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Hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist kick off the early October edition of the ITS Coffee Break with a discussion of fall projects, including a slew of student video projects and “Spaces”, a new intercollegiate workspace for faculty that’s powered by Moodle and Shibboleth. In Tech News they look at new political and utility apps for the iPhone, check up on a chess match being played between Earth and the International Space Station, and consider Nintendo’s answer to Apple’s iPod touch: the DSi.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Spaces: Intercollegiate collaborative workspace for faculty.
- Coming online later this month at http://spaces.lafayette.edu
- ProtectID: A Shibboleth-enabled ID provider
- Interested? Contact Courtney Bentley at bentleyc@lafayette.edu or Ken Newquist at newquisk@lafayette.edu.
- Fall Video Projects
- The Mac Labs in the library are alive with the sound of video editing.
- Contact Us:
- Send comments to itsblog@lafayette.edu.
Tech News
- Earth vs. Space Chess Match 2008
- The chess team at Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash. is facing off against the crew of the ISS. Each day the kids pick four possible moves to make, then the public votes on which one should be sent up to the space station.
- http://main.uschess.org/content/blogcategory/198/475/
- Obama app for iPhone
- Read about issues. Call friends in battlefield states based on area code.
- http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone
- TouchTerm
- Allows SSH command line access to servers from your iPod Touch/iPhone.
- http://www.jbrink.net/touchterm/
- Nintendo DSi
- Camera, music playback, browser, SD card slot, no GBA support
- http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-officially-unveils-nintendo-dsi/
Help News
- Help Tip: Hubs!
- Q: Can I still use a hub in my dorm/office?
- A: No. Hubs will not work on the new network. For students, ITS will provide a multi-port solution. A procedure to borrow these devices will be posted during the spring semester. For employee offices, new network drops will be run to accomodate any mulit-port needs. (The cost to run these drops will be covered by ITS.) Contact the Help Desk at 5501 or by sending email to help@lafayette.edu to arrange for new drops.
- Refworks Workshop coming in October.
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