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1/27/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:11 pm

I learned way more about java today than I wanted to, but it was for a good cause. See these expanded notes
investigated issues with streaming media for m tignor

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filter-media, ugly JPEGS, TIFFs, and Java Advanced Imaging

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:02 pm

I learned way more about java today than I wanted to, but it was for a good cause.
I had a mess of images scanned by our Geology Department and imported into Dspace. Filter-media produced some ugly thumbnails for these (and only these) [...]

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1/26/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:08 pm
(filed under category Documentation=> MacOS Support=> Projects)

investigated issue with network connectivity at wruv offices
tried to figure out why my mac doesn’t like http://sharepoint.uvm.edu/
Steve wanted us to work on 2005 annual plans

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1/24/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:05 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Web Publishing Support)

tried out Nvu, an alternative to Mozilla Composer
mac hardware questions from k marmor
installed R and learned enough about it to answer questions from Benjamin.Osborne@uvm.edu

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1/20/2005

Detector Progress

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:22 pm
(filed under category ElectronicArts=> Projects)

My physical computing projects are coming along. I’ve built an infrared distance detector. I’m trying to tune the IR-LED frequencies to detect objects at very close range. I’ve hooked in a potentiometer to control the frequency of the LED, and am placing objects near and far and [...]

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Calendar & iCal issues

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:13 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming=> iPods)

On Jan 20, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Robert H. Maurizi wrote:
Additionally, has anyone had any luck making Calendar & iCal (or  iSync) talk to one another? I’m not looking for anything fancy where I  can update Calendar entries from a different app– I’d just like to have a read-only version of [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:57 pm
(filed under category ElectronicArts=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

php help for n bach
edited the CT_Cal.pl script to generate iCal friendly ics files
met with kathy Marmor. My physical computing projects are coming along.

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1/19/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:53 pm

helped g nunley with romance languages department home page problems
advised l shelton on audio recording of lectures using an iPod

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1/18/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:49 pm

helped debug issue with CIT home page and news display
explained some uvm web policy to brian bittman/wruv
instructed m tignor how to stream Microsoft Windows Media files on realserver; wrote new documentation for same

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1/13/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:46 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

more webcam advice for jrosebus@emba.uvm.edu

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1/12/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:33 pm
(filed under category Dspace=> Projects=> Systems and Servers=> Video and Audio)

Helped w mcdowell with new file shares
helped J Antonioli with video streaming issues
advised jrosebus@emba.uvm.edu on webcam issues
set up dspace groups for geology collection,  communicated with  Gabriela Mora-Klepeis
upgraded to Dspace 1.2.1Beta4

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Dspace and Geology

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 10:39 am
(filed under category Dspace=> Projects)

Spent a lot of time today mucking around in Dspace, trying to get it
ready for a big influx of images from Geology department…
upgraded to Dspace 1.2.1Beta4
added new collection
tried various combinations of authorization settings
Think I’ve got it all figured out. Now gotta delete old collection, and
remember how to run my import script

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1/11/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:18 pm

advised a hendrickson on DVD burners and macintosh applications
advised William McDowell on file shares and directed him to TSG for same
long conversation with t streeter and s cavrak about file transfer options for mac and web publishing
safari bookmark questions from m starrett

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1/6/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:16 pm
(filed under category Dspace=> MacOS Support=> Projects=> Video and Audio)

advised t streeter on possible purchase of final cut express
advised Aaron.Rakow@uvm.edu on file shares, sent him to TSG for some
met with Gabriela Mora-Klepeis to dicsuss using dspace for geology collection

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1/5/2005

Fixed this, fixed that

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:16 pm

Paul Bierman asked,
"Don’t mean to be a pest, but I am wondering if you can add the ability to search by LS# to our advanced search text string? I am teaching an on-line course these next 10 days and the students have been asking to be able to do this?" [...]

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