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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
AOLIS Report 2005
This report is an addendum and update to the AOLIS Report 2004 and therefore not as specific, elaborative, and inclusive or all things about aolis. The reader is advised to digest the AOLIS Report 2004 with this document.
Contents
* AOLIS Services by Priority
* Active Projects
* Coming Projects
* Operations Manual
o Daily Tasks
o Weekly Tasks
o Monthly Tasks
o Termly Tasks
o Yearly Tasks
o Automated Tasks
* Ongoing Research and Development for future projects
o VOIP
o Samba PDC
o Linux'ation of some office workstations
AOLIS Services by Priority
Priority Service
5 Backups
4 Student Accounts
4 Grades
4 Cafeteria System
3 Reports
3 Desktop Support
3 AOLIS Website
2 Telephone and Email Directory
2 Bellringer
2 Academic Internet
1 Wifi Service
1 Student Info
1 Data Recovery
1 AOLIS Personal ATM
Active Projects
* Accounting AOLISation
some modules usable already, a lot still 'work-in-progress'.
* Undergrounding of Sci-Annex & Dentistry Datalines
Coming Projects
* Online enrollment
Operations Manual
This section aims to transfer technology between successions of AOLIS Personnel. It is assumed that workers know how to read and write, and need minimum or no teaching to understand and implement new technologies.
Daily Tasks
* check email for critical updates for all servers
* audit /var/log/secure of all servers
* audit /var/log/messages of all servers
* check disk free of all servers
* look for expired login attempts in aolis (verify authenticity and re-enable expired accounts)
* look for other failures in logs
*
* check connectivity specifically with caf2.aolis.aup.edu.ph
* check connectivity to www.google.com and put necessary proxy announcement to reduce telephone calls
*
* check backup1.aolis.aup.edu.ph backup logs
*
* take a visiting walk to accounting office, registrars', and dsf
* take a visiting walk to administration offices, graduate school, COH, COB, CAST, dentistry, music, pe, education, pic
* wait for service calls by bringing long range telephone
Weekly Tasks
* download antivirus updates
* check slashdot for new stuff
* copy pictures for students from ro to aolis:/pictures for scheduled organizepictures.php to process
Monthly Tasks
* burn files modified in the last 30 days to CD/DVD (from backuppc)
Termly Tasks
* adjust year and sem in configuration files (aolis.conf, charges.conf, etc...)
* adjust year and sem in congrats
* adjust year and sem in shell environment variables
* delete table permissions
* adjust dates in accounting programs
* adjust dates in shell environment variables
Yearly Tasks
* make yearly report
Automated Tasks
* postgresql aolis backup (every two hours from 7am to 7pm)
* postgresql databasewide backup (every friday 4pm)
* generation of Enrollment List Summary (every 3 hours)
* generation of Enrollment List (every 3 hours)
* generation of misc sso & dsf reports (every 4am)
* organizing pictures for cafeteria (every 9pm)
* bellringer (every and 10 mins before between periods)
* copy of dumps from aolis.aolis.aup.edu.ph to db.aolis.aup.edu.ph (every night)
* backup of all hosts to backup1.aolis.aup.edu.ph (non-specific times)
Ongoing Research and Developments for future projects
* VOIP
(Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol) when in collaborative arrangements with co-Adventist establishments local, and specially abroad, will give the benefit of free local calls to peered-to call terminators with only the cost of internet bandwidth.
* Samba PDC
Setting up most workstations in the offices in Domain mode will increase productivity by orchestrating software updates which will greatly reduce if not extinguish virus and spyware proliferation in the campus network. Roaming profiles will lower downtime in servicing of workstations.
* Linux'ation of some office workstations
The benefits of linux workstations are
1. zero software cost
2. lowered maintenance and downtime (terminal services)
3. savings on hardware brought by the decrease in hardware requirements due to more efficient use
4. no viruses
5. easier administration
however the issues like local printing, sound, usb, floppy still have to be learned by compsci & aolis people.
Copyright AOLIS 2005
Written by Winelfred G. Pasamba
System Administrator, etc, of AOLIS ¶ 5:09 AM 0 comments
This report is an addendum and update to the AOLIS Report 2004 and therefore not as specific, elaborative, and inclusive or all things about aolis. The reader is advised to digest the AOLIS Report 2004 with this document.
Contents
* AOLIS Services by Priority
* Active Projects
* Coming Projects
* Operations Manual
o Daily Tasks
o Weekly Tasks
o Monthly Tasks
o Termly Tasks
o Yearly Tasks
o Automated Tasks
* Ongoing Research and Development for future projects
o VOIP
o Samba PDC
o Linux'ation of some office workstations
AOLIS Services by Priority
Priority Service
5 Backups
4 Student Accounts
4 Grades
4 Cafeteria System
3 Reports
3 Desktop Support
3 AOLIS Website
2 Telephone and Email Directory
2 Bellringer
2 Academic Internet
1 Wifi Service
1 Student Info
1 Data Recovery
1 AOLIS Personal ATM
Active Projects
* Accounting AOLISation
some modules usable already, a lot still 'work-in-progress'.
* Undergrounding of Sci-Annex & Dentistry Datalines
Coming Projects
* Online enrollment
Operations Manual
This section aims to transfer technology between successions of AOLIS Personnel. It is assumed that workers know how to read and write, and need minimum or no teaching to understand and implement new technologies.
Daily Tasks
* check email for critical updates for all servers
* audit /var/log/secure of all servers
* audit /var/log/messages of all servers
* check disk free of all servers
* look for expired login attempts in aolis (verify authenticity and re-enable expired accounts)
* look for other failures in logs
*
* check connectivity specifically with caf2.aolis.aup.edu.ph
* check connectivity to www.google.com and put necessary proxy announcement to reduce telephone calls
*
* check backup1.aolis.aup.edu.ph backup logs
*
* take a visiting walk to accounting office, registrars', and dsf
* take a visiting walk to administration offices, graduate school, COH, COB, CAST, dentistry, music, pe, education, pic
* wait for service calls by bringing long range telephone
Weekly Tasks
* download antivirus updates
* check slashdot for new stuff
* copy pictures for students from ro to aolis:/pictures for scheduled organizepictures.php to process
Monthly Tasks
* burn files modified in the last 30 days to CD/DVD (from backuppc)
Termly Tasks
* adjust year and sem in configuration files (aolis.conf, charges.conf, etc...)
* adjust year and sem in congrats
* adjust year and sem in shell environment variables
* delete table permissions
* adjust dates in accounting programs
* adjust dates in shell environment variables
Yearly Tasks
* make yearly report
Automated Tasks
* postgresql aolis backup (every two hours from 7am to 7pm)
* postgresql databasewide backup (every friday 4pm)
* generation of Enrollment List Summary (every 3 hours)
* generation of Enrollment List (every 3 hours)
* generation of misc sso & dsf reports (every 4am)
* organizing pictures for cafeteria (every 9pm)
* bellringer (every and 10 mins before between periods)
* copy of dumps from aolis.aolis.aup.edu.ph to db.aolis.aup.edu.ph (every night)
* backup of all hosts to backup1.aolis.aup.edu.ph (non-specific times)
Ongoing Research and Developments for future projects
* VOIP
(Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol) when in collaborative arrangements with co-Adventist establishments local, and specially abroad, will give the benefit of free local calls to peered-to call terminators with only the cost of internet bandwidth.
* Samba PDC
Setting up most workstations in the offices in Domain mode will increase productivity by orchestrating software updates which will greatly reduce if not extinguish virus and spyware proliferation in the campus network. Roaming profiles will lower downtime in servicing of workstations.
