WordPress images automatically resize on upload

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 […]

Kace 6 update

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 […]

WordPress Upgrade to 3.9.2

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 […]

Summer Quarter Hours

Hello Greeners,

Welcome to Summer Quarter! The Computer Center is open Monday-Thursday 9am to 10pm, Friday 9am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 2pm. We are closed on Sundays. Please let us know if we can help support your Summer studies by contacting us at 360-867-6231 or at help.evergreen.edu.

The library building photographed at dusk on Thurs., Nov. 8, 2012.

 

Get trained with Lynda.com

Evergreen students, staff and faculty have free access to hundreds of online software tutorials at Lynda.com courtesy of Lynda Weinman, ‘76. Evergreen community members can now receive unlimited access to a vast library of high-quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by recognized industry experts, simply by logging into my.evergreen.edu and selecting the link under Community.

lynda.com offers hundreds of video tutorials for an enormous range of software including:

  • AutoCAD
  • SPSS
  • Excel and other Office products
  • ProTools and Logic
  • CS5 (Photoshop, InDesign)
  • C++ and Python
  • and lots lots more..

With a Lynda.com account you can save your progress on the lessons and receive updates via email. It’s a great way to improve your skills, learn new technologies and experiment.  Lynda.com adds 24 courses per month, so there is always new stuff to discover.  Check it out and thanks Lynda!!

Orca – Server 2012 Migration

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 […]

President’s Day Holiday 2/17/14

Hello Greeners,

A quick update regarding the upcoming holiday. We are going to be closing early on Sunday February 16th, at 10pm. The campus is closed on Monday 2/17/14 for President’s day.

All of us at The Computer Center wish you a happy Week 6. The quarter is flying by.

Best,

Dylan Houston
Computer Center Manager
help.evergreen.edu
houstond@evergreen.edu
x6240

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Upcoming Holiday Hours

Hello Greeners,

Here is a short summary of our holiday hours for the month of November. The Computer Center Staff wish you a wonderful November!

Sunday November 10th: 12pm to 8pm
Monday November 11th: Veteran’s Day: CLOSED

Thanksgiving Hours

Sunday November 24th: 12pm to 8pm
November 25th-27th: 9am to 6pm
Thursday November 28th – Saturday November 30th: CLOSED
Sunday December 1st: 12am to 12pm (normal hours resume)

Updates to WordPress at blogs.evergreen.edu

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 […]