Back in September, Lincoln introduced readers to the command line. Since then, we’ve run several posts on the subject.
Though this post isn’t officially a part of the “ProfHacker Guide to the Command Line,” it does offer one example of how being willing to try using the command line can be useful, even if it’s not a tool that one’s likely to use with any great frequency.
I was fortunate enough to get a NOOK Color at Christmas. Guest author Eric Bubar wrote a post back in August about using the NOOK Color as an iPad alternative. I wanted to do much the same thing, including being able to dual-boot the device—but I didn’t want to have to remove the microSD card to boot into the stock software (those little cards are easy to lose!).
So I did some research, then followed these directions to create a bootable microSD card running CyanogenMod 7. The handy thing is that the card…
As I write this, many of us—myself included—are in the midst of finals week. That means, among other things, that (a) there’s too much to do and (b) our schedules are likely quite different from what they are in a normal week. Those two things can combine to cause trouble.
A case in point happened to me today (December 15). While drinking that first, all-important cup of coffee, I took a look at my calendar. I was surprised not to see a meeting on it—one for which I’d helped set the time. I’d been thinking all week the meeting was today; as it turns out, it was yesterday—and I missed it. Sigh.
Thankfully, though the incident was embarrassing, it wasn’t a catastrophe. But it got me thinking about how to avoid a repeat performance. The two things that occurred to me are really obvious, but sometimes at semester’s end I need to remind myself even of the obvious.
Back in November, Georgia Tech took down their wikis, claiming that they constituted a FERPA violation. This stirred up quite a discussion on Twitter, as well as on blogs and podcasts (see, for instance this and this). Decisions such as the one taken by Georgia Tech are troubling, and undermine the kinds of work many [...]
The recent changes to Google Reader, which prompted last week’s post, call for more than a search for a new RSS reader. They’re a good occasion for us to think about “our” data, who controls it, and whether we’ll be able to maintain our own access to it. Jason pointed us to a fine post [...]
The good folks at Digital Campus have some thoughts on the recent decisions at Georgia Tech and the University of Missouri in their latest installment. It’s more than worth the time it takes to listen to it. Check it out!
Last weekend I finally had the chance to see the much-acclaimed film, Of Gods and Men. The film tells the story of the Trappist monks from the monastery at Tibhirine, Algeria (they were kidnapped and murdered in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War). Oddly enough, there’s only a bare minimum of graphic violence in the [...]
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I’m a Sister of the Holy Cross and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. I teach primarily in the area of Political Theory.
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Back in September, Lincoln introduced readers to the command line. Since then, we’ve run several posts on the subject.
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Overreacting to FERPA Concerns
by acavender November 22, 2011The good folks at Digital Campus have some thoughts on the recent decisions at Georgia Tech and the University of Missouri in their latest installment. It’s more than worth the time it takes to listen to it. Check it out!