Maintenance

Rebuilt Lab B with OOo 2.3, new QuickTime, Firefox etc. and added Chinese PRC/MS IME for Karen Tang. As time permits I'll rebuild Lab C.
I'm also working on a new build using VMware. The intent is to create builds in a virtual environment and then do a V2P conversion to export it to the labs.

To provide a custom background for the logon screen (perhaps to show terms of use etc. e.g. 6030) in Windows, save the following as a .reg file and merge it in to the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Resources\\Wallpaper\\swirl.bmp"
"TileWallpaper"="1"
"WallpaperStyle"="2"

NOTE: there is no actual image there by default, so you'll need to put one there (it MUST be a bmp file).

Lab C teacher station seemed to lose its marbles today; the teacher reported that he could not listen in to any of his students, and All Call didn't work. It seemed to be stuck in a Cassette Transfer mode, but cancelling that only worked for a short while before the problem recurred; restarting the ICM was the solution that finally worked.

Called into Lab C at the end of the day by an instructor trying to use Praat; it wouldn't run because of a permissions problem. Checked the permissions on the executable, and only administrators had any, so I added UVic Domain Users, and then it would run for her.

Checked Lab B, and found the same situation there, so I fixed that too.

This took quite a while to fix because you can't log off either of these machines; you have to restart every time. I wonder if there's a way around that?

[RECORD VOLUME]
LINEIN=4914
MIC=19564
CD=-1
AUX=-1
WAVEOUT=-1
DIGITAL=-1
ANALOG=41

[PLAY VOLUME]
LINEIN=-1
MIC=-1
CD=65535
MAIN=50000
WAVEOUT=65535
AUX=-1

[PLAY MUTE]
LINEIN=-1
MIC=0
CD=0
WAVEOUT=0
AUX=-1
MAIN=0

[REC MUTE]
LINEIN=0
MIC=0
CD=-1
WAVEOUT=-1
AUX=-1

[REC SELECT]
LINEIN=0
MIC=1
CD=-1
ANALOG=0
AUX=-1
DIGITAL=-1

[ADVANCED]
MICBOOST=1

[CD]
DIGITAL=0

There is an app called AdjustDuo.exe in the install bundle which kind-of almost does an OK job, but so far I have had to hack duo.cfg on every chipset we've had.

Here's how:
1. Start Media Assistant (Duo) so that a temp.cfg file gets created.

2. Close Duo.

3. Rename Duo.exe to Duo.xxx to prevent it starting.

4. Open two instances of the Windows sound mixer; one for volume and one for recording. Make sure that all necessary volume/record controls are visible.
a) Start a program source in Lab 300 teacher's station and press the manual button.

b) Adjust playback line-in and main volumes on student station using the Windows mixer.

c) Select record line-in from the mixer and record the program with the Windows Sound

Recorder. Then mute the playback line-in and play the recording back and adjust

record line-in.

d) Stop program transfer by pressing the manual button.

5. Adjust playback mic sidetone level by speaking and listening your own voice.

6. Start a wav file with mediaplayer and adjust playback waveout.

7. Start a rmi file with mediaplayer and adjust playback midi.

8. Start a CD track and adjust playback CD audio.

9. Start Sound Recorder, record your speaking, play it back and adjust record mic accordingly.

10. Rename Media Assistant back to Duo.exe and launch it.

11. Rename temp.cfg to duo.cfg.

12. You can use this same file in Lab 300\Master folder by renaming it as Lab300.cfg

Further hacking can be done using the following guide:
The various sections of the duo.cfg file can be manually configured. Numeric values range from 0 - 65535. Duo must be shut down when editing this file.

[RECORD VOLUME] *Note that these are recording volumes. It is possible to have playback too loud during transfer, but too quiet when replayed from local disk.
LINEIN=5000 *sets the recording level for incoming audio.
MIC=50000 *sets the recording level for student generated files.

[PLAY VOLUME]
LINEIN=15000 *adjusts volume levels for incoming transfers (such as tapes and audio CDs)
MIC=5000 *adjusts student microphone sidetone volume when the student is in control
CD=26025 *adjusts volume of CDs played on the student station
MAIN=21000 *adjusts all volumes simultaneously.
WAVEOUT=20000 *sets volume of media files played back on the student station

I've sent in a request to dispose of a bunch of old equipment:
4 AOpen computers - the last of the old lab machines
One of the old CRT televisions
Sony Remote Commander - from Lab B
Sanyo digital projector - non-functional
Sharp VCR - from Lab B. Works, but not well
sundry computer parts (DVD-ROM drive, keyboard etc.)

Also moved a bunch of spare monitors and other bits and pieces to get them out of the way.

I've completed the build on the new lab machines and will set them up in Lab C this afternoon.

Sanako Duo
Real Player
Quick Time
VideoLAN (VLC): http://videolan.org/
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Praat: http://praat.org/

Paint.NET: http://getpaint.net/
Image Markup Tool: http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/

OpenOffice.org: http://openoffice.org/
jEdit: http://jedit.org
Concordance: http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/
Powerpoint viewer 2007
Acrobat Reader

Filezilla: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net
Firefox: http://mozilla.com
Nvu/KompoZer: http://nvu.com/http://kompozer.net

Deutsch Na Klar

7-zip: http://7-zip.org
PDFCreator: http://pdfforge.org - set up as default printer
Antivirus (currently CA AntiVirus)

Language support currently installed:
Language Location Keyboard/IME

Arabic U.A.E Arabic 101
Chinese Hong Kong S.A.R. Chinese Traditional US Keyboard
Chinese PRC Chinese Simplified Pinyin IME 3
Chinese Taiwan MS New Phonetic IME 2002a
Dutch Netherlands Dutch
English Canada US
English US US-International
Farsi Farsi
French Canada Canadian Multilingual Standard
French France French
German Germany German
Greek Greek
Hebrew Hebrew
Icelandic Icelandic
Indonesian US
Italian Italy Italian
Japanese Microsoft Office IME 2007
Korean Korean
Microsoft Office IME 2007
Norwegian Nynorsk Norwegian
Portuguese Brazil Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT)
Punjabi Punjabi
Russian Russina
Spanish Traditional Sort Spanish
Swedish Swedish
Thai Thai Kedmanee
Turkish Turkish Q
Vietnamese Vietnamese