an you either disable access to it, or better still
make it read only?
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Not feeling up to Twitter today; think I'll just Halfwit-R.
-- Paul Feehan, Key Biscay
t for Koha and finally left
the burning heap in favour of the deb packaged solutions.
Looking forward to the end of perl packaging headaches.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are
Staff client. Instead, we install to virtual hosts, one for
OPAC and one for Staff. AFAIK, this only means a change to two
files: ports.conf and default-Koha.conf (i.e. the apache config
for Koha).
Thanks again for the good work.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Pra
marcxml field in the bibioitems table.
Should I make the same changes to the marcxml data that I make in the
table trio?
If so, why?
tia
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without
possessing
e data. Thanks for the
heads up :)
Bob: see Tools > Stage MARC Records For Import
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without
possessing merit.
an import that takes a long time.
Any advice and observations from the developers is most welcome.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without
possessing merit.
-- PJ O'R
ers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without
possessing merit.
-- PJ O'Rourke
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
script which could be run from the cli.
I agree with you Chris.
Attached is such a script, to run from the command line.
Anyone care to test it out? Works fine on my Koha systems.
cheers
rick
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Politics is the business of
some details on how email works in Koha "from the horses'
mouth".
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without
possessing merit.
-- PJ O'Rourke
___
see the user tags and the subject cloud as separate displays,
both accessible on the search page in the OPAC>
Thanks for the advice.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Hofstadter's Law. "It always takes longer than you expect, ev
Chris Cormack wrote:
> 2010/1/26 Rick Welykochy:
>>
>> Anyone have experience with the tag cloud feature in Koha?
>>
>> We have a Koha 3.00.02 and another 3.00.04 install. When I run the
>> build_browser_and_cloud.pl script, the tags table in the database
>&g
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Hofstadter's Law. "It always takes longer than you expect, even when
you take into account Hofstadter's law."
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
h
has some information:
http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/NEWS
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state
machines.
-- Alan Cox
__
onnection failed, given that your telnet was successful.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state
machines.
-- Alan Cox
?
tia,
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state
machines.
-- Alan Cox
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
.
Then don't use a robots.txt restriction.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state
machines.
-- Alan Cox
.html)"
cheer
rick
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state
machines.
-- Alan Cox
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
uman user to
proceed. URLs can be shared. But a bot that fills in the hidden "URL"
field with something will be given the turf toute suite.
cheers
rick
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A computer is a state machine. Threads are for
indexing if you wish.
-
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
-
I plan to submit a bug report regarding this situation, but first open it up
for discussion here.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
If you have a
g used an ORM before, I think it is important to monitor the performance
of the auto generated SQL, keep some metrics and optimise once the concepts
are functioning.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Prohibition was better better than no liquor at al
Rick Welykochy wrote:
> We now have a index with onloan items and an index with lost item (one).
>
> The search still returns no results for (and get this ...) items
> available. It should return results for all the books from the original query
> less the one or two on loan. B
you what went wrong and you can then address the
issue. Without that knowledge you are flying blind.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A lie can travel halfway around the world
while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- M
ROR 114.
How can ERROR 114 refer to both "OID not found" and "index not found" ?
Still trying! Any insights most welcome.
thanks guys,
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A lie can travel halfway around the world
while the truth i
@attr 2=3 0
Now, I do not know where to look for attrs 8024 and 8002 to see what
they refer to in record.abs.
It's got me stumped.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A lie can travel halfway around the world
while
LAURENT Henri-Damien wrote:
> If you donot have any lost or onloan item,
> then the /zebra /index wil not be created, thus the ERROR 114.
> Sorry for your tribulations.
But we do have items on loan.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Servic
es from record.abs:
melm 952$q onloan:n,onloan:w
melm 952$x lost,lost:n
I am told by those in the know that the ERROR 114 refers to an unknown /
unmapped
MARC field.
We are positive the above two fields are in the MARC.
Any ideas why this query is returning an ERROR 114?
TIA
rickw
--
thanks in advance
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer: Your left or my left?
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
Rick Welykochy wrote:
> It appears I was worried about nothing. I began the upgrade from
> a Koha/2.2.9 database to Koha/3.00.02.012 and voila! UTF-8.
