Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries
Peter -- that part about the Cruise-women is hilarious! I think it's sad that folks were able to think of more than two! I'd want my filespace on Arsenal. Thanks for your response - much appreciated! Jody Original message Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:24:54 -0700 From: Binkley, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu When I got my first chance to name the first two servers for a project, I went with fides and spes (faith and hope), so that if we ever got a third one it would be charity. By the time the project got any more boxes someone else was in charge of naming, unfortunately. We have also fallen into the trap of naming servers after products, but we're getting away from that. Back in the mid-nineties if you searched for my name in Lycos you found endless postings from a machine named binkley at McGill, no doubt inspired by the Bloom County character - the curse of all true Binkleys. We also had a period of naming boxes after deceased or retired colleagues, but that got tired. When we were recently planning the deployment of several new servers in a major upgrade, I was late to the meeting and was puzzled at the names on the whiteboard: all women's first names, but I couldn't see a pattern. I'll never forget the shudder of horror when it was revealed they were all women who have dated Tom Cruise. A couple of us quietly indicated that we would be forced to resign rather than work with such a tacky system, and we went with British football clubs instead. Peter -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jody Fagan Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries Dear Code4Lib folks, I'd like to write an anecdotal article about library server nomenclature ... I'm for-sure that most librarians don't even know our servers have names. I am hoping that some of you might be willing to share (off-list) server names you have known in libraries, how/why you chose them, and any random thoughts you have about them. Did you inherit them? Did you get to pick them out? Do you think the whole idea of server names is silly or do you secretly like the fact that your servers have names? I am happy to guarantee anonymity (that is, I won't use your name or institution in conjunction with any server names) unless you specifically want to be identified or given credit for your statements. I plan on sharing my institution's server names in my article, but not say where they are from thanks for considering this, Jody -- Jody Condit Fagan Digital Services Librarian, James Madison University 540-568-4265 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time -- Alan Moore http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries
Thanks, Randy! Mason and Dixon have got to be some of my faves so far. Jody Original message Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:05:44 -0500 From: Randy Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu A few more from the harvard libraries... neato, keano, and cool for DB servers our russian phase - tolstoi, chekhov, and a pair of font end servers -fyodor and fiona mason and dixon - paired geospatial servers dylan - our streaming audio server ditto - a backup machine depot - file server boz and phiz, 2 load balanced servers, and chaz, its parent - our dickens phase we're onto authors at the moment - falkner, rand, herbert, mcphee At 12:12 PM 10/30/2006 -0500, you wrote: Wow, lots of great responses! Thanks so much to everyone who has responded so far about server names. It may take me a bit to respond to folks and also to write up what will hopefully be both a humorous and thought-provoking piece about this topic, but I will share the pre-pub manuscript with you folks when it's done. thanks mucho, Jody Fagan
[CODE4LIB] tape drive
I know questions about tape drives are possibly out of scope for code4lib, but I'll try anyway. Do I need to tweak my Linux kernel in order for my computer to recognize my internal SCSI tape drive? I recently purchased a new piece of hardware from Dell. As requested, it came completely clean. I installed Fedora 5 on it, and it is up an running. The hardware came with a PowerVault (SCSI) tape drive, and for the life of me I can't get anything written to the tape. I use this command: tar cvf /dev/st0 / But tar comes back and says there is no such device. I use MAKEDEV to create devices (from SCSI ID 0 - 7), and while files are created in / dev I still get no such device errors. Maybe I need turn something on in a kernel configuration file somewhere? I think I see the device listed during the BIOS boot process. Do I need a driver? What am I doing wrong? What am I missing? -- Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenFRBR
Hi, You may be interested in OpenFRBR: http://www.openfrbr.org/ Its aim is to build a full, free implementation of FRBR, showing everything it can do, and looking for problems along the way. Everyone's welcome to get involved in whatever way they wish. I can't get to that site (is it down?), but a few words on what you're trying to do (is it a technical approach, model approach, philosophical approach?), and how you want to do it would be great. Alex -- Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. - Frank Herbert __ http://shelter.nu/ __
Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenFRBR
I'm having trouble getting to it too. I'd be interested to know how LibraryThing can help. As you know, we've got something FRBR-esque—user-driven not algorithmic. Tim On 11/1/06, Alexander Johannesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You may be interested in OpenFRBR: http://www.openfrbr.org/ Its aim is to build a full, free implementation of FRBR, showing everything it can do, and looking for problems along the way. Everyone's welcome to get involved in whatever way they wish. I can't get to that site (is it down?), but a few words on what you're trying to do (is it a technical approach, model approach, philosophical approach?), and how you want to do it would be great. Alex -- Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. - Frank Herbert __ http://shelter.nu/ __
Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenFRBR
On 11/1/06, Alexander Johannesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You may be interested in OpenFRBR: http://www.openfrbr.org/ Its aim is to build a full, free implementation of FRBR, showing everything it can do, and looking for problems along the way. Everyone's welcome to get involved in whatever way they wish. I can't get to that site (is it down?) Yes, my fault. I didn't communicate well enough with Bill so he announced on the day I brought down the server (which houses code4lib and other things) to move to a new location. The move was not without its problems, but openfrbr should be up again once the new IP spreads around the dns world. As for code4lib... also bad communication on my part... I didn't realize Ed(su) was out of the country. He owns the c4l.org domain so is the only one who can update its dns. Hopefully, he is checking email and can do this... if not we may have a bit of downtime. ksclarke-- Sorry again, Kevin (who obviously isn't a sys admin)
Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenFRBR
On 2 November 2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote: I can't get to that site (is it down?), but a few words on what you're trying to do (is it a technical approach, model approach, philosophical approach?), and how you want to do it would be great. It's back up now. Sorry about that. Some one-time server stuff was going on. OpenFRBR will be all of those, I think, because it'll be figuring out new things as it goes. There is no full FRBR implementation so there are more questions than answers. I don't know how the database will look, what Ajaxy stuff will help users manipulate information, how to let people do the four FRBR user tasks, how to handle complicated relationships between things, or any of that. It'll be fun to figure it out. On the site, I say what it might look like in a few months: A person grabs a book off the shelf and enters the ISBN into OpenFRBR. OpenFRBR checks all available sources and figures out what is known about the book, what work it is, what expression it is, what other entities are involved, and how they are related. The user will be able to confirm what is right, change what is wrong, and add what else is known. The resulting arrangement of information will be available in a standard format for other systems to use. Everything will be searchable. If it gets to that, I'll be happy. I'm new to Rails, so I'll be figuring out a lot as I go. I've never done anything with a shared source code repository, either. I do think FRBR is very useful and really needs an example, if not a reference, implementation, so that people can say, Oh, this is why we should bother with it. You know, I could use this for X, and for Y ... Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