* Linux'ation of some office workstations
The benefits of linux workstations are
1. zero software cost
2. lowered maintenance and downtime (terminal services)
3. savings on hardware brought by the decrease in hardware requirements due to more efficient use
4. no viruses
5. easier administration
however the issues like local printing, sound, usb, floppy still have to be learned by compsci & aolis people.
Copyright AOLIS 2005
Written by Winelfred G. Pasamba
System Administrator, etc, of AOLIS ¶ 5:09 AM 0 comments
AOLIS Report 2004
Contents
* Introduction
* Inception, birth, infancy and start of operation
* Organizational Relational Position
* Services
* Financials
* Emerging Projects and Experiments
* People
* Job Descriptions
Introduction
What is AOLIS?
Welcome to AOLIS. A O L I S (ayo'lis) stands for Adventist University of the Philippines On-line Information System.
An On-line Information System is one which accepts input directly from the area where it is created. It is also a system in which the output, or results of computation, are returned directly to where they are required (Yourdon, 1972 cited). This usually means that the computer system has a hardware architecture that looks like that in the figure below:
A common characteristic of on-line systems is that data are entered into the computer system and received from the computer system remotely. That is, the users of the computer system typically interact with the computer from terminals that may be located hundreds of miles from other terminals and from the computer itself.
Another characteristic of an on-line systems is that its stored data, that is, its files or its database, are usually organized in such a way that individual pieces of data (such as an individual airline reservation record or an individual personnel record) can be retrieved and/or modified (1) quickly and (2) without necessarily accessing any other piece of data in the system.
With an on-line information system, the academic and service departments of AUP can access data from a centralized database such that information needed by one department from another may be obtained through the system.
Background of the Project
For many years in the past, many of the service and academic departments of AUP labored on the volume of students and personnel transactions that had to be dealt with throughout the academic year. Processing of transactions was most difficult during the enrollment period. Some of the major problems encountered, particularly as concerns the enrollment procedures of the following:
* Slow processing of transactions
* Tedious enrollment procedures
* Too much paper work
* Inaccessibility or unavailability of data that were needed immediately
The university Registrar, Mrs. Flor N. Olarte, who has been in the position since 1986 often express her concern over the difficulty and inefficiency in dealing with students transactions both on the part of the AUP workers and the students despite frequent changes in enrollment procedures. She had been hoping that the process would be speeded up possibly through a computerization scheme.
Meanwhile Mr. Todd N. Olarte, head of the Computer Science Department, had been thinking of what his department can contribute to the university in a significant measure. Computerization of the enrollment procedures and other student transactions was something that lingered in his thoughts being discontented himself with the inefficient and ineffective procedures implemented in the past. Until sometime in summer of 1998, Mr. Olarte and Mr. Daniel G. Pamintuan II, one of the part-time faculty members of the AUP Computer Science department, attended a seminar on information technology sponsored by the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE). On their way back home, the two exchange views and ideas about putting up an on-line information system in the university. That was when AOLIS Project was framed and from then on the following events occurred in succession.
The Goal of the AOLIS Project
"To provide an on-line information system to both academic and non academic departments of AUP through a centralized database system thereby making transactions speedy; data accessible, secure, and reliable; and achieving inter-department connectivity and cost-effectiveness toward a more efficient delivery of student and personnel services."
Development History
In June 1999, Sir Todd Olarte organized a sunday meeting with all the Computer Science Instructors and friends. The meeting was conducted by Sir Todd N. Olarte, Sir Daniel G. Pamintuan II (Sir Ton), Sir Benjohn G. Francisco, Sir Giovanni Ibale, Sir Dennis C. Rondael, and graduating student Winelfred G. Pasamba. The idea was conveyed, a proposal was made, the platform identified (freebsd/linux/opensource), the principles and working attitude was kindled, the goal was set, and the team members started to code, write, negotiate, coordinate and dream. The initial time frame for the project was an expanded 3 months of the estimated 3 weeks programming time. On the discovery of the real scope and depth of the project, the deadline was extended to March 2000 for the Summer Enrollment. The team worked inhumanly hard to beat this Summer Deadline. The Summer Enrollment of 2000 did not completely work due to incompleteness of the system, though parts of the system were running already (cashier, student information encoding). Paper enrollment and computer enrollment were side-by-side at this time for a safe fallback in case the computerized system failed. The team worked harder to make sure it would work for the First Sem Enrollment. A dry run was scheduled by the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Elizabeth M. Role, to test the sytem before the First Semester Enrollment. It finally worked, after a total 11 months of development. And it worked again in the final First Semester Enrollment. From that time on departments and colleges, students and teachers, the accounting and registrar's office got a reduction and speedup of work, giving AOLIS an exponentiation of duty and responsibility. To the present, AOLIS is still surviving the never ending changing requirements of AUP Operations. Though with minimum workforce, with the much technical infromation gained from doing external consulting work, the automation techniques applied, the security techniques learned from other adventist institutions, with the vision, goals, and energy shared with our young computer science students, with the trust from the rest of the University, AOLIS still tries to serve with technical efficiency, stability, and flexibility/maintainability.
AOLIS Organizational Operating Position
* AOLIS is under the Vice President for Academics (VPAA) from birth to present because the academic community (Academic Departments, Colleges, and specially the Registrar's Office) and its functions depend largely, if not entirely, on aolis operation. The VPAA Office was the prime supporter of AOLIS in the peak of it's development.
* AOLIS is under the Vice President for Finance (VPFA) because the DSF Office, Cashier, and the Student Section of the Accounting depend largely, if not entirely, on aolis operation. The VPFA has commissioned AOLIS to integrate and re-computerize the whole accounting system of AUP.
* AOLIS is peers with the Information Technology Center / Information Technology Department because 1) they both share people, equipment, infrastructure, time, and technical knowhow, 2) the VPAA has authorized AOLIS to freely share internet connections (which is provided by ITC to AOLIS for free) to Academic Departments, and lastly 3) AOLIS believes creativity in development is maximum in a less-heirarchal environment.
* AOLIS is parentally linked to the Computer Science Department because it sprouted from infancy to maturity there. The Computer Science Department educates future employees of AOLIS to make sure they understand basic to advanced computer and network concepts, theories, designs, operations, and architectures.
* AOLIS works for all the requests of all other departments. However priority is given where the most good can be done. High-impact, high-savings, high-usage systems that are requested are placed on top of the list of things "that will be done".
Services
This chapter includes a list of school functions where aolis systems are working on.
* Enrollment
o Registrar's Office. Encoding of all student information on acceptance.
o Cashier. Payment transaction and printing of receipt.
o Dean of Student Finance. Assignment of study load. Encoding of category: faculty child, working student
o Academic Department Heads. Provides view of all student grades for evaluation. Artificial Intelligence also helps in evaluation.
o Student Services Office. Encoding of student categories such as: caf/non-caf, and dorm/village/faculty child.
o College Deans and Academic Department. Overrides for full classes, prerequisite excemption, units overload, uncurricular subjects.
o Accounting Office. Assessment and printing of registration form.
* Reports
o Registrar's Office. Generation of reports required by the government: Enrollment List Summary, Enrollment List, Promotional Report, Report on Collegiate Grades, Foreigners Enrollment List. Transcript of Records.
o Accounting Office. Generation of: student statements, subsidy statements, income distribution, trial balance, dormitorians lists, rosters, etc...
o Generic Reports of use of other departments:
+ Enrollment List Summary - student counts by college, course, year-level, gender
+ Enrollment List - list of students and subjects by college, course, year-level, gender
+ Enrollment List - no subjects
+ Enrollment List - foreigners only
+ Class Rosters for any class/section from 2nd Sem 2001 to present can be printed out in the Registrar's Office
+ Worked Report
+ Worked Report - foreigners
+ Working Students
+ Students who passed the DSF
+ Academy Students
+ Elementary Students
+ Day Care Students
+ Masteral Students
+ Off-campus Students
+ In-campus Students
+ Cafeteria Boarders
+ Dormitorians
+ Caf-Non-Dromitorians
+ Dorm-Non-Cafeterians
+ Off-Campus Students
+ Married Students
+ Non-SDA (inaccurate)
+ Working Students
+ New Students
+ Students by year-level
+ SSO's version of the Enrollment List
+ Academy Laundry Report
+ College Laundry
+ Nationalities
+ Genders
+ birthdays
* Bell System. The "Ding-Dong" bell/chimes that indicate 10-minutes before start, and start times for classes are computer controlled and scheduled by an AOLIS server.
