From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Mon Jun  7 07:26:55 2004
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:26:55 -0700
Subject: [Fwd: Coral and Mac OS]
Message-ID: <40C47B2F.8E3E9244@snf.stanford.edu>

H guys --

Has something changed with remote Java? Can you help?

Mary

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Coral and Mac OS
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Wistey <wistey at snowmass.Stanford.EDU>
To: mtang at stanford.edu

Mary -

I can't seem to get Coral working on my Mac anymore.  Do you know who
I should talk to?  It used to work, and still sort-of works, except 
that I can't click on anything with the mouse.  It's sort of hard to
enable or reserve equipment. :-)

Thanks...

 - Mark


From shott at snf.stanford.edu  Mon Jun  7 09:06:46 2004
From: shott at snf.stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:06:46 -0700
Subject: Remot Coral problems ...
Message-ID: <018a01c44ca9$6edfc800$286540ab@jds>

Mark:

I'm not completely certain what the problems with Remote Coral on a Mac are ... I know that it has been working for several people and haven't heard from them yet.

What version of Mac OS are you running?  What version of Java are you running.  If you have Java Web Start, you can fire it up and under perferences, it will have a Java tab on the preferences page that will help with that information.

Thanks,

John
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From Spotworthy at aol.com  Wed Jun 23 17:14:28 2004
From: Spotworthy at aol.com (Spotworthy at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:14:28 EDT
Subject: remote coral won't launch
Message-ID: <1dc.24c2e21b.2e0b76e4@aol.com>

I have downloaded and installed the new java webstart software.  When I run 
java web start, I only get the java demos.  I tried to launch remote coral from 
the snf website, and I get the error message "can't find file 
C:\WINDOWS\TemporaryInternetFiles\Content.IE5\MTUD19GB\coral[1].jnlp".

I did a search for file coral[1].jnlp" and could not find it on my hard 
drive.  Help?

LindaW  (coral login "lindaw")
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From mtang at snf.stanford.edu  Fri Jun 25 15:49:17 2004
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:49:17 -0700
Subject: Coral
Message-ID: <40DCABED.DCBC9ACC@snf.stanford.edu>

Hi John --

Coral is running a bit slow again...  I really hope you don't mind, but
I've asked Nancy to get in touch with Bill/Mike to see if it's the same
Mozilla/Netscape issue.  I'm also about to send out an email to
labmembers at snf asking people to be more diligent about keeping a minimum
sessions going, with the hope that they, like me, were totally clueless
about the impact of surfing on the system.

Thanks,

Mary

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
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  Fri Jun 25 15:55:00 2004
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:55:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Coral
In-Reply-To: <40DCABED.DCBC9ACC@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10406251553511.9073-100000@snf.stanford.edu>

John and Mary,

After Nancy contacted me, I restart the Sunray server software.  That
should kill off all those browser sessions.

Bill

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Mary Tang wrote:

> Hi John --
> 
> Coral is running a bit slow again...  I really hope you don't mind, but
> I've asked Nancy to get in touch with Bill/Mike to see if it's the same
> Mozilla/Netscape issue.  I'm also about to send out an email to
> labmembers at snf asking people to be more diligent about keeping a minimum
> sessions going, with the hope that they, like me, were totally clueless
> about the impact of surfing on the system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mary
> 
> --
> Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
> 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  Mon Jun 28 06:59:22 2004
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:59:22 -0700
Subject: [Fwd: RE: Slow Coral...]
Message-ID: <40E0243A.4D62BEA7@snf.stanford.edu>

Hi guys --

I just received several inquiries from labmembers asking how to check
and then kill extra processes (I didn't leave instructions on the
labmembers at snf note -- it is good to know that people do seem to care!) 
Jeff sent this along, which seems good to me, and seems like would be
good to send out to labmembers -- but I wanted to check with you first. 
If it meets with your approval, I'd like to send it out (unless you are
planning to send one out...)  Please let me know --

Thanks,

Mary


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Slow Coral...
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:28:36 -0600
From: "Jeff Lutzenberger" <bertl at montana.edu>
To: "Mary Tang" <mtang at snf.stanford.edu>

Mary,

While visiting SNF and working in the clean room I found that many
people
don't know how to check background processes and kill them. You might
want
to let people know how to do this. e.g.

$>ps -u [username]
$>kill -9 [process id]

where process id is from the first column of the ps -u output.

I showed this to a few people and most of them found they had several
instances of mozilla etc. running in the background.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Jeff Lutzenberger

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Tang [mailto:mtang at snf.stanford.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:26 PM
To: labmembers at snf.stanford.edu
Subject: Slow Coral...


Greetings --

I understand from the Coral Development Team that when response time on
Coral is slow, nowadays, it's almost always because of non-Coral related
use of the system.  Apparently, Mozilla, Netscape, and Star Office use
up a lot of system resources, particularly when people have multiple
sessions going on at once.

So, the recommendations are, as follows (at least as I understand them
-- I take full responsibility for inaccuracies or misunderstanding):

1.  Keep only one active session (please use and hang on to that SunRay
card!)
2.  Mozilla is the preferred browser (Netscape has a tendency to run
away and take up lots of computing resources)
3.  Close Mozilla and Star Office when not in use
4.  Use of remote Coral (which does not load the system) is encouraged

Please try to conserve computer resources -- if we all do, then there
will be no waiting to enable something...

Thanks,

Mary

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