We are pleased to announce the availability of the new Thayer Events Calendar. This calendar is the long overdue replacement for the “This Week at Thayer” email.
The calendar contains many new features and improvements, while still mimicking the functionality of the old system. You will continue to get an email each Monday morning with the weeks upcoming events. However, there are now multiple other ways to stay in tune with events happening at Thayer School.
Over the weekend we upgraded the software that runs the wiki server. The most obvious change is a redesign of the user interface. The old tabs and links have been moved to the upper right and are now use drop-down menus to de-clutter things a bit.
You can learn more about the change on these pages:
There are a couple other changes which might be of interest. For instance you can now manually reorder the way page lists are displayed. There is also a much improved task list for helping your team keep track of todo items.
Here’s an interesting new add-on that easily allows you to do just about anything you can imagine with text highlighted in Firefox. Simply highlight your text and up pops a hand menu with a plethora of options to look up, translate, convert, email, copy, print, blog, format, and otherwise use that text. This concept may at first seem simple, but it turns out to be surprisingly powerful. Perhaps the best way to appreciate it is to view a short demo or a longer demo that shows more features.
And it’s very easy to try for yourself, simply visit the Hyperwords Company’s web site (using Firefox, of course) and download it for yourself.
The new datalogger and weather station is now installed on the roof of Murdough. We are now working on making the data available for public viewing. Here’s a quick video of the setup on the roof:
Today, the latest version of Ubuntu Linux - Hardy Heron (8.04) - was released. For folks at Thayer and Dartmouth, we have ISO images of the CDs available for download here: http://ubuntu.thayer.dartmouth.edu/iso/hardy/
Here, you’ll find instructions on how to set up your system to obtain updates from our local repositories.
You may also want to explore our new Linux @ Dartmouth Help Wiki. There’s not too much here yet, but we’ll be adding more linux support information in the coming weeks and months. If you have suggestions for additions or improvements to this wiki, please e-mail us at computing@thayer.dartmouth.edu.
