test cruise wednesday 3/22

[Terry Disz]

Well, we had an interesting test cruise today. It was pretty successful in 
that we met most of our goals, but there was some confusion about where to 
go and what mud to use and we had someone sending deadly video that seemed 
to freeze everyone's vic.

First, as I said in the last cruise message, for these cruises we will be 
using the waterfall glen mud, the Access Grid Hangout Room. I know that for 
some of the mud newbies that didn't mean anything, especially since the 
virtual venue brings up a mud window. That is not the mud we want to use 
for these cruises. You should create a new world in your tkmoo and set it 
for wfg.mcs.anl.gov, port 7779. Use the character you got in the mail from 
Bob Olson or Bill Nickless.  We want to use that room for now because that 
is where the network people hang out and where the other AG people hang out.

The virtual venue was working for most people, but it misbehaved when the 
vics got frozen by that renegade video we were receiving from a mac (we 
think that was the source of the trouble). Everything behaved fine when we 
stayed away from the room with that video in it.

We had good video from both Kansas sites, and good audio from one of the 
Kansas sites, indicating good network. Early, we had connections from OSC, 
but eventually it got lost, maybe because of the room switching we did.

If sites are not yet running a beacon, be sure to go to the AG web site, 
tech resources, and follow the link to the NLANR beacon site. From there 
you can download it and install and run it on your video machine. These 
beacons will help the network people keep track of the network status.

Everyone should also be running the versions of the mbone tools from the AG 
web site. Independently acquired versions may not be compatible with the AG 
software.

Good work today everyone, we'll do it again on Monday, 1:00 central. I will 
investigate this bad video we had a send an update about what room we will 
be in later this week.

Terry