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...]
In the past few months a huge change has occurred with Thayer School servers… now, most of them are virtual. Poof!
While the change isn’t very visible to the community, for us Systems Administrators (Jared, Jordan, and Matt Dailey), the change is significant.
Virtualization allows us to run multiple “computers” on one physical computer. So we can easily run independent servers for web site, email, databases all on one real server.
The short story is that we now have over a dozen virtual servers in production which has allowed us to save space, lower our hardware expenses, reduce electrical and cooling usage, ease backup, and improve reliability.
Read on for more details of our move to virtualized servers.
It’s a good thing that fancy warranty covers accidental damage.
But in the meantime your final presentation is scheduled in three days, you haven’t even finished the bibliography, and the depot says it’ll be at least a week to replace the chewed up power supply.
Perhaps you didn’t know we have selection of high-quality portable computing devices with convenient padded shoulder bags available for a short-term borrow?
Yes, the rumors are true. Thayer Computing Services loans laptops.
We’ve got a pool of mostly Dell and a few Mac laptops [snip...]
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