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USB Thumb Drives, Windows 10, Virtual Box

This was a research and configuration project. Most 303 lab macs should now or soon be properly configured, but it never hurts to check. Procedure sounds something like this… Log onto MacBook using NetID and password (yes, you can proceed … Continue reading

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CTL Lab machines updates

starting now to be ready by december. There were 65 Important Windows updates alone since June.

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Lab Images

A major time suck getting Zotero and various preferences right, but mission accomplished, at least in terms of preparing the image. Now being tested by CTL staff. Met with new guy  David Trautman <dtrautma@uvm.edu> from library who is going to take … Continue reading

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Lab images

After some good progress, a hidden monkey wrench was discovered in the works. It was discovered when the latest updates to MS Office 2011 yielded immediate crashes trying top open any office app. Problem traced down to a mismatch of … Continue reading

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Lab images

Trying to stay on top of these before January refresh. CMD done, pending any future apple updates. currently working on CTL

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Windows ate MacOS

Purchased update for Parallels 7=>8 ; created new WIndows 8 VM. Had to google answers to simple questions, like how do I quit an App (tile?), how to shutdown. Will continue to play^h^h^h^h experiment

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Lab machine updates

Lab machine updates: creating Mac and Windows (via Parallels VM) system images for CTL, CMD, English A206 and others. Workflow is install one new update (system or application); run differences engine; upload difference transcript to sever; update command files to … Continue reading

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