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Snapshots Over Time...

Periodically, I put a rough outline of my general activities here.

9/6/2003

  1. Work
    1. Research Assistant - working on PhD in EE
      • Working for Prof. Cyganski in his Convergent Technologies Lab on automatic target identification for Ballistic Missile Defense.
  2. Personal
    1. ISO Vice-President of Information Technology
      1. Manage web site & membership lists
      2. Learning Hindi :)
      3. Learning how to type Devanagari
      4. Order graduation stuff...
      5. Help out with anything else I can.
    2. WPI's Wireless Association Station Engineer (in-training)
      1. Check RF safety
      2. Provide general guidance
      3. Learn from the previous station engineers
    3. Smyrph.Net
      • Tinkering w/ mail, dns, web, ftp, password systems...
      • Coding for sport
      • Computer Graphics
    4. Rallying WPI's Graduate Students

3/16/2002

  1. Work
    1. Research Associate - working on MS in EE
      • Working for Prof. Cyganski in his Convergent Technologies Lab working on TCP/IP performance issues over high latency network links.
    2. "PT - Systems Administrator"
      • Passing the torch to ECE's next Sys Admin and maintaining Hutt for department research.
  2. Personal
    1. HKN President
      1. Coordinate Pizza Fridays
      2. Honor Society Inductions
      3. Order graduation stuff...
      4. Trap Shooting w/ Prof. Michalson
      5. Operation Emetic-X
    2. Smyrph.Net
      • Tinkering w/ mail, dns, web, ftp, password systems...
      • and seeking the holy grail of Unix & MS Windows interoperability.
    3. Coding for sport
    4. Computer Graphics

3/13/2002

This page is a bit old (May 2000), but I'll leave it here as a memory of my imperial sys-admin reign. :) And it's refreshing to see how much of this we accomplished.

  1. ECE Labs Computing Staff
    1. Prepay Printing System - gildor 5/15/2000
      1. Finish accounting system & internal tests 2 weeks
      2. Beta test accounting 1 week
      3. Move printing off ece ½ week
      • leon can take larger jobs - bigger spool
      • Seniors no longer escaping w/ unpaid print bills
      • Students can prepay in freshman year and avoid monthly nuissances
    2. Linux MS Windows Imaging - aaronl 5/15/2000
      1. Get Ghost to work under DOSEmu w/ auto partitioning 1 week
      2. Get Linux to boot root NFS via a kernel on floppy 1 week
      3. Get DOSEmu to work under NFS root 1 week
      4. Put Linux Kernel w/ boot menu on PC ½ week
        • Partitions: 5MB /boot, 128MB swap, 1MB Fat12/16, rest is Windows (NTFS, FAT32, etc...)
        • Boot menu: Windows, Linux, Format
      5. Create auto imaging system ½ week
      6. Evaluate Win2000 on lab machines (need to know capital allocation first) 1 week
        • Waiting on Samba-TNG for Win2000 support
          • Already has Unix account synchronization
          • Utilizes Unix's great flexibility & stability (ie can restart M$ Windows services w/ no rebooting, etc...)
        • Will probably not use Win2000 Server in server room
          • Would need to synchronize Win2000 & Unix accounts
          • General impression that M$ products are not as flexible as their marketing would have you believe
      7. Create A term images (Leave Linux unmodified for now) 1 week
      8. Evaluate possibility of Windows under VMware 1 week
      • Would allow imaging to any M$ operating system w/ no floppies
      • Reduce competition for Unix machines by allowing any lab computer to run either M$ Windows or Unix applications
    3. Customize Solaris - smyrph 5/15/2000
      1. Evaluate xdm & gdm ½ week
        • xdm appears to have Kerberos 5 support
      2. Install & customize xdm or gdm ½ week
      3. Evaluate FVWM & Enlightenment ½ week
      4. Install & customize FVWM or Enlightenment ½ week
      • CDE security issues no longer a concern
      • can better customize system wide defaults
      • guide users to preferred programs like pine for email
    4. Password System - smyrph 5/15/2000
      1. finish integrating passwdd 2 weeks
      2. create password synchronization link 1½ weeks
        • Fix elmer's passwords
        • Fix leon's Samba passwords
      3. Fix leon's /labs/ssh web page to login to ece ½ week
      4. Investigate MIT's Mink & Win2000 Kerberos 5 support 1 weeks
      • Users sign onto machines once
      • Can cross authenticate w/ the CCC in the future
      • Transparent password synchronization w/ non Kerberos 5 systems
    5. Verify leon's NFS File Locking
      1. Compile lockd & statd on leon ½ week
      2. Test drive ½ week
      • needed before moving mail, web and project spaces fully to leon
    6. ECE-DS
      1. misc chores
        1. Verify proper SMB machine name
        2. Change desktop image
        3. Delete M$ Word & Excel template virii
      2. process listing/killing/executing
      3. registry editing
      4. file moves/copies/deletes
      • provide automated remote control of M$ Windows lab machines
      • auto lab shutdowns
      • implement software bans
      • live modifications to systems - registry & file
    7. Provide universal w: drive for faculty to edit course web pages
      1. verify leon's SMB server honours unix file permissions
      2. add w: to login scripts
    8. ECE student progress web database
      1. formalize requirements w/ nicolett
      2. estimate future needs
      3. Start coding! (get details)
    9. Automate tape backups
      1. Install tape drive to jackal
      2. Evaluate Amanda tape scheduler w/ tar & mtx
      3. Implement
    10. Support dept. Macintosh computers
      • Netatalk is to Mac what Samba is to M$ Windows
      • Would encourage Mac users to store more on their ECE home directories where it gets backed up
      • Can use to integrate Macs with print accounting
      • Resolves issues with printer Mac-name changes after resets
    11. Automate ECE web page headers & footers
      1. verify proper header & footer
      2. copy quickslv's html files over the main files
      3. purify html code - scour web pages and remove font tags and etc.
      • single point to adjust web styles, fonts, colors
      • web pages will be more compatible with browsers for people w/ disabilities
      • easier to implement wide-spread changes for special occasions like holidays
    12. fix finger
      • last stopped with GNU finger compile error
      • gildor compiled latest of GNU Finger 1.39a from alpha.gnu.org
    13. fix printer page counters
      • network protocol timeouts?
    14. Increase user awareness of the Unix systems
      1. install useful, up-to-date software packages
        1. install GNU Pascal compiler
        2. find latest sources of xgraph - jmhill
        3. using elmer.wpi.edu for this testing ground
      2. make shop's part list available online (convenience for students) db:parts.mdb
        1. shop db not reconcile MQP accounts properly
        2. shop's db needs a rewrite
  2. Personal
    1. Fix reverse DNS lookups for Smyrph.Net
    2. Finish console spectrum analyzer
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duties:
	have major projects to work on
	have some routine maintenance
		printer paper, toners
	may be called to assist in short daily tasks
		assisting faculty, staff, & students
scheduled hours
	must be available in AK120A for emergencies & daily tasks
	may work on other things like homework/hobbies if
unscheduled hours
	may work any where and any time during the week
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