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April 12, 2006
Bookstore RUSH Week Goes Well, System Upgrade Scheduled
The week of April 3rd was Spring term rush week, and it went by quite well. This is the term where we place a register in the WUC lobby near the elevator to deal with commencement/graduation purchases. It requires the stringing of a pretty long cat5 cable back into the bookstore. In the past we have used WUC's lift to assist in placing the cable above the ceiling, but this year we improvised with a long pole (light bulb changer) and some luck. It went pretty smoothly. IBM has recently come out with a wireless cash register and I have placed one on my wish list - it would be perfect for this kind of application.
By the way, the long awaited 2005.2 upgrade is scheduled for Monday night, April 17th. This is a major upgrade touching pretty much every piece of the MBS software application. It also abandons the Sealms/seagull GUI interface in favor of a Java web-based GUI interface. A late night is in my future! The java interpreter and new web server have already been installed and have been in use for about a month. After a few "gotchas" things seem to have smoothed out.
Posted by rossm at April 12, 2006 9:48 AM
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