Technology Services

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  • I LOST my 12 page paper!

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    nsonsteb

    It is that time of year when final papers are being written, stress is upon students, and late nights are common. Gustavus Technology Services would like to remind everybody that backing up data and saving frequently is more important than ever – especially near the end of the semester – when large/important papers or powerpoints…

  • Corpse Flower (Titan Arum) Webcam Vista Sidebar Gadgets

    Corpse Flower (Titan Arum) Webcam Vista Sidebar Gadgets

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    jlencion

    If you have been following the Corpse Flower webcam and are currently running Windows Vista, we have some exciting news for you. We have created a sidebar gadget for each of the three angles featured on our webcam page. Webcam A Webcam B Webcam C Note: to use these gadgets you must be running Windows…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Shaun Inman’s Widon’t Ported to Javascript

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    jlencion

    I was working on some pull-quote magic today (more on that later) and needed to de-widow a string in Javascript a la Shaun Inman’s Widon’t. So I ported it to Javascript. Here’s the magic: String.prototype.widont = function() { return this.replace(/([^\s])\s+([^\s]+)\s*$/, ‘$1 $2’); } // end widont() To use this simply call the widont() method on a…

  • Browsing Schedules

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    jlencion

    Starting right now, you can browse through schedules using the handy new “previous week” and “next week” links. If you ever lose your way while browsing, simply use the “this week” link to jump back to the current week. We’ve been planning for this feature for a while and are happy to see it go…