* Cafeteria System. Cafeteria Credit loading from the Student Finance Office, the transactional (POS-like) and reporting system of the Cafeteria.
* Computer Science "UnixLab". Linux server setup and maintenance and keepup.
* Web Hosting for University Voice, Silang Memoirs, AUP Ambassadors, Celestial Echoes, Student Association, AUP Academy, SMILE, and others.
* Network Storage of legally distributable files. Also a temporary space is provided for copying files between departments.
* Internet Access to academic departments for the betterment of instruction.
* Network Expansion to new departmental computers, to geographically distant departments, and mobile stations.
* AOLIS Personal enables students (parents, and sponsors) to check their statement, grades, and cafeteria balance and history from the internet.
* Student Schedule helps students locate each other.
* Teacher Schedule helps other people locate instructors in their classes.
* Telephone Directory of AUP Local Numbers
* AUP Website Information is converted from paper format to web format.
* Guidance Department System stores tests scores and generates graphed printout of personality and capability test results.
* AOLIS Information Kiosk is an ATM-like machine located outside AOLIS Office Research Center available 24-hours a day primarily used for checking cafeteria consumption, grades, and accounts.
Financials
Allocated Income - 600,000
FTE - 1.0
1.0 Graduate Assistant or 1.0 Working Student
Emerging Projects and Experiments
Accounting Office Recomputerization
With the support of Mr. Robert A. Borromeo, VP Finance; Mr. Bing Olarte, Treasurer; and Mrs. Romelda Rodelas, Chief Accountant; the AOLIS has assembled a new group of young software engineers to upgrade and centralize the applications in the accounting office of the university. The project started June 2004 and a 6-month period is set for it to be finish.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 15%. In analysis, design, and development.
Cafeteria Digital Tickets
AOLIS is converting University Meal Tickets to a Digital Ticket System that makes use of client-server database technology.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 35%. Still in implementation and already working since summer 2004.
Internet-based Enrollment
Due to increasing enrollment, AOLIS is getting ready to build a website where the students themselves can encode their own subjects during registration.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 1%. Next high priority project.
AUP Online Classes
We are in the process of installing and configuring an online classes system for our university. It will include:
* Class and Personal Calendar
* Posting of lessons
* Submission of assignments
* Enlistment to a subject offering
* Reminders for deadlines and new lessons
Aug 25, 04 Status: 5%. Decreased priority because of small impact.
Security Network System
Whithin school year 2003-2004, AOLIS envisions to install a Security Network that will link the Dormitories, the Main Gate, the Headquarters, and the Student Services Office to help in record keeping and case tracking. The system will share the same Digital ID for Cafeteria and JLDML Library.
Webcams, Magnetic Stripe Readers, Barcode Readers, Thumbmark Readers will be used.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 10%. Whole idea in mind, just need to do it.
Online Workers' DTR
The VPAA (Ma'am Monebit) and the HR Office (then under Sir Rex Diamante) have requested for an Online Daily Time Record System.
Features:
* Use of Worker's ID (barcode) to sign in/out.
* Use of ATM cards (swipe magnetic stripe) to sign in/out.
* Use of Cellphones to sign in/out. Miss call number for sign in, and another number to miss call for sign out.
* Automatic sign in on AOLIS Login (for aolis related work).
* DTRs can be printed from any office, useful for offices who want copies of their own.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 5%.
Campus Network Expansion
Recognizing the Network as the modern nervous system of research and education, AOLIS has prepared (research, development, & implementation) answers to the "how to do it" questions for the following future developments:
Internet Anywhere in AUP
AOLIS intends to help the ITC balance the number of internet users across different internet centers inside the campus by creating a Internet Gateway that will account, regulate, and enable students and faculty to use internet anywhere inside the campus.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 30%. Has been in analysis, design, research, and experiment for the last 3 years.
Wireless Network
Soon, dormitories will have their own internet access points where 2-15 computers will be available 24 hours. Laptop users will also be able to "Plug and Play" and use the Network without any configuration.
Wireless Access Points will also be placed in selected locations around the AUP Campus to enable Internet and Itranet access for roaming users with Laptops and Handheld computers.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 31%. Pilot project working for months already. In reliability testing.
100Mbps to Faculty Houses
The Campus Network will also be extended to Faculty Homes in Dahilig, Tabing Ilog, Apartments and other areas.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 10%. Technology ready. Waiting for interest.
Keyless Entry into Offices
Using biometric and proximity identification technologies students, employees, community people of the university should be able to access facilities, dormitories, classrooms keylessly. This enables dynamic security configurations that allow access by personnel regulated by settings that depend on room, time of day, day of week, occupation, designation, other company, special authorization, etc...
Aug 25, 04 Status: 5%. Pilot project already working in AOLIS Laboratory.
People
Original Team
Project Leader: Todd N. Olarte (janstingray_at_yahoo.com) 1998-2002
Foundation Software Engineer: Daniel G. Pamintuan II (dgp_at_aup.edu.ph) 1998-2000
Software Engineers:
* Dennis C. Rondael (drondael@aup.edu.ph) 1999-2004
* Ben John G. Francisco (benjohnfrancisco@yahoo.com) 1999-2002
* Winelfred G. Pasamba (wingp@aup.edu.ph) 1999-current
Workers
System Administrator: Winelfred G. Pasamba (wingp_at_aup.edu.ph) 1999-current
Student Workers:
* Winelfred G. Pasamba (grad) 1999 1st Sem
* Marc Henry S. Galang (marghenrygalang_at_aup.edu.ph) 2002
* Israel D. Canasa (israel_at_sparrowinteractive.com) 2002
* Aimable Habimana (grad) 2003
* David Ndungu 2003 2nd Sem
* Beyene Dereje 2003 2nd Sem
* Glenson Carlo Galupo 2004-2nd Sem
Cafeteria System Project (2004):
* Winelfred G. Pasamba (with advice from students of System Analysis and Design, Sir Johny G. Guyo, Sir Danilo C. Bosito, Philippine Linux User's Group, and actual help in laying down the network from David Ndungu, Beyene Dereje, and Aimable Habimana. this project is sponsored and acted on by the Finance Committee of AUP {Thank you all for the trust}; thanks also to the DSF and Cafeteria people for being open minded)
Accounting System Project (2004):
* Winelfed G. Pasamba (CSE)
* Marc Henry S. Galang (SE)
* Glenson Carlo Galupo (SE)
* Aldwin Tapeceria (SE)
* LJ Arne Carpena (SE)
* with consultation from Ma'am Romelda M. Rodelas (chief accountant), Mr. Mervyn Allan N. Olarte (Treasurer), Mr. Robert A. Borromeo (VP Finance), Mr. Ruben T. Carpizo (MBA), and Mr. Ivar Nelson E. Bingcang.
