Archive for February, 2003

tempting fate

Friday, February 28th, 2003

Perhaps the server heard someone talking about expanding her storage capacity, but she decided that this week would be a good time to act up.

Yesterday she reported that one of the disks making up the /home2 array was “degraded”. Upon investigation, this did not appear to be a physical failure of the disk, just […]

Airport Base Station acting wonky

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

So Ken handed me his Airport Base Station and said, here, fix this. It’s not working anymore. He uses AT&T Cable Broadband at home, and while he could find the Airport network from his client machines, no Internet access was forthcoming. Not having an Airport card at work, I took it home and […]

Office/Outlook problems with XP

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

Users of the Windows XP machines in one of the labs were having problems with Office 2000 applications and Outlook 2000. The applications would start, display a document window briefly, then close very quickly, with no error, warning, or message. This situation is very difficult to debug. I first suspected some kind […]

incomplete DICOM headers

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003

So last week, we discovered a new problem using data from the new scanner. Certain functional fMRI runs wouldn’t convert from DICOM to AFNI formats. AFNI would die, complaining about indecipherable SIEMENS MOSAIC info.

This refers to a DICOM header (0029 1020), which is supposed to contain information about the composition of the image […]

God Bless CUPS

Monday, February 10th, 2003

apt-get install cupsys-client cupsys-bsd

emacs /etc/cups/client.conf

< insert server name >

Print. In color, or black and white. Upstairs or downstairs. Hooray.

On the server side it was almost as easy, but with different packages, and some running up and down the stairs to find out what model printers I was dealing with. […]