Got this odd message from Flickr… The last administrator of [group name]Â has left the group and you have been made into an administrator. This is because you are the longest serving member of the group. Well done 🙂 This is an interesting way of ensuring someone is an administrator of a group. Unfortunately, I have…
We have been getting these messages for months. Some good folks at Blackboard have caused them to stop for a while, but they just resume. Probably it is multiple cases of the same issue. LDAP Issues: Dear Valued Customer, The MH Operations team has determined that your MH application server(s) are not able to communicate…
Wholy smoke I just got a bajillion whiny emails saying I have not updated this since the 9th… You would not believe I spend all my time in front of a computer. But I’m sorry you’ll just have to take my word for it.. I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with discovering time…
Problem: The “Restrict access after this date” function affects all students and auditors without individual exceptions. In reality, universities need to grant individual exceptions for Incomplete grades, grade challenges, or other special cases. Solution: A Section Instructor could select all the students except the one who needs access and Deny access to them. Then the…
I have a habit of not typing the protocol (http:// or https://) when typing an URL. Except, when I enter a port in the address line. I hit the Home key and add the protocol then. I am pretty sure I picked up this habit to work around a problem. I just tried not supplying…
A few weeks ago, NPR aired a piece where McCain and Obama advisors about technology expressed the policy intentions of each candidate. Also, Obama was described as being a Crackberry addict. McCain was described as personally being technology illiterate, but he looked forward to someone showing him some web sites. So now, Google purports to…