Hooked up all the wires, tuned all the channels, and set all the preferences to allow analog VCR to operate with TV and Dazzle Hollywood Bridge AD converter , Firewire, and iMovie/Final Cut Pro.
ECHO Integration
Met with Trevor Nesbit , Develoment Manager at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. Trevor is a UVM grad (Animal Sciences) and manages the Echo web site (currently run out of Digital Frontier in Stowe).
Trevor wants to integrate more weather data with their current weather page. In particular, the extra data from WPTZ not seen on their current page; Diamond Island; Colchester; and Mount Mansfield. He would also like to move the back-end processing for the Echo Web Cam from the Echo center to UVM.
I told him I could give him some sample code for easy access to the UVM data, I would talk to TSG about the web cam, and help out however I can. He turned me onto the NOAA/NWS SOAP service, and we noted that the data I have for Colchester and Mansfield appears to be dated and I should figure out why. I also need to start archiving the Diamond Island data.
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Art Lab Configuration
Trioubleshooting final configuration, additional updates and support, and system imaging. in both Williams 414 and Williams 308
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Quicktime Broadcaster test
See the broadcast of today’s class.
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This and That July 7
- attended Q&A sessions for Microsoft Campus Agreement
- wrote a script that queries LDAP for faculty NetIds in selected deptartments associated with College of Medicine. Generated 807 NetIds (this wasn’t entirely necessary, but it was challenging and instructive) . put them in a .htaccess file. To anser Doug’s question from yesterday, yes, it works. Still need some mechanism to check off survey participants as having participated
- argued with Steve about need for a Wintel laptop. I don’t want one. he thinks I need one. Stay tuned
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Activity Log
- met with geoff Duke and Rob Ryan (rob.Ryan@uvm.edu) to discuss counseling center needs
- "Record" video from several different computers, and recordings done on each computer by more than one user (ccdesk or wbrownsw).
- Video saved to a secure location, probably on a network share.
- Video can be played from one of several locations, not necessarily requiring the video capture software to view.
- Ability to ‘mark’ sections along the way (and jump from section to section -RR)
- Ability for any viewer to add commentary? Commentary would be great (first choice would be ability to add audio commentary, second would be written commentary, the comments "attached" specific segments of the video -RR)
- (no need for most "editing" functions -RR).
- And all functions should be easy enough for busy faculty to use with little training.
Right. Initial Recommendations: Windows Movie Maker and/or QuickTime Pro
- caught last half of Vermont Advanced Computing Center Q & A session
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- Police services called, looking for archived images of construction = site — looking for suspicious activity around June 4. http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/2005-06-04_18:00.jpg
- http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/2005-06-04_18:10.jpg
- http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/2005-06-04_18:20.jpg
- http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/2005-06-04_18:30.jpg
- http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/2005-06-04_18:40.jpg
- http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/2005-06-04_18:50.jpg
- Too see a verrrrrry long, slow list of all 15,933 images available, visit http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/archive/
- Live view of site, right now: http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/
- archived videos, of a sort http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/concam.php3
- Same, starting on June 3, 2005: http://chipmunk.uvm.edu/~concam/concam.php3?start=3D2005-06-03_15%3A30&end=3D2005-07-06_15%3A20&max_images=3D15933&interval=
- Doug Varney asked about a "Gary Derr needs this tomorrow" question: "I am trying to find appropriate security to limit access to a Perseus-created Survey to COM faculty and UVM Medical faculty. I was thinking that the .HTAccess process might provide this using a file of NETID’s . Since there may be as many as 700 participants, is this going to work? Can you think of a reasonable way to prevent multiple submissions? We discussed possibilities, more — will research tomorrow
- wrote two articles for CIT newsletter (Dspace and iPods)
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Cmap Server on Badger
Mike kick-started badger. The firewall changes described earlier took hold (http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/blog/?p=52, and with a minimum amount of fiddling, the Cmap server appeared at http://badger.uvm.edu:8008/ ; however, it doesn’t do much via that view. More importantly,the list of "places" seen by Cmap Client (see http://cmap.ihmc.us/Support/Help/Collaboration.htm ) includes the UVM server. What seems to be missing is any documentation regarding operation of the server. There is an AdminTool,; however, it runs as a windowed application. I tried launching using an X-Windows server, but got just an empty box. Going to install server on weasel.uvm.edu, see if I can at least see the AdminTool options, so I know what to look for — maybe I can edit server configuration manually once I understand how it works.
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i killed the badger: CMap server
installed new web service on badger for faculty member (http:// cmap.ihmc.us/download/dl_CmapServer.php?myPlat=Linux for Paul Bierman). started new service edited /etc/sysconfig/iptables to open required ports restarted iptables it got as far as Unloading iptables modules: and stopped. Now badger doesn’t respond to ssh or http on any port. Oh, bother
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perl problems on parrot
On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Francis Swasey wrote:
There is definately something that is preventing LWP from handling https. I don’t know anything about it, so I’ll have to research it. Honestly, I’m not likely to get a chance to do that until next week. If you (or Wes) can tell me what is required for LWP to be able to go after https pages, I’ll make the changes.
I had a handy test program available. I tried it on badger.uvm.edu : it failed there, too. But it did display a more informative error message: Protocol scheme ‘https’ is not supported (Crypt::SSLeay not installed) So, I typed this
sudo cpan get Crypt::SSLeay
Now my test script works great on badger. Frank, less adventurous than I, typed
up2date -i perl-Crypt-SSLeay
which had equally fine results
Landscape Progress
See
This is a (mostly) parallel universe built for testing:
- All database queries, inserts, deletes, and updates use a new database user (glcp) and database (GLCP_1) (the ‘production environment uses database user "perkins" and database "PERKINS" . The landscape -specific database tables are combined with the Perkins Museum rock collection tables — not an ideal commingling. I propose moving the GLCP tables out of PERKINS, using database GLCP for production and GLCP_1 for testing)
- database tables updated to include new metadata
- existing image files are drawn from production /:/perkins/ landscape ; newly added files go to test /:/perkins/ landscape_new_for_switch
- new temp files go to test /:/perkins/landscape_new_for_switch/TEMP
- all entry forms accessible from https://www.uvm.edu/perkins/ landscape_new_for_switch/submitting/submit_options.htm now include new metadata entry fields
- many items accessible from https://www.uvm.edu/perkins/ landscape_new_for_switch/WORKING_FOLDER/ include new metadata fields
- a good deal of code has been "modularized" such that the same code snippets can be used in several different scripts
- lots of other code was cleaned up and reorganized
- the total number of scripts needed has probably been cut in half
Still to do:
- glcp needs to test, test, test using TEST database
- when that is complete, test using PROD database and filesystem
- when THAT is complete, figure out how to elegantly move TEST code into PROD environment.
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