[Lancaster] Observations at the folly

[Martyn Welch]

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Hi All,

I wish I had had a chance to sit down and send this sooner, such is life...

A week or two ago I managed to get down to the folly to do a little work on 
the "service" computer. I have a few observations to make:

1) One of the PCs in the kitchen area was turned of, after trying quickly to 
turn it on I discovered why - the power switch is very temperamental. I guess 
this is quite easily solved, however finding out about stuff like this ASAP 
seems quite a lot harder. We really need a mailing list/ contact address for 
faults that Taylor (/Other members of staff?) can use so that we can get a 
good idea of what needs to be done.

2) The package management software on the X server is not functioning all 
together well. I set of a "nohup rpm --rebuild" command when I was there 
last, I hope this will sort it. At any rate this box needs to be rebuilt, 
preferably by getting a second harddrive and a set of drive caddies so that 
the current setup can be kept whilst the new one is being built and swapped 
over to allow for day-to-day running till the new setup is working perfectly.

3) The service box should be easy to install the software for the burner on, I 
booted it up, however it had not properly initialised the SCSI card so was 
forced to do it manually - this needs to be sorted. Sane should allow the 
scanner to be shared over the network, so we can use the generic KDE scanner 
client on the X-server and connect to the remote scanner. I was hoping to get 
thi working whilst I was there last, but run out of time.

I'll try my best to get to LUG on Wednesday, looks like we have lots to do!

Martyn
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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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