1. Enthusiaism
2. Dissillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the weak
6. Praise and Honors for the non-participants
This list is commonly found on the net but it’s worth putting here for future reference…
20. “That’s weird…”
19. “It’s never done that before.”
18. “It worked yesterday.”
17. “How is that possible?”
16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
14. “There is something funky in your data.”
13. “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
12. “You must have the wrong version.”
11. “It’s just some unlucky coincidence.”
10. “I can’t test everything!”
9. “THIS can’t be the source of THAT.”
8. “It works, but it hasn’t been tested.”
7. “Somebody must have changed my code.”
6. “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
5. “Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?”
4. “You can’t use that version on your system.”
3. “Why do you want to do it that way?”
2. “Where were you when the program blew up?”
1. “I thought I fixed that.”
Kevin Simons, our EndNote guru, just told me about this site which is pretty interesting. Connotea.org (run by Nature Publishing and focusing on science) is somewhat similar.
If you file this sort of information under buzzwords, use “social bookmarking”
citeulike.org
From the CiteULike website:
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software.
Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share your library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.
The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
— attributed to William Gibson (author of Neuromancer)
Yes, Apple may have patched things up with Intel but the other half of WinTel is still in their sights (see image below)…
Had to run around a bit today to meet several luminaries: Randall Schwartz (of Learning Perl fame) and Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP). Was not able to get to the full session by Guido Van Rossum (creator of Python) but did get to the room right at the end.
We clone the boot drive on our OS X servers for quick return from hardware or system failure. Spotlight indexing sees the clone once the process is done & indexes it…making 2 entries for everything. Here’s how to turn it off & remove the index entries. This works better than merely setting the “privacy” flag on the volume you don’t want indexed.
1. Let indexing begin on the volume.
2. Launch Terminal, which is in the Computer > Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
3. At the prompt, type the following command, exactly as written:
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/volume_name
4. where volume_name is the name of the volume being indexed. [1]
5. Press Return.
6. If prompted for a Password, type your Admin password, then press Return. You will receive the response:
/Volumes/volume_name/: Indexing disabled for volume.
7. Spotlight will immediately cease to index the specified volume.
8. At the Terminal prompt, type the following command, exactly as written:
1. sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/volume_name
9. where volume_name is the name of the volume being indexed. [1]
10. Press Return.
11. If prompted for a Password, type your Admin password, then press Return. You will receive the response:
Volumes/volume_name/: Volume index removed.
12. At the Terminal prompt, type exit then press Return.
13. Quit (Command-Q) Terminal.
from The X-Lab
We’ve moved the iNODE blog from phobos (and Apple’s blog server software) to WordPress…over here on timesync. The reason? To set up a server that others in the library can use and to free up phobos for full-time DSpace configuration/modification testing.
We’ll seed this new version with a couple of postings from the previous iNODE instance…but not too many.
