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Contents 1 Detailed Weekly Logs 2008 1.1 Week Starting May 5th 1.2 Week Starting April 28th 1.3 Week Starting April 21st 1.4 Week Starting March 17th 1.5 Week Starting March 10th 1.6 Week Starting February 25th 1.7 Week Starting February 18th 1.8 Week Starting February 11th 1.9 Week Starting February 5th 1.10 Week Starting January 28th 1.11 Week Starting January 21st 1.12 Week Starting January 14th 1.13 Week Starting January 7th 2 Weekly Logs 2007

[edit] Detailed Weekly Logs 2008

[edit] Week Starting May 5th

Monday:

• May 3rd postmortem meeting
• Node maintenance post-3rd (note imaging science - how to keep it up?)
• Documentation re:last week (this page)
• Plan for last two weeks of this quarter (node cleanup/maintenance, particularly in library, and speccing/prep for hd)
• Looked at some HDMI capture cards

Wednesday:

• Installed 64-bit Ubuntu on shams
  • Not getting full 10gig on web100 test
• More ultragrid/iHDTV research, etc.

[edit] Week Starting April 28th

Monday:

• Moved Kestrel to graphics lab - initial testing for Virtual Theatre
• Initial setup for library node - 1 TV up

Tuesday:

• Second TV up in library?

Wednesday:

• More testing for Virtual Theatre, with additional nodes from graphics lab/presentation machine in auditorium, including DV screen capture via canopus box

Friday:

• Test with all possible DV streams running
• Ensured all nodes had ExtendedVideo & H264 services installed, as well as VNC servers
  • Noted as many IPs as possible for VNC servers - see May 3rd Info
• Dress rehearsal for Virtual Theatre
• All nodes in place and transmitting (except Falcon, which was transmitting in CASCI)

Saturday:

• May 3rd - demoing, virtual theatre, etc.

[edit] Week Starting April 21st

Monday:

• Demo/meeting for Supercomputing at New Mexico/LANL
• Cameras in CASCI conference room are now mounted

Wednesday:

• Some more setup for Kids on the Grid

Thursday:

• Kids on the Grid: audio went not-so-well in the first sessions. Check reliability of RAT on delilah for future events.

Friday:

• Planning for May 3rd
• ICE meeting
• LCDs arrived at library - met with Justin

[edit] Week Starting March 17th

Monday:

[edit] Week Starting March 10th

Friday:

• Andrew Started

Tuesday:

• Meeting with Melanie regarding "kids on the grid" poster
• Still trying to stop spam, locking down, making admins
• Fix archer
  • sync user ids for NFS /recording mount

[edit] Week Starting February 25th

• Training
• Web Archive Work
• Web presence development

[edit] Week Starting February 18th

Entire Week:

• Training
• Long-term Plan
• Prioritize

[edit] Week Starting February 11th

Entire Week

• Hiring

[edit] Week Starting February 5th

Entire Week:

• Hiring

Wednesday:

• First Interview at 2:00pm
• Meeting with Bill @ 1:30 for new monitors
• Demo in CASCI
• Resume madness

Tuesday:

• Resume madness
• RC Logo meeting
• Sorted/Printed more resumes

Monday:

• Absent

[edit] Week Starting January 28th

Friday:

• STB survey
• May 3rd Info
  • Available under budget from main page
• Posted media kit to: http://icelab.rit.edu/MEDIA%20KIT/
• ITC budget meeting/discussion
• Timesheets in

Thursday:

• ITC Seminar

Wednesday:

• AG announced tomorrow's seminar
  • Included AG Schedule link
• transcode videos
• STB survey
• printed resumes/cover letters

Tuesday:

• RC Seminar poster kiosk
• HD Video Notes
• ICE Lab Staff meeting
• Venue Server research w/ Matt
• Upgraded imaging/color science to 3.1 Final
• May 3rd Budget
• Got pictures from camera

Monday:

• Emailed co-op office regarding Spring 08 co-ops
• Investigating diskless ubuntu on Sun machiens
• Updated RC jobs page: http://rc.rit.edu/jobs.html
• Photo gallery migrated
  • http://media.rc.rit.edu/gallery2/
• Memtest86 on falcon
  • Still haven't seen a hardware error on falcon's disk
    • Paul suggested it could be bad ram
• Migrating galler2 (with paul's new DB)

[edit] Week Starting January 21st

Friday:

• Orchester mayhem

Thursday:

• Setup VLC backup for tomorrow
• Lots of meetings
• Returned HDV cam
• Asked Dave Rapp (ArtPeace) to find path from East High to NYSERNet
  • He is asking up the chain
  • Ground tests prepared for Friday
• Registered on network
• Retrieved New STB

Wednesday:

• moninfo is useful, as well as powerstrip for doing odd video things
• Tested DVI to component converter
  • Even with 1920x1080/60 and 1920x1080/30 (interlaced), no output from computer
• Developing backup plan for Friday performance
• Fixed roundy corners on ICE Lab prototype
• Moved prototype to better server
  • http://icelab.rit.edu/newWebProto/
• Phone conversation with Michael Farrington regarding STB, Philly stream
• http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?submit_type=insightsurvey&tracknumbers=863430851242
• STB Bricked, having Ian next-day another
• Trying to get nvidia falcon driver installed with PAE for 8GB memory
  • getting errors
• Falcon backups, fixing
• STB test

