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  • Hurricane Katrina Teach-in streaming audio

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    jlencion

    Last week’s Hurricane Katrina Teach-in here at Gustavus is now available to stream from the web in Windows Media Audio (wma) format. To listen to these streams, you will need to have a reliable connection to the Internet and Windows Media Player installed on your computer. Teach-in playlist: Peg O’Connor (Women’s Studies) — Introduction Karen…

  • Faculty schedules updated

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    jlencion

    After being empty so far this school year, the faculty schedules have been updated with the latest information directly from the registrar’s office. For the first time, the schedules will be synchronized on a nightly basis with fresh data from the school’s main database. This project is the first that will be using this new…

  • Permalinks changed

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    jlencion

    Today we started utilizing mod_rewrite for our permalinks in this blog and our Featured Gustavus Weblogs. I’m not totally sure exactly how mod_rewrite does it, but it allows us to have much cleaner URLs for our posts. If you notice anything odd, please let us know.

  • Postifx and LDAP issues

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    doachs

    Apparently when our LDAP servers are under a bit of load such as when we do a batch update of info and the indexing is slowing things down, our postfix mailserver rejects email saying “status=bounced (unknown user: “username”)”. Which sucks because the person who sent the email will get that bounce message back. In an…

  • Gustavus WordPress theme

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    jlencion

    Today we updated the look of our blog here with a new WordPress theme we created to match the rest of the Gustavus website. This is a good step forward for the Web Services blog. We also plan to use this theme for other official Gustavus weblogs. Technically, it wasn’t too hard to port the…

  • ImageMagick Updated (6.2.3)

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    jlencion

    We updated our version of ImageMagick today to 6.2.3. Some of our applications that use ImageMagick are News, Athletics Rosters, and some other upcoming applications. The update was relatively seamless and completely painless. We expect improved performance and security.

  • Wahlstrom Hall is Gone

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    doachs

    No words necessary. Just enjoy the photos: http://gallery.kvsys.com/wahlstrom You can also see some video here: http://www.keyc.com/article/view/80864/

  • New stadium video walkthrough

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    jlencion

    The new stadium site has been updated with a downloadable rendered video walkthrough. It’s pretty cool, so you should download it and watch it. There are four versions of the video available for download, each of a different bitrate so you can get just the right quality for your connection speed. All files are in…

  • WordPress upgraded

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    jlencion

    WordPress has been updated to version 1.5.2 which seems mostly like a bugfix release. I guess it is also supposed to have fixed some recent security holes, so it’s pretty important to upgrad from a security standpoint. However, the WordPress team wasn’t overly clear on just exactly what changes this version includes. This afternoon I…

  • Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox

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    jlencion

    Patrick H. Lauke at Get Tooled Up outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review. Although awareness of web accessibility has steadily increased in recent years, many web developers are still uncertain about how to evaluate their sites. The relative complexity of…