WFSC 417 Fish Biology Journal


Please add a message to our journal.
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W.H. Neill
20 November 2002, 0955: I'm thinking of closing the journal permanently. Not only does it not work very well (technically), but also none of you in the current 417 class seems to be using it. Obviously, you (and I) prefer to communicate via group and individual email. That communication venue has the advantages of greater convenience and not being completely public, but a log is not automatically generated and maintained. Lately, though, this "journal" has suffered memory lapses that render it a poor archive. So, I'm thinking of asking Kevin to use GroupWise to archive our email exchanges that the sender doesn't mind sharing. Let me know what you think.--
W.H. Neill <w-neill@tamu.edu>
Here is the web site that contains the Camtasia class recordings: http://wfscdisted.tamu.edu/....html
Kevin Clark <kwclark@tamu.edu>
Please send me your preferred email address so that I can establish a WFSC 417-2002 email group. Your immediate reward will be the list of your classmates' email addresses and the url for the class Camtasia files. The file from today's class meeting already has been uploaded to the server.
W.H. Neill <w-neill@tamu.edu>
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SOME (Still Relevant) MESSAGES FROM PRIOR YEARS 
Camtasia class recordings (.avi format) are now available for download. But, first you need to download the appropriate codec by clicking on "Download the TSCC Codec" at www.camtasia.com.  You may also want to download the Camtasia player and install it at this time from the same web site. However, I have found that Windows Media Player 7.0 will also play the files if the codec is installed. After downloading this codec install it on the computer from which you will play the Camtasia recording. Now all you have to do is go to the "disted" web site where the recordings are located: http://...archive.html.   Simply click on the date of the lecture or lab session you want to review and it will start to download. "Do not try this at home!"--unless you have a very fast internet connection such as a cable modem, etc. The files are very large and will take hours to download on a dial-up 56Kbps modem. (If I were you, I would download the files in the computer lab in Nagle where it only takes about 30 seconds per file download) After the file is downloaded it may start automatically in Windows Media Player; if it does not, you can still view the file by simply opening it in either Windows Media Player or in Camtasia Player. Also, if you want to play the files in 110 Nagle, you will need to bring headphones as there are no speakers in the lab, or you can bring a ZIP 100 disk and save file(s) for later play-back on a computer that has speakers. If you have any questions or problems email me at kwclark@tamu.edu .
Kevin <kwclark@tamu.edu> 

7 April 1998, from Bill Neill: There's been some confusion about the location of the course reprint collection. It's located in the wooden cabinet just outside my office. You are free to borrow items, if you 1) sign them out, and 2) return them in good condition within 24 h. 
March 17, 1997 from Ray Kamps: I've posted some pictures of Lab 1 on this server in this folder. --your friendly neighborhood spiderman--Ray 
February 17, 1997 from Ray Kamps. In checking the FTP server logs, I found someone trying to FTP with Netscape. Dr. Neill's FTP server and Netscape do not talk to each other correctly. Consequently, the server crashes until 6 a.m. when it automatically resets. Please do NOT type FTP://neilllab2.tamu.edu/ into the "Open URL" or "Open Location" field of Netscape, Mosaic or Internet Explorer. You should use a regular FTP application like WSFTP. 
4 February 1997, from Bill Neill--A first entry for our course journal:Here's how to download a file from the public directory of our course website: Open Win FTP (or analog); log in to the public directory of neilllab2.tamu.edu (you will need your user_name and password); bring up the desired destination directory on the local system (the computer on which you are working); navigate to ...\public\wfsc417 on the remote system (the computer on which our website resides). Click on the name of the desired file; check that "binary" is selected; then, hit the left- directed transfer arrow, and...Viola!...the file is yours. But, just to be sure, "close" and "exit" FTP, open the appropriate software for displaying the file, and open and examine the file. You will be particularly interested in downloading lab datasets, because that way you can avoid all the work and risk of error involved in keyboard reentry of the data. Names of datafiles in the WFSC 417 public directory take the form "97data1.xls," which is an Excel file with the data from Lab I, 1997.You also can upload a file to our course public directory: You simply highlight a file on your local system and hit the right-directed arrow to move it to d:\webstuff\htdocs\public\wfsc417. Be careful that you don't upload something in error, because, as an anonymous user, you will be unable to overwrite or delete a file once it is in ...\public \wfsc417.