[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Nuku Ameyibor
i have a vmware image of evergreen 1.4.0.6 which i run in vmware workstation. i am able to run it okay. the specs of my machine are quite low.2g ram, 1.7 gz.i gave the virtual machine i think 1.2 gig of ram for my virtual machine.so i think your specs are okay. for windows i prefer vmware

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Rogan Hamby
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit Pro with 8 gigs and a Q9300 2.5GHz and it runs the host OS and VirtualBox installs of Ubuntu fine when I need it for little experiments. I've run VMWare fine on it as well but tend to like VirtualBox's desktop package more though oddly I prefer VMWare on the server

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Renewing items from Patron Accounts

2010-04-14 Thread Cynthia Williamson
Hi All - we've recently noticed a problem with renewing books from patron accounts. We're not sure how long it has been going on because we can only trace it to some complaints we've had over the last month or so. Students have reported and we've tested and confirmed, that when they attempt to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Renewing items from Patron Accounts

2010-04-14 Thread Joel Harbottle
Hi Cynthia, I have actually come across this problem twice before. For us it was quite strange, and is a bit hard to describe. When the two patrons in particular complained (we allow 2 renewals when no Holds on item). What had happened in our case, other patrons had placed a copy-specific Hold

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Renewing items from Patron Accounts

2010-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
Students have reported and we've tested and confirmed, that when they attempt to renew a book from their account, they get the message that no renewals are allowed because the book is needed for a hold.  When staff check, there are no holds on the item(s) and they can do the renewal(s) from

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problem with Renewing items from Patron Accounts

2010-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
Thanks for adding in this advice. Something like that totally slipped my mind when I replied. Oh, and when constructing a test like that, write down all the steps (and results) so others can reproduce it! It's science. :-) -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread chintan
FYI, VMWare workstation is also free to use On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Lori Ayre loria...@gmail.com wrote: Rogan, Sounds like our systems are very similar. Glad you've done my proof of concept for me! I'd like to stick with VirtualBox if I can just cuz its open source. Can you then

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:04 AM, chintan chintan...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, VMWare workstation is also free to use JFYI, Free as in beer, but not free as in speech. Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with free beer, it's just not Free Software or Open Source. :) Be aware though that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Lori Ayre
I am firmly committed to BOTH free speech and free beer. But if I had to choose, I'd go with the free speech (and drink wine). Thanks, Jason! On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Jason Etheridge ja...@esilibrary.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:04 AM, chintan chintan...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Sharp, Chris
Be aware though that Virtualbox has a free beer version and a free speech version. Unfortunately, I prefer the free as in beer version, which provides a lot of the extras you'll probably want for your project, Lori. Sometimes practicality forces us F/OSS end users to compromise a little bit

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Scott
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 07:58 -0700, Lori Ayre wrote: Rogan, Sounds like our systems are very similar. Glad you've done my proof of concept for me! I'd like to stick with VirtualBox if I can just cuz its open source. Yay for software freedom! Also, most of the recent Evergreen VM images

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Problem with Renewing items from Patron Accounts

2010-04-14 Thread Cynthia Williamson
thanks Jason and Joel we only allow title holds in the OPAC and as far as testing, we did re-create the problem with some of our test patrons and yes - it is likely that staff use and re-use the same items for testing and other issues could be at play. I just tried renewing all of the items

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Jason Etheridge
Unfortunately, I prefer the free as in beer version, which provides a lot of the extras you'll probably want for your project, Lori.  Sometimes practicality forces us F/OSS end users to compromise a little bit :-) I prefer companies that don't do that (dual-license) and I prefer copy-left

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] evergreen staff client on Windows CE 5.0?

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Tillman
Georgia PINES currently uses version 1.4.07. Will that version of the staff client run on a mobile scanner that uses Windows CE 5.0 without modification? We are looking at trying to acquire a Wasp WDT3250 for helping with inventory. Or should we investigate something else? Thank you! --

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Scott
On 14 April 2010 11:16, Sharp, Chris csh...@georgialibraries.org wrote: Be aware though that Virtualbox has a free beer version and a free speech version. Unfortunately, I prefer the free as in beer version, which provides a lot of the extras you'll probably want for your project, Lori.  

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] evergreen staff client on Windows CE 5.0?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Scott
On 14 April 2010 11:45, Andrew Tillman till...@leecountylibrary.org wrote: Georgia PINES currently uses version 1.4.07. Will that version of the staff client run on a mobile scanner that uses Windows CE 5.0 without modification? No idea, although my suspicion is unlikely. We are looking at

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** integration with Banner, DataTel or PeopleSoft

2010-04-14 Thread Cynthia Williamson
Hi Lori - Our college uses Banner but Evergreen is not talking directly to Banner. Our Systems Librarian, Robert Soulliere, just responded to a question from somone the other day, I've copied his note to her below. We do have access to Banner so that we can go in and bar students at a time

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Nuku Ameyibor
you could install an ssh client and connect to the virtual machine using the ip that you would give to it .vmware workstation has two options i think for connecting the virtual machine .host only and connect to phyiscal network .with host only you dont need to connect to a physical network .u can

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Bryan Baldus
I've begun attempting to use the VirtualBox images posted on the Evergreen Downloads page http://www.open-ils.org/downloads.php. If I remember correctly (it's been a few weeks), the image Evergreen 1.6.0.1, Debian 5.0 (Lenny) had some issues starting up (disk read error messages?--text scrolled

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Peterson
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote: Hmm, VirtualBox OSE (open source edition) as packaged in Ubuntu 9.10 has everything that I've needed for creating and testing Evergreen images. I think it's missing sound and USB drivers(?) but those seem pretty useless in this particular