RASC stuff

Did a bunch of things for the RASC today...

Monitored the weather and security servers. Both are working.

Learned from Tony that the weather station is working fine, on battery power. No messages on the console. Good news.

After a reply from Tony, I tried to gently deflect Eric from the CAO supervisor group. I encouraged him to ask, if he needed anything.

Helped Tony with the old Dell laptop. He couldn't get it to connect wirelessly to the CAO network. Was OK wired. We checked all the settings. Everything seemed in order. But he reported it showed the IP number as 0.0.0.0. So I walked him through renewing the DHCP lease. It worked.

While chatting, he reported that the new remote control for the Panasonic projector worked fine. That's a relief. He tried the mute, menu, adjusting the keystone. Sounds like the arrow keys, enter, backup, are all working. Thank you!

He reported the new phone / intercom worked well. Maybe too well. Apparently he received many pages while in the GBO... Be careful what you wish for.

Phil had made some comments based on observations of the CAO Bookings page(s). I made a number of adjustments to the content to clarify things. He thinks it is better now. I looked into, once again, how to change the calendar itself, the fields and prompts. Something just does not seem to be working right. Oh well. I'll let this work itself out later, with a new server setup. In the meantime, we can add a bit more detail to the booking details themselves...

This reminded me that a bunch of this content lives outside the CMS. I need to move it inside.

Sent yet another message to the WPP...

I updated the CAO GBO telescope-eyepiece matrix spreadsheet. Switched to a landscape layout. Seems to flow a bit better now. Some improved formatting. Added a row for a "guest" eyepiece. Uploaded it.

Did some tiding up in the CAO supervisors Yahoo!Group. Sent the councillors the list of files contained within that group.

All that said, I turned down a lunch meeting with Leslie and Diane, as they work on education materials.