This is the new HallDale School District Website. While this site is being updated further information may be located at the former former HallDale website.
These pages will provide news and information on various technology services, laptop repair, troubleshooting, hints & tips. Please feel free to browse the categories and links on the right side of the page to locate information you may be seeking.
Contact information for the IT team is:
John Armentrout - Director
extension: 356
Randy Hooper
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Don Potter
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Posted by admin-dpotter at Friday, January 19, 2007, 10:33 AM.
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A wiki is “a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily… The term wiki is a shortened form of ‘wiki wiki’ which is from the native language of Hawaii (Hawaiian), where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something ‘quick’ or ‘fast’ (Hawaiian dictionary)” (Wikipedia).
For example, a “cookbook wiki” would be a website where you could easily add your own recipes, edit existing recipes, and help organize the recipes using categories. You’d do all of this with simple markup called wiki syntax (we’ll get to that shortly). Together you and the community would maintain this online recipe collection to help bring more deliciousness to everyone’s meals.
Expression Engine is the Content Mangement System used for the Hall-Dale website, forums, and blogs. It features an easy to use authoring environment, while providing powerful and flexible site administration.
Most users of Expression Engine will be posting articles and possibly moderating comments. The following is a description of the basic authoring environment for submitting, editing and deleting your articles:
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
Users of RSS content use programs called feed ‘readers’ or ‘aggregators’: the user ‘subscribes’ to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user’s subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.
RSS readers are available as standalone applications, or they may be built into a web browser like Safari. By clicking on the RSS feed link near the bottom of these pages, the RSS feed is displayed within Safari.
You can then bookmark that feed page, and the next time you check your bookmarks you will see if there are any new articles ready for you to view. The number of new articles is displayed within the “( )” next to the bookmark. You can select the bookmark and see a quick overview of all the new artices (usually just the title and summary). If a given article is intresting to you, select it and you will be taken to the website for further reading.
Posted by admin-dpotter at Tuesday, February 06, 2007, 03:12 PM.
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The keychain stores your frequently used passwords for various resources (like servers, websites, etc). Occasionally the keychain file can become corrupted. The easiest fix is to just delete the login.keychain file.
Simply, follow this folder path: Macintosh HD/Users/{your home folder}/Library/Keychains, and then delete the file: “login.keychain”. This file will be automatically recreated the next time it is needed. At which time you will likely get a message stating that the keychain cannot be found and asking whether to reset to the default; answer yes. The system will then ask for your login password.(the one you use when you login to your mac account) and the the keychain file will be recreated.
From that point on, your keychain will be fixed, however any passwords your system had stored there would be lost and you will need to re-enter and save them to the keychain as requested.
Posted by admin-dpotter at Thursday, January 25, 2007, 06:02 PM.
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Mac OSX •
In order to get access to your personnel folders from your laptop, you need to make a connection to the appropriate server. On the menu bar select Go and then select Connect to Server.
If the resource is on a Mac server, under server address type in afp://servername/foldername (example: afp://macserver/2011jsmith). A dialog box will come up and it will ask for your username and password. Select “remember password in keychain”.
If you need to change your password, click on the gear icon in the lower-left corner and enter your old and new password. When you select “ok”, be sure to enter your new password in the connect to server password dialog box.
Select “ok” in the “connect to server” dialog box and your network folder or resource should open up on your desktop.
A tip from the “make your life easier department: Now drag your server folder (or sub-folder) to the Right-hand side of the dock. Later you can remount the server resource with a single click (espcially if you saved the password in your keychain)!
When finished, you can drag the folder icon into the trash in order to close down the network resource.
Posted by admin-dpotter at Thursday, January 25, 2007, 05:42 PM.
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Mac OSX •
Servers •
In order to get access to your personnel folders from your laptop, you need to make a connection to the appropriate server. On the menu bar select Go and then select Connect to Server.
Under server name type in smb://servername/foldername (example: smb://esserver/smith).
If the resource is on a Windows server, a dialog box will come up and it will have the Windows domain name in the upper box. Click on the Name area and enter your Windows user name. Click on the Password area and enter your Windows password.
Your network folder or resource should open up on your desktop.
You can check the box on the bottom and add the network password into your keychain.(process may vary somewhat).
You can click on the + sign in order to have the server address added to the list of servers available when you use the Go and Connect to Server box in the future.
Your network folder should pop up on your desktop. When finished, you can drag the folder icon into the trash in order to close down the network resource.
Posted by admin-dpotter at Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 05:15 PM.
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Mac OSX •
Servers •
Like newer Windows PCs, OS X Macs maintain different user profiles in different folders on the laptop. You can get to the needed user folders by clicking on the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop and then clicking on the Users folder. You only have access to the appropriate user folder and the shared folder.
When adding applications or plug ins to the laptop, they generally must be installed into the Applications folder on the hard drive or in the MyApps folder in your user folder. Applications that are installed anywhere else may not work properly or may be “scrubbed” from their location and then made unusable.
You can make an alias of an application that is placed in your MyApps folder and then place the alias on your desktop for easy access to the program.
Printers need to be added to your laptop before you can print to them. There are generally two ways to work with printers on your laptop. You can add them using the Printer Setup Utility or you can work with printers in an Application by going to the file menu and selecting the print window.
From inside an application, go to file - print and the Print window should come up. Printers that have been added to your laptop will be visible in the upper Printer menu. You can click on and add other available networked printers either from the Shared Printers dialogue box or the Bonjour Printers dialog box.
You can also add printers by using the Go menu and opening up the Utilities folder and then clicking on the Printer setup Utility. Click on Add Printer and then select Default Browser in order to browse for available, network printers.
Posted by admin-dpotter at Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 05:11 PM.
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Mac OSX •
Verify that wireless icon (upper menu bar, left most icon on right side) has at least two black “curve” segments. If all wireless curve segments are gray then you are not getting a good wireless signal.
Place mouse pointer over airport icon. Airport: On should be grayed out. There should be a check next to Hall Dale Wireless Network.
Use Firefox or Safari browser programs when surfing the Internet. The Internet Explorer browser software is problematic and not supported.
Verify that the Location setting in the Apple menu is configured to either MySchool or Automatic - (either of these is checked).
Posted by admin-dpotter at Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 05:10 PM.
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