Day: January 26, 2008

MARC21 University of Michigan Google Digital Books Records (records for testing/viewing)

I was playing with MarcEdit’s OAI harvester, making a few changes to fix a problem that had been discovered, as well as add some fall-over code that allows the harvester to continue processing (or at least, attempt to continue processing) when the OAI server breaks the connection (generally through timeout). To test, I decided to…

January 26, 2008
Securing licenses

Kind of off topic — but I had to make a trip to the dmv this morning. I’ve been finding that airports, rental car agencies, etc. are having a difficult time accepting my current license because much of the information on it has been smeared or damaged due to water (I have on older license…

January 26, 2008
atscap and pchdtvr GPL revoked or can it be

I’ve never used this package (apparently its used for HDTV scheduling/recording on Linux), but this link on Slashdot caught my eye: http://sourceforge.net/developer/diary.php?diary_id=26407&diary_user=147583. Apparently, the developer of this software package is seeking to revoke the GPL license not just for his current code, but his past code/package as well. I have a difficult time believing that…

January 26, 2008