Month: August 2010

Area 51 notes – July 29, 2010

Present: Mike Lynch, Carol Peddie, Shel Sax, Mike Roy, Mary Backus, Terry Simpkins (notes)
Guest: Rick James
Rick James joined us to discuss how we will support the Distributed File System (DFS) for Mac users.  There is no native DFS support in MacOS 10.6, so we need to look at 3rd-party solutions.  One such solution that seems […]…Continue Reading Area 51 notes – July 29, 2010

Area 51 notes – July 15, 2010

Present: Mary Backus, Mike Lynch, Carol Peddie, Mike Roy
We agreed that everyone would check in with the folks working on Google Apps/Outlook evaluations to make sure they were on-target to complete their evaluations by late August.
Mike L, Mike R and Shel to discuss campus cluster computing needs and what we can do to meet these […]…Continue Reading Area 51 notes – July 15, 2010

New Access to Software

Over the next few weeks I will be working on consolidating all of the software installers that are currently on the college servers into a new server folder structure.  All software installers that we have in electronic version will be on middfiles\Software2 and then once the permissions are in place will rename the folder to […]…Continue Reading New Access to Software

Petey, We Hardly Knew Ye! Putting Orszag’s Tenure in Historical Context

And now, some fun with numbers! In response to my last post regarding Peter Orszag’s resignation as Obama’s OMB director – a resignation I speculated was driven by policy differences with other members of Obama’s administration – both Bob……Continue Reading Petey, We Hardly Knew Ye! Putting Orszag’s Tenure in Historical Context

Wiley launches new platform this weekend

We access over 1000 online journals provided by Wiley (Wiley InterScience and Wiley-Blackwell).  This coming weekend, Wiley will be launching its new platform for online access, the Wiley Online Library.
We have been notified that Wiley titles will not be accessible between 4 a.m. Saturday and noon on Sunday.  If previous experience is any indication, there […]…Continue Reading Wiley launches new platform this weekend