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 [snip...]
For lectures, seminars, and other presentations, speakers like to use laser pointers to point out items on their projected slides. In the old days when we simply used a video camera to record both speaker and screen, the laser pointer was visible in the recorded lecture.
Our spiffy new lecture capture system now uses a camera for the speaker only and records the screen video directly from the input to the projector. You can see examples of this in our Jones Seminar [snip...]
Our friends at Tuck School just finished a project to put a core router in Murdough on generator power. Why does this matter to you? It should mean less loss of phone service and network connectivity to up-campus and the Internet during power outages.
We believe we now have generator backup power for all pieces of our connection to Dartmouth’s network core. This means that all phones and network in Murdough and about half the phones and network in Cummings should stay up [snip...]
PLEASE NOTE: This outage has been rescheduled to Saturday, 9/15.
Dear Thayer Community,
Network Services has scheduled network outages for Saturday, 9/15.
From 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM they will router upgrades up-campus will shut down Dartmouth’s Internet connection.
Between 8:00 AM and 9:30 AM they will upgrade the core router in Murdough which will improve network bandwidth to this end of campus. The outage will affect both phone and network in Cummings and MacLean.
If this will cause undue hardship, please let us know ASAP.
The Issue
I’m an email pack rat. I find old email messages extremely useful in the course of my work, and I accumulate gigabytes worth of them over the course of a year. But they’re only useful to me if I can find them when I need them.
I use the Thunderbird email client on Windows and found its email searching to be slow when slogging through my thousands of archived message (even when stored on local disk). So I hit on the idea [snip...]
