HCMC Blogs

This morning we got nets to set up B047 on the switch. Some time after that 3 machines lost the ability to get a DHCP address - I have no idea if there is a causal relationship between these things.

After much mucking about, it *looks* like it might have been a communication problem between the DHCP server and the machines.
Even forcibly releasing the DHCP lease didn't make any difference.

In the end, I booted the machine with a LiveCD and fiddled with enabling/disabling the network (in the network manger). I got a proper IP and rebooted in the installed OS. That seemed to break it out of the loop.

A bit perplexing and aggravating because I don't actually know what the problem was...

1. ES added transcripts for fraq10, fraf6
2. ES has edited Liette's video, and given it to SA. Corresponding xml file has also been added.
3. ES asked SA to upload all new addition to the production site in order to see if edition with Audacity works fine.

Sent in FMIS report May 2nd re furniture removal. (p/up by May 8, 2013)

May 8: followed up on sent FMIS request re furniture removal specific pick up time. Furniture removed May 8th, 11:00am.

Computer facility:
Received computer usage requests from several projects for May-August 2013
New schedule updated and posted online

SA and I met with SA (Rel.St) to discuss migration of current Religious Studies site over to Cascade format.

Discussion:
- RELS current information and design to be replicated basically in Cascade
- discussed various Cascade requirements

Next steps:

- sent info. request to SA (RELS) required for outline
- HCMC:currently preparing RELS structure outline in readiness for submission for approval

On late duty.

Team meeting, at which we discussed the use of ISE's facsimile viewer in MoEML (which will be easy enough to do, although it's based on a traditional db, and we'll have to replace that with proper TEI facsimile encoding).

People also asked me to clarify how the EEBO linking works, so I've done that in the transcriptions documentation file, and I've also implemented the display of little page-images linking to the EEBO pages. Also, during today, <address> and <addrLine> were added to the schema, with some basic display rendering.

Met with PAB and made a number of fixes:

• Created a new copy of all the images in a folder called displaysize, and resized some of them to comply with owners' requests; the webapp now draws from that folder.
• Made changes to menu captions, and added a new menu item and placeholder page for it ("In progress").
• Removed authentication by commenting the relevant bits of the webapp's web.xml file, and restarting the webapp in the Tomcat manager. The Tomcat config still has the user set up, but it's no longer being used for anything.
• Fixed a couple of layout bugs.

We also made a plan for an advanced search, which I'll document in more detail here before I try to implement it.

When making modifications a couple of weeks ago (see post), I changed only the list view and not the timetable view. I didn't realize that the dropdown for which courses to print affected only the list view (as in the code it is located in the active_area code and not the view-specific code in manage_calendars.

I added code to
- manage_calendars (at about line 12985 - that file is ridiculously big) to add the option to the select in the dropdown
- manage_calendars.php (at about line 118, in the else if(strcmp("display_table",$do_what)==0) branch) to check the setting of the dropdown and take appropriate action

Notice that in the timetable view, the effect of changing the setting take place immediately in the view, then that view is printed; in the list view, changing the setting does not change the display but does correctly filter what gets printed. Not sure if that inconsistency is a bug or a feature which reflects how those two views are used.

Leaving early.