Technology Services

Category: GAC IT

  • Sunday Power Outage (updated)

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    doachs

    For anyone who didn’t notice, Gustavus and parts of St. Peter had some major power issues on Sunday afternoon. Initially Olin hall was running on generator power but when the generators cooling hose broke and the fire department arrived, Olin was without power for a while. The brown out situation also caused damage to some…

  • New Stadium Update

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    doachs

    As you can see from the Stadium Webcams, the new turf is being installed this week. Hopefully this will make a good time lapse video. Speaking of time lapse videos, I have a few more of them to share. They are fairly large so unless you have a fast internet connection they may take a…

  • Webcam moved to new stadium

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    doachs

    This morning we moved one of our webcams from the old stadium to the new stadium. I believe that the old stadium will be torn down soon so we needed to get all of our equipment out of there. Also we now have power available to us in the new stadium and therefore are able…

  • Visitor Stands on the Move

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    doachs

    The new stadium has really been taking shape the past couple of weeks. Just a few days ago they moved the visitor stands from the old field location to the their home as part new stadium. We captured some images of the move and put together a couple of time lapse videos. This video is…

  • KEYC’s new Fox channel added to GusTV

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    doachs

    As of July 1st, 2007 the local television station KEYC based in Mankato began broadcasting its new Fox station ( KEYC-FO ). Since we get such a good signal from them and they appear to air programming that is usually different from that which is aired on the Twin Cities Fox channel, we decided to…

  • TPT HD added to GusTV

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    doachs

    Twin Cities Public Television’s High Definition channel is now available on GusTV. This station is the only over the air station in the area that broadcasts shows recorded in HDTV format 24/7.

  • New Webmail Beta!

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    sommere

    Almost all Gustavus students seem to use webmail as their primary e-mail client. We have, therefore, made finding a new better webmail client a very high priority. Our goal was to find a webmail program which was easier and more efficient to use — something we could envision using as our only e-mail client. We…

  • Perry, now with sound

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    doachs

    Earlier today we turned on the microphones on all of the cameras in the greenhouse. So if you are on campus and tune in to channel 7, you can hear what is being said in the greenhouse. Also for those of you lucky enough to be on our wired computer network, you can view live…

  • Corpse Flower Camera

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    doachs

    Thanks to the hard work and dedication of many people here at Gustavus we now have a wolderful flowering Amorphophallus titanum also known as a Corpse Flower to Titan Arum. Thanks to this unique event we have been given an opportunity to put some of our “toys” to good use. This afternoon we added a…

  • New Channels Added to GusTV

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    doachs

    For everyone trying out the GusTV pilot, we now have two additional channels. Thanks to some new hardware we are able to add some more channels to the lineup. Starting today we have added PBS (TPT2) and my 29 (WFTC). We hope to bring some more channels to the list soon. Please do let us…