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Brock University’s documentation for Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based Learning Management System (LMS), is maintained within a wiki at kumu.brocku.ca/sakai. This wiki is intended to be a practical, readable, guide that is aware of the context that instructors use Sakai/Isaak for teaching at Brock University. What follows I had actually hoped to present on this at… Continue Reading Using a wiki to document Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS

Apparently in the new version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, there is an update to the command line tool ‘top’. Now it not only displays CPU, memory and disk I/O information it also has network I/O. There might be hundreds of new features! My count so far 1 * 3 (exchange support) and this….

I’m a big fan of TextExpander. I’ve been using it since before it was purchased by Smile on My Mac Software and was called Textpander. The basic concept is that you can type short key-commands on your Apple, like “ddate” which is automatically replaced with something like Friday; August 28, 2009. In that case saving… Continue Reading TextExpander

When setting up my VPS server there were a number of options for building it. The VPS admin tool gives you “virtual” control over the power switch and the ability to rebuild the server with a fresh OS image at any time. A2 Web Hosting has a few flavours of Linux to choose from: CentOS… Continue Reading Building-Up CentOS 5 Linux Operating System

I’m planning on doing some updates to my web site so that I can move away from shared hosting and gain more control over the web server. Not sure what the time line is, but consider yourself warned 😉 Probably the best place to keep up with the process is twitter.com/mattclare