Tbh if a computer refuses to eject a flash drive I just pull it out. Then it'll
complain, and I'll click "Okay", and that's the end of the matter. I've never
seen any other consequences.
Does anyone know, could doing this even theoretically cause data corruption? Or
is it just a safeguard to
I think you've still got a more complicated idea of what a QR code is than what
it actually is.
Think of a barcode on an item at the supermarket (or the back of a book). The
combination of different thicknesses of lines encodes a set of numbers in a
standardised way that can be read by barcode
Further on "The plethora of "free" code generators online are harvesting
information": is there a reliable way to check if a given QR code has tracking
embedded inside it?
I've just tried generating a sample QR code for a URL from Chrome, Duckduckgo,
and Some-Random-Internet-Site, then
We have a shared folder with documentation, at various levels of updatedness...
I've managed to get to a point where there's three of us sharing our 'library
IT' responsibilities. We've each developed our specialties but work together so
we all know the basics of everything. That means when
Dinosaurs are a really important consideration!
To an earlier post:
Staff directory pages are sadly vulnerable to IT deciding that it's a security
risk to give potential phishers access to all your emails.
ORCID allows emails and web/social links but I don't think it allows phone
numbers.
once you press that camera icon on?
So, it then records both videos and audio?
Do you just press that Camera icon again and it stops it?
How does one Pause an MS Teams recording?
Will it record for 1.5 hours for free?
Thank you ever so much.
Charles.
Charlotte County Public Library
Date:Tue, 7 Nov
You shouldn't need to create a new Team to invite someone to an online Teams
event. You can treat it more or less like Zoom for that purpose: create an
event and invite them to that.
(Creating a Team would be for if you want them to be able to participate in
ongoing chats, file-sharing,
I agree with the suggestion of trying a university. Or even a high school, as
they may have more experience teaching people who haven't self-selected into IT
courses or at least have lower levels of prior technical experience.
I'd suggest not asking for a "forensic cybersecurity expert
To work with filters:
Each filter has one line starting "Matches" describing the rule that triggers
the filter, then a second line starting "Do this" describing what Gmail will do
with the email. It sounds like in this case the "Do this" will be "Delete it".
The "Matches" might include
I definitely understand the fears that come from fear mongering, and watching
stuff spies can do on TV, and the like. So what users need is education and
matter-of-fact reassurance to understand that realistically the most common
ways for hackers to steal money from your bank account are to:
Re: "How to check that a connection is secure"
Look for the padlock icon next to the address eg:
[cid:image001.png@01D9FD18.D6939960] or [cid:image002.png@01D9FD18.D6939960]
Then click on the padlock and it will tell you “Connection is secure”.
[cid:image003.png@01D9FD18.D6939960]
She should:
1) Make sure that the network she's connecting to is definitely the library's
network - basically check the name. Theoretically someone else could rename
their hotspot with the same name so check the list of available networks, but
if there's only one with the correct name then
To build on what Karen suggests, if your patron has multiple videos to share,
then the easiest way would be to create a folder within her Google Drive
account, add all the videos to that, and share the folder as a whole. This
would only grant access to the folder and its contents, not to
Macs don't have drive designations like C: and G: etc. For saving to the Mac
itself you'd save to some folder in "Macintosh HD" - eg in Macintosh HD >
Users > [username] > Documents. Or on Desktop if you want to be a bit chaotic.
Assuming by "Text Editor" you mean TextEdit - that won't save as
gest
make gmail a lot more user-unfriendly email client than Mozilla Thunderbird
(which has its own peccadillos).
A lot of time wasted without access to tech support from The Alphabet to
resolve these issues.
Thank you.
Charles.
Date:Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:24:09 +
From: "Fi
Those categories/labels are a Feature of Gmail that they've decided is so
important that I can't see any way to turn them off (any more than you can
delete the 'spam' folder). You can limit how much they get in your way, however:
Hover over the item count until you see a three-dots icon, and
If you can't find it built-in, then look for an app. I'd search for "timer" or
possibly "pomodoro". (The pomodoro technique typically uses 25min intervals but
I'd expect an app would let you choose your preferred interval.) Try a few
different ones and see which one you like best.
Deborah
My snarky reaction to this is that this is a case where poorer students may
actually have an advantage of not being seduced by the glorified Mad Libs
technology.
