10/9/08 Go-live of RHEL 5.2 ISO depot.
10/6/08 Conducted a kickoff meeting for an MIT Fedora User Group.
9/16/08 Completed project to revise the "Buy Athena" web pages.
9/10/08 Go-live of change to web.mit.edu MIME configuration to treat .rpm as a file, not Real Player media which will make Linux software downloads much more convenienient.
8/19/08 Production go-live of PXE update for new Athena Installer.
8/15/08 Athena 10 Preview Release go-live.
8/7/08 Went Live with RHEL 5.2.
6/24/08 Went Live with renewed Red Hat Contract. RHN is renewed for another year.
6/18-21/08 Attended Red Hat Summit and FUDCon. This may be very helpful to relations between MIT and Red Hat and the Fedora Project.
6/17/08 Shepherded Hotfix to Satellite Server of nasty problem preventing RHEL 5 updates.
5/29/08 Kickoff of Red Hat 5.2 Software Release Project.
5/22/08 Kickoff of review of "Buy Athena" web pages.
5/16/08 Kickoff of Athena Renewal discussions.
4/25/08 Crafted a system for managing the Athena Portfolio of projects using Confluence Wiki, Jira, and a Personal Wiki page.
4/24/08 Validated that 32 and 64 bit Windows XP and Vista work under RHEL VMware.
4/10/08 Validated a fix to links into ECAT being scrambled in ECAT3 transition.
4/8/08 Performance review and quarterly planning.
3/27/08 Went live with update of Cambridge Structural Database 2008 update, including testing on 64 bit Linux.
3/27/08 Updated OpenAFS 1.4.1 for RHEL 4 to more reliably build and install SMP kernel module.
3/25/08 Went live with OpenAFS 1.4.6 for RHEL 5.
3/11/08 Converted my RHEL testing to use Virtual Machines backed up via TSM. VMware was comparatively easy to work with. TSM was excruciating. davek and pwhitney are working my issues.
2/21/08 We cut over to a slightly more secure RHN registration model that will make it harder for outsiders to get RHN on our
nickel.
1/31/08 Purged 336 redundant RHN subscribers, along with cleaning
up how subscriptions are set up, and activating a couple new software
channels.
1/16/08 RHEL4.6 CD ISOs online. (5.1 ISO DVDs are a problem to be resolved.)
1/8/08 Thunderbird documentation goes live.
1/2/08 OpenAFS for Linux Release Project kickoff.
12/14/07 Go-live of Pidgin for RHEL 5.(stealthy).
12/11/07 Thunderbird Support Statement published!
11/27/07 Employee Survey Workgroup luncheon and closeout.
11/26/07 RHEL 4.7 and 5.1 DVDs live at VSLS.
11/19/07 Summit meeting with Red Hat product managers.
11/6/07 Go-live of RHEL 4 backports of TechTime 10, VirusSCan 5.20 and new mit-lprng.
10/30/07 Go-Live of RHEL 5 with all apps except AFS.
10/24/07 Multi-OS option now included in RHEL License.
9/20/07 We learn how to create RH install DVD's from the CD ISO images.
9/12/07 Announce end of SuSE Pilot.
9/6/07 Go-Live of RHN upgrade.
8/2/07 Terminate SuSE Pilot.
7/16/07 RHEL 5 Software Release Project kickoff.
7/10/07 X Server Dell Show Stopper bug now under control.
6/13/07 Go-live of VirusScan 5.10
6/4/07 NIST roll-out of stunnel.
5/17/07 stunnel testing recommendation to ADOPT is delivered to NIST.
4/26/07 Handoff of Thunderbird Review to IS&T Leadership for decision and action.
3/21/07 to 4/2/07 Linux Stand and Be Counted Survey.
2/16/07 Resolution of show-stoppers to SuSE Laptop Linux Hardware sales.
1/9/07 Kickoff of VirusScan 5.10 for Linux Software Release Project.
1/4/07 Kickoff of Thunderbird Review project.