Re: [CODE4LIB] UNIX/LINUX noob looking for UWIN help
Thanks all! On 12/14/09, peter.ne...@parliament.vic.gov.au peter.ne...@parliament.vic.gov.au wrote: Depends what you are trying to do. If you are just after a more linux like shell for windows and some scripting then something like UWIN or cygwin would suit. If however, you want linux in all its gloriousness then a virtual environment such as virtualbox is a good option (if your laptop has enough memory). Another option is to create a live CD that you can boot from your CD drive (something like Damn Small Linux or SLAX isn't too big to download). Have fun. Peter -- Peter Neish Systems Officer Victorian Parliamentary Library peter.ne...@parliament.vic.gov.au Matt Amory matt.am...@gmail .COM To Sent by: Code for CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Libraries cc code4...@listser V.ND.EDU Subject [CODE4LIB] UNIX/LINUX noob looking for UWIN help 14/12/2009 03:20 PM Please respond to Code for Libraries code4...@listser V.ND.EDU I'm trying to get UNIX/LINUX to run on my Windows laptop. Is UWIN the best and easiest option? Parliament of Victoria Important Disclaimer Notice: The information contained in this email including any attachments, may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete it from your system. Any unauthorised disclosure, copying or dissemination of all or part of this email, including any attachments, is not permitted. This email, including any attachments, should be dealt with in accordance with copyright and privacy legislation. Except where otherwise stated, views expressed are those of the individual sender. -- Matt Amory (917) 771-4157 matt.am...@gmail.com
[CODE4LIB] Update: Support for attending Code4Lib2010
I'm happy to report that the ad hoc committee to support attendance at Code4Lib will be able to provide the requested help. I'd also like to thank Serials Solutions for their offer of support. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
[CODE4LIB] VuFind 1.0RC2 Released
Hello, everyone. It's been a long time in the making, but we're finally able to announce a new release of the VuFind library discovery interface. VuFind 1.0RC2 is more configurable than ever before, features the latest Solr 1.4 index engine, and resolves many bugs from the previous release. It also has some significant new features, including expanded favorites management and a fully-functional advanced search. For more details, please see our changelog: http://vufind.org/wiki/changelog If you want to give the new release a test drive, a demo is available here: http://vufind.org/demo/ If you're ready to install or upgrade VuFind, please check out the updated and expanded documentation in our wiki: http://vufind.org/wiki/ I'm always happy to answer questions about the software, so feel free to contact me here, through my email address, or on one of the VuFind mailing lists listed on our support page: http://vufind.org/support.php ...And now back to work on the full 1.0 release -- I expect it won't be nearly so long in the making as RC2 was! - Demian
Re: [CODE4LIB] UNIX/LINUX noob looking for UWIN help
Cygwin++ / Wubi++ / Virtual box - heard good things from people who know Those three solutions give you respectively the choice between partial emulation / dual boot / and virtualization. Like others have, or are likely to say, it depends on what you're trying to do (and why you're trying to do it that way). -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Amory Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 8:20 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] UNIX/LINUX noob looking for UWIN help I'm trying to get UNIX/LINUX to run on my Windows laptop. Is UWIN the best and easiest option? Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
Re: [CODE4LIB] UNIX/LINUX noob looking for UWIN help
Matt Amory wrote: I'm trying to get UNIX/LINUX to run on my Windows laptop. Is UWIN the best and easiest option? While lots of other people have answered this question already, I'd like to point out that without information on what it is you want to use Linux for, it's almost impossible to give a sensible answer to this question. Are you planning on using it to offer services to third parties? to do network diagnostics? to try out new software? (which software?) to improve your skills? to be able to test stuff on your laptop in the same environment as your servers? to improve your commandline-foo? Annoy your fellow Windows users? as part of a prolonged programme of masochism? Each of these lead (potentially) to different recommendations. BTW: 'UNIX' is a trademark which is basically no longer used. You probably mean POSIX (AKA IEEE Std 1002.1-1989 AKA ISO/IEC 9945). cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository
[CODE4LIB] Version 77, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 77 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,620 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is available as a paperback book and as a Kindle e-book. http://digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries (http://bit.ly/GW4Ih), see: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents Dedication 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: (1) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 4 (7/15/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm (2) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 5 (9/14/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm (3) Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1 (10/19/2009) http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx
[CODE4LIB] seeking examples of web-based voice or video calling (VoIP) in libraries
Greetings, and apologies for cross-posting. In the coming months I will be compiling a Library Technology Report (http://www.alatechsource.org/ltr/index) that investigates one of the more under-the-radar/utilitarian library technologies of recent years, web-based voice and video calling and conferencing via platforms such as Skype, GTalk, and DimDim. In this report I hope to tackle both the benefits and drawbacks of VoIP as a public service, instruction, collaboration, and communication medium, and as such am seeking real-world library use cases, direct experiences, frustrations, workarounds and success stories that illustrate practical challenges and benefits of web voice and video to achieve various ends. I hope to learn about/from individuals and libraries who use web video and calling either to provide education or public services such as distance instruction or video reference or as their main telephone infrastructure, and for individuals with virtual participation experience at conferences and the like. This is meant to be a troubleshooting guide as well as a technology primer, so *any* experience using VoIP in library services (for better or worse, technical or nontechnical) is sought. Anyone who has worked with this technology and would like to offer an opinion or experience to be profiled in the report (or not, if you prefer), your input is invaluable. This would consist of answering a few quick questions via phone or email, or simply pointing me to a URL, etc. Also, leads to known VoIP-based library programs at other institutions are much appreciated. Please feel free to contact me on or off-list, and many thanks. I'll provide a summary of pertinent responses if there is interest expressed. FYI, I'm the E-Learning Librarian at UC Berkeley, and I blog at www.infomational.com. Best. Char -- Char Booth E-Learning Librarian UC Berkeley 302 Moffitt Library MC 6000 Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Google Talk: charbooth | skype: charbooth o 510.643.7486 | c 512.970.3573
