We had an issue with sorbs - my ISP told me unless we attached a proper
hostname to the affected IP they couldn't get the block lifted - it needs an
MX record I think. That particular sorbs block is not causing us any issues
though. There was is one bad IP in that range (not ours) that is causing t
+1 on the Nifty 50. One of my favorite lenses to shoot around with
because it's fast and light and un-intimidating.
Anyway, that being said, the 50mm prime will actually be an 80mm lens
on a 1.6x sensor.
-A
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> That's a nice overall lens Joe
$32k
K-12 district, 400 students, 200 computers, 8 servers
No other techs in the district
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Margie Bonuchi wrote:
> I am trying to find comparison information on what other districts are
> paying out as tech salaries. Is there any information of this kind out
>
Geeks,
We are looking for a replacement package for our keyboarding software. We
are looking for something that will work well on a network (Vovell) and
allows the teacher to set up customized practices and has good reporting
features, reports that export to txt or csv would be nice.
Anyone
Anyone out there have a polycom and able to test it out. I have just set
one up and all the test sites I try are coming up " The far site has
disconnected" I think meaning that the resource is in use.
If your able to help me out for a quick 5 mins of your time that would
be much appreciated.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I have Lifesize and can test with you. Our IP is 165.138.207.244. If you
need a human at the camera just let me know.
On 9/10/2010 8:23 AM, Smeltzer, Matt wrote:
> Anyone out there have a polycom and able to test it out. I have just set
> one up an
I don't see any sessions labeled 'gripe and whine' on there. Perhaps the
facility is not large enough...
Thanks for posting this, Tom.
Mike
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We are using MicroType Pro and MicroType 5 and are happy with both of them.
Phil
>>> "Charlie Niehaus" 9/10/2010 7:18 AM >>>
Geeks,
We are looking for a replacement package for our keyboarding software. We
are looking for something that will work well on a network (Vovell) and
allows the
While not exactly a "gripe and whine" session, there is actually an open Q&A
session in the works that is not listed yet.The working title (it may
change) is "Q & A on the operations of Skyward and IL Steering Committee" and
will likely be in one of the rooms/slots currently designated as a
Geeks,
We have some students that spend half of their day at an area vocational
center taking classes there. The classes are taught by vocational teachers
at their building at another site and our students are bussed to that site,
they attend classes 1/2 a day and then bussed back and they at
For attendance purposes, the FTE should be 1.0 for your school. And if
they are tested at your school - and I am supposing that they are - then
you are both the serving school and the home school. I think I am
"with" your principal on this.
Most likely your school is paying to have those stu
To my knowledge we have always considered career center students as our
full-time student and listed the career center courses in our catalog as your
new principal has said. I can't say with 100% certainty that is correct, but
it has worked for us. This whole thing is a confusing mess - with c
This summer, I got a Nikon D5000. It came with an 18-55 lens. I bought a
55-200 lens on eBay. I swap them out regularly, but you need to be certain
to do that in non-dusty areas and remember to turn the power off when
switching.
The digital parts of the D5000 can be a great aid to shooting in low-
There are two different reasons to report this information to the
state. One is for attendance and one is for testing. As far as I know,
SIS is for testing.
So, if the student is tested at your school and your school is the home
school, the student's FTE should be 1.0 and your are the home s
Joel brings up a great point here. There are some excellent tutorials
on YouTube for all kinds of issues about photography.
Joel A. Brondos wrote:
This summer, I got a Nikon D5000. It came with an 18-55 lens. I bought
a 55-200 lens on eBay. I swap them out regularly, but you need to be
cer
Will actually be an 80mm
Exactly why it's so good, it's got that slight telephoto effect with your
"victim" none the wiser.
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On Sep 10, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Aaron Hackney wrote:
> +1 on the Nifty 50. One of m
You should be able to differentiate if the second login box is a iprint login
screen or possibly ZCM or the Novell Client. Can you find that out? Plus
check the version of the iprint client that is on your server and client. I'm
not 100 percent sure where that is on the oes 2 linux box but it
This is great discussion - all good info.
