Fwd: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs
Ooops. Sent privately to Ben. Apologies. I'm new at this... -- Forwarded message -- Subject: Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list! Happy Festivus. Mele Kalikimaka and Joyous Saturnalia to you as well. For books, I'd suggest reconsidering LibraryThing.com. It's free to start and try it out, and if you decide to use it, it's a suggest-your-own-rate annual ($15 typical) or lifetime ($25 typical) membership (the usual disclaimers: I'm a lifetime member, an author and have 250+ books cataloged, with many more to go). It's already got the lookup feature, works with scanned ISBNs, knows about authors and pseudonyms and multiple versions and cover art, let's you categorize yourself and/or work with the metadata of others. I'm not sure of the get-my-data-back-outa-there feature, and ought to look this up, as this is an important feature. Music CDs and DVDs, yeah, I've never gotten around to them. Will be interested in seeing other's suggestions. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Two things: anti-spam and per-process *network* I/O.
Hi, all. I've had two things that occasionally cause me grief, and since I finally got around to sending an e-mail, I figgered I'd roll 'em into one. So: I used to use MailScanner as my anti-spam solution, but it seems to be wandering into unsupported territory in Ubuntu land, and, for fear that this might be a trend, I wonder what other solutions other folks out there might be using. (Note: Gmail! isn't really the kind of answer I'm looking for.) Per-process I/O accounting. Every now and then, I see a system load spike through the roof -- but disk I/O is okay, likewise CPU. Which really pretty much leaves network. But I'm unaware of any tool that spits out per-process network utilization statistics. One *must* exist, right? Any pointers? Thanks much, and happy holidays to one and all! -Ken -- This mail was scanned by BitDefender For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/links/en/frams.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs
I looked into this once upon a time. http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/, http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/http://periapsis.org/tellico/ Someone mentioned http://www.gcstar.org/ http://www.tuxradar.com/content/best-linux-collection-managers-compared I thought I had more bookmarks. They must be in delicio.us somewhere. http://isbntools.com/ has useful info on the cuecat. I tried a cuecat but it wasn't that reliable for me. Nowadays there are iphone/android apps that use the camera to read barcodes. I suspect there are ones that can use a webcam too. And if you have/do ebooks, there's http://calibre-ebook.com/ which is more like itunes with multiple formats of the content. There is also curation software. For a museum to manage a collection (that might have digital pieces). On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list! Happy Festivus. ABSTRACT I have decided I need to catalog my purchased media (books, CDs, DVDs). I'm seeking solution(s) to this problem. I figure other people here have already solved this problem. SCENARIO I have personal collections of commercial books, CDs (music), and DVDs (movies). Their size has reached the point where I can no longer reliably remember what I have.[1] Plus, I'm a geek, so much like a hobbit, I like to have databases filled with things that I already know, set out fair and square with no contradictions. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Two things: anti-spam and per-process *network* I/O.
Ken D'Ambrosio writes: Per-process I/O accounting. Every now and then, I see a system load spike through the roof -- but disk I/O is okay, likewise CPU. Which really pretty much leaves network. But I'm unaware of any tool that spits out per-process network utilization statistics. One *must* exist, right? Any pointers? So, to confirm, when these incidents occur, the load average on the machine is low? I'd suggest using ntop and if things aren't clear from just this, using some combination of lsof -i ... or netstat -p. Regards, --kevin -- alumni.unh.edu!kdc / http://kdc-blog.blogspot.com/ GnuPG: D87F DAD6 0291 289C EB1E 781C 9BF8 A7D8 B280 F24E And the Army Ants, they leave nothin' but the bones... -- Tom Waits ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Two things: anti-spam and per-process *network* I/O.
On 12/26/2012 11:16 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Hi, all. I've had two things that occasionally cause me grief, and since I finally got around to sending an e-mail, I figgered I'd roll 'em into one. So: I used to use MailScanner as my anti-spam solution, but it seems to be wandering into unsupported territory in Ubuntu land, and, for fear that this might be a trend, I wonder what other solutions other folks out there might be using. (Note: Gmail! isn't really the kind of answer I'm looking for.) spamassassin is what I've been using for a while. -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs
On 12/26/2012 12:47 AM, Ben Scott wrote: Hello, list! Happy Festivus. ABSTRACT I have decided I need to catalog my purchased media (books, CDs, DVDs). I'm seeking solution(s) to this problem. I figure other people here have already solved this problem. OpenDB: http://opendb.iamvegan.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page From the site: The Open Media Collectors Database (OpenDb) is a PHP and MySQL based inventory application that allows you to easily catalog and lend out your stuff. Its primary purpose is to catalog media related items, such as DVD's, Books, CD's etc, but its so flexible you can use it to catalog pretty much anything. From me: I installed this a while ago and didn't use it as much as I should have. I had a CueCat at the time and am pretty sure I was able to bulk import books and DVDs. I think most of your other requirements (including location of items) can be met. -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