>
> But other probs have arisen.
>
> e.g. here is a cleaned up list of poignant error msgs
My badness! I was using the wro
Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Chris Cormack wrote:
>>
>> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30
>
> Thanks Chris. Will give it a try.
>
> One concern I have is the 2.2.9 database uses charset Latin1.
> But the Koha3 database will be UTF-8.
>
> One punter on th
ng for cover)
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
"A Ministry of Defence guide to preventing information leaking into
the public domain has leaked into the public domain."
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-dev
One punter on this list recommended the following to change over
to UTF-8.
1. set charset (?) to BINARY
2. then set it to URF-8
dunno how that will affect a proper changeover to URF-8.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
"A Minis
-install-log /path/to/koha-install-log
make
make test
sudo make upgrade
Searching the wiki.koha.org doesn't turn up any more info about the
upgrade process.
Could someone pls point me at some more info about this?
Thanks,
Rick W
--
_
Rick Wely
uation can arise in the first place :)
cheers
rick
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Be nice to us or we'll impose democracy on you.
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
ne of the buttons
labeled "Set Status", "Withdraw" or "Update"
HTHH
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
You should be open minded, but not so open minded that your br
nd be aware that
most of what you enter during the install is stored in the Koha
config file.
>>> i don't remember Koha asking me
>>> for a password or user name. What should i do?
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Some
mmends FireFox or better?"
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
-- Lee Iacocca
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koh
Nahuel ANGELINETTI wrote:
> Le Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:36:54 +1100,
> Rick Welykochy a écrit :
>
>> Congrats on the latest stable release of Koha. It gets better
>> all the time.
>>
>> I noticed that the version number on the beta version was
>> 3.00.01.
--
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
I think there is a world market for about five computers.
-- Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home.-- Ken Olsen, DEC, 1977
or optimisation).
Of course, a cache is pretty useless unless perl itself is cached using
mod_perl or similar.
Food for thought for Koha's future ORM.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Reference: <http://gpl-violations.org/>
IANAL, but it would appear that issues relating to logo and name hijacking
are more complex to deal with, since we are getting into the area of trademarks.
Has the Koha project registered a trademark?
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick
ems, or rebuilt on new platforms. This supports reproducible
module installs over time, as CPAN modules may change or be
removed without warning."
i.e. CPAN is a network of perl modules, subject to change at any time.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Wely
Anyone have a script or SQL file(s) to populate a Koha 3 database
with data for testing and development?
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer: Your
that trims the source tree removing cruft such as 1500 other
language files that are not applicatable to the installation.
The completed Koha installation could prolly be trimmmed to under 20 MB imho.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tec
broken by
anything I did to the software.
This concerns me and I would like to ensure we do as much as possible
in the Koha software to ensure we get it right.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
It isn't pollution that's harm
rect utf-8 support?
If not, why not?
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
-- Al Gore, Vice President
___
Koha-devel mailing list
ent is executed at run time.The
ParserPackage variable is seen during the load of the module
MARC::File::XML. Behavior modified as expected.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Finster's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.
___
Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> I you disagree then please provide an example of a source code file,
>> language processor or other instance where trailing white space actaully
>> can cause trouble. I'm at a loss to find such.
>
> The problem i
Andrew Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I propose we disable it.
>
> I think:
>
> "git-config core.whitespace=nowarn"
>
> will do that for you.
>
> if not, something really similar will
loss to find such.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Finster's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
ckw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because
a baby can't chew it.
-- Attributed to Mark Twain
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/
e
done by checking error codes and responding accordingly, or are exceptions
to be used?
BTW: We should trap *any* error.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because
a baby can't chew
Andrew Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am *VERY* concerned about people performance. To wit:
>
> Hi Rick - I'm thankful for your rant. Not only do I agree that we're
>
corrupted) results when using a web server set up in
this configuration.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
You go find out what they need and I'll start coding.
-- two geeks
___
Koha-d
rds that goal.
I am not here to whine and complain. I have much better things to do
with my time.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
You go find out what they need and I'll start coding.