Tuesday:

• Remotely crashed falcon
  • really odd errors
• More archive transcoding tests
• HOLY CANNOLI:
  • http://rc.rit.edu/apply/FINAL/rcreg-page1.php?uname=kcsics
  • http://rc.rit.edu/apply/FINAL/quick-admin.php
• Setting up semi-secure RC database for Ryan to get started
• Melanie began iconography project
  • Building Connected Communities
  • Facilitating Collaborative Research
  • Community Outreach
• Car battery explosion

Monday:

• Tested component and composite out on HD cam
  • composite is junky as expected
  • component looks awesome
• http://rc.rit.edu/apply
  • Merging code
  • Need .htaccess
  • Migrated everything to rc.rit.edu (mysql database)
    • mysqldump rc -u rcstaff -p > research_computing_db.txt
    • mysql -u rcstaff -p research_computing < research_computing_db.txt
• Java Wally's Meeting
• Installed Stable 3.1 on Delilah
• Rejoined nodes

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[edit] Week Starting January 14th

Saturday:

• Tried recompiling MP4Box utilities with mp3 support (conflicting pthreads)
• Access Grid Considerations for High Schools
• Met with Dave Rapp from Art Peace (10am-12)
  • Technical Details
  • Arranged testing for Tuesday

Friday:

• More S-Video Testing
• Lined up vendor for extron stuff
• Joe Geigel Testing
• STB Testing, Golisano

Thursday:

• Initial Seminar post-processing
• Thursday Seminar
  • Podium, Shared Presentation, 3 screens
• S-Video Testing with Matt

Wednesday:

• LDAP testing w/ Mike Young
• STB audio testing
  • no go
• requested powerpoint
• secured podium
• Recoded archive for mov
• Email to Opera crew & gail
• Meeting with Gail Breslow of the Intel Computer Club house
• Converted all videos in the archive
  • Still need to hint
• Wrote "transcode-subdirs.sh"

Tuesday:

• Reorganized Priority List
• Meeting w/ Joe and Matt
• Posted Thursday event to AG Scheduler, both AG Lists
• http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-69213.html
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ffmpeg
• Searching for web-friendly format
• Fixing transcoding:
  • http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=556596
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/85751

Monday:

• FIXED TRANSCODING:
  • USE THIS COMMAND: mencoder 2streams.mpg -o 2streams_mencoder-file.avi -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=xvid
• http://rc.rit.edu/docs/rcss.html redirect
• Printed posters
  • Distributed
• Transcoding
  • Still busted
• Falcon backup key added
• RC Poster fixes, updated
• RC account migration (Chris Leckinger)
• Meeting with Paul @ Javas

[edit] Week Starting January 7th

Sunday:

• Fixed Shadeborder.js (2048, double 4096)
• Recode RSS for locally hosted gallery2

Saturday:

• Research Computing PSD eval
• Philorch STB test, VLC test
• Node status check
• Came in to get falcon booted again

Thursday:

• Knoppix data restore
  • FSCK the drive
  • knoppix to mount
  • won't boot
• RC Staff Meeting
• Worked with Mel on Winter RC poster http://rc.rit.edu/docs/rcss-winter2007.pdf
• Falcon troubleshooting, data restore
• FALCON's drive is dying........
  • Emergency backup to delilah
• Implementing final RC form
• https://people.rit.edu/~kcsics/rc-auth/FINAL/rcreg-page1.php
• STB testing
  • Choppy
  • Packet Queuing
  • Broken in VLC too

Wednesday:

• Printed 7 Packets for Lab
• Wireshark packet sniffing
  • No traffic from philorch stream
• Called Ian Smith with Philorch
• Extensive Web Form research
  • Don't want to "code into a corner"
• More AMino STB testing
  • Can't view seattle
• Left a message for Gail Breslow regarding ICC and ICELab collaboration
• Intel Computer Clubhouse research
• Codec research
  • AG and 261, 263, 264
  • tried various tweaks to improve quality of standard streams
• Amino STB setup
  • Registered, configured

Tuesday:

• Mel sent first task
• All photos uploaded
• Matt meeting
  • documentation
  • scan conversion research
• Joe Geigel Meeting
• Mel's paperwork finished
  • Media kit hand-off
• RC User Database wrap-up began
• Reorganizing media, etc for collaboration
• Bookstore Trip
  • AA Batteries for Delilah's Wireless Mouse/Keyboard
  • 50 CDs ($13.00; cheapest)
• Clarified ICELab involvement with ArtPeace, UK, Ghana project
  • Emails sent
• Burned Media kit to CD for Melanie
  • Didn't finish yesterday

Monday:

• ICE Lab Strategy Meeting
• Started RC Seminar Poster
• Re-gaffed conference room
• Setup meeting w/ Joe, 2pm tomorrow, conference room
• Setup meeting w/ Melanie 12 or 1pm tomorrow
• Organized Media Kit for Melanie
  • Burned to CD
• Took down robotics demo setup
• Uploaded Robotics Demo Photos
  • Emailed link to Paul Mercer
  • http://falcon.rit.edu/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=132
• CDWG invoice -> Tracy
• Emails to new hires
  • Matt is started on AG/VR summary
• Joe Geigel email
• Check node status
• Back to work

[edit] Weekly Logs 2007