From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Tue Sep  2 08:04:20 2003
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:04:20 -0700
Subject: reservation cancellation problem. (fwd)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10308291316590.10496-100000@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <3F54B174.BE63C467@snf.stanford.edu>

I agree -- I just did not know whether there was an audit trail for reservations -- now I do.  Since this is the first complaint of this sort, and in fact, made by someone who hasn't really dazzled the staff for his technical abilities or consideration for the lab community, it's all the more reason to file this...

M

Bill Murray wrote:

> John and Mary,
>
> As you are both probably aware, we can create audit trails to track any
> information we wish.  However, there is a cost associated with this.  We
> must store the data, index it, and provide some mechanism to search it.
>
> For example, Mahnaz was convinced that some members were disabling
> equipment that had been enabled by someone else.  I added logging
> that now tracks every single disable detailing the date, time, equipment
> name, member that enabled, and member that disabled.  In the two plus
> years since I added this, we have not found a single case where this
> has happened.  We basically used this information to prove to members
> that their equipment had not been disabled by someone else.
>
> I advise against spending significant time and effort adding this
> feature when we have such limited resources and many more urgent
> tasks.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alex Freeman <afreeman at cytoplex.com>
> To: Coral at snf.stanford.edu
> Subject: reservation cancellation problem.
>
> I had made a reservation for wafer saw on thursday, under afreeman. But somehow my reservation was cancelled, because of which i had to change all my travel plans for the labor day week end. I would greatly appreciate if you could find out, if this was a computer problem, or which staff member cancelled my reservation. Thanking you,
>
> alex
>
> =============================
> Alex Freeman, Ph.D
> Cytoplex Biosciences
> 2401 Merced St.
> San Leandro, CA 94577
> Ph 214-353-2925
> http://www.cytoplex.com
> ====================================
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net

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National Nanofabrication Users' Network
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu




From smalekos at unr.nevada.edu  Tue Sep  2 16:10:25 2003
From: smalekos at unr.nevada.edu (smalekos at unr.nevada.edu)
Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2003 16:10:25 -0700
Subject: Usage correction on the Drytek I 
Message-ID: <1062544225.3f55236188faa@webmail.scsr.nevada.edu>

To whom it may concern,

I enabled the Drytek I last night to perform a quick O2 Descum on two wafers,
before evaporation on the Innotec and I forgot to disable the Drytek until after
I was done with the Innotec.  So I turned a 30 min job into a 4 hour job on
accident.  I was hoping to get the billing on this corrected.

Thank you,
Steven Malekos
775-232-3687 (Cell Phone)





From shott at snf.stanford.edu  Sun Sep  7 09:24:21 2003
From: shott at snf.stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 09:24:21 -0700
Subject: Sunray Server Software 1.2 vs. 1.3 ...
Message-ID: <3F5B5BB5.6010504@snf.stanford.edu>

Bill and Mike:

Last week I notice on sunsolve.sun.com that there was a new patch for Sunray 
server software.  I downloaded and tried to install it this morning while it 
was quiet .... to now avail.

After looking around for a while, I figured out what the problem is:
We are still running antique Sunray server software version 1.2 on sunstar and 
never got 1.3 installed ... it it was patch 10 of 1.3 that I was trying to 
install.  How did we get sunstar turned on in production without getting 1.3 
installed?

John




From shott at snf.stanford.edu  Mon Sep  8 14:20:40 2003
From: shott at snf.stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:20:40 -0700
Subject: Sunray Server Software 2.0 ....
Message-ID: <3F5CF2A8.8020403@snf.stanford.edu>

Mike and Bill:

In the process of trying to figure out what browser we should have on our 
Sun's (that eliminate some of the problems we see with Netscape), I notice 
that Sun has released Sunray Server Software 2.0.  So, we may want to look at 
that and see if that is the appropriate version to be using ....

Thanks,

John



From shott at snf.stanford.edu  Mon Sep  8 17:56:43 2003
From: shott at snf.stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:56:43 -0700
Subject: Inventory update ....
Message-ID: <3F5D254B.7080806@snf.stanford.edu>

Mike:

It's been a long time since we've received an update on the status of the 
inventory system.  Dick Crane asked me this morning if/when we would be able 
to do chemical inventories and I was unable to give him a good answer.  So, I 
would propose that the 3 of us  meet for an update (and maybe a demo???) and 
discussion of that topic.

