On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:39:15 -0500, Rick Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:45, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The data center won't consider ANY solution. They won't let me buy my
> >>own port and they won't accomodate me in ANY way. I guess I will either
> >>have to get the department to find me another office or take the machine
> >>home. Needless to say, I haven't found this place to be very accomodating.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Getting pretty far off-topic here, but if you don't need anything
> >specific to the data center LAN and no other network is available
> >there, why did you end up in that building?
> >
> >
> >
> Because there is very little space available in the department. I am
> requesting a project office outside the data center. I had done this
> before when I told them I need space for the additional computer
> equipment that I was buying. They ended up giving me more space but
> still in the data center. I thought all my problems were solved until we
> were setting up the system (putting it together in an open area near my
> office) and the IT people started nosing around. My project has no
> connection with the data center so I never involved them (plus I don't
> need them for one computer that's primarily doing number crunching.
> Everyone in the building (outside the data center) does whatever they
> want (the university does not manage their computer - but will turn off
> their ports if the computer becomes a problem). It seems that just
> because my office is PHYSICALLY located in the data center, I have no
> rights whatsoever. Even though there is no real difference between
> connecting my computer in my office or connecting it to a port in an
> office across the hall from the data center. If there were a real
> security threat then at least I could understand this. But from
> everything I know, this is purely political with me caught in the middle.
>
> A lot is riding on this. Not only this grant, but if this grant succeeds
> then there is a much bigger grant to follow. I just started at this
> university and apparently getting a relatively large (first time) grant
> after being here only a couple of months counts for nothing . I have had
> to learn everything here the hard way because they neither tell you what
> the rules are nor publish them anywhere. I did tell everyone about the
> grant and that I needed to buy and use my own computer equipment. The
> proposal was accepted by DOE in large part because it would be using
> innovative methods both in the use of statistical methods and also the
> use of computers.
>
> Rick B.
>
Is there any chance you could go over their heads and talk directly to
someone above them? That could at least relocate your office to a
better place.
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