Archive

Archive for the ‘e-infrastructure’ Category

How to set up SDL-Trados 2009 Licensing Server

2011/11/24 Leave a comment

No time getting this post in shape since SDL is keeping me on my toes by changing the licensing infrastructure for 2011 (abandoned FlexLM), but for what it is worth: the difficultty with FLexLM was managing the licensing service from the proviced GUI, I had to resort to restarting it manually through services.msc.   flexlm-001flexlm-002-sdl-trados-studio-2009-licenses-stand-201103aflexlm-003-sdl-trados-studio-2009-licenses-stand-201103flexlm-005flexlm-007flexlm-021flexlm-023flexlm-025flexlm-027flexlm-029flexlm-031flexlm-033flexlm-035flexlm-037

Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, e-infrastructure, mental-notes, Translation Tags: , ,

How to subscribe to an LRC calendar – in one screenshot

2011/11/21 2 comments

Subscribing to LRC calendars, e.g. for tutoring, will give you access from your Ninermail/OWA and always keep you updated of late-breaking changes. Here is how, starting from our list of bookable resources:

single-image-calendar-add-no-filtering-compact

Want a longer version?

Categories: e-infrastructure, Screenshots, service-is-tutoring Tags: , , , , , , ,

How to stay up to date by receiving RSS like email newsletters in MS-Outlook

2011/11/21 Leave a comment
  1. Why subscribe?
    1. RSS is a great way to get your information both fast and filtered.
    2. For advanced filtering of RSS feeds, try Yahoo Pipes.
    3. However, WordPress makes this even easier by allowing for a wealth of atomic searching and filtering options. Choosing the right template (and content strategy), if you click on any of the linked items in either the category list or tag cloud on WordPress,
    4. wordpress-category-listwordpress-tag-cloud
    5. the resulting page will include an RSS link wordpress-rss-link, or simply add “/feed” to the URL of your category, tag or even search result page, to get a feed  that you can subscribe to.
  2. How to subscribe?
    1. MS-Outlookmakes subscribing to RSS more convenient since you do not need to go to a separate application like an RSS-Reader. Read your RSS with your email, think of the RSS feed as an email list, but personalized to your interests.
      1. You can subscribe to the “RSS feed” link like so: outlook how to subscribe to an rrs feed
      2. For historical reasons, I still use Google Reader, but I rely on Outlook’s advanced automated content download (including full text posts and multimedia attachments) and well-understood archiving, search and export features to not miss podcasts which I want to collect for potential use as teaching content: rss-outlook-feed When Outlook fails, as with some RSS formats, you can still try and resort to the Internet Explorer Feed store: rss-internet-explorer-feed
    2. If you use OWA: you can read feeds, but not add them through the OWA interface. If you are staff, you can still add them in Outlook first. If you are a student and restricted to NINERMAIL, you need to use a different feed reader. I recommend the free web-based Google Reader.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure Tags: , , , ,

How to run Windows Media Center during a Remote Assistance Session

2011/11/20 Leave a comment
  1. The /gdi switch for Windows Media Center allows for operating Windows Media Center full screen during
    1. Windows Live Messenger Remote Assistance sessions if you have to help a relative over the internet.
    2. Should also work in MSTSC Remote Desktop sessions if you manage media with Windows Media Center on your work network.
  2. You can combine the above switch e.g. with the program guide shortcut to go directly there: /homepage:VideoGuide.xml /PushStartPage:True
  3. Put the following in the “Target” field of your shortcut that you start on the remote computer (running Windows7 32-but here) during your remote assistance session:
  4. %windir%\ehome\ehshell.exe /nostartupanimation /gdi /homepage:VideoGuide.xml /PushStartPage

     

  5. Voilà, or rather: “Dem Inschenör ist nichts zu schwör”.
  6. wmc-gdi-remote-assistance1
Categories: documentation, e-infrastructure, Media Tags: , , , , ,

Troubleshooting the wireless headsets in the TV viewing area

2011/11/18 Leave a comment
  1. For lack of small group work areas, the 3 headsets help sharing the LRCROOMCOED433. They amplify the sound for the TV viewing audience, allowing to turn the TV volume down so as not to disturb other users in the shared area.
  2. No sound?
    1. headsets turned on?
    2. headset volume turned up?
    3. headsets batteries dead?
    4. transmitter turned on?
  3. Static noise on headsets?
    1. headsets batteries weak?
    2. no line of sight to transmitter?
  4. Other things you can try:
      1. a different headset. We have 3.
      2. a different transmitter. We have 2.
  5. An image says more than 1000 words:
    1. CIMG0005 
    2. CIMG0004
    3. unisar-tv777-03
    4. unisar-tv777-05
    5. unisar-tv777-04unisar-tv777-01
    6. unisar-tv777-02
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, documentation, e-infrastructure, hardware, headphones, Listening, TV-viewing-area Tags: ,

