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Recent Blog Entries
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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August 27, 2009
If you are just joining us, read part one and part two in the exciting series.
So after waiting over two years to dive into the cheap storage arena, we finally decided to go with a pretty boring solution. In this case, we hope boring will mean that it is a stable solution and easy to replace once our dream system comes along.
We chose to serve files with CIFS and NFS from a single server running Linux. Here are the details:
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August 26, 2009
Not all bits are created equal
There are many reasons to pay for the reliability, rich feature set, and fail-over capabilities of our NetApp. The NetApp is an excellent product. However, there is also a significant amount of data at Thayer that just doesn’t need all the advanced features. For instance, we have research groups with multi-Terabyte data sets that just want their data easily accessible. If it were unavailable occasionally it wouldn’t be a huge deal. Other features such as [snip...]
