Met with Holly, Judi, Paul, Harley, Malachi, and the media techcats to discuss policies, procedures, and the like. my notes:
1) introductions:
a) who are you (TechCats). I need everyone’s NetID for 2b below
malichi
wesley
sarah
Judi Bradley
jeremy
Graham
sean brown
paul philbin
harley blake
b) who am I (Wesley)
c) new schedule (need pdf or similar for website)
1-a) how to get paid
2) policies and procedures
a) log client interactions at https://www.uvm.edu/~techcats/tracks
b) log broken/misbehaving software/hardware at http://footprints.uvm.edu/
(in general most PC issues will be handled by J Bradley, most Mac issues by W Wright,
non-computer hardware R Wiberg)
c) use of CMD equipment for personal gain (i.e., you working on projects for non-UVM clients
in exchange for $) is not allowed
d) For most clients, iMovie/iDVD are the preferred video applications. Please don’t push
people toward Final Cut or DVD Studio Pro unless there are strong compelling reasons
we broke into a "what new stuff do we need" discussion
o 2 new Mac systems ($5000 each)
o scanners for macs
o new PC to replace the windows 98 machine
o fast networking
o a SAN ? (cit or us?)
o FCP studio ($500 per copy); Adobe CS2 ($250 per copy); iLife 6 ($70) for ‘old’ machine
3) Macintosh Configuration
a) After successful login, and as the Finder windows appear, the Macs are running background login scripts:
i) files whose modification date is more than two weeks old are deleted
ii) remaining Contents of Desktop, Documents, and Movies folders are set aside
iii) /Users/customer folder is replaced with fresh copy from "secret" fodler
iV) contents of Desktop, Documents, and Movies folders are returned to ?Users/customer
v) Applescript initiates connection to smb://zoofiles/homes (users home folder on zoo)
vi) if necessary, create Music and Pictures folders in user’s zoo directory. Music and Pictures Folders in
/Users/customer folder are aliases to these. This facilitates use of iPhoto and iTunes in iMovie
b) i have the admin password. you don’t. We need a backup.
c) if there is an application that must be installed that isn’t, enter details in footprints. I’ll
check it out and try to make it available
4) training — do you want it? What, when?
5) wires and cables: we’ll ask roger for some switch boxes
6) an anonymous comment-suggestions box