To give you time to prepare, I'm thinking of suggesting 2 weeks from today:
Monday, 9/22 ... maybe at 1:30 in the afternoon.

Does that work for both you you?

Thanks,

John




From shott at snf.stanford.edu  Wed Sep 10 08:48:16 2003
From: shott at snf.stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:48:16 -0700
Subject: Atu and sunstar reboot ... it was me.
Message-ID: <3F5F47C0.6040709@snf.stanford.edu>

Bill and Mike:

You may have noticed that atu and sunstar were rebooted this morning.  There 
wasn't a problem ... I rebooted to apply a bunch of patches that are required, 
ultimately, for installing mozilla.  Of course, installing mozilla isn't 
simply a matter of installing mozilla ...

Installing mozilla ... it took me a while to find a Solaris-ready version, but 
it turns out that Sun has mozilla 1.2.1 available on their website (although 
1.4 is the latest "production" release for linux and windows ..

To install mozilla, however, requires glib and GTK+ libraries that are 
installed as a part of the GNOME package.  (By the way, apparently on Solaris 
9 and into the future, Sun will no longer support Open Windows and will be 
including CDE and Gnome as their 2 desktop environments. Naturally, to install 
gnome, there are more patches required ...

So, what have I done thus far:

Patches required for mozilla, gnome, and j2sdk 1.4.1 are all installed on both 
atu and sunstar.

Gnome is installed on atu and I'm about to install it on sunstar ... this 
seemed to be the easiest way to get the proper libraries.

Interestingly, the version of mozilla that we have recommends Java 1.4.2 ... 
which we don't yet have on either atu or sunstar.  However, I didn't want to 
go ahead with the Mozilla install until we thought that this would be a 
reasonable thing to do ... so, at the moment, I haven't actually yet installed 
mozilla.

Thanks,

John



From latta at snf.stanford.edu  Wed Sep 10 10:06:31 2003
From: latta at snf.stanford.edu (Nancy Latta)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:06:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dead mice!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309101002390.16528-100000@snf.stanford.edu>

There are at least two malfunctioning mice at the diffusion aisle....



From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu  Wed Sep 10 10:41:28 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:41:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dead mice!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309101002390.16528-100000@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309101040480.12723-100000@snf.stanford.edu>

Nancy,

My understanding is that the maintenance guys keep the spares and 
replace them when they fail.  

Bill

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Nancy Latta wrote:

> There are at least two malfunctioning mice at the diffusion aisle....
> 



From latta at snf.stanford.edu  Wed Sep 10 11:02:37 2003
From: latta at snf.stanford.edu (Nancy Latta)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:02:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dead mice!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309101040480.12723-100000@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309101102180.17025-100000@snf.stanford.edu>

Ok.  Any clue which maint guy?

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Bill Murray wrote:

> Nancy,
> 
> My understanding is that the maintenance guys keep the spares and 
> replace them when they fail.  
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Nancy Latta wrote:
> 
> > There are at least two malfunctioning mice at the diffusion aisle....
> > 
> 



From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Thu Sep 11 14:17:59 2003
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:17:59 -0700
Subject: Coral login problem
Message-ID: <3F60E687.7A7B3D85@snf.stanford.edu>

Hi guys --

A fellow from Santa Barbara who has been using Coral today, just now
cannot get access to it -- he types his login and gets a screen that
lists his folders, but no desktop appears.  It looks like other people
are able to login without problems now.  Could one of you give him a
hand?  His login is: nokulan

Thanks,

Mary


--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
National Nanofabrication Users' Network
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu




From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu  Thu Sep 11 14:48:34 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Coral login problem
In-Reply-To: <3F60E687.7A7B3D85@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309111442150.31475-100000@snf.stanford.edu>

John and Mike,

It appears from the logs in /home/User/nokulan that he has had this 
problem periodically starting November 20.  The JVM crashes with an
unexpected exception in native code outside the VM, usually in an X11
library.  Most recently in /usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4.  Perhaps he's doing
something wierd with Xwindows?   I don't think it's our recent patches
cause he ran fine at 11:15am this morning.  Could be hard to find.

