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GetEducated.com maintains a decent Help Wanted page for online teaching and edtech jobs. You can click on the link below to view it or go to http://foxyurl.com/7Nw.

GetEducated.com | Online and Distance Jobs: Help Wanted

HELP WANTED job postings related to online education, instructional technology, and distance learning of up to 50 words are FREE.

This looks like a very nice, fast, slick little forum. The kind I’ve been looking for. phpBB and similar forums are too top heavy and slow. They’re difficult to customize and a pain to administer. I’ll be playing around with my my little forum quite a bit to see how it works.

my little forum

my little forum is a simple PHP and MySQL based web forum application which displays messages in classical threaded view (tree structure). It is Open Source licensed under the GNU General Public License. The main claim of this web forum is simplicity. Furthermore it should be easy to install and run on a standard server configuration with PHP and MySQL.

This page offers straightforward instructions for getting clamav running on Linux. I installed using yum, and I am getting the Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED message when updating the virus database. You can get help for such issues at http://www.clamav.net/support/faq.

Linux virus scan: How do I check my linux installation for viruses using ClamAV? (CentOS, Linux, Redhat) | Technology: Learn and Share

clamscan -r -i

Once it is done scanning, it will display something similar to below.
-r parameter tells clamscan to recurse into directories
-i will print out infected filenames

I am so glad I converted to Linux years ago. But for those of you who haven’t, this hack on protecting against autorun.inf worms seems handy:

Nick Brown’s blog: Memory stick worms

there seems to be a solution: a one-shot, quick way to prevent AUTORUN.INF files from being used on a PC, from any medium. My colleague and fellow low-budget Windows hacker Emin Atac thought up the idea, and I spent all of 15 minutes testing it. Now it’s your turn (well, “the world is our beta site” works well enough as a corporate mantra for Microsoft).

All you do is to copy these three lines into a file called NOAUTRUN.REG (or anything.REG) and double-click it. Corporate network people can transform it into a script for their favourite command-line registry manipulator, or maybe make it a system policy thingy.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@=”@SYS:DoesNotExist”

This TED project appears to hold great potential for computer supported collaborative language learning (CSCLL). Consider the possibilities. Homogeneous groups of native speakers of the target language working together with a native English language facilitator to translate into the L2. Telecollaborative, complementary groups, one comprising speakers of English and the other the target language of the translation, working together to complete a project. The high quality of the talks resulting in topically driven motivation. Wow. This is exciting. And I haven’t even looked at their platform yet! Perhaps I’m speaking too soon, but I doubt it.

The bits below are selected snippets from the following link.

TED Blog: TED’s Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40+ languages to TED.com

"Volunteer translation will be increasingly important for anyone trying to reach a global audience," says June Cohen, Executive Producer of TED Media. "It’s the only feasible way to reach all the world’s languages. Crowd-sourced translation creates communities of volunteers who are passionate about producing great work, accountable for the accuracy of their translations, and invested in evolving the system itself. It turns users into true participants, helping to spread ideas."

To support this program, TED and technology partner dotSUB have developed a set of tools that allow participants around the world to translate their favorite talks into their own language. This approach is scalable, and — importantly — allows speakers of less-dominant languages an equal opportunity to spread ideas within their communities.

This open-source approach mimics the successful strategies of products like Wikipedia, Linux and Mozilla, which have proven the power -– and ultimate reliability –- of open solutions. Crowd-sourced translation has already been proven effective on a handful of sites worldwide, including Wikipedia and the Global Voices blog at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

This is a nice resource for Ajax chat. I’ve just added Ajax chat to one of my sites, http://eslweb.net/chat/. Very easy to install, but I’m having some difficulty getting the channels to act the way I’d like.

Let’s chat with Ajax

Channel settings

In the lib directory, navigate to the data subdirectory and look for the channels.php file. Suppose you want three channels, each with a unique ID and name. Listing 2 shows how this would look.

Listing 2. Channel settings

$channels=array()
$channels[0]=’Public’
$channels[1]=’123′
$channels[2]=’456′

Suppose then that you expand to 20 channels. To save time in editing the channels.php file, you can limit them to three channels in the config.php file, like this:

$config['limitChannelList'] = array(123,456,789);

This setting says that only IDs 123, 456, and 789 can be used as channels, skipping the other 17 channels. To add these channels as custom chat channels, you need to adjust the methods getChannels() and getAllChannels() in the lib/class/CustomAJAXChat.php file. The method getChannels() returns an array of channels to which the current user has access. The method getAllChannels() returns an array of all available channels whether or not the current user has access to them.

To do this, you’d first add the following code to the getChannels() method:

$this->_channels = array_merge($this->_channels,
array(’Extra_Public_Channel_1′=>123, ‘Extra_Public_Channel_2′=>456,
‘Extra_Public_Channel_3′=>789));

before

} return $this->_channels;

Do the same for the getAllChannels() method by replacing _channels with _allChannels.

This site looks good: http://gethuman.com/. It provides numbers and tips on getting an actual person on the phone at quite a few companies. I’ll be taking a trip to the US this summer, so perhaps I’ll have an oppurtunity to use this site. Still, some of the information provided seems pretty commonsense, like this for Continental Airlines:

Continental Airlines    800-784-4444    Press 00 at each prompt, ignoring messages.

I’ve been using that trick for years – just ignoring all messages and banging on the 0 until somebody answers. Still, this could prove to be a good resource.

I almost never blog health related issues on Site25.net, but I couldn’t think of anywhere else to post this information, and as a couple of knee surgeries have resulted in my occasionally taking NSAIDs (as infrequently as possible that is), and as I’m already a fan of NAC for other reasons, I found this information encouraging:

N-Acetylcysteine enhances the action of anti-inflammatory drugs as suppressors of prostaglandin production in monocytes.

The anti-inflammatory effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX), the rate-limiting enzyme responsible for the synthesis of prostaglandins. Since oxygen free radicals can act as second cellular messengers, especially to modulate the metabolism of arachidonic acid and the prostaglandin tract, it seems plausible that antioxidants might affect the production of prostaglandin by activated cells. This research is focused on the effect of the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on the inhibition of prostaglandin E(2) formation in activated monocytes by specific and non-specific COX inhibitors. We found that lipopolysaccharide-induced prostaglandin E(2) formation was significantly reduced by rofecoxib and by diclofenac, two NSAIDs. Addition of NAC to each of these drugs enhanced the effect of the NSAIDs. These results suggest that one might expect either a potentiation of the anti-inflammatory effect of COX inhibitors by their simultaneous administration with NAC, or obtaining the same anti-inflammatory at lower drug levels.

To unpack a rar file on Linux:

1. Use yum or some other installer to install unrar.
2. Use unrar e filename.rar

Couldn’t be much simpler.

This is a must have addon for Firefox if you ever browse Chinese web pages. Not only does it allow you to view simplified Chinese pages in traditional characters and vice versa, it has a handy tool that will convert Chinese input in form fields between simplified and traditional. 

新同文堂 (New Tong Wen Tang) :: Firefox Add-ons

新同文堂 (New Tong Wen Tang)
NewTongWenTang is a tool to switch display Chinese content between traditional and simplified glyphs (中文繁簡體互轉工具)

You can also find information about the addon at http://of.openfoundry.org/projects/show/333.