[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Developer IRC Meeting: Wednesday December 2nd, 2009, 14:00

2009-11-30 Thread Warren Layton
From the responses to the poll, it looks like Wednesday afternoon is the best time to have the Developer IRC meeting. So the details are as follows: Date: Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 Time: 2:00 PM Eastern The agenda is located on the wiki at

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

2009-11-30 Thread J. Benjamin Dudley
Around our libraries, we have multiple catalog computers designated for patrons to search the catalog. We have GPOs in place for them so that patrons cannot use them as their own personal surfing computers, but the GPOs don't always take effect OR some of our computers are too slow to handle

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Coffey
We use Public Web Browser here. Works Great. Bill Coffey System Administrator Wayne County Public Library 1001 E. Ash St Goldsboro, NC 27530 Phone: (919) 735-6249 Fax: (919) 731-1824 email: bill.cof...@waynegov.com From:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Announcing the OpenILS Buildbot

2009-11-30 Thread Shawn Boyette
On 11/25/2009 02:23 PM, Mike Rylander wrote: What /I'd/ like to see is a way to have the output of any number of instances of the buildbot integrated into a single interface. This is doable within the bot via a minor change to database structure and accompanying tweaks in a couple of places

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Buildbot source availability

2009-11-30 Thread Shawn Boyette
Buildbot 1.000 is now available, in tarball and git repo format. Links to both are at http://testing.esilibrary.com/ at bottom-right. Also available there are a design/overview document and pretty-printed versions of the POD docs from the buildbot modules. In the interest of getting things

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

2009-11-30 Thread Rick Cromi
We used OPAC-only machines in the past. In the GPO for those, we ran Internet Explorer as a shell in kiosk mode. There are a couple of methods you could use (including Group Policy) to allow/deny any other web sites and lock IE down. If GPOs aren't applying, however, I think you have some other

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-11-30 Thread Dan Scott
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:33 -0500, Warren Layton wrote: I'm trying to import a number of bib records with special characters in the MARC fields. I've gotten as far running direct_ingest.pl but I'm noticing that biblio_fingerprint.js chokes on a few of them. Looking a bit closer, I noticed

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6 stopping opensrf when other options fail -- third option

2009-11-30 Thread Soulliere, Robert
Hi developers, Could I add a third method for killing the OpenSRF processes to the troubleshooting page at: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=troubleshooting:checking_for_errors ? I would like to add the rm -R /openils/var/run/*.pid command which removes the pid files from the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6 stopping opensrf when other options fail -- third option

2009-11-30 Thread Jason Etheridge
Could I add a third method for killing the OpenSRF processes to the troubleshooting page at: Hey Robert, go for it. Thanks! -- Jason

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-11-30 Thread Dan Scott
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 14:20 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:33 -0500, Warren Layton wrote: I'm trying to import a number of bib records with special characters in the MARC fields. I've gotten as far running direct_ingest.pl but I'm noticing that biblio_fingerprint.js chokes

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Erickson
Though I've never tried it myself, Firefox has a Kiosk Mode extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1659 -b On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Rick Cromi rcr...@starklibrary.orgwrote: We used OPAC-only machines in the past. In the GPO for those, we ran Internet Explorer

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

2009-11-30 Thread Erik Lewis
Doesn't take much Add in the RKiosk plugin to Firefox Ubuntu with the Kiosk Admin Tool, i believe you need KDE by default Auto login enabled for your opac user Symlink the firefox executable to the users autostart directory thats about it if I remember correctly, took like an hour one morning

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-11-30 Thread Dan Scott
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 15:00 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 14:20 -0500, Dan Scott wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:33 -0500, Warren Layton wrote: I'm trying to import a number of bib records with special characters in the MARC fields. I've gotten as far running

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Suggestions for locking down OPAC computers

2009-11-30 Thread James Fournie
Opera has a powerful and fairly easy to use kiosk mode: http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/ ~James On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:04 AM, J. Benjamin Dudley dudleyb_mail...@ecgrl.org wrote: Around our libraries, we have multiple catalog computers designated for patrons to search the

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-11-30 Thread Dan Wells
Hi Dan, I am still listening, and would be quite happy to see this resolved somehow. I also want to note that the marc2bre.pl changed back to using composed characters here: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/12985/trunk/Open-ILS/src/extras/import/marc2bre.pl When doing my lastest

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] SC LENDS System Admin position opening

2009-11-30 Thread Catherine Buck Morgan
The SC LENDS Evergreen consortium is looking for a systems admin. For more information: http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/index.php?option=com_joblineItemid=1244; task=viewid=117 -- Catherine Buck Morgan Director, Division of Innovation, Technology Library Services South Carolina State Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-11-30 Thread Dan Scott
2009/11/30 Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu: Hi Dan, I am still listening, and would be quite happy to see this resolved somehow.   I also want to note that the marc2bre.pl changed back to using composed characters here: