Music Technology maintains an email listserv, BSU_MET-L,  to facilitate one-to-many communication among students, faculty, and staff. You should all subscribe to it. We use it for concert and guest lecture announcements; students often use it to let others know when they can’t make their reserved studio time; and alumni and others use it to post internship and job announcements.

To subscribe to BSU_MET-L,

• go to http://web.bsu.edu/listserv/ucs/.
• From there, click on the link at the top of the page for List Subscribers.
• Scroll down to the BSU_MET-L link, and click.
• Click on Join or leave the list.
• Enter the email address that you want to receive messages to. This address does not have to be your BSU account. It will also be the only account you can send messages to the list from, so think about what address you choose.
• For options, I would suggest regular subscription type. This option sends individual emails to you whenever something is posted to the listserv. BSU_MET-L isn’t chatty, and your inbox will not clog up with a bunch of unwanted messages. The digest and index options are better for lists that generate 10 to 20 (or more) emails a day. Our list averages less than one a day.

You will have to confirm your subscription via an email sent to your account. Once confirmed, you’re part of the listserv.

Last week someone came to me with another problem about Peak not able to process DSP commands due to disk full errors. The seemingly obvious answer is to check the scratch disk folder, making sure it is somewhere that the student login can write to. But in this case, the scratch folder was set to Desktop, which should work.

Jeff has discovered a problem with the login script that is causing this new problem. The solution is not automated yet, and involves tracking Jeff down to clear space. This problem may also relate to the slow performance of DP on some computers in the lab, as a nearly full disk takes longer to read and write files due to fragmentation.

Here is Jeff’s post about the problem.