Thanks all.
Dylan
Dylan Haines
Systems Technical Support Manager
HB Studios Multimedia Ltd.
Box 725, The Hive
37 Hall Street
Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0
Tel: (902)634-8316 ext. 237
Cell: (902)553-0706
Fax: (902)634-3647
www.hb-studios.com
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Latest consensus on where to get the best pricing for printer cartridges?
What about harder to find cartridges -- like for my printer/plotter HP
DesignJet 650 and wide-carriage Epson Stylus 1520?
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IETC has never given out registration information to vendors.
On 9/4/10 12:55 PM, "Dana Fellows" wrote:
Probably from IETC registration. I saw them there one or two years ago. Can't
remember giving them my info but they had it.
Dana Fellows
Computer Technology Instructor / Network Administrat
YoLink was at IETC last year. If you gave them your e-mail address and
contact info, they gave you a 2GB flash drive. Due to this info, I¹ve been
contacted by them.
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Monticello CUSD #25
Monticello, IL 61856
htt
Exactly
Now add EC/PK to the mix - especially if another district's program is using
your facility (ie HeadStart) OR you have DCFS placed students at a private
residential placement facility located in your district (these are your
students but you can't claim ADA because they are covered NY th
I don't even own a DSLR - my son does - and I still like this discussion.
Dylan Haines wrote:
This is great discussion - all good info.
Thanks all.
Dylan
Dylan Haines
Systems Technical Support Manager
HB Studios Multimedia Ltd.
Box 725, The Hive
37 Hall Street
Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0
I'm having some issues getting ACT online prep to run on our lab computers.
Flash is updated - checked and rechecked
It will run in 56K mode, but for some reason that is not good enough for the
staff who want to use this.
In high speed mode (flash) it always wants to install flash when the user is
This is what we were told to do with Skyward so that these students would show
up properly with the coding structure. We actually created a second Out of
District Entity which they were enrolled in as part time. In the regular
school their FTE was .5 and the Out of School, which listed the sch
It may be, while at the IETC Conference or any other conference, you filled out
a contact card at the yo-link table.
Or, someone else filled one out for you, I always like putting in Ron Egolf's
contact info. :P
Scott
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Graceworkz
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"I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during
your lectures so that I do not need you any more."
A good teacher is l
I can tell you that the version of the iPrint client on the workstations is
5.32 and I think the version on the server is 5.42. When we updated a client
on a workstation to the 5.42 version (which is what the server is handing out
when you ask it to do the install via the web interface) we are
Disclaimer - this is a political rant of someone who leans a little left
of center. Continue reading at your own peril.
Let's all understand why we have SIS in the first place. It can all be
traced back to NCLB and a group of people whose main purpose in life is
to discredit public educat
Charlie,
Do you have secure printing setup in Iprint? maybe thats forcing the second
login box. I have iprint 5.32 clients as well as older clients and have
never seen a iprint login box. we do not use secure print.
Aaron
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Charlie Niehaus <
cnieh...@altamont.k
I found in my case the following happened.
A colleague was consulting to this company about better understanding the
education space.
They gave them my name, among others. They also suggested that the sales rep.
Subscribe here to better understand the needs of ed. Tech folk.
When they saw an e
I'd like to invest in a good, wider-range lens in the future, too. I was
eyeballing this one a while ago, but don't have the cash: http://amzn.to/9wyz9W
It would be even better if it were a faster lens, but then of course the price
would jump even higher.
Right now I swap between my 18-55mm an
I love my 50mm for indoors, but there are times I wish I could get wider.
Sometimes at the karate dojo I'm just too close to the action for that prime.
It's a wonderful portrait lens, though. The owner of my karate school really
liked this shot I took of him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_
I have had users complaining this year about an inability to read our daily
announcements.
As far as I know, we are doing nothing different from last year. Our
secretary copy-and-pastes the daily announcements from a Word document into
a Joomla article. We use JCE. What I am hearing is along the li
Jim touches the "third rail" of tech-geekdom, bad Jim.
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Is IE8 the change? Ran into an issue lately where it was eating some HTML
it renderered just fine in IE7. Was kind of strange, but it is IE.
