[MCN-L] Public Wi-Fi

2010-01-29 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
a myriad of illegal activities can be conducted over your network's Port 80 (HTTP), and are traceable back at least to your address space or router address, and even an individual workstation IP and MAC address. Around the time of the release of the film Matrix II, our domain technical and

[MCN-L] Public Wi-Fi

2010-01-29 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Eisenhardt, Chuck Sent: Friday, January 29

[MCN-L] Mac vs. PC

2009-06-24 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
Ah, nothing like a good ol' 'Mac vs. PC' engagement. I agree entirely with Jeff's points here. To see an organizational preference for a Windows network termed a 'religious' response, ie. somehow not a considered business strategy, but an article of faith or prejudgement, is unseemly. I agree

[MCN-L] Interpretive Video Kiosk Software

2008-04-24 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
If you can get your presentation to run in a browser, it's possible to launch both Explorer and Firefox in kiosk mode, from a command line switch...(iexplore -k path) I have used Explorer in this mode in public spaces, and while it is not perfect, I have never had visitors manage to exit from

[MCN-L] TMVista forum

2007-10-29 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
For some time users of the Ticketmaster Vista software suite (largely museum-types) have shared issues and solutions over a Yahoogroup list called VistaUsers. This list had become an easy target for spammers, as it was wide open for posting, and also listed in the Yahoogroup directory. The

[MCN-L] Ticketing Software Survey

2007-03-08 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
I have a survey of MCN organizations (about 25 participated) from 4 years ago, which I will repost to the group shortly. This surveys not only ticketing systems but all other apps as well. If anyone would like to re-kindle and update this survey I think it would be broadly useful. I can't

[MCN-L] Collection Management System

2006-10-03 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
Macromedia 'Contribute' passed our evaluation with flying colors. As Mike Rippy suggests, having a organizational model that enables broad content participation while preserving controls can be an elusive objective. This software seems to let you tailor permissions quite finely, putting control

Re: mcn_mcn-l digest: August 02, 2005

2005-08-04 Thread Eisenhardt, Chuck
Re: Scheduling Software Whereas we use Vista for Box Office and reservations, we have not ever implemented it for room bookings or resource scheduling (such as docents, floor staff). Not to say we haven't looked at it, and I believe it could be made to work. But it's far from cheap, and it