[47529] in Hotline Meeting
Watchmaker zone re-organization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri May 14 00:04:14 1999
Message-Id: <199905140404.AAA01204@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, joewelch@MIT.EDU
Cc: lxs@MIT.EDU, yak@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:04:10 EDT
Hi,
We need a few things anchor padded in the Watchmaker Zone before all
of the students show up for the summer. Basically this means we
really need it to happen next week.
First, There is an SS5.170 (CPU only) in e40-014 (it's right behind
the door, and labeled as needing to go to the zone). To figure out
where to deploy it, look for the wile-e-coyote hanging from the
ceiling, stand in front of him facing him. Now, look to your right
you should see a desk with a PC named last-crusade on it, and a sun
monitor, etc. Under the monitor is an old style anchor pad. The CPU
is on a new style pad. We need the old pad ripped up, and a new style
base deployed, and the ss5 locked down, and re-installed as
sakhmet.mit.edu (the hesiod and hostinfo already exist). There are
some post-its here to help you find the location. Also, if while
looking at the spot where you're installing sakhmet you turn around
you'll see an indy named special forces, and an uncoveret old style
anchorpad to its left. If you could rip up that uncovered pad too,
I'd appreciate it. Feel free to find me in person if you'd like me to
show you any of this stuff in person.
Second, also behind the door in e40-014 is a Macintosh minitower
machine. This also needs to go into the zone. Alexis (lxs@mit.edu)
and Brad (yak@mit.edu) know a lot more about htis machine than I do.
If you need more information, you can ask me, but they are more likely
to be helpful.
The Power Macintosh G3 minitower should be anchor padded next to the
machine named florey.mit.edu (it has a label that says "snow-goon").
Florey.mit.edu is in the cluster of cubicles closest to the fishtanks.
Unfortunately the minitower cannot be anchor padded on its side
because one of the sides opens and so the case cannot take the weight
of a monitor. I don't think the sides can support the weight of the
case vertically either, so anchor padding it to the side of the desk
is also undesirable. As a result it should probably be anchor padded
like an O2. I have labelled the place on the desk where I want the
CPU to go with "Place CPU here" (you can also use this to figure out
which desk it should go on). The short form is that it should be as
far to the right as possible on the desk.
In order to secure the side of the case (which can open to reveal the
RAM, etc), you can either use the Apple locking mechanism (pull a tab
out the back and run a cable though it) or build up those side
brackets like on an O2. Either option is fine with us.
Feel free to ask if any of this is unclear.
Jonathon
