UNC Charlotte

New Job Title for Shrop

Posted Thu, 09/10/2009 - 11:36am by shrop

Some great suggestions from my Twitter and FaceBook friends for a new job title:

Captain Shrop of the UNCSU
drupal czar
grand pubah or head honcho
Sr. Afro/Fu Manchu Analyst
Chief Shropster
The Man
Student Union Technology Czar
Student Union Director of Drupal and Afros
Colonel Chaos
Director of Internet Communications and Karma (D.I.C.K.) (gee thanks Dave!)

Thanks for the suggestions. I am submitting to management for immediate approval since I am currently without title!

WarGames + Geeks + Documentation Sprint = Good Times

Posted Tue, 04/14/2009 - 7:26pm by shrop

Last Friday, the SUAR IT (Student Union, Activities and Recreation IT) Staff got together to watch WarGames. We had a couple off staff who had only seen this classic geek movie once or not at all. A few of us also took the time to write up some documentation for our department during this mini documentation sprint.

Following the movie, @cwind showed us his skills at the game Defcon.

VMWare Fusion at MacWorld 2009

Posted Mon, 01/12/2009 - 11:17pm by shrop

Nice article and video on TUAW about VMWare Fusion.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/12/macworld-2009-interview-with-vwwares-pete...

The department I work for, got a mention about 2:30 into the video. We are the folks Peter mentions virtualizing OSX Leopard and Windows 2003 Server on Xserves.

UNC Charlotte Obama Rally Photos

Posted Wed, 11/05/2008 - 11:02am by shrop

A couple of photos from the UNC Charlotte Obama Rally last Monday.

http://flickr.com/photos/shrop/sets/72157608680302837/

Photo credit: Wade Bruton

IT Support Humor: This has to be a joke!

Posted Thu, 10/30/2008 - 8:18pm by shrop

Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer GuyJust received this ticket in our IT support ticket email box today. It has to be a joke. I can't believe it.. read on and enjoy... Name changed (slightly) to protect the innocent.

"Message: Veronica would like to replace her keyboard (Dell) with one that doesn't make as much noise, that is if you have one available. The new one that she has (replaced recently) types with loud clicks when typing."

As Nick Burns says, "MOVE!!!"

Beastie Boys at UNC Charlotte

Posted Wed, 10/29/2008 - 7:21am by shrop

Beastie BoysThe Beastie Boys made a quick appearance for Rock The Vote on Monday, October 27th. Check out the blog article and video by Justin Ruckman at CLTBlog below:

http://cltblog.com/2008/10/beastie-boys-uncc/

I hate I missed it, but sounds like it wasn't much. They didn't perform. Just an appearance.

Cone University Center Photos from Early Voting

Posted Wed, 10/22/2008 - 9:10am by shrop

Check out this article:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/politics/story/269129.html

Make sure the click through the photos. You will see students, faculty and staff participating in early voting at UNC Charlotte in the Cone University Center. One of the pics is of my friend, Marcus Hesse.

Shrop in the News

Posted Wed, 10/15/2008 - 9:34pm by shrop

I made it in online news circles twice today.

Shrop on a UNC Charlotte staff bowling team: http://www.publicrelations.uncc.edu/campusnews/current/aroundCampus/inde... (scroll down to the bowling tournament article.)

Shrop on usage of Citrix at UNC Charlotte: http://www.edtechmag.com/higher/november-december-2008/get-a-grip.html (scroll down to the section titled, "Central Control, Standard Operations."

International Festival 2008 at UNC Charlotte

Posted Tue, 09/30/2008 - 7:26am by shrop

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We had a great time at UNC Charlotte's International Festival last Saturday (9-27-2008). The weather cooperated beautifully. Most of the rain had ceased by the start of the event at 10am. Over 50 countries were represented this year. It is so awesome to checkout all of the items for sale and on display and to interact with peoples from all over the world in one place. The food is simply amazing too! Lots of good eats at very reasonable prices.

Setup Local Apache/MySQL/PHP Dev Environment in OS X Leopard

Posted Wed, 07/16/2008 - 11:38pm by shrop

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I have used MAMP for a long time, but I recently decided to build a development environment on my MacBook Pro to mirror my test and production servers. MAMP uses Apache 2.0 and I really wanted to run Apache 2.2. I also needed custom PHP for use with Oracle databases. I just want

ed to share the documentation to setup my development environment. Feel free to comment and let me know if you have any improvements.

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