Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group (WNAG) minutes November 16, 2005

Present

Department Advisor name
Applied Health Science (AHS)
Lowell Williamson
Arts
Nevil Bromley
Computer Science
Steve Nickerson (chair)
Information System Technology (IST) Tim Farrell (secretary)
  Steve Carr
Science
Steph Sempson
Engineering Computing
Daniel Delattre
  Erick Engelke
  Ray White
  Hon Tam
Environmental Studies (ES) Bernie Rutter
Math Naji Alamrony

Regrets

Department Advisor name
ESAG Peter Routledge
Math Jim Johnston

Agenda

IST reorganization

  • Tim mentioned that IST is undertaking an internal reorganization. Details will be revealed over the next couple of weeks

Root lockdown

  • Naji reported seeing disabled files showing in group policies and had a question about locking down the top level of the Nexus workstation's C: disk. A discussion followed with suggestions and advice from group members.

Mathcad versions

  • Nevil noted that there are different versions of Mathcad in Arts and Management Sciences.
  • Daniel said that he could get the older installations synched.

Software upgrades

  • Daniel said the he has Dreamweaver 8, Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.05 and Simulate 2005 packaged up.
  • Daniel is currently working on Oracle Desktop Calendar.

Documentation group report

  • Lowell will send out Twiki URL to WNAG
  • There was a reminder that everyone needs to participate in the documentation process.
  • Tim will migrate items out of the Nexuslog mailman archives to the Twiki.

Firewall update

  • Being tested in Arts and Science
  • Currently in use in the Science public computer labs.

Recursive "My Documents" problem

  • Steph reported last meeting that Science students taking an ES course are getting corrupted profiles. This is a result of the "My Documents" folder getting replicated many times. This problem has been diagnosed by Engineering Computing. The fix will be implemented at the end of term.

Missing Q Drive in CS

  • Erick requested RDP access to a problematic CS workstation to investigate.