Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

2016-04-01 Thread Andrew Anderson
l databases with dozens of high quality hits, letting the user draw their own conclusion that they would rather look through a few dozen relevant items than all the chaff from the search engine results. Don’t tell them they’re doing it wrong, let them see that there’s a better way and let them cho

Re: [CODE4LIB] Internet of Things

2016-03-31 Thread Andrew Anderson
there is no reason to feel like you’ve missed the boat, when the ship hasn’t even reached the dock yet. -- Andrew Anderson, President & CEO, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Mar 30, 2016, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] [patronprivacy] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

2016-01-16 Thread Andrew Anderson
e . . . aren’t?” Me: “That’s right, by adding ‘DJ ’ to your stanza, you have successfully negated the performance benefits of using a CDN service.” -- Andrew Anderson, President & CEO, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

2016-01-14 Thread Andrew Anderson
Eric, Check out Startcom’s StartSSL service (https://www.startssl.com), for $120 you have the ability to generate 3-year wildcard certificates with their Organizational Validation level of service. Andrew -- Andrew Anderson, President & CEO, Library and Information Resources Network,

Re: [CODE4LIB] FOSS recommendations for online-only library

2015-08-23 Thread Andrew Anderson
a broader set of authentication options than Squid does. -- Andrew Anderson, President CEO, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Aug 23, 2015, at 0:45, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

2015-08-17 Thread Andrew Anderson
be a better investment in time to switch them all to SSL instead? This dovetails nicely with some of the discussions I have had recently with electronic services librarians about how to protect patron privacy in an online world by using SSL as an arrow in that quiver. Andrew -- Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] quick question: CloudFlare

2015-06-19 Thread Andrew Anderson
We have had good experience with it so far, yes. Do you have a specific use case that you’re concerned about? -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] quick question: CloudFlare

2015-06-19 Thread Andrew Anderson
entries. This configuration will send all DNS queries for the test host to CloudFlare’s servers and through their acceleration infrastructure. Hope this helps, Andrew -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's implement the referrer meta tag

2015-06-12 Thread Andrew Anderson
-- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Jun 12, 2015, at 0:24, Conal Tuohy conal.tu...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming your library web server has

Re: [CODE4LIB] making EZproxy http/https transparent

2015-03-03 Thread Andrew Anderson
https://pluto.potsdam.edu/ezproxywiki/index.php/SSL#Wildcard_certificate (You can safely ignore the SSL warning, pluto uses self-signed certificates) -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] [RESOLVED] Re: HTTPS EZproxy question / RFC 6125

2014-12-24 Thread Andrew Anderson
approach to this problem, and it seems to have fewer caveats than the other two approaches. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Dec 18, 2014, at 17

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Anderson
defined reserved character, and I think that the project would be doing itself a favor by exploring the alternatives to find an approach that does not have the potential to slow adoption due to technical and political reasons. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow

2014-11-04 Thread Andrew Anderson
service representatives to keep the issue active over the past 2 years. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?

2014-10-27 Thread Andrew Anderson
There is something of a natural symbiosis between *NIX and libraries. If you have not already found it, read Unix as Literature for some background on why those who like the written word are drawn to *NIX naturally. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information

Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Anderson
, and styling that container as needed, without the iframe hackery. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew Anderson
On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:54, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: We’re generally in need of a spec, not a standard, I’ve found (although they’re definitely not mutually exclusive!). The wonderful thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew Anderson, Director

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library app basics

2014-10-07 Thread Andrew Anderson
of an unknown, using familiar tools, doesn’t require testing hardware, and doesn’t have an onerous vendor approval step to deal with. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is the real impact of SHA-256? - Updated

2014-10-06 Thread Andrew Anderson
My concern would be more that given proven weaknesses in MD5, do I want to risk that 1 in a billion chance that the “right” bit error creeps into an archive that manages to not impact the checksum, thus creating the illusion that the archive integrity has not been violated? -- Andrew Anderson

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-18 Thread Andrew Anderson
There are ways around this, e.g. http://api.jquerymobile.com/taphold/ -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Sep 17, 2014, at 21:17, Jonathan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records

2014-08-28 Thread Andrew Anderson
I’ve had a lot of success with pymarc for this. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Aug 28, 2014, at 14:37, Schwartz, Raymond schwart

Re: [CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-18 Thread Andrew Anderson
information about the user, before it becomes aggregated into the general proxy stream. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-18 Thread Andrew Anderson
caused issues previously. Most vendor platforms are Java based, and once Jetty starts supporting these features, the performance chasm between dumbed-down proxy connections and direct connections is going to become even more significant than it is today. -- Andrew Anderson, Director

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-05 Thread Andrew Anderson
go further, but at the end of that day you’re still talking about taking a 14 year old operating system that is no longer supported and connecting it to the internet. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-05 Thread Andrew Anderson
On Mar 5, 2014, at 15:37, Marc Truitt mtru...@mta.ca wrote: Perhaps that's why several contributors to this thread have suggested that M$' EOL declaration aside, why give it up? XP, I'll miss ya... XP: The new DOS 3.3? -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proquest search api?

2014-02-17 Thread Andrew Anderson
for this. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Feb 17, 2014, at 10:28, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I still haven't managed to get info

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-02-03 Thread Andrew Anderson
with a viable alternative to EZproxy using open source tools causes a security, features, and functionality arms race, then everyone wins. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-31 Thread Andrew Anderson
Apache modules, while nginx does not support them. Since it was developed with a different set of priorities, supporting things like Athens/CAS/SAML were not the main focus of nginx historically. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Anderson
regarding EZproxy vs something else, that something else may very well be Apache HTTPd with vendor-specific configuration files. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com