Technology Services

Year: 2006

  • Statistics

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    jeremy

    Sometimes in order to move ahead, we must look back to help us put situations in perspective and give us motivation to continue what we do. When I sat down to take a look at our website statistics, I was pleasantly surprised to see a sizable increase in what we served in 2005. Gustavus experienced…

  • Section Highlighting

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    jlencion

    To improve the usability of the Gustavus website, we added a small, but incredibly handy feature to pages within the Gustavus template that fall under one of the sections found within the global navigation (the colored bar of links at the top of each page). Sections such as the college calendar, athletics, or academics will…

  • Photo Contest Voting Rescheduled

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    jlencion

    The Campus Community Photography Contest has been officially rescheduled for Monday, February 27 through Friday, March 3 in Linner Lounge. To vote, you will need your Gustavus ID number.

  • Athletics Redesign

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    jlencion

    Due to technical differences within the underlying architecture of the athletics website, we were unable to release the redesign around Christmas alongside of the rest of our redesign Christmas. However, we have been hard at work on bringing the aesthetic and functional changes of the template redesign to the athletics website. As of yesterday, the…

  • XHTMLParagraphFormat Version 2

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    jlencion

    UPDATE (Oct 23, 2006): This version of XHTMLParagraphFormat() is out of date. If you wish, you should check out the latest version. Unfortunately, I found a major error in the previously posted XHTMLParagraphFormat() function that caused it to not work properly under many circumstances. However, after doing some more research and testing, I banged out…

  • WINS Server Change

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    doachs

    Our old WINS server (phoebe.gac.edu) was just not doing the job right these days. In an attempt to improve windows networking on campus this morning we switched to a new WINS server (wins.gac.edu). Our new setup also includes a WINS proxy to help all of our subnets talk to the WINS server in as efficient…

  • Internet Bandwith Increase

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    doachs

    In an attempt to keep up with the ever increasing demand for more internet bandwith, today we increased our connection from 20Mbits to 30Mbits.  Enjoy the extra speed while you can.  I’m sure the students will find plenty of uses for it come next week 🙂

  • Photo Contest Voting Postponed

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    jlencion

    Update (Feb 5): Due to a scheduling error, voting for the contest has been postponed until a later date. Please stay tuned for updates. This year’s contest was a success—we received over 150 great photographs in the three categories. Finalist photographs for the Campus Community Photography Contest have been chosen and will be displayed in…

  • XHTMLParagraphFormat()

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    jlencion

    UPDATE (Oct 23, 2006): This version of XHTMLParagraphFormat() is out of date. If you wish, you should check out the latest version. While reworking the athletics site, I realized that it was time to improve our less than perfect method for displaying news stories as HTML. The first obvious solution for formatting a chunk of…

  • iChat Sounds

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    doachs

    For some reason or another the sound effects for my iChat client don’t seem to work all the time any more. I first noticed it last week. Shortly after the upgrade to OS X 10.4.4 I lost the sounds that let me know when someone has left me a message. I can quit iChat, I…