Archive for June, 2008
How to make a Mirrored Backup with Robocopy on Windows
XCOPY was always my friend, it has some great memory management features. However it required scripting to get anything like a mirror of a directory structure, and it didn’t have shortcut features of copying only the changed part of a file. Enter Robocopy (Wikipedia), yay! This is a Microsoft command-line utility (free) that comes in [...]
Minimum Computing Environment – Windows Edition
For someone who wantes a minimum (low-cost) computing environment with Windows, here are the recommendations.Total about $1,600 with shipping and tax. Have to shop at Amazon, Dell, and Ebay to get the best prices (but it is worth it for the savings, cannot get what you want at one place and cannot get best prices [...]
Virtual Assistants, Outsourcing and Offshoring for the Small Business and Personal Tasks
Virtual assistants (VAs) are not physically co-located. They can be down the street or on another continent. They help people get stuff done, both professionally, and personally. Small Business use of VAs and Outsourcing Making a Little Company Look Big – Annie Field, NYTimes 2007-07-12 Personal Assistants on Call, Just Not in the Next Office [...]
Meaningful Homework Assignments in an Open Content world
No quizzes, no exams I don’t do quizzes anymore, or exams. Most of the assignments are of the kind “interact with these materials, summarize, analyze, and assess”. There are questions, but also simple reductions and “what is the most important”, “turn that into a set of guidelines”, and basic behavior changes (such as writing better, [...]
Edupunk
Edupunk
Pwnage
Pwnage, originally uploaded by jeffmcneill.
PhpMyAdmin Data Import
PhpMyAdmin Data Import, originally uploaded by jeffmcneill. This information does not seem to be present on the web, so here you go… PhpMyAdmin Data Import Data format was as follows: * No first line/header * Each line had exact number of fields for data * Each field was separated with a semi-colon (;) * Each [...]
Social Media in Plain English An allegory is an extended metaphor. What happened with the advent of social media? What changed? How do people thing differently about media? What are the three things on the boards to allow people to share their feedback? How and who did the feedback help?
Social Media in Plain English An allegory is an extended metaphor. What happened with the advent of social media? What changed? How do people thing differently about media? What are the three things on the boards to allow people to share their feedback? How and who did the feedback help?
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