--Josh
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Bendorf wrote:
> I have had users complaining this year about an inability to read our daily
> announceme
For those of you with VOIP throughout your buildings:
Do you use the switch many phones provide to feed the phone and computer?
Do you use AC adapters or widespread PoE?
Do you have all your phones on a different VLAN?
Curtis McKay
Network Administrator
Belleville Township High School District 20
Check your apache error logs for authentication errors. iPrint uses authldap
for authentication.
Christopher Shields Network Support Services Manager 630.466.5732
cshie...@waubonsee.edu
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I¹ve seen this happen several times here.
It usually has to do with the copy-paste process.
Some formatting in Microsoft Word causes this to happen (I think I¹ve
narrowed it down to that, anyway.)
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Monticello CUSD
I put OT and started with a disclaimer.
Williams, Scott wrote:
Jim touches the "third rail" of tech-geekdom, bad Jim.
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I've found that importing directly from Word puts a bunch of extra _CRAP_ into
the article.
I've found it much cleaner to export from Word -> Notepad -> Joomla.
Most end users won't understand this extra step, so I end up cleaning up a
bunch of articles. This makes for a much cleaner looking
Curtis:
We feed our PC through the phones, no problems with that at all.
We connect to a power block which we set the LAN drop into then go to the
phone then to the PC from the phone.
The only thing I sis was set aside a block of IP's (10.9.0.xxx) for the
phones and set them up as all static addre
If you MUST use MSWorld to create a Joomla article my suggestion is this:
1) Use word to create the article but DO NOT FORMAT THE ARTICLE IN WORD.
2) Once the article is created, copy the article and past it into
Notepad. This will remove all formatting done by MS Word.
3) Copy the article from
We have two setup as they were implemented at two different times.
First one is a total separate system for the phones and they work with POE
switches. There is a Vlan setup to access the system, which could allow me to
expand the phone system on the regular system, but would have to provide
Do you use the switch many phones provide to feed the phone and computer?
In classrooms - Yes. In offices - No
Do you use AC adapters or widespread PoE?
Almost all use the AC adapters with a very few on PoE.
Do you have all your phones on a different VLAN?
No. It would be nice but would
We have a Cisco CallManager system, with Cisco Unity Voicemail.
>Do you use the switch many phones provide to feed the phone and computer?
Yes. We run the line from the wall jack to the phone, and daisy-chain out of
the phone and into the Desktop/Laptop computer.
>Do you use AC adapters or wid
My son is taking a photography class in HS. The instructor wanted a film,
not a digital 35mm camera. We had to go to Grandpa for that one!
They also did a pinhole camera. I got a wooden cigar box from my favorite
(but infrequently visited) cigar store. It turned out to produce the best
effects in
Pardon the HP terms if they confuse the CISCO guys:
Jim, if you told the phone to tag the traffic coming out of it, but the PC was
obviously untagged traffic, then the switch port could be configured to have
untagged traffic on that port to be the PC VLAN for that building, and allow
phone VLAN
And Pythagoras was correct. :-D
Joel A. Brondos wrote:
My son is taking a photography class in HS. The instructor wanted a
film, not a digital 35mm camera. We had to go to Grandpa for that one!
They also did a pinhole camera. I got a wooden cigar box from my
favorite (but infrequ
<< And Pythagoras was correct. :-D >>
Jim, Pythagorus was RIGHT, triangularly speaking.
(Hey, the GMail spell checker recognizes that "triangularly" is spelled
correctly and must therefore be a real word!)
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Thanks. I know that. We just haven't done it yet. Too many other
things to do.
And as the old saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.".
It is working well. I'm not saying that it couldn't be better because
it certainly could. It has not become a big enough issue to spend the
time
Geeks,
Thanks for the feedback about the SORBS block. I have a better
understanding of the problem now and hopefully will be able to clear it
up. As many have said, this list is a priceless resource.
Jay Hill
Technology Coordinator
Princeville CUSD #326
This e-mail (including any attachment
We would be starting from scratch so I'm just trying gather information now for
decisions that could need to be made down the road. No current purchases in
the works but some very early talk.
