Month: August 2008
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Nothing We Can Do?
A statement by a faculty member to the effect of, “There isn’t anything our IT people can do to resolve this problem. The web application is overloaded,” puts the people running the application on the defensive. The problem turned out to be resolved with changes to the local browser environment (remove all the installs of…
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Star Wars Japanese Hanging Banners
In case you were thinking of getting me a “Just because it is August” gift…
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webctbackup
John made a good point… While telling Blackboard about this is pointless, the community at large ought to be aware of another undocumented workspace issue. I found an 8GB .bak in the /u01/app/nodeA/weblogic81/webctbackup on the active JMS node. Taking out user accessible nodes is okay in my book as with 18-20 of them in our…
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Pointless
So I wanted to open a support ticket. However, in thinking about what I can ask for the company to do arrayed against what they are willing to offer for support, I realized… I am not going to get a resoultion for the ticket. It is functioning as designed. They are just going to tell…
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Please verify the admin user and password
So, I got this error… Unknown WebCT username or invalid password. Please verify the admin user and password in the IMS Settings. I assumed the username and password were probably right. I had to find my error somewhere else. The error turned out to be one missing character out of the 57 character long glcid.…
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Enrolling Administrators
One of the challenges of having 42 institutions is managing the administrators. (Actually we created some 12 spare institutions but why is another post.) So my challenge was how to not drive myself insane trying to enroll the 6 same admin users to each institution. The best way in my opinion is to create the…
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Monopoly Fears
Something brought up my abandoned Friendster blog, which had a link to fiftymillimeter which used to be my favorite photography site by people in Athens prior to me even moving here. Why “used to be”? Well over a year ago, they stopped posting to the site. Sad, I know. Still, I was curious, Where are…
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TED Talk: Brain Magic
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QotD: I’ve Always Wanted to Know…
If you were guaranteed an answer to any question you have, what would you ask and of whom? Submitted by Cicero7590. I’ll assume “an answer” really means a truthful answer. The first thing which comes to mind is what very women really, actually think about me. I know I can ask, but I expect most…