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--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:53:46 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #5033.3 LINUX Question (!)
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

Mike and all Linux, UNIX, Novell, etc. fans out there.  I am a simple guy.
I could probably muster the intelligence to run Webstar, but I will
doubless suffer with our MkLuinux.  It is currently running web on Apache.
With David Gatwood gone, I do not know if I will survive.

Now, in our Faculty Multimedia Center, we have a guy who teaches one
course per semester, and who has no authority about how his web server is
set up.  Essentially, he has a Novell file server with a UPS in the
computer center, but he works in the library, where a Windows workstation
with a ZB server directs web traffic with the files that come from the
Novell in the other building.  It crashes over and over and over again.
Its server-side counter script only works some of the time (even when the
server has not crashed).  Being the dumb cowherd that I am, all I can do
is to point my finger (index finger, guys!...) at a server that has been
down 6 times in the past week. Try it sometime:

http://fmc.utm.edu

Yes, the setup for faculty to drag-and-drop their web pages into their
directories is easy, but all of this points to a big set of problems.  We
need to train more faculty to be better with technology, and we need to
deepsix the administrators who insist that faculty work is always about
publishing monographs and never about learning something about their work
environment (and that of their students).  None of us work where a set of
brilliantly trained computer specialists do everything for us.  Faculty
have to become computer literate enough to be able to work out with their
computer center colleagues exactly what is going to be the best way to
conduct the appropriate research and teaching functions using networked
computers.  If this does not happen we will always be at sixes and sevens.

I am beginning to move some of my more active sites off our Faculty
Multimedia Server.  I will try to keep the list posted on what I do, but
for starts, the version of LEXIMAGNE (our 500 link French dictionary site)
has been home-paged on the main university server:

Leximagne
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/dico.shtml


Bob Peckham
Director, The Globe-Gate Project
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
Martin, TN  38238  USA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
CV: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/tbobcv.html

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