Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Abteilung Astronomie Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Changes in the System

2001/07/30

Mirroring satellite orbits from celestrak works again after they switched over to the HTTP protocol

2001/07/16

GNU diff and GNU rcs installed on OSF

2001/07/12-14

xmmarray doubled in size

2001/07/02

glimpse installed

2001/06/30

w3perl installed

2001/06/03

pstoedit upgraded to 3.17

2001/06

upgrade of zu3

2001/02/23

mpeg2encode on linux and OSF installed (needed by convert)

2001/01/01

IDLWAVE mode for Linux installed

2001/01

upgraded to IDL 5.3

2001/01

major problems with 100MBit network

2000/12/27

ftpd updated to wu-2.6.1(1) due to security reasons.

2000/12/22

ftp only possible on zu3, all r* commands switched off
installed gtar 1.13 on OSF

2000/09/29

glimpse installed

2000/09/13

ds9 updated to 1.9.7.1

2000/09/11

majordomo updated to 1.95.5

2000/07/02

OSF and Linux gs updated to 6.02

2000/06/28

ftnchek 2.12.1 installed on OSF and Linux

2000/06/27

installed pilot-link.0.9.3 and jpilot-0.98.1 on linux machines

2000/05/28

ds9 and saotng installed

2000/02/18

midas 99NOV installed

2000/01

updates of lots of software for Y2K reasons

1999/12

Y2K upgrades

1999/11/12

new idl.el (version 1.42)

1999/10/17

installed latex2html in /usr/local/share/TeX/share/texmf.local

1999/10/16

installed xmmarray

1999/10/12

FOTEL installed

1999/10/11

reboot of all machines due to /usr/local crash

1999/06/11

starOffice on Linux

1999/06/11

welcome aitxu2!

1999/05/15

saoimage installed on OSF and Linux

1999/03/25

f90 from Pacific Research installed on Linux

1999/02/xx

Lots of minor changes and upgrades

1999/01/xx

Upgraded all Linux machines

1999/01/08

ROOT now in version 2.20

1999/01/08

RAID 5 80GB Array verified

1999/01/07

400GB DLT Tape Archiver works

1998/12/12

tex save in emacs now much faster

1998/11/xx

90GB array online (not tested yet)

1998/10/20

aittyc now has about 3.5GB of swap

1998/10/20

array is back on 62GB

1998/09/23

majordomo installed on astro

1998/09/23

procmail runs on OSF

1998/09/22

aitzu3 is now a POP3 server

1998/09/09

now 8 IDL licenses on Unix

1998/09/03

netscape 4.05 installed on OSF

1998/09/02

tons of new printer queues installed (do a lpc status)

1998/07/19

We now mirror several catalogs of orbital elements once a week (see the XEPHEM catalog page for details).

1998/07/17

pstoedit now in version 2.60

1998/07/16

GIMP now also available on OSF

1998/07/06

Installed mySQL (see the installed software page for details).

1998/07/03

Upgrade of sshd.

1998/07/01

ait730 now runs OSF.

1998/06/24

packlib from CERN now available on OSF and Linux

1998/06/24

now xspec 10.00s

1998/06/16

IDL 5.1 now default

1998/06/09

moved NIS server to aitzu3

1998/06/04

root from CERN installed on OSF and Linux (bombs, though)

1998/06/04

xephem 3.1 installed

1998/05/28

acrobat now works on OSF and Linux

1998/05/25

ImageMagick 4.0.6 installed.

1998/05/15

Installed emacs 20.2.2 on all systems except Solaris

1998/05

Upgrade of all OSF machines to Digital Unix 4.0B, lots of additional changes.

1998/03/27

Installed wget

1998/03/20

Installed five new Linux machines

1998/03/11

We now regularily mirror the IDL Astrolib from GSFC.

1998/03/04

Latex2html now available

1998/02/26

Astronomy and Astrophysics LaTeX style file is now in version 4.02 (see /usr/local/TeX/tex/latex/AA)

1998/02/26

installed netscape navigator 4.04 on OSF, works only on aitos3

1998/02/10

xfig 3.2 installed on OSF, manuals available.

1998/01/11

IDL maps now also available in high resolution.

1998/01/10

Exchange of the FDDI interface on zu3.

1997/12/18

Installed new printer queues for hp5-printer in the main building.

1997/10/23

fontserver-update on aitzu3.

1997/10/23

updated TeX listings package.

1997/10/22

Network connection to ew3 works correctly.

1997/10/21

des installed on OSF and SUN.

1997/10/21

Lot's of changes recently: aitew3 is now part of the Unix cluster, lot's of minor upgrades

1997/09/25

deleq environment installed for TeX. Allows equations to be numbered like (3.14a) and (3.14b).

1997/09/10

Printing works on Suns, netpbm installed on OSF

1997/09/09

groff installed on puck.

1997/09/08

xstarview, an interface for the HST archive, is now available on OSF.

1997/08/16

Installed astronbib, v.3.3, a BibTeX style for astronomical journals (AA, ApJ, MNRAS, PASP). Documentation is in /usr/local/TeX/tex/latex/astrobibv3.3, or at STScI.

1997/08/13

New version of TeX emulateapj.sty.

1997/08/03

Changed GS_FONTPATH so that ghostscript now finds more fonts on OSF1.

1997/07/23

Changed mount-structure on AITADA

1997/07/21

Installed XSPEC patches up to 10.0i.

1997/07/20

gzip, gtar, and emacs installed on aitpuck.

1997/07/18

new Latex2e-compatible style for Astron.Astrophys. installed.

1997/07/16

parfiles for EXSAS installed (were missing in original distribution).

1997/07/14

XSPEC 10 installed.

1997/07/09

EXSAS, vers 97JUN_EXP installed.

1997/06/24

emulateapj for TeX installed. Produces page-layout close of that used by ApJ (and even closer if you use it with apjfonts).

1997/06/22

Licenses installed on PUCK: cc, C++, f77, f90, pc are now available.

1997/06/22

New FTOOLS release installed on OSF and SUN, also new RXTE Calibration files.

1997/06/20

New emacs mode: RefTeX. Helps finding references and inserting them in TeX documents. Needs AucTeX to work. email me for instructions on how to use it.

1997/06/01

Installed MIDAS, release 96NOVpl1.0 on AIT/OSF-Machines.

1997/05/27

Added a DAT-Drive to AITOS2. Is device /dev/(n)rmt6h. Save files with

tar c6v <filename>

and restore with

tar x6v

(the 6 is the device-number).

1997/05/27

Installed new 9GB disk on AITOS3. Will be mainly used for RXTE data analysis of LMC X-1 and X-3 (is /usr/local/xte/xte2).

1997/05/27

xsimbad 1.10 installed on OSF, Ultrix, and HP-UX. Doesn't run on Solaris because the X-libraries are (still) missing.

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