3551
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Welcome to the Boelter Hall 3551 CENS laboratory. This wiki page addresses a laundry list of items that sooner or later are likely to be relevant to your life while residing in 3551. If you have a question that isn't answered here, please contact help@cens.ucla.edu.
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Corporate citizenship
Mailing lists
CENS lives on mailing lists. This is perhaps the single most important form of communication within CENS: every research team uses mailing lists extensively to communicate; most faculty use them to communicate with students; administrators use them to communicate with large groups of people.
Every 3551 resident should be subscribed to the 3551@cens.ucla.edu mailing list, in addition to the primary cens@cens.ucla.edu list. 3551@cens is used to inform residents of issues that are likely affect the entire population; please be conservative in its use. If you aren't sure if you are subscribed to 3551@cens, visit http://cens.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/3551.
All mailing lists are listed at http://cens.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo for your review.
Access to 3551
BH3551 is a shared facility for about 75 CENS researchers, including undergraduates, grad students, post docs, faculty, and staff. The front doors are open from 9am-6pm, Monday-Friday. Outside of these hours, a swipe card key is used to enter the front doors; these keys normally also work 24x7 on the two other patio doors leading into 3551. Please do NOT prop doors open outside of normal (9am-6pm) working hours.
If you already have a CS dept swipe key, access to 3551 can be added by contacting help@cens.ucla.edu. If you need to obtain a swipe key (or replace a lost swipe key), also contact help@cens, but be prepared to make a cash deposit of $10; this deposit is refundable when you leave CENS and return the key. There is also a $10 fee payable when a lost card is replaced.
Occasionally, problems with the electronic locks arise; please contact help@cens.ucla.edu if you have trouble entering the facility. If the doors are NOT locking properly after hours, please immediately contact both help@cens.ucla.edu and also call Richard Guy at 818-261-8866 to notify us of this kind of problem. You may also text Richard from email at 8182618866@vtext.com.
Food/beverages
CENS is a social place, and liberal quantities of food and beverages accompany many meetings, large and small. You are welcome to bring food and drinks into any part of 3551 except the server closet.
Note that there is no plumbing in 3551. A drinking water dispenser is located near the east end patio door; spare bottles are located under the adjacent counter. Please don't attempt to dispose of water (or any other liquid) in the dispenser spill tray--the nearest usable drain is in the CENS coffee break room in 3559 Boelter. (the door just before the CENS Administrative offices in 3563)
Custodial Services
UCLA provides minimal custodial services: daily (ie, Mon-Fri) evening services are limited to collection of waste basket contents. Custodians generally do not vacuum, sweep, dust, or do windows. Several times year CENS pays extra fees to have the floors mopped/waxes, windows washed, etc. Each 3551 resident is responsible for keeping individual areas clean. (Watch out for the dust bunnies above the bookshelves:-)
Each aisle should have at least one wastebasket, usually identifiable by a black plastic liner. Each aisle should also have a tall blue white paper recycling basket with a clear plastic liner. Separate UCLA departments handle these different baskets: trash is handled by custodial services; recycling is handled either by HSSEAS Materiel Services or by CENS staff.
Recycling/Trash/Hazardous waste
CENS is somewhat by definition an environmentalist organization. We attempt to recycle almost everything:
- white paper: each aisle and room has a blue recycling bin dedicated for white paper.
- plastic bottles, colored paper, glass bottles, aluminum cans: the workbench area has a large blue tub located near the printer.
- cardboard boxes: in the alley beyond the CENS Administrative offices are several _blue_ dumpsters specifically for large recyclables such as boxes, or six years of journals and manuals, etc. (Note: the brown ones are simply dumped as trash, not recycled.)
- batteries: _all_ batteries are now considered to be either "universal" or hazardous waste that may not be tossed into a wastebasket. The workbench area has a small blue recycling basket specifically labeled for batteries. Please notify Richard Guy (rguy@cs.ucla.edu) of wet cell (especially lead-acid) batteries that need disposal. You are welcome to bring small batteries from home to dispose here.
- broken glass: a bright red SharpSafe container is located in the workbench area for disposal of sharp objects.
If you see an opportunity to recycle something that we're treating as trash, please let us know at help@cens.ucla.edu.
Ants
Where there is food, ants will come. 3551 is adjacent to nicely landscaped gardens, and our food is tastier than decaying plant matter. You can reduce the attractiveness of our work spaces to ants by keeping work surfaces clean of crumbs and wiping up spills effectively. Particularly food-rich wastebaskets should be placed in the main walkway to ensure collection. Note that from about 10pm Friday evening to 10pm Monday evening, no trash is collected, so on weekends you may want to find a waste bin somewhere outside of 3551 for certain items. (Restrooms, for example.)
