What is the difference between Hacking and programming?
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Good points!
This is something I try to teach. Often what I do, does look like hacking, but I have things planned out in my head.
Trying to get better at it — this would be a great way to use One Note, and something I'm trying to do.
Just finished doing all my planning on my trip. Making reservations, etc. So I immediately set up a notebook on OneNote for it, and send a copy of all of the correspondence related to the trip.
I’ll put together a schedule later, and any correspondence, receipts etc. will end up there.
Saved my butt last year when I got the TCEA Conference Scholarship, as the person I had sent all the information to was laid off and her files were lost. Or it was easier to just ask me. At any rate, I had a copy of everything and could get it emailed to the person who needed.
I have applied for this scholarship for three years running. This year I get to go, in November after telling my husband we were NOT going on a cruise to Alaska in October <smile>.
I have always wanted to go, but just don’t have the funds and can’t justify it. It’s going to cost me a little bit, but not near as much as if I had to foot the bill.
I’ve REALLY looking forward to it.
I’ve never been to Denver (where I have to switch planes) or Portland.
These people rock.
I found a chair at Office Depot I really liked, except it had a really cheap base. Really cheap. Plus it was too high.
It broke within a day or two.
I found this site, called them Monday afternoon, and made the order while I was talking to them.
I now have a decent office chair, the new base was delivered this afternoon. I can't believe how fast the delivery was.
They rock!
Quoted from http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2011/7/25-11781_TI-Program-Energizes-Science-and-Math-Teachers_article.html:
TI Program Energizes Science and Math Teachers – UT Dallas News
The goal of STEP in STEM was to provide content and training for secondary school teachers, while developing project-based curriculum in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Teachers receive state-required development credits and a stipend for their participation. Three students in the UTeach program at UT Dallas also participated.
I do keep things on portable hard drives, BUT I hate two things about them:
Difficulty backing them up
Finding them
I have somewhat solved the difficulty in backing them up (but it goes back to the cloud thing). Have a lovely NAS (and the new one seems to work right), that allows you to plug in USB drives and will back them up. Doesn’t work on all of them and I have to remember to back them up.
The other issue is finding them. Ran into that this morning. Wanted to pull some files from last year and put them on my district skydrive, and couldn’t find it. Didn’t dawn on my that only about half of my USB stuff was on my desk and went through the whole house looking for it. Finally realized that I need to look for a bag – and it was in an okay place, but have moved it since as the dogs could get to the bag if they wanted.
Plus I’ve got over 10 of things over the past 5 years.
To get over that, I’ve doing several things:
Putting school stuff on the District Sky Drive
Using an Iomega Storage Device
Using Office 365
So far, the second two work pretty well with the phone, and all work with all devices. We’ll se what the district file wall does for me.
Domain mapping is working.
www.mykweaver.com takes you to the Office 365 Site. blog.mykweaver.com takes you to my Windows 7 Blog.
www.kathweaver.net takes you to www.kweaver.net
Still need to play more with it, but it is looking lots better.
Had a bit of a scary thing happen – couldn’t login to my Gateway Tablet (the one with the driver issue). I found a website: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ that got me back and rolling.
Just had to burn the CD, boot with it, take all the defaults and reset to a blank password, back in and backing it up to the server.
Email is working now. I did have to go into Office 365 Administrative panel to add those email addresses to my account.
Go to Admin
Management
Users
Select the user and change mailbox settings.
That adds the email accounts. I still don’t get anywhere with the domains themselves, though Open DNS says it works.
Off to did into the administration options and see if they are there.
I like Sharepoint. It’s even better with Office 365, and better yet with Mango (a very tasty fruit but don’t like the way McCafe does it).
I have been hosting with myhosting.com for a long time and if you want to play with Windows, I highly recommend it. I set up our school website with them (they do it for free, thank you), and have been playing around with their stuff for years.
For example I do an Exchange email account with them, and have done Sharepoint but it’s expensive.
When Office 365 came out at $6.00 a month, I jumped and set up a domain. Sadly something is wrong with their version of Control Panel and you can no longer edit domains. So I’m screwed right now. Especially since I can’t transfer until August. But will then.
When I discovered that problem I set up another domain with Network Solutions. While I could edit the domain, I couldn’t get Office 365 to verify and have been working with tech support for over a week. I finally gave up, sat down and did some research and found the answer on the forums – the Office 365 information is wrong. Has a major bug. So that domain is “cooking”.
I had really nailed down that things were a Office 365 when I broke down and bought a godaddy domain (man are they freaking sexist or what). It is in the process and working too.
Anyway, problem solved and domains are in the process of moving around.
Yes, I am awesome.