Linguistics mac administration
Spoke to Greg Fanning this morning on how the CALL facility administers their dual-boot iMacs. The system -- Deploy Studio -- is excellent but overkill for the 14 workstations I am responsible for. The time was not wasted, however, as I went into some detail into the EFI volume they use for their dual boots that will likely prove useful for the iMac I leave as a two headed beast.
Met with Sonya in the afternoon again and she said she would like to have one or maybe two iMacs remain with Windows installed. We also hashed out a basic software list she would like to see on the computers. Finally, she agreed to be my liaison with Linguistics department as far as the labs are concerned. Licenses must be buried in the storeroom...
Most of the iMacs are not authenticating with net-link right now, although three are. I'll sort this out quickly, maybe with help from Greg's post on this blog.