Job Descriptions
Work Education
* clean telephone
* undust walls
* clean computers
* clean monitors
* clean tables
* wipe/sweep/mop floors
* remove cobwebs in cieling & walls
* make office more orderly
* clear windows/glass
* remove lint
* take massage from callers
* help troubleshoot PCs around computer/deps
* DO NOT THROW GARBAGE (or what you think is garbage) without permission from System Administrator
Assistant
* help keep computer running nicely in DSF, accounting, SSO, Unixlab, and other AOLIS clients
* assist in system administrator & installation, aolis workroom cleaning, encoding for enrollment, networking maitenance / troubleshooting
* general PC support to all people around
Engineers
worked + assistant + computer science + experiments + development
Systems Administrator
worked + assistant + computer science + electronics + experiments + development + management + security + responsibility
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Contents
* Introduction
* Inception, birth, infancy and start of operation
* Organizational Relational Position
* Services
* Financials
* Emerging Projects and Experiments
* People
* Job Descriptions
Introduction
What is AOLIS?
Welcome to AOLIS. A O L I S (ayo'lis) stands for Adventist University of the Philippines On-line Information System.
An On-line Information System is one which accepts input directly from the area where it is created. It is also a system in which the output, or results of computation, are returned directly to where they are required (Yourdon, 1972 cited). This usually means that the computer system has a hardware architecture that looks like that in the figure below:
A common characteristic of on-line systems is that data are entered into the computer system and received from the computer system remotely. That is, the users of the computer system typically interact with the computer from terminals that may be located hundreds of miles from other terminals and from the computer itself.
Another characteristic of an on-line systems is that its stored data, that is, its files or its database, are usually organized in such a way that individual pieces of data (such as an individual airline reservation record or an individual personnel record) can be retrieved and/or modified (1) quickly and (2) without necessarily accessing any other piece of data in the system.
With an on-line information system, the academic and service departments of AUP can access data from a centralized database such that information needed by one department from another may be obtained through the system.
Background of the Project
For many years in the past, many of the service and academic departments of AUP labored on the volume of students and personnel transactions that had to be dealt with throughout the academic year. Processing of transactions was most difficult during the enrollment period. Some of the major problems encountered, particularly as concerns the enrollment procedures of the following:
* Slow processing of transactions
* Tedious enrollment procedures
* Too much paper work
* Inaccessibility or unavailability of data that were needed immediately
The university Registrar, Mrs. Flor N. Olarte, who has been in the position since 1986 often express her concern over the difficulty and inefficiency in dealing with students transactions both on the part of the AUP workers and the students despite frequent changes in enrollment procedures. She had been hoping that the process would be speeded up possibly through a computerization scheme.
Meanwhile Mr. Todd N. Olarte, head of the Computer Science Department, had been thinking of what his department can contribute to the university in a significant measure. Computerization of the enrollment procedures and other student transactions was something that lingered in his thoughts being discontented himself with the inefficient and ineffective procedures implemented in the past. Until sometime in summer of 1998, Mr. Olarte and Mr. Daniel G. Pamintuan II, one of the part-time faculty members of the AUP Computer Science department, attended a seminar on information technology sponsored by the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE). On their way back home, the two exchange views and ideas about putting up an on-line information system in the university. That was when AOLIS Project was framed and from then on the following events occurred in succession.
The Goal of the AOLIS Project
"To provide an on-line information system to both academic and non academic departments of AUP through a centralized database system thereby making transactions speedy; data accessible, secure, and reliable; and achieving inter-department connectivity and cost-effectiveness toward a more efficient delivery of student and personnel services."
Development History
In June 1999, Sir Todd Olarte organized a sunday meeting with all the Computer Science Instructors and friends. The meeting was conducted by Sir Todd N. Olarte, Sir Daniel G. Pamintuan II (Sir Ton), Sir Benjohn G. Francisco, Sir Giovanni Ibale, Sir Dennis C. Rondael, and graduating student Winelfred G. Pasamba. The idea was conveyed, a proposal was made, the platform identified (freebsd/linux/opensource), the principles and working attitude was kindled, the goal was set, and the team members started to code, write, negotiate, coordinate and dream. The initial time frame for the project was an expanded 3 months of the estimated 3 weeks programming time. On the discovery of the real scope and depth of the project, the deadline was extended to March 2000 for the Summer Enrollment. The team worked inhumanly hard to beat this Summer Deadline. The Summer Enrollment of 2000 did not completely work due to incompleteness of the system, though parts of the system were running already (cashier, student information encoding). Paper enrollment and computer enrollment were side-by-side at this time for a safe fallback in case the computerized system failed. The team worked harder to make sure it would work for the First Sem Enrollment. A dry run was scheduled by the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Elizabeth M. Role, to test the sytem before the First Semester Enrollment. It finally worked, after a total 11 months of development. And it worked again in the final First Semester Enrollment. From that time on departments and colleges, students and teachers, the accounting and registrar's office got a reduction and speedup of work, giving AOLIS an exponentiation of duty and responsibility. To the present, AOLIS is still surviving the never ending changing requirements of AUP Operations. Though with minimum workforce, with the much technical infromation gained from doing external consulting work, the automation techniques applied, the security techniques learned from other adventist institutions, with the vision, goals, and energy shared with our young computer science students, with the trust from the rest of the University, AOLIS still tries to serve with technical efficiency, stability, and flexibility/maintainability.
AOLIS Organizational Operating Position
* AOLIS is under the Vice President for Academics (VPAA) from birth to present because the academic community (Academic Departments, Colleges, and specially the Registrar's Office) and its functions depend largely, if not entirely, on aolis operation. The VPAA Office was the prime supporter of AOLIS in the peak of it's development.
* AOLIS is under the Vice President for Finance (VPFA) because the DSF Office, Cashier, and the Student Section of the Accounting depend largely, if not entirely, on aolis operation. The VPFA has commissioned AOLIS to integrate and re-computerize the whole accounting system of AUP.
* AOLIS is peers with the Information Technology Center / Information Technology Department because 1) they both share people, equipment, infrastructure, time, and technical knowhow, 2) the VPAA has authorized AOLIS to freely share internet connections (which is provided by ITC to AOLIS for free) to Academic Departments, and lastly 3) AOLIS believes creativity in development is maximum in a less-heirarchal environment.
* AOLIS is parentally linked to the Computer Science Department because it sprouted from infancy to maturity there. The Computer Science Department educates future employees of AOLIS to make sure they understand basic to advanced computer and network concepts, theories, designs, operations, and architectures.
* AOLIS works for all the requests of all other departments. However priority is given where the most good can be done. High-impact, high-savings, high-usage systems that are requested are placed on top of the list of things "that will be done".
Services
This chapter includes a list of school functions where aolis systems are working on.
* Enrollment
o Registrar's Office. Encoding of all student information on acceptance.
o Cashier. Payment transaction and printing of receipt.
o Dean of Student Finance. Assignment of study load. Encoding of category: faculty child, working student
o Academic Department Heads. Provides view of all student grades for evaluation. Artificial Intelligence also helps in evaluation.
o Student Services Office. Encoding of student categories such as: caf/non-caf, and dorm/village/faculty child.
o College Deans and Academic Department. Overrides for full classes, prerequisite excemption, units overload, uncurricular subjects.
o Accounting Office. Assessment and printing of registration form.
* Reports
o Registrar's Office. Generation of reports required by the government: Enrollment List Summary, Enrollment List, Promotional Report, Report on Collegiate Grades, Foreigners Enrollment List. Transcript of Records.
o Accounting Office. Generation of: student statements, subsidy statements, income distribution, trial balance, dormitorians lists, rosters, etc...
o Generic Reports of use of other departments:
+ Enrollment List Summary - student counts by college, course, year-level, gender
+ Enrollment List - list of students and subjects by college, course, year-level, gender
+ Enrollment List - no subjects
+ Enrollment List - foreigners only
+ Class Rosters for any class/section from 2nd Sem 2001 to present can be printed out in the Registrar's Office
+ Worked Report
+ Worked Report - foreigners
+ Working Students
+ Students who passed the DSF
+ Academy Students
+ Elementary Students
+ Day Care Students
+ Masteral Students
+ Off-campus Students
+ In-campus Students
+ Cafeteria Boarders
+ Dormitorians
+ Caf-Non-Dromitorians
+ Dorm-Non-Cafeterians
+ Off-Campus Students
+ Married Students
+ Non-SDA (inaccurate)
+ Working Students
+ New Students
+ Students by year-level
+ SSO's version of the Enrollment List
+ Academy Laundry Report
+ College Laundry
+ Nationalities
+ Genders
+ birthdays
* Bell System. The "Ding-Dong" bell/chimes that indicate 10-minutes before start, and start times for classes are computer controlled and scheduled by an AOLIS server.
