Category Archives: Wes

Omeka 2.4.1 went live

Title says it all.

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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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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

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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 .  

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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