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6/30/2005

i killed the badger: CMap server

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:43 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Systems and Servers)

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: [...]

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perl problems on parrot

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:42 pm

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. [...]

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Landscape Progress

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:40 pm

See
http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape_new_for_switch
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 [...]

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6/27/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 3:51 pm

reset mysql password for a user
answered student’s question about why images don’t appear in his webpage
updated Dspace statistics for Buddy Tignor
researched cubic VRs for Kevin Hytten

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Re: Question about Virtual Tours

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:44 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

On Jun 23, 2005, at 1:43 PM, somebody wrote:
I know you work with streaming media but I have a question about  creating full virtual tours for the web maybe you could help with.  What I am thinking about is more then just a 306 degree QTVR, but a  full fishball view. I am re [...]

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CT_cal.pl gets noticed by others

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:14 pm

People are showing interest in my calendar scripts.
CT_Cal.pl is a perl script. It uses a perl module I developed called Capi which provides a perl XSUB interface to the Oracle Calendar "capi" (Calendar API) library distributed on the Oracle Calendar installation CDs.
I have compiled and used the Xsub on [...]

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6/24/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:25 pm

Lots of work on Landscape Change code
Applescript development and consulting for brian.everill@uvm.edu

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6/23/2005

Concept mapping software -server implementation

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:14 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Systems and Servers)

On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Justin Henry wrote:

Paul is interested in having HMC CmapServer available for his students. In looking at the website, it looks like the OSX version would be the esaiest to install (i.e. the Linux version requires a restart of the machine, at least according to the instructions): [...]

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Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:25 pm

solved Gayle Nunley’s Dreamweaver problems
consulted with Aaron.Rakow@uvm.edu re: file shares, group permissions, mounting network drives
corrected some mySQL authorization problems for jbellum

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6/22/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:29 pm

reinvestigated for jbellum the "C Wrapper" trick discussed at https://www.uvm.edu/mysql to see if status has changed: nope — still doesn’t work for php files
Worked on Landscape Change code
consulted with gbudd@uvm.edu re: preferences on recently installed CMD Macintosh. Needed to reset some stuff; had problems with [...]

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6/21/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:33 pm

investigated issue with https://www.uvm.edu/files affecting aaron.rakow@uvm.edu . PHP internal error/DFS pathology
fixed problems introduced by recent edits to https://www.uvm.edu/ htpasswd/passwords.php
worked on Applescripting issues for Brian Everill
long consult with jbellum re: variety of php coding issues and some other little [...]

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6/20/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:30 pm
(filed under category MacOS Support=> Projects=> Video and Audio)

Fixed a problem on the WRUV Mac where the "Click to Listen" shortcut on the desktop pointed to bullfrog.uvm.edu by IP address rather than canonical name real.uvm.edu . While I was there, I ran software update on office and studio macs, brought everything up to date, and recovered admin password for [...]

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6/17/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:34 pm

Fixed more problems introduced with latest version of https://www.uvm.edu/htpasswd/passwords.php .
Some of those problems appeared to only affect Alan. Jim lawson tells us, "There is a pathological interaction buried deep within DFS and PHP’s readdir() function. It causes the webserver to dump core when directories with a certain number of [...]

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6/16/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 1:35 pm

Fixed more problems introduced with latest version of https://www.uvm.edu/htpasswd/passwords.php .
Landscape Change Project coding

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6/15/2005

Activity Log

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 2:22 pm

worked on Landscape Change Project coding http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/blog/?p49

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