March 2013 - Core-students - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Where's Dan?
by Dan Olson 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

I need to drop off a specimen at the vet, I should be in around 9. ---- Daniel Murphy-Olson Systems Administrator Mathematics & Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 630-252-0055

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Where's Chris?
by Chris Walker 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Went to bed with a migraine, woke up with an even worse one. I'm gonna remediate and try again. I'll be online, I need to support Scott in the roll out of the Magellan interface, but hopefully not until this afternoon. Please put me down for a sick day today, thanks

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DC status and a proposal
by Hunter Matthews 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

The cubbies /carrels whatever are mostly straightened up. Several more loads of all kinds of stuff (junk, spares, stuff, parts) went into the storage closet. If you are missing something its almost certainly in there (somewhere) or tossed at this point. Its pretty tight in there and most things aren't labeled. In addition there was a problem with some spares/stuff of LCRC's that was in the datacenter being misidentified as junk/trash. I propose standardizing on bright pink stickers (like the green excess stickers, but a different similarly obnoxious color) with some kind of rough description of what it is ("spares", "parts", "new tv"), who is responsible for it and the date it was labeled. Anything not labeled is therefore suspect of being junk. The name tells us who to ask and the date tells us if we should reassess the need to keep it around or send it to deep storage. I labeled the shelves and black storage cabinet in the supply closet and the TV that I moved in there for Craig. I didn't label every single thing on the shelves - if some person or some project "owns" all of a set of shelves or something we can just label that and know who to ask. So Corby/Linda's networking stuff will need about 3 stickers, not 40. Rene, I propose the same for boxes or whatnot IN the datacenter. I realize you're hoping to eliminate most boxes from the DC itself but we'll still end up with stuff in there from time to time. Empty shipping boxes we really need to hold on to would therefore get a bright pink sticker of who/what/when. -- Hunter Matthews Unix Administrator Office: Bldg 240 Room 2139 Argonne National Labs, MCS Key: F0F88438 / FFB5 34C0 B350 99A4 BB02 9779 A5DB 8B09 F0F8 8438 Never take candy from strangers. Especially on the internet.

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Where's Craig: Change of plans
by Craig Stacey 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

I will be at the lab on Friday, March 15. I will be taking a vacation day on Friday, April 5. -- Craig

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Where's Chris?
by Chris Walker 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

April 2nd through April 8th Josh will be participating in the USA Hockey National Championship tournament in Hartford, CT. That amounts to 40 hours of vacation time by my calculations.. Since the day before is opening day, put me down for a 1/2 day on the first, (5 hours worth) for the 1st of April.. So a grand total of 40.5 hours.. Thanks! Chris

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Update on Core cleanup
by Craig Stacey 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

There's a big NEC monitor on a pallet with my name on it. Can we get that moved into storage (either in the hackspace or cafe, doesn't matter). On that same pallet are some Mellanox cable management boxes. No idea what they are -- can someone claim them? Is anyone looking after LCRC cleanup? -- Craig

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Where's Ti?
by Ti Leggett 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Almost forgot I have confined spaces training this morning, so I'll be there until about 11:00.

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YubiKey overview
by Ti Leggett 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Corby asked me to write a short overview about YubiKey to present to CIS for a possible successor to CryptoCard. Can everyone do a quick once over this doc and provide any feedback by end of the day?

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Where's Craig this week
by Craig Stacey 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Some doctory stuff going on this week (and next) for me. I've updated the systems calendar. I'll be out from about 3PM onward tomorrow afternoon. I'll be out from around 1ish or so on Wednesday afternoon, though I will head home after that appointment and work the rest of the day from there. I'm supposed to fly to Florida to visit my parents this weekend, and have been scheduled to take Friday off. Depending on how my appointment goes on Wednesday, I may have to cancel that, but for the moment assume I'm on vacation on Friday. I have a dentist appointment on Monday afternoon, so I'll be out in the PM, but will be online working from home after it's done. That should be it. I hope. -- Craig

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Core Cleanup
by Craig Stacey 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Mike's doing his best to get Obama to come to 240 on Friday to look at Mira. LCF is going to clean up their mess, we need to clean up ours. Please take a look at the racks and storage area and make sure it's suitable for a presidential visit. Thanks! -- Craig

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