* Cafeteria System. Cafeteria Credit loading from the Student Finance Office, the transactional (POS-like) and reporting system of the Cafeteria.
* Computer Science "UnixLab". Linux server setup and maintenance and keepup.
* Web Hosting for University Voice, Silang Memoirs, AUP Ambassadors, Celestial Echoes, Student Association, AUP Academy, SMILE, and others.
* Network Storage of legally distributable files. Also a temporary space is provided for copying files between departments.
* Internet Access to academic departments for the betterment of instruction.
* Network Expansion to new departmental computers, to geographically distant departments, and mobile stations.
* AOLIS Personal enables students (parents, and sponsors) to check their statement, grades, and cafeteria balance and history from the internet.
* Student Schedule helps students locate each other.
* Teacher Schedule helps other people locate instructors in their classes.
* Telephone Directory of AUP Local Numbers
* AUP Website Information is converted from paper format to web format.
* Guidance Department System stores tests scores and generates graphed printout of personality and capability test results.
* AOLIS Information Kiosk is an ATM-like machine located outside AOLIS Office Research Center available 24-hours a day primarily used for checking cafeteria consumption, grades, and accounts.
Financials
Allocated Income - 600,000
FTE - 1.0
1.0 Graduate Assistant or 1.0 Working Student
Emerging Projects and Experiments
Accounting Office Recomputerization
With the support of Mr. Robert A. Borromeo, VP Finance; Mr. Bing Olarte, Treasurer; and Mrs. Romelda Rodelas, Chief Accountant; the AOLIS has assembled a new group of young software engineers to upgrade and centralize the applications in the accounting office of the university. The project started June 2004 and a 6-month period is set for it to be finish.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 15%. In analysis, design, and development.
Cafeteria Digital Tickets
AOLIS is converting University Meal Tickets to a Digital Ticket System that makes use of client-server database technology.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 35%. Still in implementation and already working since summer 2004.
Internet-based Enrollment
Due to increasing enrollment, AOLIS is getting ready to build a website where the students themselves can encode their own subjects during registration.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 1%. Next high priority project.
AUP Online Classes
We are in the process of installing and configuring an online classes system for our university. It will include:
* Class and Personal Calendar
* Posting of lessons
* Submission of assignments
* Enlistment to a subject offering
* Reminders for deadlines and new lessons
Aug 25, 04 Status: 5%. Decreased priority because of small impact.
Security Network System
Whithin school year 2003-2004, AOLIS envisions to install a Security Network that will link the Dormitories, the Main Gate, the Headquarters, and the Student Services Office to help in record keeping and case tracking. The system will share the same Digital ID for Cafeteria and JLDML Library.
Webcams, Magnetic Stripe Readers, Barcode Readers, Thumbmark Readers will be used.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 10%. Whole idea in mind, just need to do it.
Online Workers' DTR
The VPAA (Ma'am Monebit) and the HR Office (then under Sir Rex Diamante) have requested for an Online Daily Time Record System.
Features:
* Use of Worker's ID (barcode) to sign in/out.
* Use of ATM cards (swipe magnetic stripe) to sign in/out.
* Use of Cellphones to sign in/out. Miss call number for sign in, and another number to miss call for sign out.
* Automatic sign in on AOLIS Login (for aolis related work).
* DTRs can be printed from any office, useful for offices who want copies of their own.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 5%.
Campus Network Expansion
Recognizing the Network as the modern nervous system of research and education, AOLIS has prepared (research, development, & implementation) answers to the "how to do it" questions for the following future developments:
Internet Anywhere in AUP
AOLIS intends to help the ITC balance the number of internet users across different internet centers inside the campus by creating a Internet Gateway that will account, regulate, and enable students and faculty to use internet anywhere inside the campus.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 30%. Has been in analysis, design, research, and experiment for the last 3 years.
Wireless Network
Soon, dormitories will have their own internet access points where 2-15 computers will be available 24 hours. Laptop users will also be able to "Plug and Play" and use the Network without any configuration.
Wireless Access Points will also be placed in selected locations around the AUP Campus to enable Internet and Itranet access for roaming users with Laptops and Handheld computers.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 31%. Pilot project working for months already. In reliability testing.
100Mbps to Faculty Houses
The Campus Network will also be extended to Faculty Homes in Dahilig, Tabing Ilog, Apartments and other areas.
Aug 25, 04 Status: 10%. Technology ready. Waiting for interest.
Keyless Entry into Offices
Using biometric and proximity identification technologies students, employees, community people of the university should be able to access facilities, dormitories, classrooms keylessly. This enables dynamic security configurations that allow access by personnel regulated by settings that depend on room, time of day, day of week, occupation, designation, other company, special authorization, etc...
Aug 25, 04 Status: 5%. Pilot project already working in AOLIS Laboratory.
People
Original Team
Project Leader: Todd N. Olarte (janstingray_at_yahoo.com) 1998-2002
Foundation Software Engineer: Daniel G. Pamintuan II (dgp_at_aup.edu.ph) 1998-2000
Software Engineers:
* Dennis C. Rondael (drondael@aup.edu.ph) 1999-2004
* Ben John G. Francisco (benjohnfrancisco@yahoo.com) 1999-2002
* Winelfred G. Pasamba (wingp@aup.edu.ph) 1999-current
Workers
System Administrator: Winelfred G. Pasamba (wingp_at_aup.edu.ph) 1999-current
Student Workers:
* Winelfred G. Pasamba (grad) 1999 1st Sem
* Marc Henry S. Galang (marghenrygalang_at_aup.edu.ph) 2002
* Israel D. Canasa (israel_at_sparrowinteractive.com) 2002
* Aimable Habimana (grad) 2003
* David Ndungu 2003 2nd Sem
* Beyene Dereje 2003 2nd Sem
* Glenson Carlo Galupo 2004-2nd Sem
Cafeteria System Project (2004):
* Winelfred G. Pasamba (with advice from students of System Analysis and Design, Sir Johny G. Guyo, Sir Danilo C. Bosito, Philippine Linux User's Group, and actual help in laying down the network from David Ndungu, Beyene Dereje, and Aimable Habimana. this project is sponsored and acted on by the Finance Committee of AUP {Thank you all for the trust}; thanks also to the DSF and Cafeteria people for being open minded)
Accounting System Project (2004):
* Winelfed G. Pasamba (CSE)
* Marc Henry S. Galang (SE)
* Glenson Carlo Galupo (SE)
* Aldwin Tapeceria (SE)
* LJ Arne Carpena (SE)
* with consultation from Ma'am Romelda M. Rodelas (chief accountant), Mr. Mervyn Allan N. Olarte (Treasurer), Mr. Robert A. Borromeo (VP Finance), Mr. Ruben T. Carpizo (MBA), and Mr. Ivar Nelson E. Bingcang.
