Online videos for grad-students

Very useful videos about writing your dissertation, study etc.
(each video about 1hour, needs fast connection to view)

Writing the Dissertation: Plan, Implement, and Complete

Developing and Maintaining Relationships with Your Faculty Advisor and Committee Members: A Recipe for Success

Finding Balance through Intuition: A Seminar for Graduate Women

Documenting Your Graduate Experience for the Job Search

Project Management for Graduate Students: How do I Manage People and Budgets

Legal Issues which Every Graduate Student Should be Familiar

Grantsmanship Basics

Nutrition. How to Eat Well on a Tight Budget

Presentation Skills for Graduate Students..........and more at

http://www.gradsch.uga.edu/For_Students/video.html

 

Downloading .rm Files

Since I have dial-up Internet at home and my work computer blocks .rm files, I find it best to download the .rm file and then play them back at a later time.

This is a useful program that allows you to download .rm files.

http://stream-down.cocsoft.com/download.html

Note: The program only has a 15-day trial period.

Hint: Set the date on your computer back to within 15 days after you installed the program.

I am looking forward to viewing some of these lectures - thanks Elecmac!

 

These videos don't work for me, just get an error.

 

Great Link

This is a good link, thanx

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thanks Elecmac. I have a DSL here and it is working perfect.

 

I had no problem viewing the lectures.

Make sure you have RealPlayer 10. It's free...here's the link.

http://forms.real.com/netzip/getrde601.html?h=software-dl.real.com&r=214dab3dc03d238d3c20&f=windows/RealPlayer10-5GOLD_bb.exe&p=RealOne+Player&oem=dlrhap_bb&tagtype=ie&type=dlrhap_bb

 

PhD2B,

I used the CoCsoft. but it fails to download the files. it gives me a SHAKE HAND ERROR. any ideas?

 

Theft is theft

So you're counseling everyone to steal, then... is that it? The 15-day trial is so you can decide if you like the software. But it's not free. If you try it and like it, then after the 15-day trial period you're supposed to buy it. Resetting the date on your computer is a workaround that allows you to effectively steal the software. As someone who's had more software stolen in this lifetime than most people -- even full-time, professional programmers -- have ever even written, I really resent this kind of mindset. It's repugnant. Shame on you.

And shame on the software author, too, for not creating a time-out that can't be end-run by simply resetting the computer's clock. Doing so would have been a no-brainer. But the fact that s/he didn't doesn't make it right to take advantage... any more than walking into someone's home or business and stealing things from it is right just because the lock was of poor quality.

Of course you'll argue that everyone does it, so where's the harm. That's not the point. The person who created it owns it and it's his/her right to either give it away or charge for it. S/he gets to make that decision, not you... or me... or anyone else. That there's an entire culture of lawless, thoughtless users out there who all think like you apparently do (or you like them... take your pick) doesn't make any of it right. Stealing is stealing. Theft is theft. End-running software trial timeouts by resetting the clock on your computer (or downloading hacks/cracks, etc.) is stealing... theft, in its purest sense. Rationalizers can spin it any way they want, but that fact never changes.

 

Re: Theft is theft

I would never encourage that!

I simply put it out there for instructional purposes only.

 

Under Add - URL…replace the rtsp with http.

For some reason I had trouble with this one as well.

 

Re: Theft is theft

Darn conscious…

Gregg…you are correct…

Not being a software guy myself, I never thought about it from your perspective. I apologize for my careless post.

 

Re: Theft is theft

Well, join the conscience club. In retrospect, I'm feeling like maybe I was overly-zealous in my rebuke. It's just that I've been ripped-off by hackers/crackers and others who have found ways to abuse various trial periods and other "demo" subroutines of mine so many times over the years that it just pushes a huge button with me... and my post reflects that, I guess.

While it still doesn't make it right, many, many, many people do it... literally millions of times each day. Many of them -- maybe even most -- are otherwise good, decent, moral, ethical, honorable people... as I believe are you. For me to have castigated someone as being fundamentally immoral or unethical or whatever other word one wants to apply to it as I did you, above, given the infraction, was probably over the top...

...and for that, I sincerely apologize.

I also tip my hat to you for stepping forward and just saying it. Around here, that takes a boatload of courage. My stock in you, as a person, has just soared. And, again, I apologize for making it sound worse than it probably was.

Thanks for being the bigger person in this little episode.