Hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley lead off the podcast with news about network drive changes for those using Macs. In Tech News they update listeners on the fate of the Deleting Online Predators Act, discuss UCLA's adoption of Moodle as their campus course management system, speculate about Apple's new DashCode tool for creating Dashboard widgets, and ponder a web site that delivered one new Apple bug a month for each day in January.
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Show Notes
ITS News
- Network Drive Changes for Mac Users
- Student, faculty, and staff using Macs can now get to their U_Drives
by entering any of the following names:- home
- students
- faculty
- staff
- lafnwst3
- Once you get into the server you will be able to select from one of
three folders:- "U_Drive_Students"
- "U_Drive_Faculty"
- "U_Drive_Staff"
- Updated "Native File Access for Mac" shortcuts on ITS web site
- How to make aliases to specific drives
- Student, faculty, and staff using Macs can now get to their U_Drives
Tech News
- ZDNET: Deleting Online Predators Act: R.I.P.: DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act), which would have "banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding", has died from a lack of interest in the Senate.
- UCLA Adopts Open Source Moodle as Campus CMS: UCLA has decided to adopt the free, open source-based Moodle course management system as the single open source platform for its common collaboration and learning environment (CCLE).
- Apple: DashCode Beta: Dashcode is a new application for developing Dashboard widgets coming in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Dashcode is everything you need to create great Dashboard widgets.
- Putting a Bug in Apple's Ear: Wired takes a look at the Month of Apple Bugs, a project that reveals one Apple bug a day in January.
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- Questions, comments and suggestions can be sent to itsblog@lafayette.edu.