Air conditioning
3551 has its own dedicated HVAC unit, separate from Boelter Hall. A _single_ thermostat near the entry hallway controls the air temperature and supply level for all of 3551. It is common for the ambient temperature to vary a couple of degrees from end to end; the more exposed east end tends to be a touch warmer than the west end; the goal is 73F. The conference rooms and private offices have individual thermostats. Please contact help@cens.ucla.edu if the temperature seems uncomfortable.
Emergencies
You can diall 911 from any lab phone; each phone is coded with the aisle location of its cradle.
Fire extinguishers are located just outside each conference room.
A first aid kit is located in the CENS Administrative Office in 3563 Boelter, inside a black cabinet just to the left of Jeff Goldman's door.
Please contact Richard Guy 24x7 at 818-261-8866 (cel) or 818-783-4303 (home) if you are concerned about something that "someone" should know about.
Fire Alarms
You are required by law to leave Boelter Hall anytime a fire alarm operates. The audible alarms in 3551 are sufficiently loud to make most folks want to leave anyway, but even if you can tolerate the sound level, you still must leave immediately. The stairway nearest the main entrance to 3551 is just across and through the double glass doors onto the inner courtyard balcony. There is also an outdoor stairway just outside of the northwest emergency exit door. The CENS courtyard area is NOT considered a safety zone, since most of it is actually on top of another building.
Remember to take car keys and wallets with you, since you don't know how long you will be kept out of the building--and it's often a good time to have a coffee break, as most alarm situations last for 15 minutes and more.
Fire alarms are more common during mid-term and final exam season...
Conference Rooms
CENS has two conference rooms: the large seminar room (3551P) and a smaller meeting room (3551C). While you are free to use the rooms on a first-come, first-serve basis, those with formal reservations have priority! The reservation calendar system is hosted at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cmd=login&ncmd=startup and you may find cens:CENSors to be helpful in obtaining access.
3551 Seating chart
Office Equipment
Telephones
3551 is equipped with a dozen wireless VoIP phones. Each aisle has a wireless handset that normally rests in a recharging cradle near the center of the aisle; the workbench area also has a wireless handset. Each of the conference rooms has a Polycom speakerphone.
UCLA campus extensions are 5-digits, usually beginning with 4,5,6, or 7. The actually dialing prefixes associated with these are 794-xxxx, 825-xxxx, 206-xxxx, and yy7-xxxx. Dial 8 to get an outside line dial tone. For life-threatening emergencies, dial 911 (the US standard emergency operator).
There is no analog telephony service in 3551. Fax and international calling services are available in the CENS Administrative offices in Boelter 3563.
Network
An extensive cabling and switching network serves 3551: over 350 cables and a half-dozen switches, plus wireless access points, provide network coverage throughout the building. The 350 wiring jacks connect back to a patch panel in 3551B; typically, the blue jack at your work area is patched to a 100Mbps ethernet switching port; the yellow jack is often not initially patched to a switch, but can be on request to sysadmin@cens.ucla.edu. Similarly, the partition-top jacks and ceiling-level jacks are typically not initially patched.
All ethernet jacks and the wireless access points provide DHCP service. Most workstations and laptops have been assigned DNS names and static IP addresses; if you do not know your DNS and IP, please email sysadmin@cens.ucla.edu.
Servers
A large and growing collection of rack-mount servers is housed in 3551 to support CENS' extensive research enterprises. A few additional servers are located elsewhere, such as the main CENS portal web server (research.cens.ucla.edu, operated by UCLA ATS) and the CENS mailing host (yourmail@cens.ucla.edu and mailinglist@cens.ucla.edu) and CENSweb server (cens.ucla.edu/censweb) operated by CSD DCF. Richard Guy (rguy@cs.ucla.edu) is the CENS staffer with overall responsibility for computer system administration within CENS.
Research groups associated with CENS that have large server presences here include the CENS Systems Lab (CSL); NIMS; Urban Sensing; and Sensorbase.
Desktops
Almost every work area within 3551 is equipped with an inexpensive desktop machine, usually less than 5 years old. Most of these run some flavor of Linux; some run Windows XP; some dual-boot both. Typically, a faculty adviser provides a machine for a student's use. We are in the process (as of Summer 2007) of assigning DNS names and static IPs for each desktop in 3551.
Windows PCs
A shared Windows 2000 PC is currently located in seat K-1, near the front entrance. It has a large number of software packages, including Microsoft Office.
