Monthly Archives: January 2008

Restoring Sound after iShowU / SoundFlower

I like to use iShowU to record my screen – sometimes I do record system audio. iShowU uses Sound Flower to do this. Most of the time – iShowU properly disables SoundFlower when it is done – but sometimes it does not. This is what you do when SoundFlower is stuck on (this is Mac OS/X 10.5)
Preferences -> Sound -> Output
Switch the output back to your built in speakers.
You know this has happened when you try to change the volume on your mac and the mac refuses to change the volume and you see the little “international not” symbol in the little volume display that pops up.
This fix is also described at the Soundflower page:
http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

Spain Visit Notes

In my recent visit to Spain (15-Dec-2007 – 20-Dec-2007) my primary intention was to work technically with the multi-university Campus project building interoperability between Sakai and Moodle using OKI OSIDs and the Campus Project OKI bus. I am very excited about this project because as far as I know this is the first time an organization has decided *not* to choose between Sakai and Moodle – but instead – they decided to use both Sakai and Moodle.
This is a great challenge and there is a talented and well funded team in place making very good progress. As with any time you venture into uncharted technical waters – time becomes and issue. The teams are working under a lot of time pressure – so I wanted to come and visit as soon as classes were over to see how / if I could help. I scheduled five days in order to visit all of the Sakai universities in Cataelonia – Lleida, Valencia, and LaSalle in Barcelona. Previously I had only visited Lleida.

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