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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Running an All-Online Conference with Zoom [post removed]

    This is an article draft that was accidentally published. I hope to work on a final version soon. If you really want to see it, I saved a copy on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

     Posted on  May 05, 2020
     and last updated April 03, 2021
  • Tethering a Ubiquity Network to a Mobile Hotspot

    I saw it happen.

    The cable-chewing device
    The contractor in the neighbor's back yard with the Ditch Witch trencher burying a cable. I was working outside at the patio table and just about to go into a Zoom meeting. Then the internet dropped out. Suddenly, and with a wrenching feeling …

     Posted on  April 21, 2020
     and last updated October 04, 2022
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Managing Remote Conference Presenters with Zoom

    Bringing remote presenters into a face-to-face conference is challenging and fraught with peril. In this post, I describe a scheme using Zoom that had in-person attendees forgetting that the presenter was remote!

    The Code4Lib conference was this week, and with the COVID-19 pandemic breaking through many individuals and institutions made …

     Posted on  March 14, 2020
     and last updated April 03, 2021
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • The PERL Way to Add OmniFocus Inbox Entries from Twitter

    Over the weekend I got the bright idea of asking OmniGroup to ask an iPhone voice recognition application (like Dragon Dictation) to add a link to the OmniFocus iPhone application. That way I could simply dictate new inbox items on the iPhone rather than laboriously typing them with the on-screen …

     Posted on  October 19, 2010
     and last updated October 20, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Protect Your Keyboards, Mice and Cables from Theft with a Flat Washer

    You are using lockdown security cables to protect your PCs, but your accessories -- keyboards, mice, and other cables -- are still vulnerable to theft. You can use one of these specially built products to lock down the cables, or you can use a 20¢ flat washer from the hardware store to …

     Posted on  October 17, 2010
     and last updated October 18, 2010
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Anatomy of the Zotero Library to RSS Feed Pipe

    Note! A new feature on the Zotero website does away with the need to use this Yahoo! Pipe. RSS feeds are now generated by the Zotero website itself. Read more about it on the Zotero blog.

    Last week I posted about a Yahoo Pipes construct that turns a Zotero website …

     Posted on  March 06, 2009
     and last updated March 06, 2009
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • HOWTO Deal With Spam as a Mailman List Owner

    Dealing with SPAM e-mail is a real hassle. Dealing with SPAM e-mail as a mailing list owner is an even bigger hassle. Here are some tips for dealing with SPAM e-mail on mailing lists using the Mailman software package.

    The Symptoms

    Unless you are making your users as well as …

     Posted on  July 16, 2008
     and last updated July 17, 2008
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Fronting Tomcat with Apache HTTPD to Remove Ports and Context Paths

    In this How-To guide, I show a combination of software and configuration to clean up URLs by removing the port numbers of the Java servlet engine (Tomcat) and the context path of the application. The goal is to create "cool URLs" that are are short (removing the unnecessary context path …

     Posted on  September 19, 2007
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  6 minutes reading time