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How to remote desktop from a vertical dual-monitor config on MS-Vista (and up) to MS-Vista (and up)
2014/08/22
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Just let mstsc figure it out: mstsc /span /v:<servername>
Trying to feed the resolution /v and /h commandline parameters did fail.
The new span dual monitor support in the MS-Vista MSTSC does not only support horizontal monitor configurations (mine are 2*w:1050*H:1680), seems a tad slow, though).
Categories: Back office, e-infrastructure
ms-vista, ms-windows, mstsc, multi-monitor
Protected: LRC old media inventory for spring cleaning
2014/03/07
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Introducing the LangLabEmailer
2013/06/04
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- The LangLabEmailer helps integrating the digital audio lab (still widely operating based on files and network shares) into the departmental language teaching and learning process by automatically forwarding (audio, text) assessments and assignments collected in the digital audio lab to teachers and students via campus mail (using MS-Exchange automation).
- Easy on the Language Lab Manager who can "set up and forget": 1000s of assessment files will reach their originating students and teachers in near real time without you lifting a finger.
- To earn "extra credit", show your teachers how they can override the default LangLabEmailer behavior by adding “_noemailing” or “_nostudentemailing” to the folder name when saving their digital audio lab collections.
- Status of the language lab and purpose of the software
- Features
- Prerequisites
- Downloading
- Installing
- Configuring (and sharing back)
- Running or scheduling
- End User options
- Troubleshooting
- Requesting features
- Getting Updates
- Uninstalling
- Samples & questions at my IALLT 2013 session.
How to mix SANAKO- recorded individual students’ audio tracks together
2012/11/05
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- If the students’ audio tracks are not already time-aligned, first use audacity: "time shift tool" to align individual tracks
(with this tool selected, you can move individual tracks back and forth, to the left or right). - If/ When they are time-aligned, use audacity/ menu: tracks/"stereo track to mono".
My iMac hard drive qualifies for the Apple recall
2012/11/02
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Yay! (I guess…?)
Categories: Back office, e-infrastructure, hardware
hard-drives, imacs, recall
Use SharePointDesigner here to quickly and cleanly edit legacy static web pages
2012/10/23
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- Confronted with the need to have faculty classify my variable speed animated GIF collection of Mandarin characters linked from static HTML pages, I find:
- SharePointDesigner is a FrontPage derivative, but still beats dealing with the special markup MS-Office tends to smuggle into your legacy web pages.
- And you can download it for free from MS here, install and open a file by right-clicking it and “Open with”, like so:
. - User then can e.g. select a pinyin word, right-click it, access the font-dialogue, like so:
, and, to align this alphabetic pinyin list to the progression in the syllabus if the Chinese language program, assign a heat-scale like so: 
. E.g this would denote an easy character for Chinese 101: 
. - Note 1: Do not use SharePointDesigner 2010,, this doe not allow easy editing of single web pages anymore:
. - Note 2: The CSS style markup that SharePointDesigner puts in smartly for the font color change is ignored by Internet Explorer 8 (Huh?!), so we will have to TBA:ask students to use Firefox instead.
- Note3: Why not just use MS-Word as HTML-Editor. Even if you save as and choose “Web-page filtered, like so:
, to avoid MS-Office specific markup, MS-word puts spurious markup in that makes it not only slow down the road to open the file, but also difficult to post-process them with regular expression (I have a few hundred copies to make for different animation speeds). Compare the file sizes here: 
NetOp School 6 not upgrading
2012/06/21
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- Here is what we have:
- Here is what get:
- And for the indexing servers: “ Web Update failed with error: Index file could not be located at update-server.”
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