Research - User contributions [en]

People power - grad students and their expertise

2005-09-08T16:51:55Z

Dwithers:

'''PEOPLE POWER'''

This is a page where each of us, as grad students, can share what we know about the lab facilities and resources. You don't have to be an expert to participate. If we each offer to help out by contributing the bits we know, together we can create a strong research community that will make our work much easier and definitely more fun!

'''Resource/skill to share'''

'''Morae''' (usability software testing program)

I have some experience with this and will be using it in my research if you want to talk about it. Also, I'll be demonstrating a bit of what we did in a research project with Morae at the Colloquium Sept. 28/05. Denise (dwithers@sfu.ca)

'''Video production and editing'''

I've got a fair bit of experience here - Denise (dwithers@sfu.ca)

'''Audio production and editing'''

I've got some experience here - Denise (dwithers@sfu.ca)

People power - grad students and their expertise

2005-09-08T16:46:17Z

Dwithers:

'''People Power'''

This is a page where each of us, as grad students, can share what we know about the lab facilities and resources. You don't have to be an expert to participate. If we each offer to help out by contributing the bits we know, together we can create a strong research community that will make our work much easier and definitely more fun!

Main Page

2005-09-08T16:40:21Z

Dwithers:

Welcome. This is a wiki for the purpose of helping to keep the systems in Research running smoothly and to inform users of Research services.

===User Related===
* [[Research Services]]
* [[Research Workstations - default software loads]]
* [[Research Servers - default software loads]]
* [[Printers]]
* [[Cluster User Documentation|Documentation for the Cluster running Gentoo]]
* [[Windows Maintenance]]
* [[Linux Administration & Maintenance]]
* [[SGI]]
* [[Oracle on Gentoo]]
* [[AG Node Documentation]]
* [[Accessing Your Data]]
* [[People power - grad students and their expertise]]

===Administration===
* [[Server documentation]]
* [[Research Administration Tasks]]
* [[Auto Installation with SUSE AutoYast]]
* [[Who's Where - Availability of Research staff]]
* [[Robin's Todo List]]
* [[Mirroring FreeBSD on Linux]]

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Talk:Research Workstations - default software loads

2005-09-08T16:35:33Z

Dwithers: Morae Licenses

Do we still just have one license for Morae Manager? I suspect this will be popular this year. (I know I'll be using it a lot for my thesis research).

Thanks
Denise

Research Workstations - default software loads

2005-09-08T16:34:08Z

Dwithers:

This is the plan for a complete lab re-install in the Summer of 2005.
Machines will be loaded with Windows XP and SUSE Linux. Each machine will be configured with the following applications.

== Windows XP SP2 ==
All latest patches.
* [[Software Update Services]] - Automated Windows Updates
* MacAfee AV 8 Ent.
* K2 client http://www.sassafras.com/k2/revisions/downloads.html
** point to research-keyserver.iat.sfu.ca
* Adobe Acrobat Pro
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
** Set this as default .pdf handler (Acrobat Pro will try to "steal" default)
* Adobe Photoshop CS
* Adobe ImageReady
* Adobe Premiere Pro
* Adobe InDesign
* Adobe GoLive!
* Adobe Illustrator
* ASUS Probe (motherboard monitoring)
* AtlasTi
* Firefox browser - set as default browser.
* iTunes
* Java
** at least JRE, preferably J2SE SDK
** Sun or one of the alternatives? IBM/BEA JRockit appears to be very good.
* Macromedia Dreamweaver
* Macromedia Fireworks
* Macromedia Flash
* Macromedia Freehand
* Microsoft Office - complete install
* Morae
* Nero (CD/DVD burning)
* NikonView (free download)
* Nikon Capture Editor, Camera Control (needs to be keyserved)
* nVidia video
** latest unified driver, for FX5200 / FX5600 cards
* <s>Oracle Calendar client - still discussing if Grads are eligible & would use</s>
** :-( only full-time/permanent SFU people will get access to OracleCalendar (ACS policy)
* PuTTY
** Defaults for fraser and our shell box?
* Quicktime
* RealPlayer
* StarOffice 2.0
* Thunderbird email client
* WinSCP
** include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser
* Lexmark T630-capable printer drivers
* HP 4600n-capable printer drivers
** printer-info needs to be added to Research web-info:
** IP-addresses, location, capabilities, where to get supplies, how to add them in Linux/Irix/OS-X/WinXP
** how to query the printer for int. info (IP-address, name, no. of pages, toner-levels, etc)

== Linux ==
Complete install of SuSE 9.3 Pro.
* Auto-update.
* <s>Both KDE and</s> GNOME, maybe some other WMs too.
* Development tools
** Eclipse (Java & C++ support)
** Fortran stuff
* FireFox web-browser
* totem, mplayer, xine?
** fully working!!! DeCSS, MP3, AAC, etc
* K3B for cd/dvd writing
** Mark: add ldap users to cd writing group!
** Robin: SUSE9.3 should have pam_console, which is the proper solution.

Research Workstations - default software loads

2005-09-08T16:33:30Z

Dwithers:

This is the plan for a complete lab re-install in the Summer of 2005.
Machines will be loaded with Windows XP and SUSE Linux. Each machine will be configured with the following applications.

== Windows XP SP2 ==
All latest patches.
* [[Software Update Services]] - Automated Windows Updates
* MacAfee AV 8 Ent.
* K2 client http://www.sassafras.com/k2/revisions/downloads.html
** point to research-keyserver.iat.sfu.ca
* Adobe Acrobat Pro
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
** Set this as default .pdf handler (Acrobat Pro will try to "steal" default)
* Adobe Photoshop CS
* Adobe ImageReady
* Adobe Premiere Pro
* Adobe InDesign
* Adobe GoLive!
* Adobe Illustrator
* ASUS Probe (motherboard monitoring)
* AtlasTi
* Firefox browser - set as default browser.
* iTunes
* Java
** at least JRE, preferably J2SE SDK
** Sun or one of the alternatives? IBM/BEA JRockit appears to be very good.
* Macromedia Dreamweaver
* Macromedia Fireworks
* Macromedia Flash
* Macromedia Freehand
* Microsoft Office - complete install
* '''Morae - Do we still just have one license for Morae Manager?''' I suspect this will be popular this year. (Denise)
* Nero (CD/DVD burning)
* NikonView (free download)
* Nikon Capture Editor, Camera Control (needs to be keyserved)
* nVidia video
** latest unified driver, for FX5200 / FX5600 cards
* <s>Oracle Calendar client - still discussing if Grads are eligible & would use</s>
** :-( only full-time/permanent SFU people will get access to OracleCalendar (ACS policy)
* PuTTY
** Defaults for fraser and our shell box?
* Quicktime
* RealPlayer
* StarOffice 2.0
* Thunderbird email client
* WinSCP
** include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser
* Lexmark T630-capable printer drivers
* HP 4600n-capable printer drivers
** printer-info needs to be added to Research web-info:
** IP-addresses, location, capabilities, where to get supplies, how to add them in Linux/Irix/OS-X/WinXP
** how to query the printer for int. info (IP-address, name, no. of pages, toner-levels, etc)

== Linux ==
Complete install of SuSE 9.3 Pro.
* Auto-update.
* <s>Both KDE and</s> GNOME, maybe some other WMs too.
* Development tools
** Eclipse (Java & C++ support)
** Fortran stuff
* FireFox web-browser
* totem, mplayer, xine?
** fully working!!! DeCSS, MP3, AAC, etc
* K3B for cd/dvd writing
** Mark: add ldap users to cd writing group!
** Robin: SUSE9.3 should have pam_console, which is the proper solution.