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General Use PCs:

Four workstations with a minimum spec of 2.8Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb Hard drive, Windows XP Professional, 17" flat screen. DVD writer and/or CD writer. Combination memory card drive ( SD / MMC / CF / MS )
1 x 750Mb zip drive, 2 x 250Mb zip drive (100Mb compatible)

PSO 's cabin:

1.6GHz Pentium 4 running Windows XP Professional. 17" flat screen. CD writer.

Local Area Network (LAN):

10Mb throughout the ship over Cat5e Twisted Pair with RJ45 LAN access ports. Although cables from wall port to PC are available, you must provide the rest of the hardware and software to connect your own PC/laptop to the ship’s LAN. This means that you provide network card or PC Card adaptor plus the relevant drivers. Help can be provided by BAS Cambridge ICT department prior to departure (contact the Helpdesk on +44 (0)1223 221447 or send an email to helpdesk@bas.ac.uk).

Wide Area Network (WAN):

BAS provides a 24 hour satellite link of 128Kb (IE about twice the speed of a telephone modem). This has to handle the traffic for everyone on base, including Voip telephone calls, work data, remote access, web browsing and email. Many people bring web "toys" south only to find they do not work as well as they might hope.

Printers/Plotters

(all devices networked)

1 x HP1055cm A0 colour inkjet plotter
1 x HP4550 Colour Laser printer with duplex unit
1 x HP2300 Black and White Laser printer with duplex unit
There is enough plain paper and ink cartridges for average use of the printers/plotters. If you consider that you may need more than average or a particular paper/transparency stock, then this must be arranged before the ship sails each year; preferably in July during stock checks.
There are no spare media for general use. This includes zip disks, floppy disks, DLT, DAT, DVD or CD-R media.
You must supply your own media.

Novell NetWare Account

You will be allocated with an account and 1Gb of backed up network disk storage for your personal/work use. This space can be increased at the discretion of the Radio Officer. The account and all files will be deleted upon leaving the ship. A unix account can be arranged upon request.

Unix based facilities:

Scientific Computer System (SCS) + Java Logging System:

Current devices being logged:
- Ashtech 3D GPS system
- Trimble GPS system with differential correction via Racal Skyfix system
- Ashtech GPS/GLONASS based positioning system
- Simrad EA600 Bathymetric Echo Sounder
- Ships ultrasonic anemometer
- Ships Chernikeef electromagnetic speed log
- Ocean logger (BAS designed environmental data logger)
- Ships Sperry Doppler speed log
- Ships Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
- Winch system (CLAM)
Additional devices can be logged to the central system via an RS232 NMEA data stream (max. resolution 1 second).

Software:

The standard operating system for workstations is Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home and Windows Vista are not supported by BAS systems
Software packages available from the NetWare server to networked PCs include:
- Microsoft Office 2000 Professional
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- ArcGIS version 9.0
- Hummingbird Exceed
- Mozilla Firefox
- Corel Graphics Suite X3
All BAS PCs run Sophos Anti-Virus.
All Laptop users should bring with them all driver and recovery disks related to their equipment.
Windows XP Professional is supported on BAS Laptops

Please speak to the Radio Officer or a member of the ICT section before you make any changes to the general use computers, such as installing software. All software installed on these PCs must be licensed and work related.

Backups:

The NetWare Server is backed up on a daily basis to LTO tape. All files that you place on your N: drive (personal account space) will be backed up.
The unix machines are backed up on a daily basis to DLT and LTO tape.
No backups are taken of the PCs local hard drives. You are responsible for backing up any files that you place on the PC local drives.

Email:

BAS Personnel department will inform you and your contacts of your BAS e-mail address before you depart.
If you are employed by BAS your e-mail will be hosted on a server in Cambridge and you will access it using a web-browser.
If you are not employed by BAS you will have to provide your own web based email facilities (and inform BAS personnel of the address).
You should bring with you the full e-mail addresses of all those people who you wish to e-mail (both personal and work). Once you are South it will be more difficult to look up e-mail addresses.

Personal Computers:

You may bring your own laptop computer with you to the ship and connect it to the network, subject to the following conditions:

Windows installations must have functioning anti-virus software, which is capable of regularly updating over the Internet as new virus threats emerge.
Windows XP Home and Windows Vista are not supported by BAS systems.
Windows must be updated with the latest security patches released by Microsoft and distributed via Microsoft Update.
You must make your laptop available for inspection by the Radio Officer, or a member of the ICT section, before connecting it, in order to verify that these pre-requisites are met.
Everyone should bring with them all driver and recovery disks related to their equipment.
Other operating systems are permitted (eg, MAC), but BAS cannot necessarily provide technical support to help resolve issues.

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