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7/31/2006

Davis Construction cam

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:44 am
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Configured image, FTP, admin settings for newest Davis center construction cam location. Reinstated cron scripts to archive images, etc. Added link from Davis Center cameras page

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Mediawiki for LRG

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:33 am
(filed under category Projects=> Systems and Servers)

Did a little research on wikis, to see if anything looked much better (criteruim being does it allow people to quickly create "personal" wikis on the fly like wikispaces does). Didn’t find anything notably better.
So, Installed Mediawiki 1.68 on LRG website. 
Then worked on making it use  LDAP  for authentication.

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7/14/2006

Progress reports

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:48 am
(filed under category Overhead=> Projects)

another hour or two wasted over the week filling in these blanks

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mySQL Mentoring

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:48 am
(filed under category Projects=> mentoring)

Got deeper into queries, using both raw SQL and MS Access. MS Access is not fully SQL compliant!!

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7/13/2006

Web Team mentoring

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:11 pm
(filed under category Projects=> mentoring)

Worked with Numa and printers and httpd.cong and IP issues

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Digital Signage

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:45 am
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Web research, watch some Scala promo videos, talked to Kate to clarify options

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iTunes sharing

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:45 am
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

discussed how sharing iTunes at UVM works with karl from library. He’s wondering about narrowcasting podcasts using iTunes sharing technoogy

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Checked out Athletics screens

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 11:41 am
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Checked out the big screens in teh recreation center i the athletic complex. Apparenly

they contract with outside venor (Matt was going to send me the name, but didn’t)
Vendor pays them
vendor inserts ads and other content
they send content to vendor
I’m not sure what the ratio of UVM to Vendor content is
all comes down voa ethernet [...]

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7/12/2006

Script help

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 5:11 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

client asked
Hey all… I need to run a shell script on Zoo via PHP, and was trying to use the PHP exec() function. The script will manipulate some images using ImageMagick. Everything works fine when calling the script from the command-line. I’m having trouble, however, running it via PHP The .sh file is owend [...]

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Script questions

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:53 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Scripts - Programming)

Student asked about 
I need to find the "virtual directory value relative from the root" ofmy website.
Long reply:
‘"virtual directory value relative from the root" of my website. ‘ may have several interpretations, and may have different values and meanings depending upon the context and the server environment.
For example, you could use the PHP Magic Constant
    [...]

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Art meets RadMind

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:48 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video Labs)

Finished art lab. It all works like a charm – so far. Talked to Bill, he said Nancy and Tom would be trying stuff out soon. Dunno if all the printers will work, and there is the issue of yet another scanner, I think but all should be solvable. Still need to configure the loadsets [...]

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7/11/2006

Digital Signage in Cook Commons

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:42 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video and Audio)

Took a look at the big screen near cook commons

no one sure who installed it
has a locked case for the DVD player, but o one knows where the key is
has no room for a PC. Maybe a mac Mini or laptop
has no network connection
manual?
remote control
Can’t see the connections on the back
Can’t get to the connections [...]

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Art meets RadMind

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 4:15 pm
(filed under category Projects=> Video Labs)

Started instaling, testing, using RadMind to configure Art Lab. Testing highly focused on Macromedia Dreamweaver, which consistently fails in the CMD. Son of a gun, it works great in Williams 414, on G4s, Gs, and dual G5s. So what’s wrong with the library? I dunno. Maybe I should reimage those machines. Anyway, brought  a few [...]

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Web Team mentoring

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 12:10 pm
(filed under category Projects=> mentoring)

Keeping watch on the interns

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7/10/2006

Web Team mentoring

Wesley Wright (Grand High Wizard of Blogsalot) @ 12:09 pm
(filed under category Projects=> mentoring)

Mentoring the programming interns

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