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Net work clocks

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:07:25 -0500

We are having an issue with in the classrooms and faculty offices not being the same time we tried atomic clocks but they do not alway get the signal need to up to date. Is any one using a wall clock that get time from an NTP server if so how is it working out and what type did you purchase.

Ron Perreault
Network Specialist
Suffolk University Law School

Disk Shenigans, Old School

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:34:14 -0500

The manual for Mental Blocks (see previous message) claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler RamblingsI seem to remember having a lot of fun back in the day fiddling with the capacity of hard drives, first on the C64 and [...]

Is Your Website Down or Not?

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:22:03 -0500

In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?” It lets visitors type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with their own connection.As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll - NYTimes.comA most interesting tool. So, if your having [...]

Use OpenOffice to Create MeidaWiki Articles

Mon, 19 May 2008 08:03:32 -0500

The Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with the Writer to a wiki page.All important text attributes such as headings, hyperlinks, lists and simple tables are supported. Even images are supported [...]

Digital Repos Survey Available

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:59:29 -0500

Produced by Primary Research Group, The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories (ISBN: 1-57440-090-8; $89.50) describes norms and benchmarks for budgets, software use, manpower needs and deployment, financing, usage, marketing and other facets of the managment of international digital repositories based on data from higher education libraries and other institutions involved in institutional digital [...]

MediaWiki Gets Social

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:23:21 -0600

The following package of extensions will incorporate a social profile, user board, and basic profile information into MediaWiki, specifically Avatars, Friending, Foeing, User Board, Board Blast, and basic Profile Information. Extension:SocialProfile - MediaWikiSome cool extensions to MediaWiki. I find it amusing that not only lets you make friends , but also foes. That’s good because [...]

50 Alternatives to Your Favorite Closed Source Apps

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:49:33 -0600

The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, [...]

Lots of Free Case Law, Now I Have Work To Do:)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:48:50 -0600

As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we’ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal [...]

10 Free Downloads to Help Manage Your Network

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:04:00 -0600

Got a small network, home network, medium-size network — even an enterprise network — and want to get the most out of it? Then I’ve got good news for you: 10 free pieces of software that can make your network easier to use, troubleshoot and maintain. These freebies will help everyone from networking pros to [...]

Tech Crunch on the Top eLearning Apps of 2007

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:20:59 -0600

Top 2007 Education Apps: Learning 2.0 - an iternesting list. Lots of stuff I didn’t know about. Many worth looking into. Be sure to chekc the comments for additions.Blogged with FlockTags: elearning2007

Course Listing Apps on Facebook

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:29:00 -0600

Now that Facebook has opened up its pages to independent software developers, there are plenty of course-listing applications like this one floating around. And none of those tools seem especially popular: According to VentureBeat, the most widely-used course-listing tool has less than 3,300 “daily active users.” Applications like Courses might be useful, but their success [...]

Public.Resource.Org, Fastcase In Deal To Free Case Law

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:45:21 -0600

Announcement Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose.I’m pretty sure that [...]

Access Eclipse From Firefox

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 07:26:58 -0500

alphaWorks : Web Browser-Based Interaction with the Eclipse IDE : Overview This Eclipse plug-in requires an embedded Web server; the one we use is the Jetty Web server. The Web server receives requests from the browser client, interacts with the current Eclipse instance, and sends the response back to the browser client in the [...]

MySQL Gets Googlified

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:42:59 -0500

The search company has done a lot of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs. Those efforts include improving database replication and adding tools to monitor a high volume of database instancesMySQL to get injection of Google codeLook for these additions in MySQL 6, expected in late 2008. This will certainly add a lot [...]

LOC Building Subject-centric Internet Archive

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:43:57 -0500

LOC Collecting Blogs | Library Stuff - There is a comment to the post from someone at the LOC that point to the LOC webcapture page. It is a more finely tuned, human mediated collection as opposed to the Internet Archives “spider it all” approach. They are using some interesting tools for building this collection [...]