http://it.jessupblogs.com News, announcements, and opinions Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:29:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're just about ready to launch our new library cataloging and circulation system, Evergreen Open-ILS.  This project has been in the works since August, and has been my primary focus for the past few weeks. While preparing to "go live", the library staff and I have collaborated using a dokuwiki-based shared ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2009/01/14/project-evergreen/ We have a new mascot.  Thanks Santa! http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/12/03/it-mascot/ After a network reconfiguration, a few students reported trouble connecting to XBox Live.  In particular, the XBox 360 diagnostic console would report an MTU error.  Because of this, I setup a Microsoft Xbox Live approved test for MTU size and logged the results. Since 10/20/08, the test was executed every two ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/11/24/xbox-live/ I've been pleased with the excellent product quality at our coffee shop this year.  Now if only I could purchase a monthly "subscription" and eliminate all that paper money nonsense. http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/11/05/godly-grounds/ I met yesterday with our Registrar, Tina Petersen for a couple of hours to discuss the possibility of digitizing a number of official-use forms.  After drawing up a list of target forms for the project, we had excellent discussion about several methods we could use to manage the information electronically ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/10/24/2-dichotomies/ I don't know how I would survive work without the assistance of Notepad++. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/10/23/tools/ IT has desperately needed a solid knowledgebase... and we might just be getting one! I'm exploring dokuwiki (http://www.dokuwiki.org) as a possible solution.  We could be taking better advantage of our time by documenting common solutions, and Dokuwiki meets our primary requirements: Simple interface for creating content Provides password-protection for internal-use content Integrated indexing and ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/10/17/knowledgebase/ Note to Mac users:  If we added DNS entries to your laptop, you may remove those now. As our students are well aware, there was an issue with the Rocklin wireless network affecting Mac users.  For those of you that are interested in the problem (and the solution), here's the details.  ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/10/09/wireless-issue-for-mac/ Apparently I needed to modify the order of my VirtualHosts sections.  After moving my VirtualHost containing a wildcard ServerAlias entry ( *.jessupblogs.com ) further down the httpd.conf file, and a few other minor tweaks, things are fully operational. Now, on to installing Wordpress modules!  The "Role Manager" looks promising.  There is ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/10/07/order-of-virtualhosts-moodle-wireless-networks/ We are facing an interesting challenge with our new blogging site configuration.  Our new jessupblogs.com website is going to function in two key roles: http://departmentblog.jessupblogs.com/ http://faculty.jessupblogs.com/faculty_member_name/ After installing Wordpress into two different subdirectories, I'm at the point of tweaking Apache's virtual hosts manually.  We had a problem that tanked the Apache server for ... http://it.jessupblogs.com/2008/10/07/configuring-wordpress/