Prepared September activity report

Met with Timothy Fox to discuss his Movable Type blog, an enhanced Podcast file, and publixhing podcats to iTunes.

Timothy.Plante@uvm.edu called me about a goofy "petition" script he was trying to install at http://www.uvm.edu/mac/ to support on on-line petition drive. He downloaded Download Jax Petitionbook from Jax Petitionbook (GPL)* , which is a badly hacked version of Jax Guestbook (GPL)* version [...]

Keeps dying with a "Too many open files" message
Seems related to high number of simultaneous page views, perhaps from a robot?
Experimenting with robots.txt, enabled access_log, need to watch logs and patterns
dspace-tech list has been no help.

Cristina wants her advanced italian class to subtitle a video.
Her sample video, however,  was ripped from DVD using VLC player and compressed with DivX codec, which isn’t installed in LRC lab. So there has been some back-and-forth between her and Vincent and I as to what to do.
I’m also looking at MagPie as a subtitle [...]

Lou Izzo wante dto know about stremaing vide, both live and archived.
I went over to the CTL, set up one DV camera with RealProducer, and other with QuickTime broadcaster. Put the cameras next to each other to get roughly the same picture, looked at results side by side on my Mac. Setting up the PC/RealProducer [...]

Tina Escaja <tina.escaja@uvm.edu> wrote
 I am currently working on bringing three Spanish visual artists from London and Spain next Spring to the L/L Gallery. I am going to collaborate to the project by placing around the wall of the Gallery a bar-code-poem that the visitor can scan and then listen from a close-by computer. I found [...]

Tom Brennan passed along a number of Art Lab Issues

PhotoShop, File Menu, Browse: supposed to open a file browser (now implimented as a separate application called Adobe Bridge). Adobe Photoshop returns the error, "Error 2: photoshop is undefined. Line 1 -> photoshop.invokeBridge (false, false, ");" when you attempt to start Adobe Bridge by choosing File [...]

I’m preparing to write a script to extract data from the LCP data base for ingestion into Dspace.
While looking at the raw contents of the database using CocoaSQL, I noticed a bunch of records from the last few days, all with the same LS#: namely, LS00001
This is bad.
Go to Advanced search, search for LS0001, see [...]

Jane Petrillo was having issues printing to the Art lab 7700 printer. It worked fine for us when we me, of course — once we put paper in. I suggested the problem probably was a "Stopped Printer" condition on the print server. I showed her how to start a stopped printer. We also discussed using [...]

Finally got around to creating a database and aquisition script for Diamond Island weather data:

created empact database table diamond based on table colchester
created diamond.pl  script and associated crontab entry on chipmunk to get data from  Furbush site
created simple public_access script patterned after colchester script
created simple test text output script patterned after colchester script

The last bits of the puzzle.

Wanted to force users ths SSL port for login, but not necessarily for anything else
Wanted LDAP authenticated users forced into the UVM group, so that collections private to UVM could be accessed by NetID and password

Solution to both was found in SimpleAuthenticator.java and MITAuthenticator.java Combined both into UVMAutheticator.java, using MIT [...]

Option 1, which should work, near as I can tell from several hours googling, is to build a "Trusted Keystore" — put a copy of the LDAP servers cert into a different keystore:
    keytool -import -file my_ldap_cert.cer -alias my_ldap_cert -keystore trusted.keystore
Now add that to your Tomcat (version 5.0.27 or better) container. For example,
    <Connector [...]

Create/alter aliases dspace-last and dspace-current to reflect new /usr/local/src directory structure
compare /usr/local/src/dspace-last/conf/dspace.cfg to /usr/local/src/dspace-last/conf/dspace.cfg, merge
copy extra jar files from dspace-last/lib to dspace-current-lib:

cd /usr/local/src/dspace-current
cp ../dspace-last/lib/jai_* lib
cp ../dspace-last/lib/mlibwrapper_jai.jar lib
cp ../dspace-last/lib/postgresql.jar lib

Remove the old version of xerces.jar from your installation, so it is not inadvertently later used:
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Got hold of a geotrust signed certificate for badger. That was easy (and $110 of UVM money).
Hard part was getting it installed, since I built the key and the certificate signing request (CSR) with openssl rather than keytool, and it was all being installed in tomcat.
The Tomcat SSL How-To proved to be the definitive source, [...]