Completed, certificate printed.
Samer ElJabary
Samer ElJabary dropped by again, looking for more help with his image upload script.: this time, password protecting the "management" page; adding buttons to accept/reject images. Also started to show him Dspace but he didn’t like it.
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Art Lab Fixes
Investigated and solved a host of problems:
- Student lost work on smb://zoofiles/homes as a result of TSG moving files, helped her cope
- Investigated problem with Xerox 7700 Phaser printer: requires a new Print Cartridge, which is separate and distinct from Toner Cartridges. Approximate cost: $100-$120 Without this, the printer will not print. Self-diagnostics indicate A second cartridge is nearing the end of its life cycle, too, so the responsible parties may wish to order two.
- Investigate problem with Epson 2400 scanner. I tried the remaining Epson 2400 scanner attached to the Left scanning G4 (next to the Big Screen G4) and the Right scanning G4 (next to the G5). It performed flawlessly on the Right scanning G4. It scanned once then produced the "Could not complete the Import command because there is no scanner installed" dialog box. However, if the user Quits Photoshop (command-Q) and re-launches Photoshop, it works again and continues to work flawlessly until the user logs off. While not ideal, it may prove to be a livable workaround.
- Investigated an issue where iDVD will not burn DVDs on the new iMacs. iDVD will not burn DVDs on the new iMacs because the new iMacs don’t have DVD burners, or "Superdrives." They’ll burn CDs and play DVDs, but no DVD burning at all. iDVD should burn just fine on the old G4s and the dual G5, although I did not actually test it on those machines.
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Quicktime for Bruce Duncan
Bruce Duncan (bduncan) had come by CMD last week to inquire about converting DVD to web streaming file. Turns out project original still with video production people, Bruce had producer call me for export details, which I provided.
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CMD Help
Played TechCat for Harley at the CMD, including further investigation of iMovie export issued reported by Ted Lyman.
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Podcast a secure file?
It works. tricky part is making it work with our blogging tools.
Try this: go to iTunes, Advanced, subscribe to podcast. Give this URL
http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/index.xml
That is a static XML file, created with a text editor. It contains an enclosure:
iTunes recognizes the URL, and presents a username/password box. Pretty slick.
Trouble is, the scripts that generate RSS feeds with enclosures for both Movable Type and WordPress attempt to access the URL via HTTP while generating the enclosure statement (to determine the length and type). Neither can, because the scripts don’t have any credentials. WordPress does nothing; MT gets really screwed up (Article doesn’t post, rebuilding indices fails).
I can probably engineer a WordPress fix, not sure what to do about MT other than hard-code the URL in the RSS2 template (or maybe there is some template tags magic. worth a look)
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WebCT Charrette
Worked with the WebCT Team to hammer on WebCT 6
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Williams Lab Issues
Investigated a number of WIlliams lab issues for Ted Lyman
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mySQL Policies
Jeff Bond wanted a mySQL database for CircusSmirkus, wondered how to get it and if there were any policy issues. I told him no
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Landscape Questions
Paul had TSG change ownership of all /:/perkins files to perkins:perkins; unfortunately, this swept up all /:/perkins/landscape files, too. Helped him unravel the problem
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