Present
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
|
AHS
|
Lowell Williamson |
| Environmental Studies | Bernie Rutter (Chair, Acting Secretary) |
|
Arts
|
Nevil Bromley |
| IST | Tim Farrell |
|
Science
|
Steph Sempson |
|
Computer Science
|
Steve Nickerson |
| Math | Naji Alamrony |
|
Engineering Computing
|
Erick Engelke |
| Hon Tam | |
| Ray White |
Regrets
| Department | Advisor name |
| IST | Steve Carr |
| Math | Jim Johnston |
| ESAG | Peter Routledge |
| Engineering Computing | Daniel Delattre (Secretary) |
DVD Burning in Labs
- Nero is being used in Eng and ES
- Most DVD burners come with a "lite" version of DVD burning software
- Steph noted that XP will write files to DVD's same as CD's
- We will contact Sandra Laughlin regarding a site license for one of the DVD burning programs.
Scratch and incoming students
- Question was raised by Lowell about external access to the scratch URL
- Ray noted that this should work
- Bernie tested from Sympatico and access was OK
- We will get the new student list early in August
- Lowell asked if any faculties doing presentations to new students put those presentations in a common area so we could compare notes
UCIST presentation follow-up
- Stephen and Bernie reported on the WNAG presentation to UCIST
- There is still an outstanding question from UCIST regarding the role of Nexus
- Bernie will contact Allen George for further discussion and possible attendance at a future WNAG meeting
Podium computers
- There have been complaints of slow logins on podium computers
- IST is reviewing Podium infrastructure
- Erick will work with Randy on performance testing on the podium computers
Visual studio .NET
- Naji was looking for a solution to students not being able to debug VS .Net projects on lab machines because they are not members of the local administrators group
- Unfortunately there was no easy solution to this problem
- setting up virtual PC's was put forth as a possible solution
Net.exe missing in Math Nexus labs
- Naji reported that net.exe was missing on many Math Nexus lab PC's
- Ray noted that this could be due do a failed virus infection as net.exe is a frequent target
- Could also have been due to a problem with a security update
- Will re-deploy with a GPO in 3009/3006 lab
64 Bit machines in Arts
- Nevil enquired about anyone running 64 bit OS's. He is seeing poor performance on the 64 bit machine
- Hon noted that this could be due to mixing 32bit and 64 bit apps on the machine
Software for fall term
- Will get list of updated apps from Daniel
- Hon reported that app servers were running low on space and will need to be cleaned up for the fall term
Vista connections to Samba
- Steph reported that he was having problems connecting to a samba server from Vista
- Ray noted that there was an update to Samba 3 to address Vista connections