Hallway PCs
Several desktop PCs are located on workbench area counters. These XP boxes are primarily for driving the entrance hallway LCD panels: they normally continuously produce output for each display, although the displays are often turned off to conserve energy. See the Hallway Displays section below for more details.
Please contact Richard Guy (rguy@cs.ucla.edu) before you use these boxes for some other purpose.
Printer
The primary 3551 printer is an HP4250 black-and-white two-sided (aka duplex) unit located in the workbench area, at IP 131.179.144.251. Please "go green" and set your printer driver to use duplex printing whenever possible. Additional paper is usually found below the printer; if this supply is exhausted, please obtain more paper (preferably several reams) from the CENS Administrative office in Boelter 3563. The printer is capable of handling sizes other than 8.5"x11" paper, though 3551 doesn't normally stock other sizes. If the toner cartridge needs to be changed or there are other printer problems, please contact sysadmin@cens.ucla.edu.
A secondary 3551 printer is an HP8100 black-and-white two-sided (aka duplex) unit located in the workbench area, at IP 131.179.144.250.
A color laser printer (HP Color LaserJet 3800dtn) is located in 3563, at IP 131.179.232.24. Please do not use this printer routinely; use it only as a backup printer should the HP8100 fail, or on the (rare) occasions when you can justify the added expense of color copies.
Windows XP printer setup for the CENS HP 4250
Begin by downloading the driver from http://support.hp.com/lj4250. You'll likely have to navigate through a morass of pages, but eventually (via the search field) you can find a link to a postscript driver for a LJ4250. Save the unzipped drivers files in C:\hp\lj4250.
From the control bar, click on the green "start" button, and then click on "Printers and Faxes". On the "Printer Tasks" menu, click on "Adda printer" to start the "Add Printer Wizard", and tell it you have a "local printer" (uncheck "plug and play" to save time), and in the "Select a Printer Port" window, select "Create a new port" and instead of "Local Port", choose "Standard TCP/IP Port" from the drop down menu. That will bring up a new window for the "Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard", in which the second screen asks for an IP address, enter 131.179.144.251 and the wizard will then auto-fill a Port Name field, which you may well want to overwrite with a new name. Finally, you need to specify that you have your own driver disk, and enter "C:\hp\lj4250" into the box. You probably don't want this to be a shared printer through your box; since both are on the same physical network, anyone who can get to your PC via NETbios can also get there directly:-)
Windows XP printer setup for the CENS HP 8100
From the control bar, click on the green "start" button, and then click on "Printers and Faxes". On the "Printer Tasks" menu, click on "Adda printer" to start the "Add Printer Wizard", and tell it you have a "local printer" (uncheck "plug and play" to save time), and in the "Select a Printer Port" window, select "Create a new port" and instead of "Local Port", choose "Standard TCP/IP Port" from the drop down menu. That will bring up a new window for the "Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard", in which the second screen asks for an IP address, enter 131.179.144.250 and the wizard will then auto-fill a Port Name field, which you may well want to overwrite with a new name. Finally, you need to specify the Manufacturer (HP) and printer model ("HP LaserJet 8100 Series PS").
Photocopier
The east end of 3551 (ie, the "large conference room end") houses a Konica 7130 photocopier.
Scanner
The CENS Administrative Office in 3563 Boelter has a high-resolution scanner incorporated into the Xerox Workcentre 245 photocopier.
The CSD Graduate Workstation Room (32xx Boelter) also has a nice HP YYYY scanner that will email the scan to any address you specify.
Fax
The CENS Administrative Office in 3563 Boelter has a fax incorporated into the Xerox Workcentre 245 black-and-white copier.
Camcorder
CENS owns a hand-sized digital JVC hard disk camcorder, model GZ-MG70U. 2 Megapixel, 30GB hard drive will hold 14 hours at normal speed and 7 hours at ultra-fine quality. 10x zoom, f=4.5-45mm F1.8 - 30.5. We also have several sizes of camcorder tripods, including 3-4 ft and 6 ft. See Dave Avery <avery@ucla.edu> for arrangements.
Teleconferencing
CENS pays by-the-minute for a teleconferencing service. Reservations for its use can be made at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cmd=login&ncmd=startup in the same manner as reserving Conference Rooms.
The CENS conference line number is 888-387-8686, ext. 2062477#. It is bad form to join a conference you weren't invited to...
Videoconferencing
Hallway Displays
Office supplies
Most office supplies are stocked in the CENS Administrative Office in Boelter 3563.
workbench area (tools, supplies)
CENS Administration
System Administration
contact sysadmin@cens.ucla.edu for questions about system administration issues/concerns.
