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Stuff I’m working on

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Tina Escaja wrote  I am currently working on bringing three Spanish visual artists from London and Spain next Spring to the L/L Gallery. I am going to collaborate to the project by placing around the wall of the Gallery a … Continue reading

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Art Lab Update

Tom Brennan passed along a number of Art Lab Issues PhotoShop, File Menu, Browse: supposed to open a file browser (now implimented as a separate application called Adobe Bridge). Adobe Photoshop returns the error, "Error 2: photoshop is undefined. Line … Continue reading

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More broken Landscape code

I’m preparing to write a script to extract data from the LCP data base for ingestion into Dspace. While looking at the raw contents of the database using CocoaSQL, I noticed a bunch of records from the last few days, … Continue reading

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XEROX 7700 printing and other issue in art lab

Jane Petrillo was having issues printing to the Art lab 7700 printer. It worked fine for us when we me, of course — once we put paper in. I suggested the problem probably was a "Stopped Printer" condition on the … Continue reading

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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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