Technology Services

Year: 2007

  • Time Lapse Photography with an Axis 207MW

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    doachs

    There are many ways to create time lapse photography these days. The following is just one way we are using Axis 207MW cameras on campus to create interesting videos. First we connect the camera to our ethernet or wireless network and mount it somewhere that it will not be likely to move. Once we have…

  • Email Outage

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    tami

    The Gustavus email server experienced an unplanned outage during early morning hours of Friday, April 20th. The software problem which caused the outage has been repaired. If you continue to have problems accessing email, please contact the Technology Helpline at x6111 or helpline@gustavus.edu.

  • Reshall Lab Computers

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    jtwaddle

    Microsoft has recently released several Windows updates that need to be installed on all of the machines on campus. The updates can take a while to install so our normal maintenance period is not long enough to install all of the updates. In order to install all of the updates, we are extending the maintenance…

  • Bittorrent From Only Internet2

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    sommere

    As you may have noticed, our connection to the Ineternet is often quite busy. In addition to our connection to the “Commodity Internet,” Gustavus also has an extra fast connection to Internet2 which connects colleges, universities, and research institutions on a very fast network. While our Internet connection is very busy most of the time,…

  • Thunderbird/Mac Mail Training Offered

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    nsonsteb

    In an effort to help facilitate the switch to Thunderbird for Windows and Macintosh and Mail for Macintosh, Technology Services will be offering the following: One-on-one or small group orientation/training sessions in your office or departments.  Sessions will be scheduled at your convenience to facilitate and help with the conversion to a new email client. …

  • Specialized Software for Labs/Classrooms

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    tami

    The end of another school year is just around the corner, and soon-to-follow will be the busy summer months for Gustavus Technology Services. During the spring and summer, the Technology Services staff puts together a master set of software to be installed on the campus computer labs, faculty and staff desktops and teaching classrooms. This…

  • Office Hours Now on Schedules

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    jlencion

    After a brief period without office hour information in the schedules, we are very happy to announce the re-addition of office hours and other non-course information (such as department meetings, lunches, and research times) to schedules. We hope that the schedules will be even more informative and useful than ever with this non-course information. Scheduling…

  • Technology Helpline Spring Break Hours

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    nsonsteb

    The Technology Helpline is open during regular college business hours during the week of Spring Break. Please see the hours listed below. Monday-Thursday: 8am-4:45pm Friday, April 6th: Closed. Saturday, April 7th: Closed Sunday, April 8th: Closed Monday, April 9th: 8am-4:45pm Tuesday, April 10th: Regular spring semester hours.

  • Linking in Style… CSS3 Selectors for the Win

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    rrud

    Today, we made a couple subtle but visually helpful additions to hyperlink styles in our site-wide CSS. We used some advanced features of CSS3 to isolate off-site links, to add an extra background image and padding to the link, based on how MediaWiki handles off-site links. We also added a mail icon to mailto: e-mail…

  • Where does our mail come from?

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    sommere

    According to our mail server logs, not surprisingly, almost exactly half of the mail Gustavus mail users receive is from other people at Gustavus. What may surprise some is that Facebook accounts for about 34% of the mail we receive. Here’s a graph from yesterday, which is pretty typical for a weekday. By gathering and…