About SOMIS

Welcome to the inner workings of SOMIS - Out of date. I must update the page.

This page is effectively for techies who may want to know more about this server, HTML and the WWW.

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Hardware:

Supermicro SUPER P5STE motherboard.
Pentium 200MMX Mh processor clocked down to 166Mh.
DPT disk controller 2144UW and RAID Module RC4040.
4 IBM Ultra Star 4.5Gb ultra wide disks. They combine to one RAID 5 array providing approx. 13Gb of usable space.
2 IBM Ultra Star 2.1Gb ultra wide disks. They operate under RAID 1 (mirrored).
1 IBM Ultra Star 4.5Gb ultra wide disk. Set up as a hot spare, able to replace any of the other 6 disks if they fail.
192 Mb of full-parity memory.

Software:

IBM's OS2 Warp Server vs 4.
IBM's Internet Connection Server vs.4.2.1.7 secure for export. You can download a server from IBM, run it for 60 days with the security enabled for evaluation and then you can simply run it for free.
The primary Search Engine is Search Maestro which indexes all the WWW servers of the University. Search Maestro is free, it runs on OS2 (Warp 3 or Warp 4), and has been written by Leo Galambos.
The secondary Search Engine is SWISH and it only indexes SOMIS. A copy of the software can be found at www.leo.org. For more information and links have a look at this brief page.
Ceilidh - The discussion forum software is from www.lilikoi.com.
Page Counters are written by Muhammad A Muquit. His site can be found at http://www.fccc.edu/users/muquit/Count.html.

About the Web Administrator

My name is Charles Christacopoulos (no prizes for being able to pronounce or spell it). I am a Senior Administrative Assitant at the Secretary's Office. You will probably find more often than I would like typing errors on this site. The problem is, first, I am not a "two finger" typist and as a result I look neither at the screen nor at the keyboard. In reality, I can just about manage to look out of the window whilst typing. Second, I use a plain editor to compose all the index and general pages (like this one), so I do not have the facility of spell checking.

Now that I've got the spelling clarification out of the way, one more explanation before I get "hate mail". Through out this site I use the term WebMaster as opposed to the more Politically Correct Web Administrator. My choice for WebMaster was rather simple. I wanted to keep at a minimum the space used at the footers of pages, which is where I use the term WebMaster. On a 640x480 monitor, the footers can some times take nearly all the screen, thus it was important to try and save as many letters as possible.

My address is:

Charles Christacopoulos
Secretary's Office
The University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1382 344891
Fax: +44 (0)1382 201604
E-Mail: Charles Christacopoulos

Enjoy !

Last Modified: 19:39:18
Mon, 16 Jun 2003