Tue, Aug 30, 2011
comps4.cs is still unavailable
We are continuing to work on restoring comps4.cs to service. It did not successfully reboot after the power outage. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Matlab 7.12 (2011a) has been installed on CSLab's comps servers and it is now the default version of matlab (/opt/matlab/bin/matlab).
wapps windows application server upgraded
We have eliminated the two older Windows Server machines, wapps2003 and wapps2007, in favour of a single machine on faster hardware which supplies both office 2003 and office 2010. Profiles do not carry over from the older versions of Windows Server to Server 2010, so you may find that you have to re-customize your environment. Domain logins are somewhat different as well; from linux rdesktop clients you may be required to preface your username with the domain, i.e. cslab\[username]. Some linux rdesktop clients will require that you delete a file in your .rdesktop directory before starting a new session to wapps2008. Hopefully newer versions of linux rdesktop clients will address this problem and negate the need for a workaround. Windows rdp clients seem to perform flawlessly, including remembering domain membership details.
systems restored after power outage
All services (except for comps4) have been restored after the planned power outage.