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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