Archive for May, 2008

Remotely killing RDC users

Part of my job involves me having to log in to Windows servers for one reason or another. Unless the machine has died, it is usually easiest and quickest to do this from my desk. However… often other people forget to log off from the same server, and take up all the connections, meaning that [...]

Posted on May 27, 2008 at 10:35 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Shibboleth, SWORD, and DSpace 1.5

It was nice to see the announcement recently from the MAMS (Meta Access Management System) project at Macquarie University in Australia that they have implemented Shibboleth authentication for DSpace 1.5. It makes use of the stackable authentication system, and is therefore very nicely integrated with the DSpace architecture.
I’ve been playing with Shibboleth a bit recently, [...]

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Repository bounce rates

I’ve often wondered about what people do when they visit a repository, and whether what they are doing while visiting the repository could be considered ‘good’ in terms of the usefulness and general aims of the repository. Let me explain… I’m a big fan of Google Analytics, and one of the things it lets you [...]

Posted on May 26, 2008 at 6:39 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 2 Comments
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