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<p><font face="serif">Good evening everyone. I was alerted to a
system problem this morning in GSC 405. When I got there one of
the systems had rebooted into windows. Further investigation
revealed that the hard drive had overheated, the system shut
down, automatically rebooted, and booted into windows due to the
failed linux boot drive. Another system is indicating similar
drive failures. A third system has a failing hard drive -- but
it is not a boot drive.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">In all cases Mercer IT has to come over and
clear out the Dell error logs for the systems to boot
properly. The system with the failed boot drive will take
longer because I don't have a spare drive to put in there.
Anyway, due to these hardware errors I am temporarily asking you
not to use GSC 405.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">Research students -- you are welcome to use
the systems in GSC 218 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and on MWF
afternoons. You will need to reboot those systems into linux
(I'll show you how to do that) but all of the programs you use
should work down there too. Graphics students -- I'm going to
try and get enough systems functioning tomorrow so we can have
class in the lab the rest of the week. We will not have class
tomorrow. I will provide you with a video lecture on texture
mapping to replace the class you are missing tomorrow.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">As a side note -- please do not adjust the
thermostat in GSC 405. I try to keep it at its lowest setting
to avoid problems like I experienced this weekend.</font></p>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b><i>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</i></b><br>
<i>Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science</i><br>
<i>Director of the Computational Science Program</i><br>
<i>Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627</i></div>
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