Tag Archives: Boffins
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
2016 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Awards nomination form busted
Form was broken. I fixed.
Mansfield snow depth
Perl robots failin to grab Mt Mansfield data from NWS because thy switched to MiXEd CaSe labels, previously al UPPER CASE. Old scripts case-sensitive. Updated scripts and back filled missing date from email archives . Amazed by how many people … Continue reading
Gund publications
On Feb 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Taylor Ricketts <taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu> wrote: I’m trying to upload an update of our publications database (as an xml file, per usual). The import interface is hanging up, now motionless for 20 minutes after I … Continue reading
Student Legal Services
Kid built new web site on his personal silk server. Helped migrate it to http://www.vm.edu/~sls
Events calendar fixes
Holly had a user who appeared only as a NetID, no name or anything Could prove by dated emails and Holly’s recollection she had been to certain workshops, but did not appear in rosters User had requested her directory info … Continue reading
STEM Project camera
This started with an email from Luke Donforth This summer, construction will begin on the UVM’s new STEM complex. We’re interested in offering a live video-stream of the construction site on our webpage. We bought a Foscam F19805P and goe … Continue reading