Ran across a video describing how to get the WebDAV info in CE6 (aka Blackboard Vista 4 Lite) for the purpose of using CE6 as a network drive. The narrator says this is a good idea because if the site has good policies, then backups are being made. In the event of a site disaster,…
Mmmmm Tasty!, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Misty licking her nose. It’s been a while since I posted a picture. Here is one from January I have yet to upload. 😀
Blackboard support wants a backup of a section to replicate the instructor claimed behavior. Fine. I started making the backup, but I ended up closing the browser to go home. This morning, when I checked, the backup was not in the Vista file manager at the course level where I created it. So, I created…
09:19 Changing perspectives… Normally a log miner… Let's see what I can find database mining. # 09:44 Is that beeping me? # 10:20 w00t! Think I found the error logs i was seeking. Mining the database helped isolate the node, time, etc since usrs are keeping mum. # 13:29 Mmmmmm… Scope specification meeting # 15:22…
It’s the Chinese Year of the Brown Earth Rat!
08:05 @opticalserenity I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. # 09:44 Reports and Tracking in the UI actually has MORE information than our SQL equivalent. Its only useful when UI rpts cannot run. # 10:11 Yay! I finally succeeded at being the Mean One. # 13:24 Rewriting SQL because lazy developers didn't think to give…
A good one… It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. – Rene Descartes From Michelle so she can be quoted… If you don’t feel and don’t want…
Clusters can making finding where a user was working a clusterf***. Users end up on a node, but they don’t know which node. Heck, we are ahead of the curve to get user name, date, and time. Usually checking all the nodes in the past few days can net you the sessions. Capturing the session…
08:57 If Google is the new Microsoft, then does that make the founders Darth Page and Darth Brin? tinyurl.com/3yh3yz # 09:42 You can't make this stuff up: "should [the fire alarm] go off for some reason there is no reason to be alarmed." # 09:58 @dgcombs True… Stock in them is cool. A drop in…