Elluminate

In next days I will study information connected to new topic, SW Elluminate, which will be probably used in our organization for communication with colleagues in USA.
Relevant links:

• http://www.elluminate.com/Other/EULA/
• Wikieducator : How-to-use-Elluminate.pdf
• slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/

Basic info about ADL

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the most common form of e-Learning at NATO.
Advanced Distributed Learning features educational or training courses delivered over a network using a standard web browser. NATO offers ADL courses on its two major networks, one with access to the Internet. ADL follows a collection of standards and specifications for e-Learning known as the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). The term ADL is used synonymously with the term web-based training.
SACT ADL courses are located at: https://jadl.act.nato.int.

Join Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence Centre of Excellence (JCBRN Def COE) started participation on the ADL in 2010, when one member of COE attended the ACT Complete Advanced Distributed Learning Cooperative Development Training at the Baltic Defence College.
For several months the ADL activities on JCBRN COE fell asleep due to the personal changes. New leader of project ADL on JCBRN COE reactivated the preparation works of first JCBRN COE ADL course in spring 2011.
In summer 2011 two members of JCBRN COE attended the Sixth ADL Forum in Suffolk, Va. Despite the impact of Hurricane Irene, 37 attendees made it to the 2011 Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Forum held at the Virginia Modelling and Simulation Centre in Suffolk, Virginia. The annual ADL Forum now in its sixth year invites ADL developers from NATO and partner nations, users of ADL and academics in the eLearning field together to discuss the ADL program, NATO direction and guidance and discuss best practices for online courses, lessons learned and the latest in academic theory for adult training. The Forum also has representation from Joint Force Command Brunssum and will discuss the ISAF ADL program. The Forum ran from Aug 30th to Sep 1st.
Based on new contacts and information from ADL forum, the established ADL team will go to Oberammergau, Germany, on ADL CDT Workshop for Pre-learning Advance W&R System Course from Mar 12th to 16th. The expected output will be firt Pilot ADL Course of JCBRN COE.

ESSO course

I started the ESSO course (English Skills for Staff Officers in Multinational Operations). I hope it is the good example of ADL course.
The forum in Norfolk, USA, where I attended, was fully concentrated to background of ADL, but I thing is the good way for new experience to tray forward side of ADL too.
And, an introduction to ESSO includes a short explanation of the PfP Learning Management System (LMS) and recommended learning activities. It also contains supplementary information, the Objective Vocabulary introduced in the units, learning strategies for language learning, and references to useful online sources and tools for language learning.

Blogger is back

...unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours...

Here’s what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday we returned Blogger to a pre-maintenance state and placed the service in read-only mode while we worked on restoring all content: that’s why you haven’t been able to publish. We rolled back to a version of Blogger as of Wednesday May 11th, so your posts since then were temporarily removed. Those are the posts that we’re in the progress of restoring.

Again, we are very sorry for the impact to our authors and readers. We try hard to ensure Blogger is always available for you to share your thoughts and opinions with the world, and we’ll do our best to prevent this from happening again.

Posted by Eddie Kessler, Tech Lead/Manager, Blogger

(original text is here)

Image management

This week I worked on thumbs, zoom and image management for articles. From web Articles Images I used BK-multithumb finally.
I studied all settings and info from web Kreacom.dk, downloaded plugin and realized the voted settings.
It seems to be easy but the understanding of all settings took me the long time...

ITEC

I was thinking about participation on ITEC ("Europe's largest gathering of military training & simulation specialists") but the term of ITEC is collided with my other activities...

Joomla 1.6

I will fill out the form to launch the new 100% working Joomla! site, hosted free for 30 days on demo.joomla.org to try new version (1.6) of Joomla - it is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) and application framework that powers 2.7% of the entire web.

Streaming Download

I like it:

Who and what is SDP ?
SDP or the Streaming Download Project is a small dedicated team of independent software coders established in 2001.
We were originally a nonprofit team with only one goal - understanding (and documenting) MMS fully. Our resulting implementation of our MMS document lead to the development of a MMS streaming receiver, 'SDP downloader' for windows media streaming. So then, not only could you view the streaming media, SDP receiver downloaded (or copied) the stream straight to your hard disk. This could not be achieved with a standard Windows Media player. Think of it like a video recorder for Windows(tm) streaming, recording live shows, music concerts, radio shows, movies and free trailers for new release etc...
We believe our project was the first of its kind in the world (and probably the first of many!) with other MMS developers using our findings as a basis for their own code implementations. Of that we were proud and glad to be of service. We are still always open to comments and feedback. We do listen and reply to all emails when time permits. If you encounter a problem or have just a question about SDP, simply email us and you will get a reply, please allow at least 1 day.
Its worth pointing out that although SDP downloader is free (as in - you do not have to pay for the free version) it is not open source.
Since February 2008, Microsoft has dropped its use of MMS in its streaming servers and player applications. Read More.. But this does not mean the death of MMS just yet. Many legacy servers are still out there serving media content and will probably do so for the next few years before being updated or replaced. However, in the light of this, SDP will no longer update our MMS documentation document. The focus is now on newer features like protocols, RTSP and HTTP being already in use and with authentication to allow pass worded servers to be access.

What can SDP Downloader actually do?
The current free version of SDP can download the following protocols, remember this is for Windows Media Streaming only.
HTTP v1.0 streaming protocol - sometimes referred to as MMSH.
HTTP progressive (simple http download)
MMS, MMST and MMSU over both TCP and UDP transport protocols.
Preview the stream while downloading - using your favorite existing media player.
Download Live and Pre recorded videos and music straight to your hard drive. Like a video recorder.
Note that the free version of SDP will still be maintained as best as possible - updates should still appear.
Types of URL to look for usually start with "MMS://, MMST://, or HTTP://" and end with something like ".asf, .wmv or .wma" etc..

What can SDP Downloader NOT do?
The current free version of SDP does not download flash, eg. YouTube videos or any other flash site (with a .swf ending)
Currently, the free version of SDP will not download RTSP protocol.
RealAudio, RealMedia videos will not be downloaded.
Some authenticated proxy servers are not accessible.
NTLM authentication is not allowed in the current free version.
File indexing (that allows media player to use its seek bar and fast forward buttons) does not work properly in Windows V11 player.

And where? Here...

IT Security Products for Corporate Users

IT Security Products for Corporate Users
Review of IT Security Suites for Corporate Users, 2010

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Functional Diversity
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During these tests our main focus has not been on malware detection rates, but on the products’ handling and user-friendliness, and the scope of functionality. We have compiled the functional scope of various products in a detailed table. For malware detection rates of individual products please refer to the tests of our website: http://www.av-comparatives.org
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