Each weekday morning at 8am, there is a meeting in the MCC building
conference room to discuss the accelerator's operation during the
preceding 24 (72 on Monday) hours and the plans for the next 24 (72 on
Friday) hours. As soon as I can thereafter, I write a summary of the
meeting, which is distributed via the mailserv list machine-ops. This
summary attempts to tell a more coherent story than reading the shift
logs on the board in the MCC provides. I try to explain some of the
jargon used. If I am not at work, one of three others writes the
message. Only four of us can post to the list, unlike this one where
anyone can post.
From time to time, I ask provocative or awkward questions, or simply
display my ignorance. I frequently get, and then report, answers or
corrections. This feature is deemed useful enough to the Accelerator
Division that subscriptions to the list are restricted to cebaf.gov
email addresses, so I don't have to be politically correct. There are
about 150 subscribers now, including all members of the Director's
Council.
The last three weeks of this mailing are available at
http://www.cebaf.gov/~buckle/Hypermail_List_Archives/ACCELERATOR/MACHINE
-OPS/
New messages are web-posted each midnight. Eventually, all messages
dating back to the start of this exercise, in August 1995, will be
available on the web for internal use. (If you _can_ see the web
posting from other than a cebaf.gov login, please email buckle@cebaf.gov
so he can correct this protection failure.:-)
To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE MACHINE-OPS
to mailserv@cebaf.gov
I hope the 20% or so of the subscribers to this list who are already
getting machine-ops will accept my apology for wasting their time.
With respect to jargon: there is an obscure Ingres application on CEBAFA
(DB1 tomorrow) invoked by typing <cnd> at the command prompt. This
stands for CEBAF Nomenclature Dictionary. It interprets all the 7-9
letter codes used to denote equipment on the song sheets and most used
in the EPICS control system.