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Archive for February, 2009

Please enjoy the attached photos taken by our colleague Mike Butler (TLC) and video by videographer Phil Betts (YEA) of President Gary Forsee‘s visit to the College of Education today. We had a terrific turnout (50+) in the Technology and Learning Center. The President received an overview of the COE, engaged in some Q and A with the COE faculty and staff, and got a tour of the TLC. I must say, I was proud of the wonderful turnout, proud of the respect shown to the President, and proud that Chancellor Tom George chose the COE for one of President…

Charles Murray, author and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and educational psychologist David Berliner debated their contrary views of school reform today in an event sponsored by the College of Education and the F.A. Hayek Professorship of Economic History at UMSL. Entitled “The Great Debate:the failure of school reform-whose fault is it, anyway?” featured the opposing views of these two scholars followed by a brief Q & A by the audience. Kiara Breland, staff writer with UM Saint Louis’ The Current Online framed the debate in her article: [Berliner] suggests public school problems are caused by societal and economic…

(I just uploaded a test copy of a script for 10.6. Please let me know if it works!) NetBooting can be an extremely useful tool for imaging your Macs. Unfortunately, it’s only officially supported in the server editions of OS X. And, considering we only manage six or seven laptops right now, we can’t justify the $500 price tag. Fortunately for us, all of the functionality is still in the regular version of OS X, we just have to make it work. If you’re reading this article, you probably already have an idea of what NetBoot is. Simply, NetBoot allows…

We try to keep the images for our machines up to date, but sometimes it’s just best to start from a fresh installation. But, until recently, “fresh installation” meant using our site license for XP SP1, and spending 2 hours running updates. And unless I could find an external floppy drive, I could forget about installing Windows on a SATA machine. But with nLite, none of this is a problem. nLite is a freeware program that allows you to create a customized installation disk for Windows. You can add updates and service packs, custom drivers and patches, and even remove…