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Moodle Streaming Video Recording Assignment Glitch 2

2011/11/02 Leave a comment
  1. environment: win xp sp3, firefox 3.6
  2. If you view the Moodle video assignment from the grade book table, inline, in Firefox 3.6, how do you close the popup window?
  3. kaltura-teacher-bug1
  4. no hovering around revelaed a close control to us, escape did not help eithe, nor the brwoser back button.
  5. workarounds:
    1. copy the url from the address bar, open a new tab, paste the url, close the old tab
    2. do not view the video in the grade book overview chart, but after opening the individual submission form the grade button.
    3. try a differnet browser than firefox. on the mac, safari solved a similar problem with firefox and kaltura. 
Categories: audience-is-teachers, Glitches&Errors, lms, websites Tags: , ,

How to access your HTML code in Joomla

2011/11/01 Leave a comment
  1. Could have an easier icon in the WYSIWYG editor:
  2. joomla edit code meaning html
Categories: documentation, e-infrastructure, mental-notes Tags:

Mousewithoutborders, software KVM from Microsoft

2011/10/31 Leave a comment
  1. Mousewithoutborders, a free tool from Microsoft, allows you to control, from one keyboard and mouse two (or more) computers on the same network. These could be – as in my case – a laptop temporarily placed on the same desk as a desktop, or a desktop next to a server (if you do not run it headless anyway).
  2. Limitations
      1. Mousewithoutborders needs to control the Windows Firewall which is at work, in a domain administrator controlled windows network, disabled – so no luck getting it to work at the office desk, where it would be even more useful.
      2. For my Mousewithoutborders setup, to not exhibit connection issues, it seems crucial that both local and remote machine a checked in the matrix, and you even may have to type the network name of the remote computer.
        1. While initially, my network configuration was autodiscovered and the clients on the two computers that I try to control from one keyboard and mouse autoconnected, once I type the ID key into both installations
        2. Later, after I once used the “Clear”-button to cut the connection (when I temporarily had to physically reconfigure the arrangement of the two computers where the mouse movement across screens interrupted the new work flow)
        3. they lost their connection, and also could not discover the other client, when I requested reconnection (using the practical keyboard shortcut  option form the “Other Options”tab: one client managed to remember the other, but “timed out”trying to connect; the other client I could not get to remember or autodiscover the other client), until I manually checked the checkbox next to the computer icon (screen icon  turns blue) and typed the network name of the other computer into the textbox. Glad that I have the functionality back now…
        4. mousewithoytborders-get2connect-checkbox-checked-networkname-typedmousewithoytborders-get2connect-checkbox-checked-networkname-typed-connected
Categories: e-infrastructure, mental-notes Tags: ,

Outlook secondary accounts error: “Cannot display folder”

2011/10/31 Leave a comment

lrchelp not accessible

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RSS feed XML categories are case-sensitive on IE9, if not on WordPress.com

2011/10/31 Leave a comment
  1. RSS XML categories case-sensitive IE9 not wordpress
  2. From which follows: tightly manage your metadata…..
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: ,

Using geolocation information in photos for documentation?

2011/10/26 Leave a comment
  1. During documentation writing today, I noticed that my WlGallery suddenly (?) started displaying the geotags in pictures taken with my Palm Pixi which I set a long time ago to store (and share) location information. I t looks like this has started working  earlier, but gone unnoticed. pixi-wlgallery-geotag I also looks like it uses cell tower triangulation, not GPS data (when the latter is not available?): pixi-wlgallery-geotag2 At such a granularity, this feature can not be useful for generating documentation. But maybe for excursions?
  2. But seems still a bit iffy, on the Pixi side of things: I am pretty sure that previously, I could not see geotags in my photos, even though I tried several image metadata viewers. Also, the Pixi does not always add geotags: is this limited to pictures taken when there are network connectivity issues?
  3. Also seems like editing operations in wlgallery, including create panorama, “eat” the geotags in the output image….
Categories: e-infrastructure, GIS, mobile-phones, Notes, service-is-documenting Tags: , , ,

Why is the “Add calendar” item in the OWA’s My Calendars context menu often grayed out/not available

2011/10/18 2 comments
  1. This can been observed in IE8 and IE9.
  2. owa-add-calendar-not-available
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Does your OWA look different from others’, but you do not want the low vision version?

2011/10/18 Leave a comment
  1. If you log in on http://mail.uncc.edu and see this: light-low-vision-owa
  2. do this
    1. Click on Options in the upper right corner
    2. Click on Accessibility on the left side of the screen
    3. Uncheck the box for ‘Use the blind and low vision experience’
    4. Click Save at the top of the screen
    5. Sign out in the upper right hand corner
    6. Go back to mail.uncc.edu and login normally without checking the ‘light version’ box, and you will see this: owa-not-light
  3. Not sure how you managed to inadvertently set it to “low vision”, but this is how to fix it, per our helpdesk.
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