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Others: Alex, Sidhard (sp?), Boris, Liang (and in the future, anyone else in the group).

Goal

Get application on Skeeve (itself called Skeeve?) to run on contemporary, supported OS and hardware (ex. 64-bit)Dispose of Skeeve without destroying unique data.

Project status

4/22/13 (Mon): Per Peter's request, Oliver confirmed HD's were not SCSI drives (it's an IDE drive). Per Peter, these may be disposed using normal procedures, which includes ensuring data is wiped.

• Also, computer is now over 11 years of old (3/02 - 4/13). Peter is mistaken from his 4/5 email (copied below) : This
  • Peter reports computer has 4GB RAM. However, this old computer can only support up to 2GB RAM (4 x 512GB). It's a moot point, but this system uses RAM (RAMBUS) one cannot buy today, for all practical purposes.
  • Peter thought the computer had an ATA (if not SCSI) hard drive. It's not; it's an IDE hard drive.

4/5/13 (Fri): Skeeve has been removed from Joanne's office to a temporary storage spot in ChemIT's offices where it remains not plugged in and ready for disposal (see to-do's).

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4/22/13 (Mon): Dell asset tag is 8VQBC11.:

• Computer Model: Precision 340
• Shipping Date: 3/26/2002

Peter writes (4/5/13):

Skeeve decommissioning:

1. At this stage Skeeve is a defunct PC. It may or may not hold private data, we do not know. The data should be shredded. To use this PC or to scrap should be decided.
 
2. The box is old but still better than most PCs we currently use with our spectrometers. I know it has 4 GB RAM, which is fine for what it could be used for. I did not look inside, but it is good to know what it

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has:

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• a) processor? 
• b) Hard drive?  ATA or SCSI?
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• c) network card?
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• d) expansion slots? - PCI/ISA
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• e) video card 
• If HD is ATA, we replace it with a new one and try to install generic XP or 2000/2003, given Dell MB drivers are available for this box, particularly for the chipset and graphics.
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• If HD is SCSI, disk shredding and reformatting to NTFS should suffice.

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• There would be no experimental data on that computer's hard disk since that data would instead be in each researcher's home directory (again, on CCMR's file share). This was confirmed by Barry, per Oliver's conversation with Barry earlier in the week.
• We confirmed that the source code was available in CCMR's file share. There are currently no plans to reinstall that code on another system.
• Therefore, removed original goal, "Get application on Skeeve (itself called Skeeve?) to run on contemporary, supported OS and hardware (ex. 64-bit)." New goal added, "Dispose of Skeeve without destroying unique data."

4/3/13 (Wed): Removed Skeeve from power.

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