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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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