[2226] in athena10
Re: quickstation-50-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Sun Apr 12 06:46:08 2009
Message-Id: <200904121045.n3CAjbdo010702@oliver.mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>,
debathena@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:05:16 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:45:37 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
I also think W20 is a good choice, if for no other reason than that
SIPB folks will pass by them frequently.
Note that the Lobby 16 quickstations are perhaps not a good choice
because for the last I-can't-remember-how-long, I've always seen
one of them stuck at the BIOS POST screen, and I've tried and failed
to get it to be fixed and stay fixed. I keep meaning to report it
to hotline and not remembering.
Mitch
> Hrm, Well 7-4 is out of the way and a 745, which is why I picked it.
> Granted, if it's b0rked, people have to go downstairs. On the other
> hand, it's valuable to have feedback, and I've seen people studiously
> avoiding the Debathena workstations in m12 when the cluster is full,
> so *shrug*.
>
> For twins, it's either:
>
> - one of the two in W20-3xx (GX620)
> - one of the two in W20-copytech (HPs)
> - one of the two in W20 main lobby (HPs)
> - one of the four in 11 (GX620s)
> - one of the two in 16 (GX620)
> - one of the various pairs in select dorms
>
> I'd probably go with w20-3xx or one of the building 11 ones, but
> GX620s are 3 year old hardware...
>
> -Jon
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, William Cattey wrote:
>
> > I liked the point jhawk raised in -c debathena to have a Debathena
> > quickstation in a location that has a twin so that people are able
> > to pick the old style one.
> >
> > I think this boils down to picking one of the Building 7 ones.
> > (Unless others think it's too risky to do this in so heavily
> > trafficed an area.)
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:39 AM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> I'm going to plan to reinstall quickstation-50-1 with Debathena on
> >>>> Monday morning unless someone tells me that's a bad idea.
> >>>
> >>> That's a bad idea. I thought it was slated for upgrade quite a
> >>> while
> >>> ago, but athinfo suggests that it's still a gx110. (Which, umm,
> >>> would be
> >>> an interesting experiment, but not one I want to inflict on the
> >>> public.)
> >>
> >> Eep. Ok, how about quickstation-7-4 which is a 745. Or one of the
> >> building 11 ones?
> >>
> >> -Jon
> >>
> >>
> >
>