Job Descriptions
Work Education
* clean telephone
* undust walls
* clean computers
* clean monitors
* clean tables
* wipe/sweep/mop floors
* remove cobwebs in cieling & walls
* make office more orderly
* clear windows/glass
* remove lint
* take massage from callers
* help troubleshoot PCs around computer/deps
* DO NOT THROW GARBAGE (or what you think is garbage) without permission from System Administrator
Assistant
* help keep computer running nicely in DSF, accounting, SSO, Unixlab, and other AOLIS clients
* assist in system administrator & installation, aolis workroom cleaning, encoding for enrollment, networking maitenance / troubleshooting
* general PC support to all people around
Engineers
worked + assistant + computer science + experiments + development
Systems Administrator
worked + assistant + computer science + electronics + experiments + development + management + security + responsibility
© 2004 AOLIS ¶ 5:09 AM 0 comments
Cafeteria System
Contents
* Status
* Whole System
* Benefits
* Expenses
* Software Cost
* Team
* Schedule
Status
30% done. minimum set working already.
Whole System
* *Caf Counters Terminals (4) and Program
* *DSF Reloading Station (1) and Program
* *Network Extension and setup
* *High Availability Server Cluster setup
* *Preventive Security, Logging, and Automated Backups
* *AOLIS Personal Module for viewing caf credits, consumption, and food hisotry
* SMS Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* WAP Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Telephone Interactive Voice Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Supervisor Module (override, cancel transaction, operator management)
* *Statistics and Data Analysis Module (like showing a graph of the amount rice consumption in relation to ice-cream consumption, etc)
* *Caf Admin Module (changing prices, changing shortcut keys, adding operator login names, etc)
* Cash Transaction Capability
* Faculty & Staff Transaction Capability
* Inventory (new requirement March 29, 2005)
* working already
Benefits
* elimination of 120,000 yearly costs of printing meal tickets
* remove meal ticket fraud (using wax to recover credits, using someone else's ticket - hard to check because no picture)
* no more lost meal tickets
* picture of student is seen in the computer. non-transferability of credits is easier to enforce
* added value to wearing/bringing IDs
* raises counter throughput (people served per unit time)
Expenses
Hardware: ~200,000. original estimate 120,000 increased due to the added requirement "should not hang" or High Availability.
Software Cost
* free operating system (linux), database engine (postgreSQL)
* Custom Software Development and Maintenance: Free food while program runs (royalty)? or 70,000 (professional fee)?
Team
* Winelfred G. Pasamba, technology research and acquisition, design, implementation, network architecture, server-cluster setup, security architecture, programming, carpentry
with the help of Work Education enrollees in setting up the physical netowrk; computer science students in concept analysis, DSF and Caf people in requirements analysis and testing, and many other friends
Schedule
Request to develop ~2002. Research, learning new technology, finished Summer 2004. Completion October 2004 (moved to March 2005). ¶ 5:08 AM 0 comments
Contents
* Status
* Whole System
* Benefits
* Expenses
* Software Cost
* Team
* Schedule
Status
30% done. minimum set working already.
Whole System
* *Caf Counters Terminals (4) and Program
* *DSF Reloading Station (1) and Program
* *Network Extension and setup
* *High Availability Server Cluster setup
* *Preventive Security, Logging, and Automated Backups
* *AOLIS Personal Module for viewing caf credits, consumption, and food hisotry
* SMS Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* WAP Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Telephone Interactive Voice Caf Balance Inquiry Module
* Supervisor Module (override, cancel transaction, operator management)
* *Statistics and Data Analysis Module (like showing a graph of the amount rice consumption in relation to ice-cream consumption, etc)
* *Caf Admin Module (changing prices, changing shortcut keys, adding operator login names, etc)
* Cash Transaction Capability
* Faculty & Staff Transaction Capability
* Inventory (new requirement March 29, 2005)
* working already
Benefits
* elimination of 120,000 yearly costs of printing meal tickets
* remove meal ticket fraud (using wax to recover credits, using someone else's ticket - hard to check because no picture)
* no more lost meal tickets
* picture of student is seen in the computer. non-transferability of credits is easier to enforce
* added value to wearing/bringing IDs
* raises counter throughput (people served per unit time)
Expenses
Hardware: ~200,000. original estimate 120,000 increased due to the added requirement "should not hang" or High Availability.
Software Cost
* free operating system (linux), database engine (postgreSQL)
* Custom Software Development and Maintenance: Free food while program runs (royalty)? or 70,000 (professional fee)?
Team
* Winelfred G. Pasamba, technology research and acquisition, design, implementation, network architecture, server-cluster setup, security architecture, programming, carpentry
with the help of Work Education enrollees in setting up the physical netowrk; computer science students in concept analysis, DSF and Caf people in requirements analysis and testing, and many other friends
Schedule
Request to develop ~2002. Research, learning new technology, finished Summer 2004. Completion October 2004 (moved to March 2005). ¶ 5:08 AM 0 comments
Accounting System
Contents
* Scope
* Motivation & Benefits
* Schedule
* Team
* Budget
* Status
Scope
* Payroll (Personnel Accounts) Entry'er
o sss, salary distribution, statements, and many other reports
* General Accounts Editor, Entry'er
* Red Book (Consolidated Statements)
* Inventory
Motivations & Benefits
* we have grown above the capabilities of the current system
* an integrated centralized database system will lessen the currently (redundant) encoding requirements
* payroll has changes that need to be added to the system. a system that can easily accomodate future changes is needed.
* consolidated statements (the whole red book) should be mostly automatic
* statements should have bar graphs and pie charts
* system should be able to generate any statement (general account) in 2 minutes
* personnel should be able to see their statements from AOLIS Information Kiosk, WAP, and SMS
Schedule
6 months. June 2004 - December 2004
Team
* Winelfed G. Pasamba
* Marc Henry S. Galang
* Glenson Carlo Galupo
* Aldwin Tapeceria
* LJ Arne Carpena
* with consultation from Ma'am Romelda M. Rodelas (chief accountant), Mr. Mervyn Allan N. Olarte (Treasurer), Mr. Robert A. Borromeo (VP Finance), Mr. Ruben T. Carpizo (MBA), Mr. Ivar Nelson E. Bingcang (MSIT), and Mr. Danilo C. Bosito (ITC).
The engineering team is composed of some of the best computer science students, led by one of the original AOLIS developers, and backed by people who will directly benefit from the system.
Budget
98k
Status
* database design and foundation, 90% working, 50% was working since 1st sem 2000 (aolis foundations)
* ~5 printable reports at 90% finished (final test and touches needed)
* payroll, 30%
* consolidated statements, 5% (prolonged analysis has resulted in a simpler and easier software design)
* dynamic graphs and barcharts, 35%
We are currently in the lightest activity but are analyzing and incubating the project in our minds. ¶ 5:08 AM 0 comments
Contents
* Scope
* Motivation & Benefits
* Schedule
* Team
* Budget
* Status
Scope
* Payroll (Personnel Accounts) Entry'er
o sss, salary distribution, statements, and many other reports
* General Accounts Editor, Entry'er
* Red Book (Consolidated Statements)
* Inventory
Motivations & Benefits
* we have grown above the capabilities of the current system
* an integrated centralized database system will lessen the currently (redundant) encoding requirements
* payroll has changes that need to be added to the system. a system that can easily accomodate future changes is needed.
* consolidated statements (the whole red book) should be mostly automatic
* statements should have bar graphs and pie charts
* system should be able to generate any statement (general account) in 2 minutes
* personnel should be able to see their statements from AOLIS Information Kiosk, WAP, and SMS
Schedule
6 months. June 2004 - December 2004
Team
* Winelfed G. Pasamba
* Marc Henry S. Galang
* Glenson Carlo Galupo
* Aldwin Tapeceria
* LJ Arne Carpena
* with consultation from Ma'am Romelda M. Rodelas (chief accountant), Mr. Mervyn Allan N. Olarte (Treasurer), Mr. Robert A. Borromeo (VP Finance), Mr. Ruben T. Carpizo (MBA), Mr. Ivar Nelson E. Bingcang (MSIT), and Mr. Danilo C. Bosito (ITC).
