Dr. Evans has asked to install the Spore (Galactic Adventures) software on 8 blue laptops. So, today I asked Andy to install it there.
But according to him, the CD does not allow installing further after the fifth installation. Anyway thanks to him, this job is completed. I e-mailed to Dr. Evans. He responded he has another copy so that we can install it on three more computers......... So... we will do this tomorrow..
Here is the history of this job.
It goes back to last last week tuesday during the Spring break.
He wantted to come to the lab and test the installation. Since I was in the lab, Dr. Falls and I said okay. But insteading coming here, he asked whether or not the laptops, either PC or Mac, meet these requirements:
http://www.spore.com/what/specs_spore
I checked the requirments of lab laptops.
The below is my investigation...
1)Dell Latitude E6500 (blue laptops)
a.Window XP
b.Intel(R) Core™2 Duo P9700@2.80GHz
c.2.98GB of RAM
d.Video Card with support of Pixel Shader 2.0: ??
e.Free space: 204GB (out of 232GB)
f.Video card: nVidia Quadro FX 380 M, FX 770M, NVS 160M
2)Dell Latitude D610 (grey laptops)
a.Window XP
b.Intel(R) Pentium(R)M Processor 1.86GHz
c.099GB of RAM
d.Video Card: ??
e.Free space: 18.95 GB (out of 37.2GB)
f.Chipset: Mobile Intel(R) 915GB / PM/ GMS / 910 GML
3)MacBook
a.OS 10.4.11
b.Process 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2Duo
c.Memory: 1GB 667 MHz
d.Graphic: Intel GMA 950
e.Space: 12.15GB available (out of 55.57GB)
In looking them, it seems only blue laptops meet the requirement. So... Dr. Evans asked install the softare on 8 blue laptops.
He gave me the CD last Saturday. After installing the CD, we need to install the expansion pack from digital download... He will show us how... maybe tomorrow....
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Yoenjeong,
ReplyDeleteIt was a great idea to have these meetings on Mondays. I really like that. It sets my mind for all that I want to do during the week and it helps us know what everybody else is doing as well. It is better than the blog because with the blogs we need to search for the information one by one. Thanks for the good work you did preparing us for the Symposium.
It is a pity that Spore can only be installed in five computers, it is an interesting game though.
ReplyDeleteI have installed 3 more computers with the Spore software.
ReplyDeleteThose pesty people not returning materials...maybe if you can find out who her research professor is you can email them and remind their students to return the checkout equipment all the time. Just to let everyone know Yeonjeong is also working on her dissertation as well as doing all the things she does in the lab.
ReplyDeleteFrom Elza's comment...is there a way to categorize topics in blogs?
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ReplyDeleteBrian is installing games, wow; academics has really changed since our pac-man times, now if we can get him to play "educatively" with this stuff, the world of academia would witness a great revolution. I love these changes!
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