New York Times Cybertimes Navigator
Just a note to point out a really good site, the New York Times Cybertimes Navigator. From their “about this page” section: For more than 10 years, the Newsroom Navigator… Read more »
Author Archives: Wally
DSpace 1.3 arrives
DSpace 1.3 has been released. Dorothea has installed it on our test/staging server and modifications are being made there. We’ll probably not rush to move it to our production server… Read more »
Power failure
Down today (Tuesday) from about noon till 2:30pm thanks to a power failure across campus. Gave us the opportunity (?) to fully discharge our UPS units.
Server drive crash
What a fun Saturday. Was running a backup from home on the library’s primary webserver/MySQL machine…when I began getting things like this in my output: Jul 30 11:16:57 infosparc Error… Read more »
MARS Wiki up & running
Installed a copy of MediaWiki today (the engine that powers Wikipedia) and with Dorothea’s help, got a MARS wiki up and running. Right now we’re using it to document various… Read more »
Activate ARD via SSH
Working on a server today via Remote Desktop, I accidentally turned ARD services off…which left me unable to get back in to turn them back on. Found this command that… Read more »
Diversions
Doing an install of Solaris 9 on a new server this morning and there’s a bit of downtime while CDs load …. Turns out corgis are quite popular in Japan… Read more »
WordPress to the rescue
Spent about 30 minutes trying to identify a replacement for Apple’s blog server…needed to move the blog off the XServe (to free up a development/test environment). Not knowing much about… Read more »
Mac annoyances….
Only takes 4 clicks or so…
Welcome Dorothea
Just a short update to let you know that Dorothea Salo has now joined our MARS project. Dorothea’s email address is dsalo *at* gmu.edu. She’s temporarily based in the Systems… Read more »