Moving Forward with Backing Up
If you have sysadmin duties in a library like Mason’s (where our core technologies actually reside in the library and not the computer center), backing up is one big part… Read more »
If you have sysadmin duties in a library like Mason’s (where our core technologies actually reside in the library and not the computer center), backing up is one big part… Read more »
BookDrive Our ATIZ BookDrive DIY scanner arrived on campus today (hope to have it delivered to our building tomorrow some time). Despite other distractions, we should have it set up… Read more »
In February this year, Apple conferred EOL status on Xserve RAID and announced the replacement: Promise VTRAK RAID. Last month, I needed an additional RAID unit and decided to order… Read more »
It has been nearly a month since the last post appeared. To some degree that’s a function of the 100+ hours it seems I’ve spent on personnel issues (a Copyright… Read more »
I’ve been using the EeePC for two weeks now and it seems a good time to register a few impressions and document the four or five tweaks I’ve made to… Read more »
A month or so ago I wrote a note about switching to a smaller (even if less powerful) laptop. I now realize that was just one point on a trendline…. Read more »
Yesterday Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to require faculty to make copies of their research freely available through the Office of Scholarly Communications. You can read the proposal… Read more »
House passes HR 4137 with the P2P section intact. See Ars Technica for more detail.
Work on our first research portal (Bioinformatics) is just about complete. To refresh, we’re combining two open-source products (WordPress and CWIS) to build what we hope will prove to be… Read more »
Stumbled across a really interesting project earlier today: The Commons. What a great idea. By putting their public photograph collections up on Flickr and then soliciting tagging by the universe… Read more »