With a 100MB upload quota, running out of space has been a problem for many site owners using images on blogs.evergreen.edu. For most, the issue lies with uploading high resolution, unprocessed images straight from a digital camera to the image library. These images then get scaled down by WordPress for the web but the original still hangs out […]
To quote from the developers: Version numbers are arbitrary, yes, but V1 does signify something in public. We believe Discourse is now ready for wide public use. Since Discourse under goes continual development there is really nothing special about this incremental update other than the above statement.
On sunday I will be updating our Kace instance to version 6.0.x . While the appearance will change the basic functioning of the ticket component should remain basically the same. For more information about the interface and other changes there is a screencast you can view. Minutes 8:00 thru about 18:00 are the more interesting […]
What’s New at blogs.evergreen.edu General The “update” message has been restored to the dashboard Posts Add “Return to post editor” link from Revisions screen A “View Post” link will now show for any post an author can read Distraction Free Writing mode is now responsive to any size device Media Edit images from the Add […]
Summary We will be transitioning the Orca academic file server to Windows 2012. There are a handful of reasons for doing this, including the fact that Orca is currently a 32bit Windows 2008 server and uses Windows dynamic disks for the programs share. Additionally, once the data is on Server 2012 we can take advantage […]
Evergreen’s WordPress server blogs.evergreen.edu has been updated to the current version 3.6.1 of WordPress. Check out the WordPress Changelog to view some of the changes and new features. In addition to the new version, we’ve migrated our deployment from SVN to Git to be consistent with the rest of the academic applications managed by Academic […]
Campus wikis are in the process of being updated to the latest version of Mediawiki 1.20. In addition to the updated version, we are now using a more mobile friendly theme. To see what the new wikis look like, check out the updated version of Evergreen’s Help Wiki. In addition to the theme changes, perhaps […]
The campus Internet connection was upgraded from 100 megabits per second to 350 megabits per second on September 25th. In addition to the increase in speed, the way traffic is managed has been changed to provide more evenly distributed service … Continue reading →
This is information on a recent issue we experienced with Sophos, the anti-virus program we use on our computers here at Evergreen. This message primarily applies to Windows-based computers. Some of you may have noticed Sophos notifications on your computer this afternoon in the form of a balloon in the bottom right-hand corner of your […]
WordPress will be upgraded to version 3.4.2 this Tuesday morning between 7am and 8am. This will provide some new features, the most exciting one being really improved in-line contextual help. The outage will be less than an hour, thanks for your patience and let us know what you think the next time you go to […]
Campus wikis are in the process of being updated to the latest version of Mediawiki 1.20. In addition to the updated version, we are now using a more mobile friendly theme. To see what the new wikis look like, check out the updated version of Evergreen’s Help Wiki. In addition to the theme changes, perhaps […] 
The campus Internet connection was upgraded from 100 megabits per second to 350 megabits per second on September 25th. In addition to the increase in speed, the way traffic is managed has been changed to provide more evenly distributed service … 