--- 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]> >cc: [log in to unmask] >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