Author Archive Ron Hunsberger

If you are interested in learning more about WordPress as a blogging  or personal publishing platform, click on the link below to watch a brief (15 minute) video by Michael D. Pollock, CEO of Solostream Web Studio.
http://www.solostream.com/2006/10/30/video-introduction-to-wordpress/

Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Microsoft’s IE team announced last December 19th that Internet Explorer 8 passed the Acid2 test:
I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode.
The Acid2 test was developed by the Web Standards Project (WaSP) to help browser vendors evaluate [...]

Here are the totals (as of 4:45 PM) for help requests on the first day of the semester:

Phone calls: 78
Emails: 90

and counting …

The final drafts for the standards and implementation guidelines have been posted on the Illinois Department of Human Services web site.  You can review them at:
http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=33503
Comments, questions and suggestions can be emailed to dhs.accessibility@illinois.gov.

Google has made available the 2007 version of their annual Year-End Zeitgeist, this year’s most populat and fastest rising search terms. I’m not sure what to make of Anna Nicole Smith at #10 on the Fastest Rising (U.S.) list, while Shakira was #9 on the Fastest Falling (Global) list.

Illinois Board of Higher Education Web Accessibility Consortium: www.cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/illinois/

Daylight Savings Time ends on November 4th.  Make sure your computer and Outlook calendar are updated.

There have been some recent questions regarding the volume licensing agreement MVCC has with Microsoft and its impact on continued use of FrontPage. Let me try to clarify:
1. Those of you that are currently using FrontPage to manage html content on our (public) internet site, our (private) intranet site or in course materials [...]

Blackboard users who recently upgraded to the Vista operating system and Internet Explorer (IE) 7 may find that when they go to a tool (such as the Discussion Board) which contains the Text Box Editor, that there is a tool bar, but no box to type text in.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is trying a new approach to combat what it believes is the “rampant pirating of digital music on college campuses” according to eSchool News online. (Full Story)

I’m sure Congress didn’t fully consider the potential ramifications a change to DST could have on my personal computer, but as Dst-Day (March 11, 2007) approached you could see a heightened level of activity on the part of the IT division. How will the change effect email? Will the updates require a system restart? How [...]

We experienced a systems outage on Sunday, March 4, 2007 that affected our web services (internet web site, intranet web site, Blackboard, web registration, etc.). The outage happened between 3:30 am and 1:45 pm and was the result of a loss of cooling in the server room. Blackboard was also unavailable from 2:55 [...]

Starting in 2007, Daylight Savings Time (DST) start and end dates will change as a result the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which was intended to combat the country’s growing energy problems.

Remember when fishing meant spending a quiet afternoon with a pole, some bait, and maybe a refreshment or two? The new version is spelled PHISHING and its meaning represents everything that is bad in today’s technology. For those of you still struggling to keep up with the latest on-line scams, here is a [...]