-- two geeks
_
s. And especially only if it becomes easier
to understand the Koha code base and more efficient to manage and change it.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done,
To write three lines of APL
s.
All web request to all Koha instances go to port 80, and then
Apache sorts them out and dispatches by hostname.
Fairly common and straightforward web farming technique, wouldn't you
say ;)
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the drea
e same namespace and serverspace?
There must be some gotchas in doing this naively.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done,
To write three lines of APL and make the damn thi
perl modules (for
example) all chaos breaks out.
The solution: one instance of apache for each instance of Koha
that you require.
We are running about ten Kohas on one machine. Each uses its own
instance of Apache. Nice and clean and most importantly: safe.
cheer
rickw
--
___
When a script or module is modified the web server has to be
restarted.
There may be advantages to using other schemes to speed up web services.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is d
re going to proceed to using ORM, I would not want to see
the plural used on the data model classes, i.e. an instance of
C4::Borrowers implies it is a class that has *many* borrowers in
an instance. This is inaccurate. A C4::Borrower object represents a single
borrower.
cheers
rickw
--
___
up by an order (and a half)
of magnitude, giving the software more leeway to use abstractions
like an OR mapper.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done,
To write three lines of APL and make
Galen Charlton wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can someone with the knowledge point me in the right direction to getting
>> bulkmarcimport.pl working in Koha/3?
>
> Well, bulkmarcimport.pl is not terminally broken
the CSS to work.
Try it! Do a catalogue search in the staff area and bring up
the Error Console window. You'll see what I am talking about.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done,
To
will become part of the core in 5.10 under a new (as yet
undetermined) name and CPAN.pm will be deprecated. "
I raise this in light of addressing the issue of problems many seem to
be having installing the perl module requirements for Koha.
cheers
rickw
--
STOP = 4 (or whatever
is agreed upon) and get a consistent presentation.
But presentation != metadata.
> FYI: heres the link http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
There is only one caveat with tidy programs. One little bug can cause
loss or change the semantics of what is being tidied. Silently.
cheers
rick
ill show which ones.
So, I need to know which scripts in Koha *must* have No Login Allowed.
cheers
rickw
--
_____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done,
To write three lines of APL and make
> use C4::Table;
> my $table = C4::Table->new("borrowers");
> my $set = $table->select({surname=>"Smith",
> sort=>"branchcode,firstname"});
So what's it going to be for K3?
C4::Table or DBIx::Class?
-rickw
--
__
27;ve
seen no tools to assist in comprehending their structure.
IMHO, indentation in hand-coded HTML is just as important as that in
perl and other languages.
cheers
rickw
--
_
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is
a
Good Thing (tm) and are required to avoid orphaned child records
amongst many other things.
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
When the power of love overcomes the love of pow
ent is "please
explain!"
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
When the power of love overcomes the love of power,
the world will know peace.
-- Jimi Hendrix
__
an installed instance of K3, but would like to
avoid changing this flag where it should be left alone.
Can anyone come up with a list of the perl scripts in the two
cgi-bin directories where this flag MUST remain set to one?
thanks
rickw
--
______
source code is difficult to read
and suffers from a variety of inconsistent indentation styles.
Comments from developers most welcome.
cheers
rickw
--
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
When the power
nd design section that clearly lays out how we are going to
use DBIx::Class (since there will be more than one way to do it) and perhaps
document our "thin abstraction" layer if that is agreed to be the way to go.
Oh .. where are these RFCs and how may I contribute?
cheers
rickw
--
brief
research on the web indicates that the answer to this last question is:
"No, not really."
Any insight most appreciated.
TIA
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
When the power
mmit;
# insert
C4::Data::ItemType->insert({itemtype->'N1',description=>'new item type' ...
etc});
# delete
C4::Data::ItemType->delete('N1');
BTW: what is the C4 namesapce? why is it called C4?
cheers
rickw
--
___
Galen Charlton wrote:
Hi Rick,
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can someone with the knowledge point me in the right direction to getting
bulkmarcimport.pl working in Koha/3?
Well, bulkmarcimport.pl is not terminally broken in Koha 3.0, as we
frameworks.
I have compared the source code for the bulkmarcimport.pl script between
2.2.9 and 3.0 and it seems to be a completed rewrite.
