The University of Vermont

12/27/2005

Landscape Change Project: meeting

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:34 pm
(filed under category Landscape Change=> Projects)

Paul, Steve, and I discussed ACS future involvement

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Auto Generation of time-lapse movies from folders of images

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:21 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

The various webcams around campus have been used primarily for showing us what is happening now, not what happened before. recently installed camera, however, were deployed speocfically to documents progres, specifically buildong progress, such as the new Davis Center construction.
The basic operation of these cameras is to snap a jpeg image and uplaod it to [...]

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12/15/2005

fixed empact

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:57 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

empact data gathering scripts broken from recent mySQL upgrade. Fixed.

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Kathy Marmor

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:57 pm
(filed under category ElectronicArts=> MacOS Support=> Projects)

Met with Kathy to fix her CD to autoplay on Windows.

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Jane Petrillo

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:56 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video Labs)

Conference with Jane Petrillo regarding lab problems

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Scripts to auto generate time lapse movies

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:55 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

Researched, downloaded, ported to AIX, compiled, installed and tested a variety of unix packages that might convert a folder full of images into Quicktime movie files. Finally settled on ffmpeg (from CVS). Wrote perl script that would run the package as a nightly cron job. Unfortunately, ffmpeg does not "flatten" the movie to facilitate web [...]

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12/14/2005

Samer ElJabary

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:49 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

Came by to put finishing touches on his project before heading home to palistine.

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12/12/2005

Davis Construction cam

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:58 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Advised clients why the 46 MB time-lapse video file take 15 minutes to download over cable modem

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More broken iPod

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:46 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

Continued to fiddle with iPod. Demonstrated the ease with which music can be extracted from iPod and inserted into iTunes for Windows, even without copypod of ipodcopy.
But I still couldn’t  put new photos on it without it corrupting the photos. Tried Disk First aid: nothing.
So I reformated it again, now for Mac, and reloaded it.
Now [...]

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12/9/2005

iPod Photos fix

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:27 pm
(filed under category Projects=> iPods)

5th gen iPod was reporting "The ipod cannpt be read from or written to" while trying to update photos.
Solution was to turn OFF photo synchronization; answer yes to "Delete all photos on iPod;" then turn ON photo synchronization.
Ipod is happy again.

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jpgraph for Emily

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:25 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

Emily wanted to know how to do this.
See here for horizontal bars documentation
   See here for reversed axis documentation
   
I couldn’t get $bplot->SetWidth() to work, so used SetAbsWidth
Needed to stagger X axis values so bars didn’t overlap, so first series plotted at 0,2,4,6,8… and second at 1,3,5,7,9…
Once x axis data introduced to new Barplot, seems [...]

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Bruce Duncan and Rob Ryan

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:22 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Web Publishing Support)

Provided code in the form of example sample web pages to Rob Tyan to link to streaming video placed online for Bruce Duncan.

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CSS

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:21 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Web Publishing Support)

Boned up on CSS class vs ID tags, border styles

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12/8/2005

Jasmine.Manuelyan@uvm.edu

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:16 pm
(filed under category Projects=> mysql)

met with Jasmine (Hasmik.Manuelyan@uvm.edu) to discuss migrating mySQL tables from database A to database B, associated issues.

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CTL Techcats Lunch

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:15 pm
(filed under category Overhead=> Projects)

Ate, listened, questioned, synergized.

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