Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
We're having problems with the Moodle SCORM settings. We want the SCORM to be only attempted once. So we set the Moodle SCORM settings to 1 attempt. However, upon replaying the SCORM module, you enter review mode and you the new result overwrites the old result.
Some Moodle forum discussions which point that way:
Taking SCORMS more than once
Number ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
It's time to expand my practical knowledge of the MS family of products, inparticular, MS SQLServer 2005. Lot's of organisations and companies use it as their enterprise database so I should know at least the basics.
Here's a nice tutorial to get your started:
MS SQLServer (functionx)
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Wikipedia, source of knowledge. Ideas about consultancy tracks for enterprise security / privacy etc. On the edge of both business analysis and IT architecture:
Information Security (wikipedia)
Enterprise Information Security Architecture (wikipedia)
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
From the wordpress guys I found an interesting page about web design:
Happy Cog
Should check some more on web design, information architecture, system integration etc.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Upgraded client from 1.8.4 to 1.9 according to this post.
After upgrade some problems with outlining of some elements. solution: turn smart pix on and off, in between go to notifications.
Repaired big integers after checking from Experimental -> XMLDB editor -> Check big ints
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Writing custom SQL statements for reporting for client.
Requirements are:
total number of visitors on site per month (SQL statement on log table)
total number of visitors per country (SQL statement on log table)
number of users per country per course (SQL statement on log table)
show documents which have not been updated for 1 ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Batch uploading multiple users to Moodle. However, sometimes there is a duplicate user record which does have additional information for that user. So hopefully Moodle works correctly with the following settings:
Upload type: Add new and update existing users
New user password: Field required in file
Existing user details: Fill in missing from file and defaults
all other: no
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Some useful tutorials about dedicated server hosting:
Dedicated server tips
VirtualBox networking setup : HOWTO make the guest communicate with the host
Setup iSCSI target under CentOS
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Handy function in most spreadsheets (Excel / Calc) to find duplicates is to use conitional formatting and a function like this to find duplicates:
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
interesting post about 'Dumb Ideas in computer Security' overview:
Default Permit
Enumerating Badness
Penetrate and Patch
Hacking is Cool
Educating Users
Action is Better Than Inaction
Minor Dumbs:
"We're Not a Target"
"Everyone would be secure if they all just ran <security-flavor-of-the-month>"
"We don't need a firewall, we have good host security"
"We don't need host security, we have a good ...
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