[AG-TECH] Two interesting open-source 3d collaboration "virtual world" environments

2007-06-26 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, My collaborator Ye Wang found the following two interesting links, inspired by some of the presentations at the AG Retreat. Thought I's share them with you: > http://www.opencroquet.org/ > http://www.uni-verse.org/ Perhaps they will inspire some additional creativity in the

Re: [AG-TECH] Tabletop-Room mic with integrated echo canceling

2007-06-22 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Michael, I sincerely hope the information about the AccuMic PC disappearing is incorrect, as we have had great success with them in our setting, and will very likely buy more. The ClearOne web site certainly still advertises it as available: http://www.clearone.com/products/product.php?cat=

Re: [AG-TECH] Jabber server

2007-05-11 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
We are trying to do the same thing, so you might want to stay in touch. The ANL Jabber server is based on jabberd14, I believe, running on a Linux platform. The problem at our facility is that we are forced (yes, forced) to use PCs, we can not find a pre-built binary for jabberd for Windows, a

[AG-TECH] Jabber servers

2007-04-28 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, We note that the text chat window in the AG client is Jabber-based, and (at least when using the AG server at ANL) relies on a Jabber server at ANL. We are guessing that it *might* be jabberd: http://jabberd.org/ which runs on Linux/UNIX boxes. Has anyone set up a Jabb

[AG-TECH] Thoughts re. Adobe Acrobat "Shared Reviews and Web Conferencing"?

2007-01-27 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, It's with some risk that I append the following commercial blurb from Adobe. My goal is *not* to act as a commercial flac, quite the opposite. I wonder if anyone has experience with or thoughts about Adobe Connect (formerly, Macromedia Breeze). In particular, I can envisa

Re: [AG-TECH] AG calling

2007-01-23 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
This does indeed look pretty interesting! How about AG4? :) Derek Piper wrote: > > Yes, looks like Steve Smith was right on the money with that. So > what happened with that project? I'd think that would have been a > smarter way to go with AG3.. ah well. > > Derek > > Andrew Sharpe wr

[AG-TECH] Any "audio splitters" for USB headsets?

2006-07-25 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Does anyone know of a way of supplying headset services for two people, from one USB port -- the equivalent of a USB audio splitter? Although we could envisage redirecting rat to a traditional 1/8" audio jack, it would be good to have a way of doing this with USB as well. Thanks, Rick Rodgers --

[AG-TECH] Any AG Sites in Paris (France, not Idaho)

2006-03-02 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear Colleagues, We are tying to conference with a colleague in Paris during an upcoming 2-day meeting. I do not find any AG sites in France on the global node listing at Accessgrid Central: http://agcentral.org/nodes (the only listed French site is on Reunion, an island off the eastern coas

Re: [AG-TECH] AccessGrid on PDA devices

2006-02-24 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Fabrizio, Motorola Labs (http://internet2.motlabs.com/ipaq/index.htm) and our group at NLM (http://etg/project/index.html, see ASKLEPiOS) have both experimented with using vic and rat on handhelds, but using the familiar Linux kernel (http://www.handhelds.org), not PocketPC To the best of our know

[AG-TECH] Is unicast bridging software available on the Mac?

2006-02-16 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear Colleagues, As part of testing in preparation for use of AG with colleagues in France, I would like to establish a unicast bridge for the specific venue we will be using. I did this once last summer in a different context, on a PC. However, now I hope to be working on a Mac. Is the bridge

RE: [AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it

2006-02-14 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
enter > University of Louisiana at Monroe > > > > -----Original Message- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf > Of R. P. Channing ["Rick"] Rodgers > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:56 PM > To: ag-t...@mcs.an

Re: [AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it

2006-02-14 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
ework v746.2) > Cc: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov, jud...@mcs.anl.gov, terra...@labmed2.ucsf.edu > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Colin Perkins > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:26:13 +0000 > To: &quo

RE: [AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it

2006-02-14 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
complicated answer. > > --Ivan > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On > > Behalf Of R. P. Channing ["Rick"] Rodgers > > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:36 AM > > To: rodg...@nlm.nih

RE: [AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it

2006-02-14 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
;s ready, it can be posted to the help center. Because most of us still aren't completely used to using agcentral, you can always post frequently to ag-tech too with pointers. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > > [mailto:owner-ag

RE: [AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it

2006-02-11 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
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[AG-TECH] One-page summary of AG port usage -- please help us complete it

2006-02-11 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, I now realize that the work I started last December, trying to create a one-page summary of AG port usage (based on the commendable document created by Javier Gomez Alonso of the Access Grid Support Centre at the University of Manchester) is not easily locatable in the list arc

Re: [AG-TECH] Firewall Ports and Test Venues

2006-02-11 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Sadly, you're going to find that that document is not enough to do the job. It omits specific prots for a number of key applicatioins, including vic and rat. I posted a one-page summary of port usage a couple of months back, extracted from the longer document on the AG web site, which was recast b

AG Port issues (was Re: [AG-TECH] Access Grid 3.0 beta1 available !)

2006-02-01 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
All of these points are well made. I certainly subscribe to the "one port, one service" line of thought, but the underlying problem remains, that to actually deploy AG in most locations today, one has to deal with network administrators and the policies they are required to implement (and it's poi

RE: [AG-TECH] Access Grid 3.0 beta1 available !

2006-01-31 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
I would like to add my support for Zsolt's cogent remarks. The single biggest obstacle I've encountered in actually implementing AG, both here at NLM and at UCSF, has been this issue of opening ports. We've got to come up with a simple strategy to deal with the concerns of the IT departments that

[AG-TECH] Debugging network problems in new AG setup

2005-12-20 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, I am trying to establish a small AG setup at UCSF, on two Dell XPS Gen 4 PCs running Windows XP. We have installed AGTk 2.4, started the server on one of the machines, configured nodes on both, and started the AG client on both. We seem to be able to enter the venues we create

[AG-TECH] AG port usage issues

2005-12-03 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, First off, I wanted to thank Gomez Alonso of the Univ. of Manchester for his exceptionally helpful document on AG port usage, available at: http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/ports.html, referred to again recently in discussions on this list. I was hoping we could collect

Re: [AG-TECH] AG port usage issues

2005-12-03 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
David, Thanks for the cogent remarks -- what I was hoping, though, was that folks would take the rough first pass I had made, and actually edit it to reflect their suggested improvements, and then re-post it to the list -- any chance you'd be willing to take a crack at it? After several passes,

[AG-TECH] SUMMARY: echo cancelling audio solutions for AG setups

2005-12-01 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, In our search for a cheaper, simpler echo-cancelling audio setup for the small conf. rooms to be used at our UCSF AccessGrid nodes, we have received *many* very helpful comments from the ag-tech mailing list. I thought everyone involved deserved a concise summary. Starting fr

RE: [AG-TECH] ClearOne AccuMic PC Desktop Echo-Cancelling Microphone

2005-12-01 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
obably the same internals) and > also has Volume Up, Volume Down, and Microphone Mute keys, which the > miniVox doesn't have. > > HTH, > -pb > > -Original Message- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On > Behalf Of R. P. Channing [

[AG-TECH] ClearOne AccuMic PC Desktop Echo-Cancelling Microphone

2005-11-30 Thread R. P. Channing ["Rick";] Rodgers
Dear AG Colleagues, I am working with some collaborators to set up a set of AG nodes. At least one of these will be in a small conference room. They are understandably hesitant to invest in a $3000 Clearone (formerly Gentner) echo canceller (XAP400), and have pointed out an interesting echo-canc