Re: [CODE4LIB] .cpd file format head scratcher
If it *is* the PhotoDefiner format, there seems to be two options at: http://photodefiner.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=11137 A free plug-in to Quicktime, and a free format viewer for Windows. Did you try each of them? -A Andy Ingraham Dwyer Infrastructure Specialist State Library of Ohio 274 E. 1st Avenue Columbus, OH 43201 Tel: 614-644-6849 library.ohio.gov Please contact my supervisor with any feedback regarding my customer service. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Gordon Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:15 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] .cpd file format head scratcher Hey All, For a set of digitized pharmaceutical cards, I am coming up against an image file format that seems to be locked in time. It's supposedly a Compressed PhotoDefiner (?) lossless (.cpd) file (http://www.photodefiner.com/home/). Though when I try to load up the software, I can't get it to take on any of our windows machines (running 8 and 7). Don't have a mac on hand so don't know if that works or not, currently. In my experience, though, I've always been able to find some rogue third party file converter (or imagemagick) to be helpful in these scenarios but this format is just not something that appears to have been accounted for. Additionally, it's one of those file formats that seem to only pop randomly generated answer sites with questionable downloads in a google search, such as http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-cpd/ Just wanted to see if anyone has come across this format and whether there might be any tools to convert it. Thanks, Drew Andrew Gordon, MSI Systems Librarian Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue New York, NY, 10029 212.822.7324 http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL
I would not be surprised if there were black hats out there sitting on exploits they've discovered, waiting until *after* April to release malware that takes advantage of them. -A Andy Ingraham Dwyer Infrastructure Specialist State Library of Ohio 274 E. 1st Avenue Columbus, OH 43201 Tel: 614-644-6849 library.ohio.gov Please contact my supervisor with any feedback regarding my customer service. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Justin Coyne Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 8:35 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL They won't be a security risk on April 8th, but the first time that MS publishes security patches after that date for newer version, security researchers will examine the patches. Doing so will give them an idea about how to exploit the problem the patch was for. They will then try to run the exploit on XP and see if it is vulnerable. Eventually they will find an exploit that works against XP. Even if you have a AV, people can exploit your machine without using a virus. Is that a risk you want to accept? -Justin On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jimm Wetherbee wrote: > Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those machines > are instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th. We will not > be doing anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are > too old to run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them. > > --jimm > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Riley Childs >wrote: > > > Hi, > > I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP > > End-of-Life (if anything at all :( > > > > > > Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows 8 > > (we ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but > > that's > another > > story), and when April 7th comes around: throw anything we can't use > > away (sigh). > > > > Riley Childs > > Student > > Asst. Head of IT Services > > Charlotte United Christian Academy > > (704) 497-2086 > > RileyChilds.net > > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes > > > > > > -- >
Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?
OCLC announced in April 2013 the changes in their license model for North America. EZProxy's license moves from requiring a one-time purchase of US$495 to a *annual* fee of $495, or through their hosted service, with the fee depending on scale of service. The old one-time purchase license is no longer offered for sale as of July 1, 2013. I don't have any details about pricing for other parts of the world. An important thing to recognize here, is that they cannot legally change the terms of a license that is already in effect. The software you have purchased under the old license is still yours to use, indefinitely. OCLC has even released several maintenance updates during 2013 that are available to current license-holders. In fact, they released V5.7 in early January 2014, and made that available to all license-holders. However, all updates after that version are only available to holders of the yearly subscription. The hosted product is updated to the most current version automatically. My recommendation is: If your installation of EZProxy works, don't change it. Yet. Upgrade your installation to the last version available under the old license, and use that for as long as you can. At this point, there are no world-changing new features that have been added to the product. There is speculation that IPv6 support will be the next big feature-add, but I haven't heard anything official. Start planning and budgeting for a change, either to the yearly fee, or the cost of hosted, or to some as-yet-undetermined alternative. But I see no need to start paying now for updates you don't need. -Andy Andy Ingraham Dwyer Infrastructure Specialist State Library of Ohio 274 E. 1st Avenue Columbus, OH 43201 library.ohio.gov -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of stuart yeates Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:03 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ? I probably should have been more specific. Does anyone have experience switching from EzProxy to anything else? Is anyone else aware of the coming OCLC changes and considering switching? Does anyone have a worked example like: "My EzProxy config for site Y looked like A; after the switch, my X config for site Z looked like B"? I'm aware of this good article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470 cheers stuart On 29/01/14 15:24, stuart yeates wrote: > We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy, > which will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future versions to > install locally and/or host with OCLC AU with a ~ 10,000km round trip. > > What are the alternatives? > > cheers > stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
Re: [CODE4LIB] flip book
Google has an image search function. I has already spidered a huge number of sites. It honors a site's robots.txt directives (wget can be made to ignore robots.txt). Results can be limited to a specific site or domain. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nd.edu&tbm=isch -Andy -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:53 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] flip book I want to create a sort of flip book with the images from a website. How? Here's the idea. Suppose, just like a book, I could flip through the pages of a website to peruse the images it contains. How could I create this? Hmmm... How about: 1. mirror the website locally (with to something like wget) 2. traverse the mirror looking for image (*.jpeg, *.gif, *.png, etc.) files 3. create a list of images and URLs where they reside 4. present a Web interface allowing the reader to "flip" through list, and when they 5. find an image of interest allow them to click on it to see the image in context Such a tool would provide means for thoroughly browsing a website. - Eric Lease Morgan
