[62238] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Tang quickstation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salil Soman)
Mon Nov 4 18:18:41 2002
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From: "Salil Soman" <sal@ai.mit.edu>
To: "Oliver Thomas" <othomas@mit.edu>, <hotline@mit.edu>,
"Brian Murphy" <bmurphy@mit.edu>, <olh-suggest@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:18:47 -0500
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As always, thank you and the rest of your group for all of your help.
Salil Soman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Thomas" <othomas@mit.edu>
To: "Salil Soman" <sal@ai.mit.edu>
Cc: "Oliver Thomas" <othomas@mit.edu>; "Brian Murphy" <bmurphy@mit.edu>;
<hotline@mit.edu>; "Tang Officers" <tanghall-officers@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Tang quickstation
> Salil,
>
> Brian Murphy brought your request up for review at Owls this afternoon.
> We agree that it makes sense for the Sunblade not to be a Quickstation
> (i.e. not to have a timer on it).
>
> Brian will send someone out to remove the timer from the Sunblade, and
> instead set up one of the older Sun Ultra 5's as a Quickstation.
>
> It makes sense to us to keep one of the machines at Tang set up as a
> Quickstation to leave it available for the people who want to simply
> check their email or print something.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oliver Thomas
> MIT Information Systems
>
>
> On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Salil Soman wrote:
>
> > Please note in the message I sent you last week, I was trying to make
> > the
> > case with the sunblade should NOT have a timer on it in Tang (I left
> > out the
> > NOT by accident).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Salil Soman
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Murphy" <bmurphy@mit.edu>
> > To: <ssoman@mit.edu>
> > Cc: <hotline@mit.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:37 PM
> > Subject: Tang quickstation
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The purpose of the Qucikstations is to allow multiple users quick
> >> logins.
> >> Hence a 10 minute implied, but not enforced limit. If a Quickstation
> >> is
> > not
> >> what is need and a true Athena Workstation is then we need to have a
> >> request sent to ac-proposals explaining what the purpose of the
> >> machine is
> >> and how it relates to educational computing. Once that is determined,
> >> if
> >> approved we can convert the machine(s) to full Athena Workstations.
> >> Please
> >> let me know if you have any questions...Brian
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
