Venue: BT1.08 at 1430
Present: Jim Briggs (Chair), Ed Kopinski, Alison White, Les Black, Chris Beakes (for Steve Broadbent)
Apologies: Steve Broadbent, Alex Counsell
| Agenda | Notes | Action | Status |
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Actions carried forward |
Actions completed are noted in the minutes of the previous meeting. | ||
Macromedia Studio |
EK agreed to find out whether the University's licence for Macromedia products allowed us to upgrade beyond MX2004. He has been in touch with Mary Withers but has not yet received a reply. | EK | Done |
Budget |
JSB reported that the current budget is £80k split between SOC and CT. It excludes equipment to support new courses. | ||
Discourse |
Problems with Discourse in LG0.14b were reported. EK will look in to establishing a backup regime for the Discourse server. Mike McCabe had done a backup recently, but this still needs to be formalised. | EK | Solution found. |
Theft |
A PC in MH3.4 had been stripped of all its memory and device cards. EK will investigate additional security screws on tower systems. Ongoing. | EK | Still ongoing |
Outstanding requests/orders |
Recent orders were proceeding. | ||
PCs for research students |
JSB reported on his attempts to find old but reasonable PCs. CB agreed to move those identified. | ||
VMplayer |
EK reported that developments with VMplayer in the Linux Lab were awaiting delivery of the extra memory that had been ordered. | ||
Strategy/policy |
The next meeting of the full committee will discuss revisions to strategy/policy. | ||
Major projects |
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Heat in Mercantile House |
EK reported that he had had a meeting with Simon Claridge to discuss the heat problems in Mercantile House. Some possible remedies had been identified, included moving internal walls. | ||
Operational issues |
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USB memory sticks |
A problem had been reported that some staff XP machines would not accept USB memory sticks. The problem is with drive letter allocation. IS is urgently looking for fix. | ||
TUD on L drive |
JSB reported problems with the TUD Access database on the L drive. LB reported that a proposed fix involving upgrading the Novell client on all user machines had had to be abandoned. It was suggested that moving the database away from the storage cluster and on to a specific server might solve the problem in the short term. | LB | Done |
Comms lab |
JSB reported that problems with students logging in the Comms Lab that morning had been impossible to solve in SB's absence. | ||
Any other business |
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Steve away |
EK reported that Steve Broadbent will shortly be away for 2 weeks installing equipment in the University's Kuala Lumpur office. | ||
Date of next meeting |
Friday 16th December at 2.30 in BT1.08 |
Last updated by Dr Jim Briggs of the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth.