Ok, this news is a little hard for me to believe but according to this article posted on Phoronix, apparently that "other" operating system that's "not ready for the desktop" may be running Valve's steam... Any of you CS majors interested?

due to extremely high printer usage from several DCI accounts, print quotas have been implemented on the CS227/229 lab printers. Each account is now allowed 20 pages per week.
Please note that no warning is produced when an account has exceeded the limit, the printer will simply and quietly disregard the job request.
If you do suspect a problem with the printer you are welcome to contact me and I'll be glad to investigate.

Increased quota limits my be requested by contacting Professor Bruce.

Please contact me if you have any questions.
thanks!

Hi all,
we've recently upgraded/migrated to a new email and listserver system. Please contact me if you notice any issues or have problems with either of them. thanks!

Here are the instructions to run shell programs uninterrupted and unattended, thereby not tying up a lab machine and having you're fellow students, staff (me), and faculty present you with the hairy eyeball!

1. log into either xserv.cs.pomona.edu or linus.cs.pomona.edu
2. Enter the 'screen' command, you'll be presented with “Screen version 4.00.02 (FAU) 5-Dec-03” ... “[Press Space or Return to end.]. Press the Space bar, At this point you're in a screen session!
3. Start your program just as you would in a regular terminal session.
4. (here's the cool part) Press the “Ctrl+a” and then “Ctrl+d” keys, you'll be presented with “[detached]”
5. You can now exit the shell and your program will still be running.
6. To reconnect to your active program, ssh back onto the machine you have your program running.
7. Type 'screen -r', You'll either reconnect to your session or be presented with a list of “Detached” screen sessions.
8. Select you're screen session number and type 'screen -r 12345' replacing 12345 with the actual session number.

Remember that after you re-attach to your screen session you need to do the control sequence, ie: Ctrl+a, Ctrl+d to detach, if you type 'exit' you'll destroy the running session.

thanks to Dan Bracay for introducing me to this!

I'm Matthew Bradley, the Linux sysadmin for the natural sciences department @ Pomona College, more importantly I'm here to assist in any way I can with any questions or needs you may have pertaining (but not limited) to all things Linux and open source. I assure you RTFM will NEVER be my response so please feel free to contact me anytime.

Credit to Frank Salim for creating the new Pomona CS web site, it's got a clean fast look and has selections to all the CS info you need,, check it out and let us know what you think!

Hope you all had a great winter break!
Now for the exciting news, we're now in the new building, hope you guys are ready because it's pretty fancy.. O thanks to Steve, Frank, Paul, and Charles for the help with the move. The Linux lab PC's are available and fully operational if needed, and please contact me if you have any questions or problems with any of the DCI systems.

as those who went know, Halona was a blast! thanks to all who participated making it so. Here's a link to the incriminating evidence

In other news, the cs252 lab has a PC setup for the Linux curious, any one in need or interested is encouraged to give it a try,,

and, for all you os_x fans, there's a new/old g5 setup in 252 that's accessible to anyone with a DCI account, I've tested it but considering it automounts your Linux ~/ things could get a little funky if there's conflicts with various application's configs.. but you're young and brave, go for it ; )

BTW, Dan got the google gig!! (cue "if you wish apon a star" music) good going Dan!

The Short Sticky Intro:
I'm Matthew Bradley, the Linux sysadmin for the natural sciences department @ Pomona College, more importantly I'm here to assist in any way I can with any questions or needs you may have pertaining (but not limited) to all things Linux and open source. I assure you RTFM will NEVER be my response so please feel free to contact me anytime.

The wish list for next week:
#) Create master image for new lab macs
#) Install UPC on linux lab PC's
#) Upgrade Chem PC's
#) build new NFS server
#) check on APC order
#) setup remote syslog for all machines to the new firewall PC
#) Update the DCI topology draft
#) patch and upgrade all astro / astronomy machines
#) move astro PC's to the server closet,
#) upgrade linus to a new version of ubuntu, rename to appserv1
#) replace nfs with sshfs
#) look into account expiration warning (the lack of)




If you have any suggestions or requests please add a comment!

thanks to all for your tolerance while I've been migrating DCI over to the new network. There's still more to do but we're on the "66" and /most everything works.
As you can see DCI has a new (temporary) look, hope you like it while it's up.
In server news, the firewall, dns, dhcp, and backup systems have been replaced, not to mention the main web server's on it's way.

Hi Folks,
DCI mail along with www.cs.pomona.edu, www.dci.pomona.edu will be off line starting 6.24.6 @ 17:00, through 17:30 for migration testing. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me.
thanks!
Matthew

Sakai's pretty cool!
the integration of ldap X5c is really critical and not yet implement however,, that and the email notifications don't work yet,, but the overall package is clean, easy to use and has essential functions. This DCI Linux admin gives it 2 thumbs up,,
If you're interested in checking out Sakai you should contact elizabeth_hodas@hmc.edu to get an account so you can start using Sakai, and please feel free to contact me if you would like to go over it with me.

I'm very happy to announce DCI SquirrelMail now has spellcheck, speaking for myself this is a very important feature,
SquirrelMail has some great plugins, please let me know if you'd like to see them added.
enjoy

Welcome to the DCI tech support portal. It's designed to provide you a way to see all of the /fun and exciting/ tech support activities. Here you can:
View and comment on projects that have been submitted for DCI consideration.
View approved projects details, such as "date to be worked on", "additional requirements", etc.
Receive updates on approved projects.
Access the DCI FAQ section to help resolve common technical issues.

All of these categories allow you to edit and comment any changes or needs that may arise after initial project submission or knowledge base entry.

Please note that if you have a project for DCI, submissions should be sent to dciprojects@dci.pomona.edu
For all other support requests please contact me directly.

I really hope you find this portal useful and welcome any comments or suggestions for improvement.

thanks!
Matt Bradley
Unix Admin
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