On Fri, 6 May 2005, Juris P. Svenne wrote:
> >4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software
> >licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists
> >the existing software licences held by the University?
>
> No, would like to know.
Hi Juris (et al), I'm copying the list on this E-mail as they may be
interested in this section. The typical inquiry for software should go
through:
1. Your LAN administrator, if they don't know then,
2. Myself. If I don't have it or know about it then,
3a. ACN's Software Team to request funding (for a course).
3b. The Bookstore (to purchase an individual copy).
I try to keep a list of all licenses held by the University. The
information I collect is done on a voluntary basis, so I won't claim to
know all of the available licenses the University has.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/dept_sw.html
I also keep a list of the licenses that ACN maintains for the general use
of the University. Online application forms are available here. Most of
these include at least a media fee, and some of them require yearly
licensing fees (although their costs are significantly cheaper than if you
purchased the package on your own).
http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/acn_site.html
Over the years ACN's Software Team's discretionary budget has been going
more and more into maintenance agreements for existing packages, which
leaves little for course requests. We'd still like to support funding for
student courses, so this has resulted in licensing fees for some packages,
and our most recent request to discontinue the SAS for Mac usage.
If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
> >5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which
> >software application(s) are you using?
>
> I foresee a need to use Mathematica.
We have an application form here:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/support/pdf/mathematicaapp.pdf
Home-use licenses are available however there is a yearly license fee for
those.
--
Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the moralists are
Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable sentiment.
Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, repent, make
University of Manitoba what amends you can and address yourself
622 Engineering to the task of behaving better next
Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over your
wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not
Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."
Hello Everyone,
Many of you might not realize is that there is an internal email
list, like the apple-list, but for University computer support
personnel. ACN (Academic Computing and Networking) recently submitted
a request for input to that email list.
ACN is looking into the possibility of recovering budgetary dollars
by terminating unnecessary software licences, of which SAS for the
Macintosh is a potential candidate. To that end, they are asking
Macintosh users to respond to the following questions:
1.) Are there any users of SAS for the Macintosh on campus?
2.) Are the University's SAS users being served via the Windows, Unix
and Linux versions instead?
And I'll add three more questions,
3.) Were you even aware that there was a SAS licence for Macintosh
systems on campus?
4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software
licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists
the existing software licences held by the University?
5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which
software application(s) are you using?
I would ask that if you know of any graduate students, staff or
faculty whom you believe should be given an opportunity for input
into this issue, please forward this message onto them. For the sake
of thoroughness, I've including the original posting from Will at the
end of this message.
Please respond directly to Will Christie (chrstie(a)cc.umanitoba.ca),
and if you don't mind please 'cc' me as well, as I would be curious
to see the responses.
ACN will be renewing the SAS contract in August, so they would like
feedback as soon as possible.
Regards,
Doug
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Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP
Senior Apple Computer Consultant
Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba
204-474-6196 (Ph.)
204-474-7556 (Fax)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Will Christie <chrstie(a)cc.umanitoba.ca>
> Date: May 5, 2005 2:03:20 PM CDT (CA)
> Subject: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage
>
>
> The University has an enterprise license for SAS that is not based
> on machine count but rather on the number of operating systems that
> are required by our institution. The cost of this contract is
> substantial and ACN is looking at discontinuing the licenses for
> unneeded operating systems. SAS for Macintosh is one potential
> candidate.
>
> The current version of SAS is 9. SAS for Mac is still on version 6
> with no plans to bring it up-to-date with other OSs. Are there any
> users of SAS for Mac? Are the University's SAS users being served
> with the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead? ACN will be
> renewing our SAS contract in August, so your feedback before then
> will be appreciated.
>
> --
> Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the
> moralists are
> Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable
> sentiment.
> Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly,
> repent, make
> University of Manitoba what amends you can and address
> yourself
> 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better
> next
> Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over
> your
> wrongdoing. Rolling in the
> muck is not
> Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."
There are various things you should do before you actually move over
to TIGER.
1) Purchase a copy of Tiger. Well OK, this could the second last
thing on this list but who can wait?! ::-0
The other items should be done before you bring your Tiger DVD near
your computer.... just to be sure.
2) Back up your important data. There are various ways of doing this:
- burn important data to CD: the definitive source of help for this
is.... the HELP menu. In the search field select "Search all Help"
and type in the word "burn". This should get you on the way.
- burn important data to DVD (if you're lucky enough to have a DVD
burner) (see previous HELP suggestion)
- copy important data to another hard drive/computer. There are
various ways of doing this but the simplest is to connect an external
FireWire drive to your computer and use that. You can also connect
another computer in "Disk Mode". Search all HELP for "disk mode". You
should see an entry for "Transferring files between two computers
using FireWire". Check it out.
