Academic Computing

Friday, July 29, 2005

To: Faculty

From: Kim Vincent-Layton

Lab Upgrade Manager, ph. x4211

kbv7001@humboldt.edu

Subject: Fall 05 Interdisciplinary Technology Facility Changes & Faculty Orientation Invitation

The staff of Academic Computing would like to invite you to preview the upgrades we have implemented for the Fall 2005 Semester. One of the more notable changes will be the addition of floppy drives to several labs. While we still feel the floppy disk is technologically obsolete and highly error prone, we have listened to faculty and student comments and are adding floppy drives. Our recommendation is still to encourage switching to USB flash drives and avoiding floppy and zip diskettes, which have higher failure rates.

All Interdisciplinary Technology Facilities will be available August 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, 15^th, and 16^th for orientation and live testing of your assignments and lab equipment. Please contact your Lab Manager (see list below) to schedule testing time in any Interdisciplinary Technology Facility. A staff member will meet you at the appointed time and location.

There have been a few changes to the hardware and software this past year, which include the following:

Facility Hardware/Software Changes

FH202 New iMac 20” G5, Apple Remote Desktop

GH215 Optical mice added

GH218 New iMac 20” G5, 7-in-1 Flash Card Reader added to Media Transfer Station, added HP 8150 printers, added duplex printing, optical mice and floppy drives added

JH212 New iMac 20” G5, duplex printing added, Apple Remote Desktop

HGH105 Floppy drives and optical mice added

HGH229 Optical mice added

LB121 7-in-1 Flash Card Reader added to Media Transfer Station, New HP 4350 printers, optical mice and floppy drives added, duplex printing added

SH118 Short-throw overhead projector added

SH119 Optical mice added

Major Changes to the standard software installation include:

Macintosh

Mac OS X (10.4)

Adobe Reader 7.0

NVu 1.0 html editor

Windows

Adobe Reader 7.0.2

NVu 1.0 html editor

SPSS 13.0

Please use the following links in order to access a complete version of both the standard and disciplinary software lists for any facility.

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac/labsftwr.shtml#f05 - interdisciplinary software list

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ac/dissftwr.shtml#F2005 - disciplinary software list

Interdisciplinary Technology Facility Lab Managers phones, email and lab responsibility:

Laurie Takao, ph. x4207 lat1@humboldt.edu Rocky Waters, ph. x4208 rrw1@humboldt.edu

FH202, JH212, LB121, LB310, SH118 & SH119 GH215, GH218, HG105, HG229, SA364, UAX123

cc: Bill Cannon, AC Staff, IT Council