Moodle on Windows is off. It turns out there is a lack of authentication going on, so the web tech has advised we stick with Ubuntu (although I should really write down how to change the auth incase it needs re-binding to our AD server in the summer....). Anyway, he's already tarted it up nicely.
Video on Demand has been moved off the Moodle server on to another server that has 900GB free! Should keep up with demand for some time! Just have to re-author the links on the pages to point to the new video store.
The new music block has been data wired and goes back to the old cabinet, which has been replaced. I've patched in their old machines and left any unused ports disconnected. At some point soon, I expect the installers will put in a patch panel to terminate the new data runs.
Reorganised our stocks of spares in the office. It's now organised, instead of in a big pile. This is good.
Worked with The Other Tech on netinstalling eMacs today. If you up the number of NFS daemon threads it will let you boot more machines at once. We've left 30 going (server is dishing out 24MB per sec, apparently) instead of 8. If this is reliable, tomorrow we're going to try booting 60 odd machines at once, and hope it installs them with Mac OS over Xmas. Worst case scenario is that it fails, leaving all of them unbootable....oops.
Chucked out some redundant hardware today - should be collected at the start of the new year, but we don't have a central location to store it all in, which is a problem.
Oh, and Safari on the latest 10.5 image, which was tried and tested to be working fine, now dies once it's been deployed. I'm sure this happens just to spite us. Anyway, in the room with these offending machines, the printers have been relocated and cabled up.
Oh, and one of our NAS boxes, which had the plug pulled on it rather than being shut down gracefully, is wrecked and will not load it's OS from ROM. It's now just an expensive paperweight.
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