The Travelin' Librarian

TO CHAI [Flickr]

2009-11-08T10:42:21-08:00

Travelin' Librarian posted a photo:

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Michael Sauers
Sent from my cell

Saying something about politics [Flickr]

2009-11-06T12:03:56-08:00

Travelin' Librarian posted a photo:

I want to be Under the Dome

2009-11-04T12:58:00.001-06:00

Stephen King’s new 1,000+ page epic comes out in just six days! (I picked free super-saver shipping so I’ll have to wait a little longer to get my copy.)

Designing Obama

2009-11-03T19:58:00.000-06:00

Links for 2009-11-03 [del.icio.us]

2009-11-04T00:00:00-08:00

Lincoln City Libraries has Wii games for checkout #lnk [Flickr]

2009-11-03T10:22:27-08:00

Travelin' Librarian posted a photo:

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Michael Sauers
Sent from my cell

The photographer's up there [Flickr]

2009-11-03T10:00:57-08:00

Travelin' Librarian posted a photo:

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Michael Sauers
Sent from my cell

In the NE capitol building for a photo-op w/ the governor [Flickr]

2009-11-03T09:52:57-08:00

Travelin' Librarian posted a photo:

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Michael Sauers
Sent from my cell

Learn how to print in the library (or the zombies may get you!)

2009-11-03T11:31:00.001-06:00

via myliblog

Library 101

2009-11-02T11:24:00.001-06:00

Be sure to check out all the related essays (one by me) and resources at http://www.libraryman.com/library101/

Links for 2009-10-25 [del.icio.us]

2009-10-26T00:00:00-07:00

Nebraska Public Libraries on Facebook

2009-10-22T09:13:00.001-05:00

Here’s a list of 31 libraries that the Nebraska Library Commission knows about on Facebook. If you’re not on the list leave a comment and we’ll be sure to get you added.

Bellevue Public Library
Blair Public Library
Broken Bow Public Library
Columbus Public Library
Fairfield Public Library
Gretna Public Library
Hartington Public Library
Hastings Public Library
Holdrege Area Public Library
Keene Memorial Library
Lied Imperial Public Library
Lied Pierce Public Library
Lied Randolph Public Library
Lincoln City LIbraries
Morrill Public Library
Norfolk Public Library
Omaha Public Library
O'Neill Public Library
Plattsmouth Public Library
Ravenna Public Library
Raymond A. Whitwer Tilden Public Library
Rushville Public Library
Sargent Township Library
Schuyler Public Library
Seward Memorial Library
Sidney Public Library
South Sioux City Public Library
Springfield Memorial Library
Stanton Public Library
Tekamah Public Library
Ulysses Township Library

86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"

2009-10-21T07:30:00.001-05:00

Via Boing Boing

Links for 2009-10-20 [del.icio.us]

2009-10-21T00:00:00-07:00

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Flickr Fail

2009-10-20T12:39:00.001-05:00

Links for 2009-10-19 [del.icio.us]

2009-10-20T00:00:00-07:00

Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer

Links for 2009-10-16 [del.icio.us]

2009-10-17T00:00:00-07:00

HootSuite

Halloween Candy: 3 Tales of Horror by Douglas Clegg

2009-10-14T10:38:00.001-05:00

The world’s deepest trash bin

2009-10-13T09:26:00.001-05:00

Star Trek XI Gag Reel

2009-10-13T07:55:00.001-05:00

Google Reader Ninja

2009-10-09T07:29:00.001-05:00

Here’s a fun Friday easter egg. Load up Google Reader then enter the following set of keystrokes:

up arrow, up arrow
down arrow, down arrow
left arrow, right arrow
left arrow, right arrow
b, a

(Repeat and refresh to get everything back to normal.)

Links for 2009-10-06 [del.icio.us]

2009-10-07T00:00:00-07:00

The Twitter decision flow chart - Holy Kaw!

New Doctor Who Logo Revealed

2009-10-06T06:54:00.001-05:00

Links for 2009-10-05 [del.icio.us]

2009-10-06T00:00:00-07:00

The Origin of Sesame Street

2009-10-05T08:43:00.001-05:00

As a child of the 70s, I recently read Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street and enjoyed it thoroughly. That experience only may this, the pitch film from 1969 all the more interesting.

