May 21, 2007
x4600 rebuild
Well, we got the cool new x4600 in place. I used the existing image from the 4100's so that we could see it in action. It's been up long enough now that we've tested it's physical properties. Now I wiped it and set up the 2 ~140 GB drives in a mirror. This will be the system drive. The 2 ~72 GB drives will be striped to allow for improved performance.
I'll need to start from scratch, so will welcome any suggestions to improve the user experience.
Changes I intend to implement:
Re-add the run command to all profiles
Background pic that tells you what TS you are on
Foxit reader (pending upon feedback from the library)
Office Converters for 2K7
BlueJ
JEdit
Eclipse
Python
I'd like to get a launch bar solution in place as well. The list works well for most folks, but the visually led could use some help.
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May 19, 2007
Back on the Blog for the moment
Well it has been some time since my last entry. Things have been busy busy, so I'll summarize those changes that I can think of @ 2:57 am on Sat.
* Hired Brad Dougherty as a Full Time Desktop Support
* Hired 3 new fabulous student workers: Brian W, Skyler and Audrey. They have each been eager and capable. I feel really lucky to have them all.
These two items have made a significant impact on our response time for tasks. Before these changes, we were ending the day with 40-50 active tasks under general UCS Tech support. We are now typically ending the day with 10 or fewer.
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This has given me the time to work on improvement and refinement of existing resources (more to come on this).
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I've taken on software/hardware management of the labs. I'm evaluating several options to replace the atiquated imaging method that has been used in recent years. At this time, I intend to ride out teh remainder of the academic year and then image the labs.
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