Teknoids, a new beginning

Submitted by elmer on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 1:14pm.

Attention, this isn't the main teknoids.net website anymore. I've upgraded www.teknoids.net to a newer and shinier version of Drupal. We will be migrating stuff from here to there in the coming weeks.

Welcome to teknoids.net

Submitted by elmer on Wed, 03/16/2005 - 9:07pm.

This is the teknoids.net website, a site for teknoids everywhere.
Teknoids are tech support, web designers, trainers, education and instructional technologists, sys admins, net admins, programmers, developers, IT managers, CIOs, librarians, library directors, and tech-inclined faculty in legal academia, non-profits, the judiciary, and law firms plus others with interests in this area.  Teknoids is a big tent:)

A major component of this site is the teknoids mailing list archive which is searchable back to July, 1997. The teknoids mailing list was created by Tom Bruce of LII in 1992. You can subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the mailing list here.

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[Drupal] Multiple Authors on a Node

Submitted by Nathan DeGruchy on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

[Drupal] Multiple Authors on a Node

All,

I’m running into issues with departments needing to edit content in Drupal, but being limited to one owner per-node.  I can’t be the only one who’s run into this problem.  Would something Organic Groups be a solution here?

Thanks!

Nathan DeGruchy
Webmaster
Florida Coastal School of Law
8787 Baypine Road
Jacksonville, FL 32256
p. (904) 680-7735
e. ndegruchy@fcsl.edu

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environmental monitoring and protection of server rooms

Submitted by Norwood, Randy on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

We have a server room, owned by and under the control of the
law school. We are investigating options for systems that would do continuous
environmental monitoring (power, temperature, humidity, water, smoke and room
access) of the room, and that would notify us and if needed, do a graceful
shutdown of the servers.

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GPO's FDsys now operational

Submitted by marbux on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

The Government Printing Office has flipped the "on" switch for its
next-generation digital repository for publicly accessible government
documents. The Federal Digital System (FDsys) now offers the public
access documents from all three branches of government through a
single portal .

With FDsys going live, the federal government has taken a big step
toward becoming a digital government, at least as far as the ability
to designate electronic documents as official records. Agencies and
Congress can submit their official electronic papers to FDsys with
digital certificates, allowing GPO to maintain a chain-of-custody that
can be traced back to their originators. Long-term archiving issues
have also been addressed with the new system.

...

FDsys will replace GPO's current digital document repository,
GPOAccess. The full switchover should happen by the middle of this
year. ...

It will keep all documents that agencies and Congress send to GPO to

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Document editing, remote collaboration, tracking changes

Submitted by Lopes, Luiz on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Hello,

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Recycled Toner Cartridges

Submitted by gary.p.moore on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

My apologies in advance if this has been a previous thread. 
 
We are looking to become more Green here and also cut down on some costs.  Has anyone used a reliable vendor for recycled toner cartridges.  Please let me know.  Thanks.
 
Gary
 
Gary Moore, CISSPAssistant Dean for Information SystemsHofstra University School of LawGary.P.Moore@hofstra.edu(516) 463-6067

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Spam appliance

Submitted by Randy Spydell on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Raymond Flores wrote:The central university has agreed to modify our mx records so that emailis delivered directly to our servers.  We are looking at the possibilityof upgrading our barracuda box with redundancy to handle the additional

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Sharing Access databases via the web

Submitted by Cyndi Johnson on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Short
of using Sharepoint, does anyone know of a good solution to sharing an Access db
with others (non-law school contractors) over the web? My first thought was
Google Docs but it doesn’t support Access.

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email filtering

Submitted by rflores on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Hello Teknoids,

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Video conference bridge

Submitted by almaraz on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Hello 'noids.

I've been unable to connect with Texas Tech, either the law school or
main campus, for the first three weeks of a joint class (we have been
holding the class via Mediasite and a conference phone). When we call
them, we get either "no user responding" or it connects at zero kb with
no video. When they call us, we get a connected message but it just
continues to ring at their end. We were able to connect once in December
(thus we thought all was working fine) and once last week but at a very
low speed. Since then, we haven't been able to connect.

We have upgraded our Tandberg software to the latest version and their
site is updated as well. Today we ran a traceroute between sites. We can
get as far as Texas Tech before the signal is dropped. Texas Tech
doesn't get out of the Dallas area. Both of us can connect to other
sites including test sites.

All our troubleshooting is done by a vendor; I'm just a user/slight
techie on the system so I'm not sure where to go from here. The Texas

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Laser pointer for poor and/or color-blind vision

Submitted by Damien Leri on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Hi,

One of our faculty cannot see a red laser pointer, both because of
color-blindedness and because it is so small. Has anyone found a good
pointer that addresses these?

He has not tried green pointers, so I am considering getting one of
those. But ideally we would have one with a larger circle (or that we
can bring out of focus to make the circle larger).

Thanks,

Damien

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Damien Leri
Director of User Services
Information Technology Services
University of Pennsylvania Law School
215.898.2613
http://www.law.upenn.edu/itsfeedback

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Law Library Finances Poll

Submitted by emasters on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Folks,
Found this little survey over on the Law Librarian Blog,
http://tinyurl.com/ahv8e8 , that I thought might be of interest to
more than a few teknoids.

Happy Monday,
Elmer.

--
Elmer R. Masters
Director of Internet Development
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
emasters@cali.org 773-332-7508

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looking for a contact

Submitted by Cyndi Johnson on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Hi all,

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