The engineering team is composed of some of the best computer science students, led by one of the original AOLIS developers, and backed by people who will directly benefit from the system.
Budget
98k
Status
* database design and foundation, 90% working, 50% was working since 1st sem 2000 (aolis foundations)
* ~5 printable reports at 90% finished (final test and touches needed)
* payroll, 30%
* consolidated statements, 5% (prolonged analysis has resulted in a simpler and easier software design)
* dynamic graphs and barcharts, 35%
We are currently in the lightest activity but are analyzing and incubating the project in our minds. ¶ 5:08 AM 0 comments
AOLIS Hardware Specifications (as of Mon Aug 22 22:44:10 PHT 2005)
Database Server
P4 3.2 Ghz
4GB DDR400
Asus Deluxe Motherboard
Adaptec 320 SCSI controller
Seagate Barracuda SCSI 15,000 RPM 18gb (2 pieces)
Seagate 120GB 7200rpm
Realtek LAN Card
Applications Server
P4 2.4Ghz
768MB DDR333
Asus Motherboard
7200rpm 120gb Seagate (2 pieces)
Cnet and Realtek 8138 Lan cards (3 pieces)
Terminal Server
PIV 1.5Ghz
512mb RDRAM 800Mhz
120gb Seagate
2GB SCSI
2GB SCSI
Dlink and realtek 8139 lan cards (2 pcs)
Miscellaneous Web Server
AMD K6-300
192MB PC133 SDRAM
20gb Maxtor harddisk
realtek 8139 lan card
Development Server
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
128MB SDRAM PC133
120gb Seagate Harddisk
c-net lan card
Cafeteria High-Availability Server Cluster
Primary Server (Cafeteria)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
1GB DDR400
36GB Seagate 10,000 rpm SCSI
Tekrm Ultra 160 SCSI Controller
Backup Server
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
512mb DDR400
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
Mobile Workstation
IBM R50e Laptop
Pentium M 1.3Ghz
256mb SDRAM
40GB Fujitsu
Intel Wifi and LAN
DVDROM, CDRW
Automatic Teller Machine (AOLIS Information Kiosk)
AMD K5 500Mhz
32MB RAM
floppy and lan card
no harddisk ¶ 5:07 AM 0 comments
Database Server
P4 3.2 Ghz
4GB DDR400
Asus Deluxe Motherboard
Adaptec 320 SCSI controller
Seagate Barracuda SCSI 15,000 RPM 18gb (2 pieces)
Seagate 120GB 7200rpm
Realtek LAN Card
Applications Server
P4 2.4Ghz
768MB DDR333
Asus Motherboard
7200rpm 120gb Seagate (2 pieces)
Cnet and Realtek 8138 Lan cards (3 pieces)
Terminal Server
PIV 1.5Ghz
512mb RDRAM 800Mhz
120gb Seagate
2GB SCSI
2GB SCSI
Dlink and realtek 8139 lan cards (2 pcs)
Miscellaneous Web Server
AMD K6-300
192MB PC133 SDRAM
20gb Maxtor harddisk
realtek 8139 lan card
Development Server
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
128MB SDRAM PC133
120gb Seagate Harddisk
c-net lan card
Cafeteria High-Availability Server Cluster
Primary Server (Cafeteria)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
1GB DDR400
36GB Seagate 10,000 rpm SCSI
Tekrm Ultra 160 SCSI Controller
Backup Server
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
512mb DDR400
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache
Mobile Workstation
IBM R50e Laptop
Pentium M 1.3Ghz
256mb SDRAM
40GB Fujitsu
Intel Wifi and LAN
DVDROM, CDRW
Automatic Teller Machine (AOLIS Information Kiosk)
AMD K5 500Mhz
32MB RAM
floppy and lan card
no harddisk ¶ 5:07 AM 0 comments
AOLIS Hardware Specifications (as of Thu Oct 7, 2004 6:01pm)
Database Server
P4 3.2 Ghz
4GB DDR400
Asus Deluxe Motherboard
Adaptec 320 SCSI controller
Seagate Barracuda SCSI 15,000 RPM 18gb (2 pieces)
Seagate 120GB 7200rpm
Realtek LAN Card
Applications Server
P4 2.4Ghz
768MB DDR333
Asus Motherboard
7200rpm 120gb Seagate (2 pieces)
Cnet and Realtek 8138 Lan cards (3 pieces)
Terminal Server
PIII 500Mhz
768MB SDRAM PC133
20gb Maxtor harddisk
Dlink and realtek 8139 lan cards (2 pcs)
Miscellaneous Web Server
AMD K6-300
192MB PC133 SDRAM
20gb Maxtor harddisk
realtek 8139 lan card
Development Server
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
128MB SDRAM PC133
120gb Seagate Harddisk
c-net lan card
Cafeteria High-Availability Server Cluster
Primary Server (Cafeteria)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
1GB DDR400
36GB Seagate 10,000 rpm SCSI
Tekrm Ultra 160 SCSI Controller
Secondary Server (Cafeteria)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
512mb DDR400
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache ¶ 5:06 AM 0 comments
Database Server
P4 3.2 Ghz
4GB DDR400
Asus Deluxe Motherboard
Adaptec 320 SCSI controller
Seagate Barracuda SCSI 15,000 RPM 18gb (2 pieces)
Seagate 120GB 7200rpm
Realtek LAN Card
Applications Server
P4 2.4Ghz
768MB DDR333
Asus Motherboard
7200rpm 120gb Seagate (2 pieces)
Cnet and Realtek 8138 Lan cards (3 pieces)
Terminal Server
PIII 500Mhz
768MB SDRAM PC133
20gb Maxtor harddisk
Dlink and realtek 8139 lan cards (2 pcs)
Miscellaneous Web Server
AMD K6-300
192MB PC133 SDRAM
20gb Maxtor harddisk
realtek 8139 lan card
Development Server
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
128MB SDRAM PC133
120gb Seagate Harddisk
c-net lan card
Cafeteria High-Availability Server Cluster
Primary Server (Cafeteria)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
1GB DDR400
36GB Seagate 10,000 rpm SCSI
Tekrm Ultra 160 SCSI Controller
Secondary Server (Cafeteria)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
512mb DDR400
120GB Seagate w/ 2mb cache ¶ 5:06 AM 0 comments
From: todd olarte
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:13:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re:
To: Winelfred Pasamba
Win
Thanks for the info. You don't know how happy I really am to see how
aolis has really progressed and its contribution to the operations of
the university. I feel like crying reading at the report remembering
all the hardships and difficulties we have been through in order for
aolis to be ranked in where it is right now. I also feel so proud
about you guys for all the efforts and sacrifice you have given for
aolis. I guess I was right when I said that the success of aolis will
mark the seat of our beloved computer science department and put it in
its right place. I remembered when the department seemed to be
floating from one college to another and not having a unique identity
of its own. Finally the foundation for the cs dept. has been
established and its mission for the university and other sda
institutions has been well defined so we know exactly the purpose why
we need to graduate computer science students.
