Interesting article today from the Free Press: Database: See how much your district has put aside for a rainy day
http://www.freep.com/article/20110325/NEWS06/110323044/Database-See-how-much-your-district-has-put-aside-rainy-dayI downloaded the entire state's data and dumped it into spreadsheet formats...interesting reading, for sure. I wish I had more time today to study it closely.
Well, it's official. I'm running for the Roscommon Area Public Schools (RAPS) board position that will be filled in the May 3rd election. It's a trying time for the school district, with ARRA grant money running out and proposed state budget cuts in the works. I'd like to collect thoughts and ideas (mine and others) here in the open, so we can bat them around publicly and easily. Please come out and vote on May 3rd!!
Our school district, like many others is facing significant budget problems in the coming year(s). A broadcasted email from our superintendent today has asked for suggestions from parents, teachers, and community members to help solve a projected $1.4 million shortfall for the upcoming (2010-11) school year.
I keep finding myselg (re)scouring the Internet for these instructions...maybe having them here will help me next time. If they helped you, leave me a note!
1. Connect the Pre (in dev mode) to the usb port/cord
2. Change to the directory where novacom is installedcd /opt/Palm/novacom
3. run the novacom daemonsudo ./novacomd
4. Run WebOSQuickInstall.jar (right-click, 'Open with Sun Java 6 Runtime')
Given the number of questions from friends and family about the H1N1 outbreak, I thought I'd re-publish this information, originally assembled by my favorite Infection Control expert. There are a few related attachments that include some more details. Stay healthy everyone!
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Q:
Why is the media playing this flu up so terribly strong - like everyone is going to die as soon as they get the H1N1? Why and how is the H1N1 so different?
A:
Two reasons:
So, the State of Michigan's government was officially shut down for a couple hours today, before a budget could be passed by the Legislature. Why we had to get 2 hours into the new fiscal year before a budget could get pushed through is way beyond me, especially given the notably 'soft' schedule maintained by the Senate and House.
...went without a hitch. Even [FileCoaster|http://www.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/filecoaster] and the other [HomeBrew Apps|http://www.precentral.net/homebrew-apps] from [PreCentral|http://www.precentral.net] are intact and working well.
Whew!
After a couple years without problems, suddenly [DenyHosts|http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/] started blacklisting my own computers when I tried to ssh into the server. I wouldn't even get a chance to login; the ssh connection would just get dropped and that was it.
I have several Drupal (php/mysql) sites in production, and several more on my local development machine. I've had plenty of experience moving sites from the dev machine to a production server, but recently ran into a different problem. I needed to move an exact copy of a production Drupal 5 site to the local machine (running the XAMPP stack), and be able to debug the code to find a problem with a specific Drupal module. Here is the path I followed:
I have [a program for recovering deleted files|http://www.recovermyfiles.com/] from a Windows-based PC, but it only runs when you can boot into Windows. This works pretty well, but if you're trying to recover files from the drive Windows is mounted on, you risk losing over-writing files (while booting into the OS) before you get a chance to recover them. Plus, it cost money to license it, so there has to be a better way...