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UNC Charlotte Obama Rally Photos

shrop — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:02:05 -0500

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!

shrop — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:18:58 -0400

Just 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

shrop — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:21:25 -0400

The 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

shrop — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:10:12 -0400

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

shrop — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:34:03 -0400

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

shrop — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:26:05 -0400

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

shrop — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:38:03 -0400

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.

How To Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003

shrop — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:53:05 -0400

I needed to install just the FTP service on Windows 2003 Server for one simple use case. The article below details how to accomplish this without installing full blown IIS (which I didn't need and do not want to run on this server).

[From How To Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003]

Rocky River Band Plays at UNC Charlotte

shrop — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:06:03 -0400

I had a great time yesterday playing drums with the Rocky River Community Church Band at UNC Charlotte. We played the Staff Picnic for the second year in a row. We were not rained out this year, but the 97 degree heat beat us down pretty bad. We still had a great time and received a warm response from many of the picnic goers. Thanks to my band mates for volunteering to help out by playing at the event.

Versionsapp: Subversion App for OS X

shrop — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:56:02 -0400

I am a big fan of subverison. I current use a combination of TextMate, ZigVersion and command line SVN to work with Subversion for my University development at UNC Charlotte.