Can someone with the knowledge point me in the right direction to getting
bulkmarcimport.pl working in Koha/3?
thanks in advance
rick
ved in creating
data objects for each database fetch.
cheers
rick
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
When the power of love overcomes the love of power,
the world will k
Emrys Minnig wrote:
> Something that might be of interest to the development team...
> I think there's a small oversight in C4/Amazon.pm. On line 101 it reads:
>
> my $uri =
> "http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/$isbn/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7879865-0184864#reader-link";;
>
> This line ignores the loca
dir_or_file++;
> }
> unless (-d "$authorityserverdir/key") {
> mkdir "$authorityserverdir/key";
> print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/key\n";
> $created_dir_or_file++;
> ...
VB damage?
cheers
rickw
--
_
Paul POULAIN wrote:
> Rick Welykochy a écrit :
>> I am putting it down to differences between the Koha/2.2.9 tables and
>> the Koha/3.0 tables. The only differences I can see are the charset
>> used, i.e. Latin-1 vs utf8.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 2nd difference :
and
the Koha/3.0 tables. The only differences I can see are the charset
used, i.e. Latin-1 vs utf8.
Any ideas?
cheers
rickw
--
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Do you realise that in forty years
quot;
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Do you realise that in forty years we'll have thousands of old ladies
running around with tattoos and rap music will be the golden
Jesse Weaver wrote:
> OK then. How about YAML?
Who is going to write this stuff? Application programmers, DBAs,
sys admins or librarians?
Each different skillset has a different kind of solution.
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welyko
a correct XML application is not for kids.
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-- Dorothy Parker
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-- Dorothy Parker
___
Koha-devel mailing lis
the best approach.
cheers
rickw
--
________
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
The problem with adults is that they are contaminated by experience.
-- Kumi Naidoo, General Secretary and CEO of CIVICUS
__
rl and reinstall from scratch, but life
is too short!)
Hey, now that's an idea! pyKoha! Any takers?
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
The problem with adults is that they are co
httpd.conf
file. Kudos on the Apache side of things :)
All in all, a very good show. No hair pulling and minor issues easily resolved.
thanks again,
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
The m
ompletion sans error.
I am now proceeding to "make install".
cheers
rickw
--
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
The manual said Windows XP/SP2 or better so I installed Linux.
__
of the box"
debian based install of Koha 3.0 which had to be fixed along the way, e.g.
seven missing perl modules and libgd not found.
I'll report on the entire process from unpacking to a running Koha/3.00.00
once I get to the end.
cheers
rickw
--
______
ve opened bug 2505 for this.
I hope 'use strict' is in there as well.
Or in another bug report.
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
What have the breathtaking advances in
Admittedly a rare thing indeed. "big modules" have more
need of "use warnings" IMHO.
I'll take on the challenge. Show me a some Perl that requires warnings to
be turned off and I'll show you how to fix it :)
cheers
rickw
--
__
rol the printing of debug information?
Or even debug(string,debuglevel) ?
cheer
rickw
--
________
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
When the power of love overcomes the love of power,
th
ot;use strict" in every module and script
- "use warnings" in every module and script
- during testing: monitor error log(s); there must be ZERO entries written by
the app to the log
and no debug information when going into production
cheers
rickw
--
_
that would be a dream: wipe a hard drive and
install the entire system.
I'm lovin' it :)
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Blessed are the cracked for they l
version will be "out of scope" for this project.
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light.
-- Spike Milligan
___
Koha-devel mailing list
Koha-devel@lists.koha.org
http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
tibilities
going forward.
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light.
-- Spike Milligan
___
Koha-devel mail
backwards compat issues at that low level, I
certainly want to know about it.
For example, what are the differences introduced at Perl 10.0
in the CORE that you refer to? Would they affect an existing
Koha/2.2.9 or Koha3.0 install?
cheers
rick
--
____
solution is to use a different location for the set of Perl
modules used by Koha. This avoids any entanglements with existing
Perl installations on the box. It is a very clean soln :)
cheers
rickw
--
____
Rick Welykochy || Praxis
1 - 100 of 104 matches
Mail list logo
