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  • Photos of Perry the Titan

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    Congratulations Perry! Looks like you just got a nick name. Like many of us here at GAC I too have gotten caught up in the corpse flower craze. Today I took a few photos of the recently named Perry. A couple of my favorites are posted here including the photo that makes me think the…

  • Corpse Flower Time Lapse from May 1st

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    The time lapse videos created from the images taken between midnight May 1st and early morning of May 2nd are now in. Time Lapse Video of Camera 1, May 1st Time Lapse Video of Camera 2, May 1st Time Lapse Video of Camera 3, May 1st You can also find links to them on the…

  • Corpse Flower Camera

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    Thanks to the hard work and dedication of many people here at Gustavus we now have a wolderful flowering Amorphophallus titanum also known as a Corpse Flower to Titan Arum. Thanks to this unique event we have been given an opportunity to put some of our “toys” to good use. This afternoon we added a…

  • New Channels Added to GusTV

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    For everyone trying out the GusTV pilot, we now have two additional channels. Thanks to some new hardware we are able to add some more channels to the lineup. Starting today we have added PBS (TPT2) and my 29 (WFTC). We hope to bring some more channels to the list soon. Please do let us…

  • Time Lapse Photography with an Axis 207MW

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    There are many ways to create time lapse photography these days. The following is just one way we are using Axis 207MW cameras on campus to create interesting videos. First we connect the camera to our ethernet or wireless network and mount it somewhere that it will not be likely to move. Once we have…

  • Campus Electricity Usage

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    Have you ever wondered how much electricity the buildings on campus use every day? Well, so have people like Warren Wunderlich, Jeff Jeremiason, Chuck Niederriter, Mike Kasmarik and many more. Thanks to their efforts, we now know how much electricity most of the buildings on campus use every hour. Ethan and I take that data,…

  • Internet Bandwidth Increase

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    As many of you are very aware, our current internet bandwidth is not quite adequate to meet all of our demands at certain times of the day. Especially late afternoon on weekdays and Sunday nights. Fortunately we were able to come to an agreement with our Internet Service Provider ( HickoryTech ) to increase our…

  • ISP Internet Maintenance Tonight

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    Our ISP ( HickoryTech ) is going to be performing maintenance on their internet connection tonight starting at midnight and lasting a few hours. You may notice a few brief internet service interruptions during this time.

  • Even easier way to call your room for free

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    This week it got even easier to have your friends and family call your dorm room phone number for free. Just last week I mentioned how easy it was to call Gustavus phone numbers from any internet connection in the world by using a SIP based VoIP phone. Well, the company that gives away the…

  • Call your room phone for free

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    Gustavus has now joined the likes of MIT, Harvard, Yale, and many others in having campus phones reachable simply by dialing a users email address. The inspiration for this comes from the Internet2 SIP.edu working group. The end result is that you can now tell your family and friends that they can call your room…