Curtis McKay
Network Administrator
Belleville Township High School District 201
cmc...@bths201.org
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Many people will claim that Pythagoras had nothing to do with the
Pythagorean theorem and very little to do with Mathematics but it was
some of his un-named followers who came up with the theorem.
And, now, your trivia question of the day. (Bob Munds is not eligible
...)
What U.S. presi
NO
PoE
Yes
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Subject: [tech-geeks] VOIP phone systems
For those of you with VOIP throughout your buildi
Thought I would reply to this to share the result. I went into the
server, right clicked on the user and chose rename. I changed the name
and when I clicked ok it came up with a box to enter in their new name,
username and email. I changed them all and saved. Went to the users
laptop and had he
I upgraded last year to a fancy new body and I thought I would just
keep my old body as a backup, as it is very grainy at high ISO, and I
like to shoot indoors a lot with no flash, so it sat on my shelf for
the last year.
Long story short, my old body has new life. I put my 70-200 on the old
body
Just one response:
WOW!
BTW - I am performing a play in our local thater that was written by a local
writer. It is a court case comedy and one line is "Is this the kind of man
that we should make the people of our fine state feed, cloth and provide
housing for? I say NO!" The character says
This is just about exactly what I expected to hear...
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"I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during
your lectures so that I do not
Anyone else opted into the "early adopter" phase of the new infrastructure
for Google Apps accounts?
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=181865
Additional services
*
*After your Google Apps accounts are converted, your users will have access
to most Google products. Previously
I am hoping someone out here has some advice. Just recently computers
keep dropping their connection the domain. We image the computer and
get it on the domain fine. Some of these machines work fine for days.
Then all of a sudden someone will go to log in and we get the Can't log
into the domain
I'm hoping somebody on here has experienced this and has a solution to this
very annoying problem. I have a couple of newly purchased windows 7 machines
and a single vista machine that are trying to connect to get past my Router.
DHCP hands out a valid IP and points to the right places but from
I'm testing it out only for my account.
Thanks,
Jared Lynn
PORTA CUSD #202 Technology Coordinator
Email: jl...@porta202.org
Phone: 217-501-4920
On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Michael Bendorf wrote:
> Anyone else opted into the "early adopter" phase of the new infrastructure
> for Google Apps acco
I really don't like our website and was thinking of switching it over to
Joomla. Before I do though for those of you using Joomla could you post your
URL so I can see some of the different things you are doing?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
JL
Jason Livezey
Director of Technology
Ne
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"I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during
your lectures so that I do not need you any more."
A good teacher is
Don't forget about the resources on joomlachicago.com
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<< What U.S. president published a unique proof of the Pythagorean theorem
while a member of Congress? >>
I think I used to know that.
While I'm waiting for the answer, I'll share a little story with you, trying
to be as politically correct as I can.
There was once a noble chief of a Midwestern
Time is my big reason for not spending as much time as I'd like on photography.
That said, here are some good sites for info about the hobby - with a link
directly to a good article. I subscribe to these via rss
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/do-you-primarily-shoot-with-zoom-or-prime
Are you using IPCop?
Jared Lynn wrote:
I'm hoping somebody on here has experienced this and has a solution to this very annoying problem. I have a couple of newly purchased windows 7 machines and a single vista machine that are trying to connect to get past my Router. DHCP hands out a valid IP a
sages.us
Jason Livezey wrote:
I really don't like our website and was thinking of switching it over to
Joomla. Before I do though for those of you using Joomla could you post your
URL so I can see some of the different things you are doing?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
JL
Jason
I used to tell that to my junior high math students when we introduce
the Pythagorean Theorem.
BTW. The answer is James A Garfield. While a member of Congress and
about 3 years before becoming President, Mr. Garfield developed an
independent and quite clever proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
www.elv196.org
Adam Lewis
Technology Director
Elverado CUSD #196
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Subject: [tech-geeks] Website Remodeling
I really don't like our website and was thinking of switching
Office has a file called mstore10.mgc that contains the index so you can
search clip art. If this file gets corrupt you lose clip art until you
delete it and force Office to reindex. Has anyone run into a problem where
this file continues to recorrupt often? If so, any fixes?
