Moodle is running... but not working properly

Ok, it seems I still have a long way to go before getting a Course Management System (CMS) online and working the way it should. Moodle does not work on Intel Macs as of now - which really should have been mentioned on the main download page!!! - and there is only a beta version that will work on OS X 10.3. I haven’t been able to update my iBook to 10.4 due to my broken CD/DVD drive, so I only have a 10.4 Intel Mac and a 10.3 PPC Mac, neither of which will run Moodle properly. I’ll try to find a CMS that works well on Intel Macs. Moodle just lost my vote… for now, at least.

In other news, I got Synergy running. I can use my Mini’s mouse and keyboard to control both my Mini and my iBook. My iBook’s trackpad and keyboard still work normally, and I have a keyboard shortcut to turn the feature on and off, so I can detach and re-attach the Mini’s keyboard and mouse from and to the iBook with a simple press of *apple-f1*. I had to write a short script to configure Synergy the way I wanted it to work and I’m rather proud of myself on that one. I still haven’t succeeded in using the iBook’s keyboard and mouse to control the Mini, but that’s much less useful to me, so I don’t think I’ll waste a lot of time on that. (The Mini’s keyboard and mouse are just so much better.) I haven’t managed to make Synergy start automatically when I reboot, but I’ll look into that when I have a bit more time. It’s such a cool little app! I wish I had twenty computers with 80 screens to test it with!!! By the way, it works fine with Linux, OS X and Windows computers and you can hook up computers with different operating systems easily. I guess it’s not that big a deal, but I find it even more mind-blowing than Google Earth. If you have old computers around, Synergy’s an easy way to turn them into something useful again.

I’m not happy with the way I manage my bookmarks. I want to tag them, share them among computers, share them with whoever’s interested in them, and have an easy way of finding the right ones when I’m looking for one. Yahoo’s del.icio.us probably isn’t too bad, but I’m still not entirely convinced. If anyone has suggestions for that - or for any other cool tech toy -, leave a comment and let me know.