BigSur2

On Monday afternoon I noticed that the CPU fan was not working on the workstation to bigsur. Obviously, this failure is related to fan problems we noticed earlier. I'm not sure if lubricating the fans prolonged or decreased their lifetime. Whatever the case, this hardware failure forced me to stop procrastinating and swap the PCs.

On Tuesday morning I had to take BigSur offline to configure the new computer. I had a humorous and embarrassing call to IT that I should relate for posterity. I had the computer properly networked then I installed Topspin 2.1 and the computer wasn't pulling the right IP address and hence, not getting on KU's network. You'd think after years of graduate school I could follow a simple cause-and-effect. Topspin statically sets the IP of your nic so that you can communicate with the spectrometer, properly. Unfortunately, I registered that nic in Proteaus (technically I didn't register anything in Proteaus because I don't have access. My colleague Jim Knoop register it for me) before the TS install. So I had to set that nic back to pulling dynamic IP. I think I set the other nic to talk with the console. If I can't get the console to communicate the network configuration will be the first thing I check.

At any rate, I set up the network, reset the exports to share drives, reset the mount points on all of the processing stations in SBC, set up samba and I think I'm ready to go.

Except, I don't have the license file from Bruker. I hope they get that to me soon, because I'm frying the processor of the old workstation every second I run it. Let's hope it survives.

Justin