(I grant there are valid use cases for large language models but students are
as unlikely as the rest of the population to
Your query works for me. It's just that Gmail only shows 50 items per page and
displays the most recent items first, so you need to page through for the older
results. (Where it says "1-50 of many" near the top right.)
Note by default it doesn't include the Spam or Trash folders, in case that's
What do you mean by "capture"? Are you talking about a video, screenshot, PDF,
printing, copy/pasting to another document, something else?
Deborah
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Sent: Friday, 12 May 2023 3:26 am
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
You can certainly do it in GIMP and others have mentioned ways to do it in
other software. But when you say "so I can fit more graphic images on the page"
do you mean you're embedding it in a Word document, or on a webpage? Because in
either of those cases you can simply scale the image in
Our national library association LIANZA uses Wild Apricot. From the member
perspective it seems to function okay. I have no idea what it's like to use
from the organisation perspective though!
Deborah
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Joe Hourclé
Sent: Thursday,
regional archival aggregator
(Archives West <https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/>) to generate QR codes
for each finding aid.
-Tamara
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 4:39 AM Joe Hourclé wrote:
> > On Apr 27, 2023, at 11:23 PM, Fitchett, Deborah <
> deborah.fitch...@li
Kia ora,
A library user’s looking for a way to generate a QR code for a specific
webpage. They’ll want it to work on a fairly permanent basis and I’d want to
avoid any statistics/trackers being embedded – so it shouldn’t be dependent on
a middle-party like bit.ly to resolve it.
Does anyone
Your memory's correct. You can drag shapes onto the page, and drag arrows on to
connect the shapes. The arrows normally only connect at the middle of the top,
sides, or bottom so you might have wanted more flexibility (sometimes I do!)
but once they're connected they stay connected even when
Whichever software you use, you'll always have to create the boxes and lines
yourself because every diagram has a different number/configuration of boxes
and arrows.
I have found Visio fairly good (certainly easier than doing it in Word). If you
do something really complex then occasionally
There's a few possibilities I can think of:
* Maybe Word is just automatically scaling it to the size of the page available
* Maybe Paint scales it
* Maybe Windows just "remembers" that even though you're *looking* at the
screen at 200%, the data is still the same so the screenshot is the same
In case an admin isn't available/doesn't notice this, you can unsubscribe
yourself from the mailing list at https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CODE4LIB
or via the instructions at https://wiki.code4lib.org/MailingList (In
general, doing a web search for any mailing list you're on should
Would it be possible to take the devices in to a local electronics store and
throw yourself on the mercy of a friendly staff member there?
I hate ordering cables online. Even when I do know what I want, the search
interface *sucks* for finding the specific one I want, and even looking on an
Charles has mentioned that he can't used net-based solutions for speech-to-text
for confidentiality reasons.
Privacy is definitely getting harder these days as developers for this kind of
tool are looking to improve accuracy by using "machine learning" (aka
industrial-level pattern matching)
We've occasionally hired a programmer to develop extra functionality for
existing (open source) software. I've always known them by reputation so
haven't had to do a search for someone.
I'd definitely agree with what others have said about needing to maintain the
software. So as part of the
This is entirely dependent on the webpage you want to print, and whether or not
they've designed it to be printable. Some websites haven't (especially highly
interactive ones) in which case if you print it there's no way to avoid it
being ugly.
I don't know what you mean about "the rods". If
Ultimately Zoom is providing a service for free to even more millions of people
in the world than before the pandemic so it's not surprising that they can't
also provide free tech support to everyone. Especially because any given issue
could relate to any or all of:
* network problems (weak
Kia ora koutou,
We’ve got a sculpture in the library that we’d like to contextualise with a
video, and we’re looking for ways to set this up. It’s essentially a digital
plaque: something like a screen, probably some quietish speakers, video player
software, enough storage for the video, and a
Um, firstly that xml contains personal information including names, addresses
and emails, so unless it's dummy data ... anyone know if there's a way we can
remove it from the list archives at least?
As to the question:
* Excel can import xml data (and once you can get it into Excel at all it
On the capitalisation question, I'd say it depends. If there is a defined
region *called*, for example, West Virginia, then West is part of the name so
it's capitalised. But if you're just referring to the generally western part of
Florida, then you'd say western Florida.
