Monthly Archives: September 2005

diamond_island

Finally got around to creating a database and aquisition script for Diamond Island weather data: created empact database table diamond based on table colchester created diamond.pl  script and associated crontab entry on chipmunk to get data from  Furbush site created … Continue reading

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Dspace LDAP finishing touches

The last bits of the puzzle. Wanted to force users ths SSL port for login, but not necessarily for anything else Wanted LDAP authenticated users forced into the UVM group, so that collections private to UVM could be accessed by … Continue reading

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Make Dspace talk to LDAP

Option 1, which should work, near as I can tell from several hours googling, is to build a "Trusted Keystore" — put a copy of the LDAP servers cert into a different keystore:     keytool -import -file my_ldap_cert.cer -alias my_ldap_cert … Continue reading

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Dspace: Upgrade from 1.3alpha1 to 1.3.1

Create/alter aliases dspace-last and dspace-current to reflect new /usr/local/src directory structure compare /usr/local/src/dspace-last/conf/dspace.cfg to /usr/local/src/dspace-last/conf/dspace.cfg, merge copy extra jar files from dspace-last/lib to dspace-current-lib: cd /usr/local/src/dspace-current cp ../dspace-last/lib/jai_* lib cp ../dspace-last/lib/mlibwrapper_jai.jar lib cp ../dspace-last/lib/postgresql.jar lib Remove the old version of … Continue reading

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httpS for badger

Got hold of a geotrust signed certificate for badger. That was easy (and $110 of UVM money). Hard part was getting it installed, since I built the key and the certificate signing request (CSR) with openssl rather than keytool, and … Continue reading

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Dspace for Landscape change

As mentioned here, it has been decided (well, sort of) to pursue evaluation of Dspace as a content management system for the Landscape Chaange project. Some issues and answers can Dspace do the job? Yeah, probably — but this is … Continue reading

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Enabling “Protected Content” on real.uvm.edu

Step 1: read help files Step 2: ignore big parts of what was read The manual says you need to define a new mount point THAT IS NOT IN CURRENT Content mount point directory (nope) Define a new database, if … Continue reading

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Enabling "Protected Content" on real.uvm.edu

Step 1: read help files Step 2: ignore big parts of what was read The manual says you need to define a new mount point THAT IS NOT IN CURRENT Content mount point directory (nope) Define a new database, if … Continue reading

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Silly Scanners

Art folks had problems with Nikon scanners. I only installed Nikon software on two machines, one of which had a Konica scanenr attached to it (the Nikon was attached to the iMac next to it). Well anyway, I installed Nikon … Continue reading

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Landscape Change Project: Usability Study Meeting

Several invitees met Thursday, Sept 8, from 10-1 at UVM to solicit  ideas and opinions on how to make the Landscape Change Program website and collection more useful for everyone involved. There were   three foci for the meeting.  Improving … Continue reading

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