I am proud of all of you there and your achievements. I will continue
to pray for your success and hope to assist you financially ASAP for
future projects. What i am thinking of right now is a good promotion
for aolis to the alumni group here in the US. A lot of subchapters are
srouting all over the US and Canada. If only I can think of a good
promotion, I am sure to be able to channel some funding for aolis
(network connection to alumni project funding). that is why I had maam
role in mind since she has worked with aolis from birth. I was reading
the cyberlink the other day and it seems they would listen to her. If
i could get maam role to post a few promotional 1words about aolis in
the cyberlink then maybe we can land a promotional spot for aolis in
the coming conventions and maybe invite you to come over here to
attend an alumni convention. I still have many wild dreams for aolis
and as long as there is an advance in technology, then aolis will
always be there to implement. Keep up the good work and God bless you
all. ¶ 5:05 AM 1 comments
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:13:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re:
To: Winelfred Pasamba
Win
Thanks for the info. You don't know how happy I really am to see how
aolis has really progressed and its contribution to the operations of
the university. I feel like crying reading at the report remembering
all the hardships and difficulties we have been through in order for
aolis to be ranked in where it is right now. I also feel so proud
about you guys for all the efforts and sacrifice you have given for
aolis. I guess I was right when I said that the success of aolis will
mark the seat of our beloved computer science department and put it in
its right place. I remembered when the department seemed to be
floating from one college to another and not having a unique identity
of its own. Finally the foundation for the cs dept. has been
established and its mission for the university and other sda
institutions has been well defined so we know exactly the purpose why
we need to graduate computer science students.
I am proud of all of you there and your achievements. I will continue
to pray for your success and hope to assist you financially ASAP for
future projects. What i am thinking of right now is a good promotion
for aolis to the alumni group here in the US. A lot of subchapters are
srouting all over the US and Canada. If only I can think of a good
promotion, I am sure to be able to channel some funding for aolis
(network connection to alumni project funding). that is why I had maam
role in mind since she has worked with aolis from birth. I was reading
the cyberlink the other day and it seems they would listen to her. If
i could get maam role to post a few promotional 1words about aolis in
the cyberlink then maybe we can land a promotional spot for aolis in
the coming conventions and maybe invite you to come over here to
attend an alumni convention. I still have many wild dreams for aolis
and as long as there is an advance in technology, then aolis will
always be there to implement. Keep up the good work and God bless you
all. ¶ 5:05 AM 1 comments
The Linkers Club Reatreat, my version of the report
abstract:
imagine: 60 computer scientists, 1 bus, 1 pickup, 1 van, laptops, pcs,
wifi, lanparty, counterstrike, bicycles, skateboards, 1 plastic of
videoke tokens, survivor teams & programs, very nice artistically
designed resort, professional cafeteria cooks, devotionals, Sabbath
sessions, special food for vegetarians, 3 nice bean-shaped swimming
pools, beach, snorkling, and with special performance of Philippine
Acrobatic Team Member walking in wire, break dance acrobatics, tug of
war, surviror teams, wire-walking tutorial, mr&ms sariaya (our
version), obstacle race, two headed coconut tree in the resort,
several plastics of videoke coins, two alumni ex presidents of the
club, chess. and of course, it's the people who make a reatreat great.
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
unfull-text:
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
marc, me, and junjun rangas brought our laptops,
arne and aldwin (aolis boys) brought their whole computer sets,
arne including his big speakers,
i finally didn't forget to bring my two bicycles (one bmx, one mountain),
marc brought his expensive nice skateboard.
edmi brought their 1year old pickup
i drove our packed van with most of the computers, bicycles, aolis
boys and girl, and my cousin, josie
it was fun to making people happy, to making them laugh, entertaining
them with performances other than computer science stuff was just
personnaly fun for me. i think they'll listen to you more in class if
you both know how to skateboard, if you both know how to bike, if you
both like videokeing, if if if... it was fun fun fun, and superfun!
you would be impressed by how the officers setup the retreat with
minimal interference by the teachers. they only consulted us when
they had problems they couldn't solve themselves. i admire their
teamwork, organization, and their personnal feeling of responsibility
over the whole thing. they even came up with cute simple souvenirs at
the closing ceremony.
sir shem was speaker for opening ceremony.
ma'am kathy was speaker for Sabbath devotional.
sir glenson was speaker for sunday devotional.
and i spoke on the morning Sabbath session. i think i overspoke, hehe,
too much material in too little time, given to too-tired people.
compscis payed 450, non-compsci's payed 500. they were worrying about
how to convince people to pay the high price for the retreat and we
decided to promise them these interesting things about the retreat:
two-headed coconut tree, very nice resort, swimming pool, beach, bmx
riders, skateboarders, wire-walking, break dancing, videoke, hacker
stories, ok to bring laptops and pcs, counter-strike lanparty.
we forgot to do the AUP Hackers Stories.
the benefits i personnaly got from the retreat:
i understood more about dealing with students whom most people think
are problems to the group. i learned again that giving people
responsibility makes them more responsible. trusting people and
letting them solve problems by themselves makes them more think more
maturely. got to know more variety and depth of talents of our
students.
the obstacle race and the tug-of-war exercised us really much.
the compsci students and teachers are such tireless, talented,
responsible, good, and openminded people and i personally hope to help
influence them to dedicate all of nanoseconds and ergs of their first
life to serving God's interests. ¶ 5:00 AM 0 comments
abstract:
imagine: 60 computer scientists, 1 bus, 1 pickup, 1 van, laptops, pcs,
wifi, lanparty, counterstrike, bicycles, skateboards, 1 plastic of
videoke tokens, survivor teams & programs, very nice artistically
designed resort, professional cafeteria cooks, devotionals, Sabbath
sessions, special food for vegetarians, 3 nice bean-shaped swimming
pools, beach, snorkling, and with special performance of Philippine
Acrobatic Team Member walking in wire, break dance acrobatics, tug of
war, surviror teams, wire-walking tutorial, mr&ms sariaya (our
version), obstacle race, two headed coconut tree in the resort,
several plastics of videoke coins, two alumni ex presidents of the
club, chess. and of course, it's the people who make a reatreat great.
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
unfull-text:
to me it was the funnest of all retreats i've been to.
marc, me, and junjun rangas brought our laptops,
arne and aldwin (aolis boys) brought their whole computer sets,
arne including his big speakers,
i finally didn't forget to bring my two bicycles (one bmx, one mountain),
marc brought his expensive nice skateboard.
edmi brought their 1year old pickup
i drove our packed van with most of the computers, bicycles, aolis
boys and girl, and my cousin, josie
it was fun to making people happy, to making them laugh, entertaining
them with performances other than computer science stuff was just
personnaly fun for me. i think they'll listen to you more in class if
you both know how to skateboard, if you both know how to bike, if you
both like videokeing, if if if... it was fun fun fun, and superfun!
you would be impressed by how the officers setup the retreat with
minimal interference by the teachers. they only consulted us when
they had problems they couldn't solve themselves. i admire their
teamwork, organization, and their personnal feeling of responsibility
over the whole thing. they even came up with cute simple souvenirs at
the closing ceremony.
sir shem was speaker for opening ceremony.
ma'am kathy was speaker for Sabbath devotional.
sir glenson was speaker for sunday devotional.
and i spoke on the morning Sabbath session. i think i overspoke, hehe,
too much material in too little time, given to too-tired people.
compscis payed 450, non-compsci's payed 500. they were worrying about
how to convince people to pay the high price for the retreat and we
decided to promise them these interesting things about the retreat:
two-headed coconut tree, very nice resort, swimming pool, beach, bmx
riders, skateboarders, wire-walking, break dancing, videoke, hacker
stories, ok to bring laptops and pcs, counter-strike lanparty.
we forgot to do the AUP Hackers Stories.
the benefits i personnaly got from the retreat:
i understood more about dealing with students whom most people think
are problems to the group. i learned again that giving people
responsibility makes them more responsible. trusting people and
letting them solve problems by themselves makes them more think more
maturely. got to know more variety and depth of talents of our
students.
the obstacle race and the tug-of-war exercised us really much.
the compsci students and teachers are such tireless, talented,
responsible, good, and openminded people and i personally hope to help
influence them to dedicate all of nanoseconds and ergs of their first
life to serving God's interests. ¶ 5:00 AM 0 comments