Grammarly does want
I have no experience/knowledge about Windows Speech Recognition, but a US
friend of mine did a comparison just the other day of Apple's in-built
dictation vs Dragon: Dragon won by a *mile*.
The great thing about Dragon is that you can(*) train it to recognise your own
accent. As someone who
You’ve probably also checked, but just in case, it’s worth asking if your
organisation’s HR department offer professional development opportunities
covering leadership skills etc.
One of the best workshops I attended was about negotiation (which can be big
things involving contracts, or more
Kia ora koutou,
We can see there are a number of other places offering OJS hosting, but some
look highly dodgy and others look like at the least a lot more research is
required.
We're familiar with PKP services - can anyone recommend other SaaS providers
for OJS that are worth considering?
I’ve got a very different view from everyone else on these questions I think!
My view: too many mailing lists, not enough time. *Especially* not enough time.
Probably most people don’t have a job where they have to subscribe to 16+
mailing lists just to keep up, but everyone has a job that
I'm guessing you don't have Leganto so I'm not 100% sure if you'll have this
functionality, but try in Alma going to Configuration > Fulfillment > Copyright
Management > Digitization and Copyright Rules
You can create rules there that will automatically approve permitted things if
there's
Not directly answering the initial question but one wrinkle you'll want to
consider is that more and more vendors require two-factor authentication in
addition to the username/password. So if you want multiple staff to have access
to the vendor account, then they also need access to eg a shared
(On the original question, I also wrote a PHP script once that converts from an
RSS feed eg a Wordpress website to OAI – or at least a few of the OAI verbs:
https://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/rss2oai )
On migration: I haven’t migrated from ContentDM before, but my experience of
migrating between
In this case the resolution is a red herring (except that even if you have a
big screen, if the resolution is too low then things will look blurry and/or
pixelated).
Probably what's going wrong in the videos you've watched is they're recorded on
a large screen, so they're only readable on a
or subject matter) is another metadata field
where we're lacking and have layers of management who (sh/w)ould love
this information.
cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 09:39, Fitchett, Deborah
mailto:deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz>> wrote:
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field and taxonomy to use for
facial hair is a legitimate question for researchers.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu<mailto:steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu>
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries
mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG>> On Behalf Of
Fitchett, Deborah
Sent: Mond
dc.coverage.facial
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Stuart A. Yeates
Sent: Monday, 29 March 2021 12:06 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] facial hair names
The CDC has released a list of facial hair names
In my experience, since we signed up, they do email us very occasionally to say
“Oh we heard such-and-such an IP range is you, can you confirm?” so we can
login and say “No, no that hasn’t been our IP range for 10 years, who on earth
still has that on file?”
--More precisely, we can say “No.”
> If I were to try to do it mostly looking from the database side f things,
> > I would grab a few records (‘select * from TABLE limit 5’) And then look
> > for fields with numbers in them that look out of place
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> > Ps. Note to self: Typing Unix
n look
> > for fields with numbers in them that look out of place
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> > Ps. Note to self: Typing Unix commands on a fake keyboard with
> > autocorrect really sucks
> >
> >
> > Sent from a mobile device with a crappy on screen keyboard a
Kia ora,
On the off-chance anyone's familiar with (Open)Equella (it's essentially
abandonware so the ex-vendor's no help, I get error messages when looking for
the community Google Group, and the only documentation I can find helpfully has
a page linked from the text "Why does the openEQUELLA
Kia ora Eric,
It presumably depends on your browser's capabilities: when I click the PDF
links here, it opens up a page on which the PDF is embedded and I can read it
straight away after a single click. For me that's more convenient than
downloading it and having to open it in a PDF reader,
Our dashboard at Lincoln University (New Zealand) is based on PHP and a couple
of javascript libraries - credits at the bottom of the page. It basically pulls
data out of anything we've got an API for.
https://library2.lincoln.ac.nz/dashboard/
Deborah
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of
with bandwidth throttled
to regular 2G network speed.
Ben
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:35 PM Fitchett, Deborah <
deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote:
> Kia ora koutou, hope all are keeping well,
>
> With our users all working from home, with varying internet
> connectio
Kia ora koutou, hope all are keeping well,
With our users all working from home, with varying internet connections, while
the rest of the country are playing WoW or watching Netflix, we're getting an
increase of complaints about a Certain Product loading slowly and/or in funny
ways. We report
We use Elements as our research information system. We also had some existing
staff profile pages (based on Sharepoint). Our ITS was grabbing content direct
from the Elements database to insert on the profile pages, I said “…Have you
considered using the API?” and they said “…There’s an API?”
