Category Archives: Wes
Omeka 2.4.1 went live
Title says it all.
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
EDUCAUSE poster
Submitted proposal. Proposal accepted Conference late October. poster session, “Low Threshold Application Streaming Video Server,” was accepted for EDUCAUSE 2016 Annual Conference. Your Poster Session will occur on Thursday, October 27, 2016 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM PT
Sustainable Courses database
built cool database for Aaron Witham of sustainability office https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/sustain/ But he doesn’t work at UVM anymore. Sigh .
Streaming Video bits and bytes
Now witness the power of this fully operational Death st….. oops, I mean streaming server. Quietly went ‘live’ July 1. So far, 350 audio file and 844 video files have been uploaded. Some outstanding issues: some submitted pathological files feature … Continue reading
CumulusClips now UvmTube
Using the CumulusClips 2.2 base code I was able to build out a credible video server. https://uvmtube.uvm.edu/ Features Upload videos, tag and categorize Accepts mp3, mp4, flv, wmv, rm (RealMedia), mov automatically transcodes to mp4 optionally hide or require … Continue reading
BBB 0.90 finally released and installed
Notes to myself Make sure /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties contains the line bigbluebutton.web.serverNoSslURL=http://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu Make sure sftp:/waw:@bigbluebutton/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/lti/WEB-INF/classes/lti.properties reduces to bigbluebuttonURL=https://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu/bigbluebutton bigbluebuttonSalt=xyxyxyxyyxyxyxyxyxyxyyyxyxyyyxyxyxy ltiEndPoint=bigbluebutton.uvm.edu ltiConsumers=xxxxxxxxxxxx ltiMode=extended beans.bigbluebuttonService.url=${bigbluebuttonURL} beans.bigbluebuttonService.salt=${bigbluebuttonSalt} beans.ltiService.endPoint=${ltiEndPoint} beans.ltiService.consumers=${ltiConsumers} beans.ltiService.mode=${ltiMode} nginx index.html files read
Notes on configuring Samsung SNO-6084R
I was drafted to purchase and configure yet another IP Network Camera to document the STEM building project. I chose the Samsung SNO-6084R for $750 from B&H Photo. Samsung web site hosts a PDF version of the User Manual. At … Continue reading
Archiving STEM construction
Taught Physics webcam to capture still images every N seconds Monday -> Friday 6am -> 6pm. N initially set to 180 for testing, set to 5400 for production. Configured server jerboa to accept FTP upload from web cam. Wrote a … Continue reading
BigBlueButton Updates, tweaks
Firefox latest releases have become more aggressive about disallowing mixed http and https content on a single page. This caused the BigBlueButton Blackboard LTI to soft-fail until user manually overrode mixed content restriction. I was able to force BBB to … Continue reading