- if you have a .Mac account, you might also contemplate using
the .Mac Backup utility. Backup is free with .Mac and fairly
straightforward. You check off the bits you want backed up and set
the backup destination (.Mac account, CD, DVD, other hard drive,
etc.) and you're off. It didn't seem to list everything I had wanted
to backup, however, but it did do things like preferences, iTunes
catalogue, etc.
- lastly, is Carbon Copy Cloner, a free utility (although donations
are accepted) available at: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
The downside of this is this won't work under Tiger... yet. The
author is making changes even as you read this. I haven't used this
but have heard people talk about its use. It is easy to back up
everything, apparently, and restore it later..... to versions
10.1-10.3. Like I said, 10.4 is coming....
- all of the above. Just how important is your "important data" to you?!
3) fix your hard drive. Chances are that things have gone slightly
awry on your drive over time and you may not be aware of it. Apple
provides the "Disk Utility" to handle this. Now you can find this
utility on your hard drive but to be able to fix anything you must
boot with your original OSX install disk 1 and launch "Disk Utility"
from that menu. If you launch from your local hard drive you will be
able to Find problems but not Fix them. HELP can be helpful here as
well if you search for "disk repair" and also check out the HELP
within "Disk Utility" itself.
I would suggest that you do both "Repair Permissions" and "Repair
Disk" for you drive since they fix different things.
4) Now that you've spent countless hours backing up (you did back up
your important files that you can't recreate and won't be able to
work without, didn't you?) and fixing things, now you're ready to
install Tiger.
You have basically two choices (well, technically three but two are
just variations on a theme).
You can "install in place" (referred to in the "Installation and
Setup Guide" as "Upgrade OS X". This basically deletes anything to do
with your old system and installs 10.4 in it's place. The variant of
this is "Archive and Install". This will install the complete new
system for you but first it archives your old System, applications,
etc. (into a folder named "Previous System) and then does the
install. You won't be able to boot from the "Previous System" but you
can copy things out into your new Tigerly world.
There is also a "Scorched Earth" option - well, OK, Apple doesn't
call it that but, well, you get the idea. "Erase and Install" does
just that. It erases your entire hard drive (well, the one you select
during the install process) and then installs 10.4 into this pristine
space. The upside is that you are pretty much guarenteed no hard
drive problems (yes, I know, you did the hard drive repair
earlier.... but what if...) and you are definitely guarenteed that OS
10.4 Tiger will be the first things installed onto this hard drive -
which might make it perform better since it now has the choice real
estate on your hard drive.
The downside? No user IDs. No applications. No preferences.... other
than the defaults that come with OS X. If you've used the .Mac Backup
utility, some of this can readily be restored.... but probably not
all of it. For example, user IDs must be created before you can
restore the preferences for same.
All of that having been said, it's not a complicated process. It just
takes some time to be safe.
FYI: I did the Archive and Install choice. Things are working well so
far and I'm happy (so far) with the performance I'm seeing.
Good luck and happy Tiger'ing,
Wayne Billing
You can also find an audio version of this at:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~billing/casting/Install%20Tiger%20Prep-
postprod.mp3
Hello Everyone:
For those of you who have not already registered (and those of you not
on apple-list who I'm spamming with message), please find the attached
invitation to our OS X 10.4 Tiger Technology seminar. The Winnipeg event
is on May 10th from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Sheraton Winnipeg, 161
Donald Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1M3.
Please feel free to invite anyone who you feel would be interested in
this session.
You can register online at:
www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education
Regards,
Doug
Internet May 25, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" for Scientific and Technical
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Join Apple in this densely-packed webcast on how each new feature in
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For more details:
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Internet Jun 16, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server for High Performance
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For General Audiences
Learn about the technical underpinnings of Apple's latest OS, and how
new features and updates will benefit users of Mac OS X-based clusters
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For more details:
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Tiger ships on DVDs. To trade in your DVD for CDs. Apple offers a Media
Exchange Program
whereby you can return your Tiger Install DVD (along with $10) in
exchange for a set of CDs. For complete details of this offer, which
expires on July 9, 2005, download this PDF file:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexchange.pdf.
...from:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
Customers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh computer on or after
April 12th, 2005 that does not have Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" included can
upgrade to Tiger at a cost of US$9.95.
The program ends on July 22nd 2005. Your order must be postmarked or
faxed by July 9th 2005, so order your upgrade now.
The list of qualifying computers can be found at:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/list.html
