install OpenAFS - Copy install directory of app to AFS locker - Some apps just work - Some apps require you to locate license file, etc. - MATLAB more challenging, paths to installation in tree written - Installing into OpenAFS seems to work - Getting OpenAFS paths to appear in installer is tricky - Concerns - Apps are currently out there for people to find - Will not work for Apple installers under /Library - Relies on OpenAFS on Mac which is not supported - "Supported" in the context of DUSP labs / Duncan's MacAthena - "Supported" in the context of New Media Center machines - No general support - Alex will put ACL in place on lockers he has been experimenting with so folks don't stumble across them and start using them; will initially limit use to fsx, jrcain - Limiting access to specific machines (for example, new media center) is possible but requires a manual step with ops for each machine (creating PTS entry for an IP ACL); not scalable but may support a specific experiment such as a small number of deployed Macs - May want to officially charter formal project for supported, deployable Mac config (MacAthena) * Roundtable - John - Windows RIS installations should become possible by the end of this month when Richard will install 755 drivers - Alex P - Unauthorized MATLAB license server users - Physics Junior Lab; not sure where they got it from - May have requested Athena license server usage but were told no? - About 10-30 licenses used in such a way - Our message in the past may have been "even though its for a class, it's strictly departmental use and they should buy their own" - MATLAB windows and mac versions - Info went to Alex rather than Jon Reed - Atticus put installer for full version together - If we need to we can go live with the full version and say there is no light version - Only reason for light was to reduce download size and save disk space - Difficult to go between light and full without a full reinstall - Tommy - Get SunBlades from DLCs; pretty good progress - New uses for 14-0637 - MacAthena? * Joanne - New campus map now shows Athena clusters and N42 - Old campus map at whereis.mit.edu and shows Beta link to new map - Back to school and orientation exercises - Pages which provide signup place and information on orientation - ALL: please review these: http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/vz9B http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/qkBB * Jon R - Stata machines aren't accessible due to lock covering power button - Libraries only have email address - Should public computing machines have their power button accessible - Windows does not allow Ctrl-Alt-Del - Sign that machines are not maintained by IS&T - Access to reset button * 14-0637 - No immediate risk of losing space - 14 will become library space long term (5-10 years) - Want to collaborate with Libraries on attractive teaching technology space, classroom (for GIS use among others)
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