How Terminator Should End

2009-10-05T07:39:00.001-05:00

via Photo Basement

One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you…

2009-09-28T16:53:00.000-05:00

Here’s the first trailer for Michael Bay’s reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

A Nightmare on Elm Street in HD

Puppet Book Banners

2009-09-24T07:37:00.001-05:00

What If Star Wars Was Made By Environmentalists?

2009-09-22T09:03:00.001-05:00

Via Boing Boing

“The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.”

2009-09-21T15:23:00.001-05:00

8-bit trip

2009-08-24T12:49:00.001-05:00

Ubuntu Facepalm

2009-08-24T10:50:00.002-05:00

I did something totally stupid yesterday afternoon. For those of you that saw the Tweet about it, here’s the full story.

A year or so ago after my new x64 monster was up and running I decided to take my old XP desktop with just 512MB of RAM and have it dual boot XP and Ubuntu. I kept XP running on that computer since I’d yet to figure out how to do a bunch of things in Ubuntu that I needed the computer to do. The three main items were using my D-Link DWA-130 WiFi N USB adapter, reading from and writing to my Sony PRS-500 eBook, and run my (15 year-old but still perfectly functional) HP ScanJet 4c SCSI scanner. Eventually, I accomplished all three of these tasks via ndiswrapper, Calibre, and xSane accordingly.

Having finally accomplished this I decided to sit down yesterday and start to move from a dual-boot to a single-boot Ubuntu desktop. The plan was to take the single 40GB drive and expand it via something like GParted to overwrite the XP installation. So, I made sure to copy all my documents off the XP side of things onto a backup drive on the network. I then realized that the desktop also had a 120GB secondary drive which I’d completely forgotten about since Ubuntu never saw it. So, I backed up that data too.

I then started looking at what software was left on the XP side of things and notice that this was the only computer I owned that would still run the Sony Reader software. Now, I’d pretty much replaced this software with Calibre, but Sony’s software was the only was to access the Sony eBook store. I don’t buy much at all from them but they occasionally have free eBooks that I’m interested in so I decided that this was software was worth keeping. (All my other computers are x64 and the Sony software won’t even install on x64 platforms.)

The new plan was to uninstall just about everything from XP and strip it down to the smallest possible footprint and then shrink the partition and have Ubuntu take over the rest of that drive and the secondary drive. So, off to Add/Remove Programs I went.

DIVX, uninstalled. Office, uninstalled. Codec packages, uninstalled. Games, uninstalled. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Ubuntu… What? Oh, right. You can also install Ubuntu as a Windows application via Wubi. This allows you to boot to Ubuntu but it’s still technically a Windows app that you can uninstall without having to deal with boot loaders and partitions. Well, I must have forgotten that and it’s taking up 7 gig of my 40 gig hard drive so… uninstalled.

Empty the recycle bin. Scandisk. Defrag. All done. Reboot. Select Ubuntu from boot menu and…

Winnt_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt: Please re-install a copy of the above file.

Ok. Don’t panic. Let’s search and see if there’s something I can do about this. Well, according to Microsoft I need to repair XP. Try rebooting into XP. XP boots fine. XP isn’t the problem.

OK, let’s check the boot loader. Well, the entry for Ubuntu is pointing to c:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr. But the ubuntu directory is now gone since I uninstalled the wubi-based Ubuntu installation. ARGH!!!

What I’d forgotten was the my Ubuntu installation was wubi-based all along. What' I’d uninstalled was the only Ubuntu installation on the computer. It was gone and it was completely my fault.

So, after feeling completely stupid through dinner I reinstalled Ubuntu off a downloaded .iso onto the secondary hard drive. Now I’ve got plenty of space and it still dual boots but with the grub boot loader instead of the Windows/wubi combination.

What did I loose? A lot of free eBooks and all the hand entered metadata that went along with them. So, nothing crucial except maybe for some of my geek pride.

JISC – Libraries of the Future

2009-08-21T08:54:00.001-05:00

Via Connie Crosby

Wii Extreme Challenge

2009-08-21T08:43:00.001-05:00

Social Media Revolution

2009-08-21T07:22:00.001-05:00

Cory Doctorow interview on librarianship and media

2009-08-20T07:28:00.001-05:00

The Buzz vs. The Buldge

2009-08-19T10:39:00.001-05:00

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