--
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Ben Story
C
Thanks to everyone who posted their URLs. It goes a long way in showing TPB
what can be done with the software...
Thanks,
JL
On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Adam L. Lewis wrote:
> www.elv196.org
>
> Adam Lewis
> Technology Director
> Elverado CUSD #196
>
> - Original Message -
> From:
This is not a school site, but it is education-related and I use Joomla to do
it.
www.ibea.org.
Thanks,
David
=
David Calkins
Technology Coordinator
Oakwood CUSD #76
Fithian, IL
email: dmcalk...@oakwood.k12.il.us
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How about this Firefox add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/134/
Jim
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Really nice Keith. I love it.
Jim
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Anything in the event log of the workstations?
Does this happen when the machine first turns on, or has it been running for
some time (a lab machine, for example, where one class logged in fine and then
left, then another student tries to log in and it doesn't work)?
DHCP renewal issues? If it ca
I complete agree with the resources offered by Jim - those are my go-to
resources also. If I were to add one, it's this lens review site:
http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/best_canon_eos_lenses.html.
It is however specifically for Canon bodies (does include 3rd party lenses) -
not
For Minolta/Sony
http://www.dyxum.com/index.asp
Jim
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Thi
Just made the switch
using mitel
90% pc runs off back of phone at 100M
other 10% off a GIG adapter.. So have GIG to pc
All POE but one in remote building
running 3 vlans for phones
and implementing data vlans for buildings..
Love it so far..
Percy
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, McKay, Curti
Joomla
www.roe46.net
happy to answer any questions
rick
roe46
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I have a few teachers wanting me to unblock Netflix. I have been
looking at the laws and from what I can tell, if they are using the
movie as part of directly teaching a subject, then you don't need a
license (I assume this is what they mean by face-to-face). If you are
just using the movie as a
Those of you using Google Docs, have you seen problems where someone shares a
folder, people can access it fine, then suddenly they're not able to?
Our business teacher shared a folder with her students. At the beginning of
class, they were all accessing the shared folder and its files just fine
We've always used IE in the building I have a solution to a problem that
may involve deploying FireFox because it seems to have fewer glitches in
running the sites they need to run.
Are there security concerns in installing Firefox for all users?
Scott
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I recommend the latest versions of Firefox over I.E. but as with most programs
it is what you and your users are used to using that make the difference.
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Collinsville Unit 10 School District
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Collinsville IL, 62234
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Thanks,
Jared Lynn
PORTA CUSD #202 Technology Coordinator
Email: jl...@porta202.org
Phone: 217-501-4920
On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:20 PM, JimHays wrote:
> Are you using IPCop?
>
>
> Jared Lynn wrote:
>> I'm hoping somebody on here has experienced this and has a solution to thi
We use the site license from movlic.com and it is pretty affordable. It
covers a great deal of movies. We also use this so we can do
fundraisers as well.
Mike McGowan
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I use swank motion pictures for movie licenses. They license movies directly
from the movie houses for educational purposes, whether for instruction or for
rewards.
Jeff
Jeffrey L. Hunt, Ed.D.
Indian Prairie CUSD 204
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I have (soon had I hope) the same issue with Windows 7 and IPCop. Never did
find a solution. There are tohers that did not see the issue with IPCop and
Windows 7 - so I am assuming it is either a configuration issue with IPCop
(Best Bet) or somthing with a switch along the way. i was lucky en
It’s not a security concern, but teachers should be made aware that some
websites were not built with cross-browser compatibility and may not function
the same way in Firefox that they do in IE. That being said, most sites do a
good job of rendering content with Firefox, and it’s only a select f
For work:
Evernote - The single best way (at the moment) to have access to key
information *in read and write form* on multiple devices. In my case,
that's two Macs, an iPhone and an iPad. In is my note-taking app of choice
because it doesn't matter which device I have at hand. All the info is
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