Bill

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Mary Tang wrote:

> Hi guys --
> 
> A fellow from Santa Barbara who has been using Coral today, just now
> cannot get access to it -- he types his login and gets a screen that
> lists his folders, but no desktop appears.  It looks like other people
> are able to login without problems now.  Could one of you give him a
> hand?  His login is: nokulan
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> --
> Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
> National Nanofabrication Users' Network
> Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
> CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
> Stanford, CA  94305
> (650)723-9980
> mtang at stanford.edu
> http://snf.stanford.edu
> 
> 



From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Thu Sep 11 15:30:38 2003
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:30:38 -0700
Subject: Coral login problem
References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309111442150.31475-100000@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <3F60F78E.2CC2E61@snf.stanford.edu>

Thanks for looking into this.  I asked if he was doing something on snf
other than Coral, and he said no, but I'm not sure he understood me (little
bit of a language thing.)  Is he OK to go again or can he do something on
his own to fix this?  (i.e., what do I tell him?  I think, but am not sure
-- that communication thing -- that he is leaving for SB very soon, and
wanted to be able to get as much processing in as possible.)

Mary

Bill Murray wrote:

> John and Mike,
>
> It appears from the logs in /home/User/nokulan that he has had this
> problem periodically starting November 20.  The JVM crashes with an
> unexpected exception in native code outside the VM, usually in an X11
> library.  Most recently in /usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4.  Perhaps he's doing
> something wierd with Xwindows?   I don't think it's our recent patches
> cause he ran fine at 11:15am this morning.  Could be hard to find.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Mary Tang wrote:
>
> > Hi guys --
> >
> > A fellow from Santa Barbara who has been using Coral today, just now
> > cannot get access to it -- he types his login and gets a screen that
> > lists his folders, but no desktop appears.  It looks like other people
> > are able to login without problems now.  Could one of you give him a
> > hand?  His login is: nokulan
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mary
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
> > National Nanofabrication Users' Network
> > Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
> > CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
> > Stanford, CA  94305
> > (650)723-9980
> > mtang at stanford.edu
> > http://snf.stanford.edu
> >
> >

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
National Nanofabrication Users' Network
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu




From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Thu Sep 11 16:26:06 2003
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:26:06 -0700
Subject: Coral login problem
References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309111442150.31475-100000@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <3F61048E.372A2B6C@snf.stanford.edu>

Hi Bill --

Thanks!  I did ask if he was running anything else other than Coral.  He
says he was checking Netscape email -- but it shouldn't be a problem doing
that...  and running nothing else other than Coral.  Anything I can tell
him?   (I've enabled the P5000 for him, but don't know what he'll do
off-shift.)

Mary

Oops.  I just had a chat with him again and showed him your email -- he says
that today is the very first time he's experienced this problem...

Mary

Bill Murray wrote:

> John and Mike,
>
> It appears from the logs in /home/User/nokulan that he has had this
> problem periodically starting November 20.  The JVM crashes with an
> unexpected exception in native code outside the VM, usually in an X11
> library.  Most recently in /usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4.  Perhaps he's doing
> something wierd with Xwindows?   I don't think it's our recent patches
> cause he ran fine at 11:15am this morning.  Could be hard to find.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Mary Tang wrote:
>
> > Hi guys --
> >
> > A fellow from Santa Barbara who has been using Coral today, just now
> > cannot get access to it -- he types his login and gets a screen that
> > lists his folders, but no desktop appears.  It looks like other people
> > are able to login without problems now.  Could one of you give him a
> > hand?  His login is: nokulan
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mary
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
> > National Nanofabrication Users' Network
> > Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
> > CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
> > Stanford, CA  94305
> > (650)723-9980
> > mtang at stanford.edu
> > http://snf.stanford.edu
> >
> >

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
National Nanofabrication Users' Network
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu




From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu  Tue Sep 16 22:13:01 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:13:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: advisors and PIs
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10309162208310.20828-100000@snf.stanford.edu>

John,

I have finished updating the advisors and PIs in the member and project
tables for all local projects and for any other academic projects where 
the PIs are clearly Stanford affiliates.  

Bill