Topics

1) For those contemplating purchase of a computer
2) Status of screen freezes on RS6000s in 2105 NW
3) Books and Manuals available in 2105NW
4) Your disk quota on chemistry
5) Review of computer suppport staff



1) If you are contemplating purchase of a computer...


If you plan to purchase a Unix workstation, please coordinate and discuss
this with Steve and Gerry. We will advise you on possible solutions and
discuss with you how we can best support your machine.

If you plan to buy a PC or Mac, please talk to Barb or Tim first. In the
windows arena, we currently migrate to Windows 95 and Windows NT. Our
central NT server offers personal accounts and home directories (similar
to Unix) for every faculty, postdoc and staff in the department. As we are
expanding central services, we will give out individual NT accounts for
students as well. More on NT in a future issue.


2) Status of screen freezes on RS6000s in 2105 NW:


Lawrencium froze again over the weekend. We are now working with IBM to
solve the problem. We're doing our best to get this problem resolved as
soon as possible.


3) Books and Manuals available in 2105NW:


Among lots of manuals, we have the following books available:

   Wordperfect Suite 7
   Sigma Plot
   Microsoft Excel
   Microsoft Office for Windows95 for Dummies
   Macworld System 7.5 Bible
   Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies


4) Disk quotas on Unix /home:


You can determine your current quota by logging in to chemistry and typing

   quota -v

After the hardware upgrade in December (see "Support Bulletin" on the Web)
we increased everybody's diskquota.   If your research work requires more
disk space, please contact computer support.


5) Computer Support Staff:


Dr. Steve Parker	Group Leader, Unix Systems Administrator
Dr. Gerry Raimann	Unix Systems Administrator
Barbara Bennett		Mac/PC Systems Administrator
Timothy S. Cogley	PC/Mac Systems Administrator

Cheng-Cheng Chuang	Graphic Designer (GAA)

Dr. Sherwin Singer	Faculty Liason
Dr. Christopher Hadad	Faculty Liason, Faculty Web Coordinator


Responsible for the physical network in the Department:

James A. Robbins	Senior Design Engineer, Network Engineer
			Electronics Shop

Gerry and Tim were hired full time last July. Both are still on temporary
positions. Pete Hriso, who was hired as a Webmaster last July, left the
department in February. We're currently without a Webmaster.


You can best contact us by sending email to

   support@chemistry.ohio-state.edu

E-mail is preferred and guarantees that somebody will get back to you within
24 hours ("difficult problems will be fixed immediately, wonders take a
little longer").