The High School Server room contains two older PowerEdge 6400 Servers that are called HSERVER01 and HSERVER02.¬¨‚Ć These units have been workhorses and are the domain controllers, handle dns, dchp, active directory, file shares etc.¬¨‚Ć The machines are huge , Pentium 3 based, and over a decade old.¬¨‚Ć To phase these units out quietly with […]
One technology that works great for sharing, distributing and storing documents online is the WebDav Protocol. ¬¨‚ĆWebDav uses the http or https protocol in a way which makes it respond in a way similar to most file managers. ¬¨‚ĆSupport for this protocol is built into 10.6.x and 10.7.x natively and is also built into Windows […]
Apple has gone a long way in making web-enabled apps function like regular apps. ¬¨‚ĆWith use of the meta tags you can setup an icon and load an web based application using the built in web-kit and avoid Safari. ¬¨‚ĆThe advantage is the app will function like any other app, there will be no access […]
This weekend apparently 5 apple airports kicked the bucket. ¬¨‚ĆInterestingly four of the units were at Millikin Elementary and one was at the Unit Office. ¬¨‚ĆWas the timing¬¨‚Ćcoincidence? Perhaps electrical damage, I am far from 100 percent certain but I am leaning towards an electrical disturbance. ¬¨‚ĆLast Saturday was heavy with storms, Iowa Hawkeye football […]
Most of the end user computers at Geneseo Community School District are Apple units running 10.6.X Snow leopard.¬¨‚Ć In addition to all of the Apple hardware there are two dedicated PC labs at Geneseo High School (Also at GHS: Three Mac Labs, 2 mobile labs, and 3 mobile iPad labs). ¬¨‚ĆOne of these two labs […]