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4/28/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:53 pm
(filed under category Dspace=> Projects=> Scripts - Programming=> mysql)

asnwered mysql admin questions for pat brown
worked with c lamont on mediawiki
met with m tignor to discuss/fix dspace admin stuff, groups, e-people, future

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4/27/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:50 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Video Labs)

fixed problem epson printer in art lab
experimented with new CIT color printer, drivers

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4/26/2005

Spring Bliss: 13/21 and still counting

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:56 pm
(filed under category My pitiful Life)

I hurt my knee a few weeks ago. Bad. Figured the season was over.
Virtually cancelled the SkiVt-L party. Burdened my family and friends
with crying and whining.
It still hurts, I feel it throbbing now as I write this. Been sitting
around all day, it’s getting stiff.
But now I’m guessing the pain has [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:50 pm
(filed under category ElectronicArts=> Projects)

met with kathy to work on art installation, isadora

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Motion detection and object tracking with Isadora

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:38 pm

Isadora is a graphic programming environment for Macintosh (with a Windows version now in public beta) that provides interactive control over digital media, with special emphasis on the real-time manipulation of digital video. Available from http:// www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html. Kathy [...]

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4/25/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:34 pm

helped casey lamont with mediawiki installation
explained html forms and form processing to  Brian Moore (a web design consultant for the Dean of Student office)

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4/21/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:19 pm
(filed under category Blogs=> Documentation=> Projects=> Video and Audio)

updated blog with progress reports
communications with b bittman/wruv about upcoming icecast server
experimented with ohphonex

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ohphonex

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 9:14 am
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Video and Audio)

Works, but with caveats If using over NAT (like, my airport at home), must pass port 1720 through router to laptop. If trying to talk to NetMeeting clients, even more ports must get passed through. NNoot for the timid. If off campus user wants to [...]

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Videoconferencing is silly

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 9:11 am
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Faculty member needs to give a talk remotely at U of malta, has some questions. For future reference, here’s my answer
Video conferencing is still way more difficult to use, or even understand, than it should be.
First, let’s clear up some terminology:
H.323 – a [...]

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WRUV icecast

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 9:09 am
(filed under category Projects=> Systems and Servers=> Video and Audio)

What a pain this has been, but at least it’s now working, sort of.
I found something called esd sound daemon, ported to MacOSX via darwin ports project. Needed a bit of a hack to work with Griffin iMic USB sound input, but it works.

Wrote a perl [...]

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4/20/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:04 pm

experimented with isadora, for use with electronic arts projects
experimented with ohphone
worked with kent getting icecast installled on funnelweb
tried to figure out why my homepage doesn’t work
worked with frank on getting rss feeds on his home page

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Media Server

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 9:01 am
(filed under category Projects=> Systems and Servers=> Video and Audio)

On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Kent G. Saunders wrote: >
I’ve been working on getting the new media server setup and have it  partially ready for testing. Currently Icecast and Helix are ready to  test. I’m still working with the Darwin server. Here is some  connection information [...]

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STUPIDMAGIC

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 8:59 am

I sent this to the webteam…
Is there something hard-coded into SUPERMAGIC that says if dirname=waw do nothing?

I renamed my old public_html folder
I ran ~webmster/makemagic to create a new one
I deleted ~waw/public_html/defaultmenu.html
I go to http://www.uvm.edu/~waw and I get [...]

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Blog on homepage…

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 8:57 am
(filed under category Blogs=> Projects)

On Apr 20, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Francis Swasey wrote:
I want to have my homepage (www.uvm.edu/~fcs) show the two most  recent posts to my blog…. Steve says I want you to figure out how to  make RSS work with the magicscript…. Steve says this is a good  project for you. [...]

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4/19/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:02 pm

communications with b bittman about next steps in streaming project
communications with  Michael Giangreco re: video conferencing options, terminology, technology

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