As I described in a previous blog post, “Video Recording with Synchronized Slides“, we use a Canopus TwinPact 100 framegrabber to capture the presenter’s screen. This is recorded right along side video of the presenter speaking. The TwinPact 100 converts a VGA video signal to Firewire.
Recently I came across the Epiphan VGA2USB frame grabber. While simpler, it looked like it might shed features we don’t really need, while providing better video quality. We decided to order [snip...]
There are numerous ways to look up Dartmouth community member’s phone number or email address. The one I use the most for phone numbers uses Firefox and its built-in “Smart Keywords” feature.
Setting it up is really easy, no special plug-ins are required.
First load the Dartmouth People Finder web page. (click the link to open in a new window)
Now ctrl-click or right-click the search field.
In the contextual menu, select “Add a keyword for this search…”
Systems Administrators tend to worry a lot. Computers break all the time, and we try to have a plan for when the inevitable occurs.
On Friday the 8th, a hard drive failed on one of our physical servers. The server had four production virtual servers on it. Supposedly, the hard drives we use in our servers are less likely to fail. They come with 5 year warranties, and graduated at the top of their class. [snip...]
I made a tweak to this week’s Jones Seminar videos. They should now play on any iPod that supports video playback… in theory anyway. I’ve tested it on an iPhone and the latest generation iPod Nano and it works great. All future videos will be iPod/iPhone compatible.
If you subscribe to the Jones Seminar video podcast, it can automatically be synced to your mobile player. Haven’t you always wanted to get your Jones Seminar [snip...]
We are delighted to announce that the four aging Macs in the Great Hall have been replaced by four fancy schmancy new iMacs running Mac OS X 10.5.
With a bigger monitor, much faster processors, and more RAM, the new computers should be a huge improvement.
We’re also using Mac OS X’s new Guest User account feature. Every time you log out, the machines will restore to a nice fresh state. All old documents are removed, and preferences get restored to their sane [snip...]
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