Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes Mar 17, 2004

Present

Department

Advisor name

Arts

Nevil Bromley

Applied Health Science (AHS)

Daniel Delattre

Engineering

Dennis Herman

Environmental Studies

Shawn Morgan (secretary)

Math

Jim Johnston

Science

Stephen Sempson

Information System and Technology (IST)

Ray White

 

Tim Farrell

Engineering Computing

Bruce Campbell (chair)

 

Erick Engelke

 

Hon Tam (absent)

Cerberus

  • Erick developed new Cerberus detection software
  • Has GUI to set up
  • Tracks much more information than previous, including TCP, file changes in directories, memory management and user group membership

Member Server 2003 issues

  • DHCP seems to have issues with 2003
  • Hon did something to make Science's work, but unaware of exactly what
  • Idea to unauthorize DHCP before upgrate to ensure it works when server upgraded to 2003
  • Clean install should be performed, maybe solving issue

ICF in XP SP2

  • Mentioned about SP2 potential issues
  • Firewall setup should be investigated
  • Maybe not best technology because if we can set it up remotely so can hackers

Start menu slowness on XP in Eng

  • The engineering build of XP has issues with the start menu being excessively slow, preventing XP deployment in Engineering
  • ES recommended some settings and reg hacks to possibly solve issue