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The DMCA Turns 10 in the U.S.

Posted in Intellectual Property, tagged , on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

To mark the tenth anniversary of the DMCA being signed into law in the U. S., the EFF has released an updated version of their excellent document, Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA.
As it stands, we Canadians may be getting our own version of the DMCA very soon, with An Act to amend the [...]

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Ubuntu 8.10 Release Candidate

Posted in Linux, tagged , , on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

With Ubuntu 8.10 less than a week away, a release candidate is now available for widespread testing. There are two things that I’m eager to try in this release:

ecryptfs, now part of the main distribution, lets users have a private encrypted folder in their home directories. I’m currently encrypting an entire partition on my laptop, [...]

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Evergreen 1.4RC1

Posted in Evergreen, tagged , on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I finally got around to blowing away my 1.2.3.1 Evergreen test installation and instead tracking the SVN trunk build (including OpenSRF trunk). With all that excitement, I missed the announcement that Evergreen 1.4 release candidate 1 is now available. You can download the source tarball here and installation instructions for Ubuntu 8.04 are here.
OpenSRF version [...]

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While I was sleeping…

Posted in Conferences, Evergreen, VuFind, tagged , , on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been out of commission with a terrible head cold for the past week, so I missed quite a lot of interesting news!
First, in late May 2009, the first ever Evergreen Conference will take place in Athens, Georgia. I’m finishing up my MLIS one month prior to that date, so it’s unlikely that I’ll be [...]

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OpenOffice 3.0 released…but what now?

Posted in Applications, tagged , , on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

With Canadian Thanksgiving falling yesterday (Monday) and huge head cold hitting me today, I didn’t notice that OpenOffice 3.0 had finally landed. Not only does it have better support for VBA macros, but it supports Microsoft’s OOXML file format (.docx, etc). Microsoft, in turn, will be providing support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) by February [...]

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Access 2008

Posted in Conferences, tagged , on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have been back from Access 2008 for a few days and have now fully recovered. It was a little intimidating, very exciting, a little exhausting…and lots of fun! I met a lot of great people and absorbed a lot of interesting information.
More than anything, Access was energizing. It’s great to hear what others are [...]

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If I were Innovative, I would be worried…

Posted in Applications, tagged , , on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As I pass among the delegates at Access 2008, I seem to feel a special hatred of Innovative Interfaces Inc emanating from all systems librarians forced to use their products. Not only do I hear a lot of complaining about problems librarians continue to experience with their software, not to mention their extortionary pricing model, [...]

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