dltj

Bring the mightiness of Vim to Firefox! If you're ready for a fully keyboard-driven browser, the Vimperator add-on for Firefox can help you do away with mouse-based drudgery and add the awesomeness of vi-like keybindings to Firefox 3.5 and later.

This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.

All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.

Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6100 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 950 servers, and version specific problems on over 260 servers. It also checks for server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and will attempt to identify installed web servers and software. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated.

Nikto is not designed as an overly stealthy tool. It will test a web server in the quickest time possible, and is fairly obvious in log files. However, there is support for LibWhisker's anti-IDS methods in case you want to give it a try (or test your IDS system).

According to DistroWatch, sixty-six distributions have been created from Slackware. Red Hat Linux has spawned around forty directly (with another eighty or so coming from Fedora), while grand daddy Debian makes it two hundred and fifty! At the end of the day, the majority of Linux distributions which exist today are at some point a derivative of one of these three.

These three distributions really couldn’t get much more different. Of course the core is the same in each; a Linux kernel, GNU user-land as well as various desktops and applications. Aside from the required similarities, how do these distributions differ? As you’ll see, each one encompasses a unique perspective, which shows just how important diversity is!

VIVO (not an acronym) brings together in one site publicly available information on the people, departments, graduate fields, facilities, and other resources that collectively make up the research and scholarship environment in all disciplines at Cornell.

Search VIVO for information about faculty, departments and research units, undergraduate majors, graduate fields, courses, research services and facilities --- anything related to academic and research pursuits at Cornell.

The VIVO project was initiated and resides in the Cornell University Library, with support from the Office of the Provost. Technology development and disciplinary content entry are directed by appropriate subject experts in the Library, who are also part of the VIVO project team.

Ms. Scheid, of RapidShare, said that installing filters that would check work for copyright violations before it is posted would violate strict German privacy laws. "So basically, this boils down to a discussion about how society wants to balance the need for protection of copyright versus the protection of data privacy," she said. "As long as this conflict has not been resolved in Germany, there will be more trials regarding this matter."

Students with disabilities are at significantly high risk of not completing their degrees. Campus staff can smooth the road for them by using universal design principles and fostering a climate of inclusiveness.

I Googled around a bit and found “Quality reduced file size in Mac OS X Preview from early 2006. There I discovered that anyone can create their own Quartz filters, which was the key I needed. Thus armed with knowledge, I set about creating a filter that struck, in my estimation, a reasonable balance between image quality and file size reduction. And I think I’ve found it. That 175MB PDF gets taken down to 34MB with what I created.

With all the TDD (test-driven design) and BDD (behavior-driven design) going around these days, it'd be a shame not to use these tools on monitoring applications.

You might have a boatload of tests that test your application before you roll a new version, but do you use those tests while the application is in production? Can you? Yes!

Let's take an important example of monitoring some complex interaction, like searching google and checking the results. Simple with a mouse, but perhaps complex in code. Even if you wrote a script to do it, using an existing testing framework gets you pass/fail testing automatically.

For this example, I'll use the following ruby tools: rspec and webrat. This fairly easy, though it took me a bit to find all the right documentation bits to clue me in to the right way.

# EAD and MARC sitting in a tree: D-R-U-P-A-L Mark Matienzo Yale University Library (ex-New York Public Library)
# background: migration/redeployment
# launched new site January 6: www.nypl.org
# components: Drupal, XSLT, Solr, Shrew
# browse/search/view: http://www.nypl.org/find-archival-materials
# drupal-shrew: liberating yr data from III http://github.com/anarchivist/drupal-shrew
# III into Drupal...
# ...to the rest of the world

HIVE is an automatic metadata generation approach that dynamically integrates discipline-specific controlled vocabularies encoded with the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS), a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. HIVE will assist content creators and information professionals with subject cataloging and will provide a solution to the traditional controlled vocabulary problems of cost, interoperability, and usability.

MarcXimiL is a free, flexible, fully standards-compliant and efficient bibliographic similarity analysis framework.

Similarity analyses may be set up at all levels of the process, run in batch or through the API. Options include:

* the order of comparisons between and within collections
* for each field, the selection of a parsing function
* for each field, the selection of a comparison function amongst a wide selection: vectorial (Dice, Jaccard, Salton's cosine), probabilistic (OKAPI BM25), Levenshtein based, Shingling, Authors, Date, and others.
* the global record similarity strategy (integration of fields similarities)
* the output format (XML, spreadsheet)
* thresholds at different levels

A description of a method for matching bibliographic records when the only common identifiers are strings that are not exact matches.

The LED series/parallel array wizard is a calculator that will help you design large arrays of LEDs. The LED calculator was great for single LEDs--but when you have several, the wizard will help you arrange them in a series or combined series/parallel configuration. The wizard determines the current limiting resistor value for each portion of the array and calculates power consumed. All you need to know are the specs of your LEDs and how many you'd like to use.

Physics students at North Carolina State University can get their introductory-level textbooks for free thanks to a new program by the college.

Each year about 1,300 students at North Carolina State take Physics 211 and Physics 212. Beginning this semester, the university's libraries and physics department have offered the courses' textbook online for free. Students can also print pages of the text or buy a printed copy at the university's bookstore for about $45.