Time Nick Message 15:03 rhcl Would it seem to make any sense to use something like marc4j to write a java app to convert Sirsi's 999 fields and Koha's 952 fields? 15:03 rhcl http://marc4j.tigris.org 15:04 rhcl sed s/and/to 15:04 gmcharlt rhc1: sure it makes sense, if Java is one's language of choice 15:06 rhcl We've just hired a part-time tech assistant here, and I'm toying with the idea of us taking that on as a project. He and I are both are probably a bit more familiar with Java (or Python mabye) than anything else. 15:07 gmcharlt rhcl: if you go with python, pymarc is a pretty strong project 15:07 gmcharlt edsu and gsf on #code4lib maintain it 15:08 gmcharlt looking at website, the marc4j project seems to have been quiet for the past couple years 15:08 rhcl OK, maybe we'll take a look at that too. Michael is in his last year of college, and just finished a second-level java programming class, so it's fresh in his mind, and he's pretty enthusiastic about NetBeans. 16:45 atz greets shedges 16:45 shedges greetings 16:46 atz i enjoyed a good unconference at OCLC w/ several of your underlings this week 16:47 shedges sorry bout that, trying to get connected to another site, too 16:48 shedges you liked the BarCamp? 16:49 atz yeah, for a first gathering, it went pretty well. Got to pick the brain of the Cols. Public Lib. regarding their homebrew ILS. 16:49 atz written in COBOL 85, no less! 16:49 shedges it's an old one, for sure 16:54 kados hey shedges 16:54 shedges hey kados! 16:54 kados shedges: man, it's good to see you on channel :-) 16:55 shedges we just moved our Support chat to IRC 16:55 shedges so I'm back! 16:55 shedges (had to dig around for my old IRC client) 16:55 kados awesome 17:00 gmcharlt hi shedges - galen charlton, don't think we've "met" yet 17:01 shedges hey galen 17:09 nengard hiya shedges 17:10 shedges Hi 17:10 nengard hehe :) 17:10 nengard you have a few more weeks 17:10 shedges ~few~ is what bothers me 17:11 nengard ahhhh 17:11 shedges we're getting there 17:11 nengard makes you feel any better i have 2 for another book to write that are due next week :) i too am procrastinating 17:11 nengard gmcharlt - blogging is not writing :) hehe 17:11 nengard it's venting 17:12 nengard no research needed 17:12 gmcharlt depends on how much one agonizes about it ;) 17:12 nengard question on drupal4lib - are there any libraries using koha integrated with drupal? 17:12 kados nengard: I think paul and hdl are working on that for some of their customers 17:13 gmcharlt nengard: also, from India: http://www.ossrc.org.in/koha-drupal-workshop-29-30Nov-2007-resources.htm appears to be about a workshop about it 18:06 danny2 hello #koha 18:07 gmcharlt hi danny2 18:07 danny2 I am working on setting up a fresh install of koha on ubuntu 8.04, has anyone gotten this to work successfully? 18:07 danny2 I am stuck at trying to get to the web installer and I am getting production mode - trapped fatal error 18:08 atz danny: afaik, a fair number of people are successfully using ubuntu 8 (not sure about the exact version) 18:09 danny2 i've run perl Makefile.PL and it doesn't complain about any dependencies 18:11 pianohacker danny2: Anything helpful in the koha error log? 18:13 danny2 pianohacker: looks like several DBD::mysql errors 18:14 pianohacker Hm 18:14 danny2 [Fri Aug 15 14:12:21 2008] install.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha.language_subtag_registry' doesn't exist at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Languages.pm line 178. 18:14 danny2 is the first one 18:14 pianohacker Oh, that's normal for the installer, I believe 18:14 pianohacker What's at the end? 18:14 danny2 [Fri Aug 15 14:12:21 2008] install.pl: Can't call method "id" on an undefined value at InstallAuth.pm line 278. 18:15 pianohacker Huh 18:16 danny2 install.pl: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha.language_subtag_registry' doesn't exist at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Languages.pm line 178. 18:16 danny2 install.pl: DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: fetch() without execute() at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Languages.pm line 179. 18:16 danny2 install.pl: DBD::mysql::db selectrow_array failed: Table 'koha.systempreferences' doesn't exist at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Context.pm line 479. 18:16 danny2 install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Context.pm line 45. 18:16 danny2 install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Context.pm line 45. 18:16 danny2 install.pl: Can't call method "id" on an undefined value at InstallAuth.pm line 278. 18:16 danny2 sorry for the spam 18:16 danny2 thats all of them 18:16 pianohacker brb 18:16 pianohacker lunch 18:18 gmcharlt danny2: what is output of perl -e 'use CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml;' 18:21 danny2 gmcharlt: Can't locate CGI/Session/Serialize/yaml.pm in .... 18:22 gmcharlt thought so 18:22 gmcharlt there's a Debian package (libcgi-session-serialize-yaml-perl) that could be isntalled - don't know if it's hit Ubuntu yet 18:22 gmcharlt otherwise, could cpan CGI::Session::Serialize::yaml 18:25 danny2 woo! I had to force install it cause it failed tests, but that worked 18:25 danny2 thank you gmcharlt! 22:21 pianohacker gmcharlt: around? 22:28 gmcharlt pianohacker: what'sup/ 22:28 gmcharlt ? 22:29 pianohacker gmcharlt: I'm making a patch for dbversion 3.01.00.002 (just posted to wiki) 22:29 pianohacker Have you sent in yours for .001 yet ? 22:30 gmcharlt ye 22:30 gmcharlt s 22:31 pianohacker ok, thanks 22:32 gmcharlt bbl