Things to check when your Study1200 cannot record students anymore

2011/11/16 Leave a comment
  1. Symptom: All your exam recordings fail to collect:CIMG0090
  2. Cause:  Student do not have write permissions to the collect folder anymore, a prerequisite for the Sanako Study1200: CIMG0087
  3. Resolution: Have write permissions reinstituted?
Categories: e-infrastructure Tags:

Calendaring: How to view all your Moodle course calendars in one place (like live@edu, Google calendar or MS-Outlook)

2011/11/16 Leave a comment
  1. UPDATE: this does work, just make sure to give it some time to update AND to have actual appointments in the time window (length of that window is a setting you can change in Moodle) that you are trying to display.
  2. Static inclusion of syllabus deadlines in your calendar
    1. Go to your Moodle Course / “Go to calendar…” / select from dropdown: “Upcoming Events”:   “All courses”/ click on “Export Calendar/iCal. Open with MS-Outlook (fails in IE8).
    2. Here is showing how: screencast demo loading Moodle’s iCal into MS-Outlook (desktop).
    3. This is a static export of all your Moodle calendar information – taught and enrolled courses combined  (despite image_thumb showing in each of your courses. The dropdown: “Upcoming Events” does default to the current course, though).
    4. The utility of this (= what “all” comprises, and how helpful the event information is) depends on how the course designers use the Moodle calendar functionality – or allow Moodle to do it for them: For setting a start/end (= deadline) for any assignment or assessment automagically adds this event to the Moodle course calendar.
  3. A potentially even more useful dynamic subscription(that will reflect late-breaking changes, like extended deadlines in your courses or additional assignments)
    1. you can get if you right click on image_thumb2 and choose “Copy link” from the context menu.
    2. I have not found a way to feed the Moodle iCal link manually into MS-Outlook 2010 (Shared Calendars / Add Calendar / From Internet) or OWA (different problem comes and goes. Just subscribe while problem is gone Smile). In MS-Outlook, you can subscribe to this link via menu:tools / tab:internet calendars / button: new / dialogue new internet calendar subscription / paste the URL you copied. moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscri[1]
    3. Don’t forget to rename your calendar to something more useful than the default, like “My classes”, by right-clicking and choosing “Rename”in OWA or “Properties” in Outlook2010.
    4. moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscri[3]moodle-calendar-outlook-2010-subscri[2]
    5. Your syllabus deadlines are now always only two clicks away in your Ninermail:
      1. click on “Calendar”
      2. click on checkbox “Moodle”.
  4. What seems not possible with any current version of Moodle is editing/updating your calendar in MS-Outlook and having the changes synch with Moodle, or any import actually – only the opposite direction works. So the tool is more useful for students (who don’t need to edit) than teachers (but still a nice aggregator of teaching information for the latter).
  5. More on Calendar you can find in the official 1.9 Moodle calendar doc and FAQ.
  6. I would prefer to use other calendaring software, but the export options of the Moodle (1.9 and 2.)) calendars are limiting. So I also find myself adjusting the settings when using the Moodle calendar:

calendar-19-preferences_thumb1

  1. Adjusting these settings may also fix the following error in OWA which reads like ICS link is invalid/broken, but may only mean that no events where returned for the time window that Moodle defaults to (with performance reasons, which, however, does not apply if Moodle does not have to return *any* events to your request).  In other words: Try expanding the time window for events, e.g. to include the full term.moodle-calendar-owa-subscribing3
Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure Tags: , ,

Is there a better way to cross-link within Joomla?

2011/11/15 Leave a comment
  1. I find my best bet to find anything in the hyperlink dialogue is to go to the published site and search for the article. Here I finally found the article in questions, knowing that it lived (“had been filed”?) in “uncategorized”, which the site search results kindly let me know:
  2. joomla-cross-linking
  3. Obviously you do want to use the internal URL which should survive DNS-related changes.
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, e-infrastructure Tags: