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Austin Computing Team
For system and user support of hardware and software, email the computing group at helpdesk@astro.as.utexas.edu. Requests are immediately forwarded to appropriate staff.
  1. Anita Cochran — RLM 16.338, 471-1471 office, anita@astro
    Assistant Director, McDonald Observatory

  2. Chris Wilkinson — RLM 16.206, 471-2880 office, 743-4022 cell, equus@astro
    Projects manager, workstation installation and maintenance, network and mass storage (RAIDs and tape-backup subsystems) coordinator, system management and consulting, policy; purchasing advice, specialized system backup and restoration, modem pool accounts, etc.

  3. Dario Landazuri — RLM 15.320B, 471-3334 office, 791-3690 cell, dario@astro
    MS Windows and GNU/Linux support, new PC installations, driver and patch installations, Macintosh installation and maintenance, system management and consulting, network connections and changes, new public Windows accounts, etc.

  4. Cloud Mason — RLM 15.320H, 232-2582 office, cmason@astro
    Solaris desktop support and DocuShare maintenance.

  5. Marci Coleman — RLM 15.320G, 471-3338 office, marci@astro
    Linux and MS Windows support, special projects, general user services including new astro accounts, printer maintenance, small purchases, media (tapes, laser printer cartridges, overhead, CD- R/RW, transparencies), etc.

  6. Jim Umbarger — RLM 17.310, 471-3454 office, jimum@astro
    Astronomy course web pages, power point presentation help, www support, maintainer of Department of Astronomy and Observatory web pages, etc.



The following machines are those typically used by the computing staff. Should you see someone logged into your system from one of these hosts, it is highly likely they are performing system maintenance.


  1. affirmed — Chris Wilkinson, 15.320H. Duel Intel P3 running GNU/Linux

  2. barolo — Anita Cochran, 16.338. Sun Ultra 1 running Sun Solaris 2.9

  3. secretariat — Chris Wilkinson, 15.320H. P3 running Windows 2000

  4. shadowfax — Chris Wilkinson, 15.302H. Sun Ultra 5 running Sun Solaris 2.9

  5. speedwagon — Dario Landazuri, 15.320B. P3 running GNU/Linux

  6. mcp — Marci Coleman, 15.320G. P3 running GNU/Linux

  7. bit — Marci Coleman, 15.320G. iMac running OS 10.5.3

  8. guarneri — Dario Landazuri, 15.320B. iMac running OS 10.5.3

  9. syrtis — Cloud Mason, 15.320H. Sun Ultra 5 running Sun Solaris 2.9








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