Field System Feedback Session March 12, 2001 19:30-20:30 - Soundcard wanted for alarms, for telling when something is wrong (voice synthesizer?) - Highlight fields with problems (color or inverse) - more clearly show which channel/track has which PE rate + history of PE readings, may be a la NRAO FS. Use separate window. - multi receiver system support: TCAL, switching .... - clock via XNTP? -> formatter - Formatter error messages are confusing -> remove unnecessary ones. Sometimes a lot of messages with no problem being present (communications problems? is this fixed by the latest formatter upgrade? - Prioritization of errors? red, yellow, blue .... graphical interface for displaying them. - could station interface programming be simpler? (HP1000 stuff left in FS? e.g. class I/O) use UNIX interprocess communications. Is this a documentation problem? Clarified API needed. - FS sometimes freezes X-server?! - Possible Linux problem when having 2 ethernet cards. - Kernel upgrades: what limits this? How often? New hardware? - Could FS be like any other Linux (Debian) package? - More flexibility for more than 1 recording system - Standardized observing messages (is already available?) to web page. - Standard for SEFD measurements: Log? ... (like previous point) - Community VERY thankful for what Ed does.