You might be interested in Chart.js (https://www.chartjs.org/) - it does the
visualisation part, if you could do the search part.
Deborah
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Vinit Kumar
Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2019 6:17 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject:
I'd personally disagree with any move to exclude pseudonymous users, especially
if the only grounds are that a pseudonym is seen as "less credible" or even
somehow "disrespectful".
If a dog has something useful to post to Code4Lib, why shouldn't they be judged
on the merits of their email?
Our public dashboard is at https://library2.lincoln.ac.nz/dashboard/ - data
comes from various APIs, and PHP code is at
https://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/LTLstats
(Layout is a perpetual headache. If anyone can think of a way to make the
elements rearrange themselves according to how big they
I played with their Explorer API (v1) a bit for some aggregated statistics to
show on our dashboard - worked fine for a few years, then they "upgraded" it to
v2 and now:
a) those aggregated stats are no longer available (it focuses on
providing much more fine-grained stats) and
b)
A question rather than an answer: how important is it to you to eliminate
non-affiliate traffic? How important really?
I haven’t tried audio/video virtual referencing, but have used chat-based
virtual referencing for many years. Originally the software we used required
the users to type in
Kia ora koutou,
Any attempt at actually doing this is far beyond my capabilities or resources
but I feel strongly that there’s a need for this, so I’m thinking aloud about
whether it’s actually practical – would love anyone else’s thoughts!
To date there’ve been a number of successful
My bone to pick with Edge is that it gets glitchy around what I’ll call
hotlinking. Eg I have our Primo discovery layer pull in:
a) Javascript from a vendor’s server, which in turn
a. Pulls in an image hosted on our own server; and
b) Javascript from our own server for other
Kia ora all,
Our "library IT" consists of two people: I'm the "Head of Department Digital
Services", and the other is the "Digital Services Analyst". We've tried other
titles, and last time we were advertising I benchmarked against the other unis
in the country, and couldn't think of anything
I tend to consider it an “unintended feature” myself. ☺ But otherwise this is
my understanding of the situation too.
As far as I’m aware DOIs proper are all in the form 10./some_more_stuff
Deborah
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Conal Tuohy
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2018 1:26 PM
To:
Kia ora koutou,
It occurs to me to wonder how other people keep track of which of your systems
affect / require which others of your systems. Eg an institutional repository
sourcing data from a research information management system; a database
requiring Shibboleth to access; an opening hours
Hi Lucy,
I hadn't heard about it, but from a quick search it looks suspiciously
catch-free. Provide an OAI feed and then receive reports of how much it's
increased traffic to your IR, what's to dislike?
I suspect it is actually as good as it says on the tin - presumably EBSCO's
motivation is
I'm going to use the "FIFIO API" term from now on...
For a while I scraped Ex Libris's status webpage
(http://status.exlibrisgroup.com/) to monitor the status of our
catalogue/discovery layer instances and, in the event of an issue,
automatically put a notice on the discovery layer to tell
Digital Services Analyst
Lincoln University is New Zealand’s specialist land-based university with
research and teaching focused on three causes of global significance: namely,
feed the world, protect the future and live well.
Library, Teaching and Learning supports Lincoln University
for the IR. The discussion is really helpful to us. Thank you all for
>> involving in it!
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Lucy
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Fitchett, Deborah <
>> deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
Completely naive question: What would be involved in getting it(*) included in
something like LOCKSS/CLOCKSS/Portico?
Deborah
(*) or hypothetically any other hypothetical OA journal that I may or may not
be responsible for
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From: Code for Libraries
You could set the browser on your public workstation to delete all cookies when
closed (and ideally it would close/reopen between users, or at least when
unattended for a few minutes). This would be a good idea anyway in case they're
using other sites with cookies, to prevent their personal
Replying to a semi-arbitrary email with a couple of thoughts:
* There are times when reasoned debate is good, eg when discussing what
restrictions there should be on fireworks, or I don't know, emacs vs vi.
However there are times when reasoned debate is actively harmful and itself
contributes
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