Tuesday - October 06, 2009New associate managerWe are please to say that an associate manager was hired and will start in November. Tuesday - October 06, 2009Manager away until October 19thDr Timothy Burrow will be away until October 19th. Dr Adina Golombek will be in as usual, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursday until 3PM. Ms Rose Balazs is away until October 12. Dmitry will reset the sample queues in the morning. Friday - September 11, 2009Bruker Avance III-400 P31 shift errorAll Phosphorus-31 chemical shifts of samples run in C6D6 have an error! The chemical shifts are shifted downfield by 13.3560 ppm. Tuesday - September 08, 2009Server problemsBecause the Data drive (where all user data is stored) was reaching capacity, I copied all data to a new RAID system and installed in the server. All the data is OK, but the system did not boot. [6:15 PM most systems are now back online. The server had major hardware problems] [7:15 PM all spectrometers working, all data stations working] Tuesday - August 25, 2009Connection to "nmrweb" blockedPeople within chemistry cannot connect to the nMR booking server, https://nmrweb.chem.utoronto.ca/ This is because of a configuration of the departmental squid proxy (grandial). Tuesday - August 25, 2009Mercury 400 problemsThe old software/sun computer system have had some problems lately. Tuesday - June 23, 2009Centre for Spectroscopic Investigation of Complex Organic Molecules and Polymers (CSICOMP) funded!The CFI grant forwarded by Mark Lautens has been funded by CFI and the University's Infrastructure Operating Fund for a total of $3,365,393. Sunday - March 29, 2009Varian Mercury 400 moveThe Varian Mercury 400 (with sample changer) is
scheduled to be move April 13, 2009.
Wednesday - January 30, 2008Mercury 400 probe damageThe insert in the probe that was in the Mercury
400 was damaged. The probe has been replaced with an older probe.
Wednesday - January 30, 2008More bent NMR tubesI am checking tube on the sample changers for
straightness. I have found some bent tubes.
Sunday - January 06, 2008Thursday - October 04, 2007Mercury 400 working againA problem with the proton pre-amp was found on
the Mercury 400.
Wednesday - October 03, 2007Mercury 400 problemsThe Varian Mercury 400 (in LM51) is not working.
The proton pre-amp is not working and is in the electronics shop for
repairs.
Saturday - April 21, 2007NMR labs closed due to building power outageThere will be an interruption of power to the
Lash Miller Labs from 8 AM to 8 PM Sunday April 22.
Thursday - January 25, 2007Friday - January 19, 2007Varian 400 is workingThe Varian 400 is working as of Thursday January
18, 2007.
Tuesday - January 16, 2007Tuesday - November 21, 2006Hard drive failure on Varian 400The hard drive that was acting up ground
(literally) to a halt.
Friday - November 10, 2006Never unplug the computers or spectrometers!This morning, between 7 AM and 9 AM, someone the
Sun computer on the Mercury 400. Of course, other users found that the system
did not work.
Friday - September 29, 2006Varian 400 disk drive failureThe disk drive in the Varian 400 failed
overnight.
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