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zog Compute Server Down – February 9, 2010 10:00am
The compute server “zog” is currently down and is being rebuilt. We hope to have it back up and running as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience with this unplanned outage. If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail computing@thayer.dartmouth.edu
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Recent Blog Entries
February 7, 2010
Back in December, Kiewit Computing updated Dartmouth’s Juniper VPN system to a newer version that finally allowed compatibility with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Also back in December Apple released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1.
Unfortunately, like two normally tasty ingredients that should never mixed together in the same glass (I’ll never recreate another gator-ovaltine-ade, I promise!), the combination of the Java and Juniper updates has had some less-than-delicious repercussions.
Mac users who [snip...]
January 13, 2010
Dartmouth has started using Techsmith’s Camtasia Relay to allow Faculty to record course lectures, or anyone to create screencasts.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a good way to provision accounts for users. We have the system authenticating against LDAP. You can also have an account auto created upon first login, but in that scenario, the user gets a default profile. This means everyone’s recordings will end up in one directory [snip...]
October 15, 2009
We’ve been evolving our technique for recording courses (lecture capture) and events such as the weekly Jones Seminar.
This term, we are recording seven courses using four different techniques. At this point in Lecture Capture, we haven’t found a suitable "one size fits all" solution.
Below I briefly touch on how we deliver the recordings to students, and details of each lecture capture method.
We’ve made the decision to not have a camera operator for any recording. We just don’t have the person resources for this to
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