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09:25 pinesol_green [evergreen|Jason Etheridge] fix clear hold shelf with 25 or more holds - <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=​Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=19ecb62>
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10:22 paxed if anyone asks, i'll blame dizziness from the heat wave for the bug comment/tagging mess i made earlier...
10:23 rfrasur paxed: excuse noted and accepted.  seems legit to me
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10:25 rfrasur I mght or might not have deserved that.
10:25 * rfrasur shrugs
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10:26 paxed @weather Joensuu, Finland
10:26 pinesol_green paxed: The current temperature in Joensuu, Finland is 69.8°F (5:20 PM EEST on July 02, 2013). Conditions: Clear. Humidity: 49%. Dew Point: 50.0°F. Pressure: 29.95 in 1014 hPa (Steady).
10:27 rfrasur @wunder 47346
10:27 pinesol_green rfrasur: The current temperature in Hagerstown, Hagerstown, Indiana is 67.5°F (10:27 AM EDT on July 02, 2013). Conditions: Overcast. Humidity: 97%. Dew Point: 66.2°F. Pressure: 29.98 in 1015 hPa (Rising).
10:28 rfrasur I'd like to point out the humidity...and note that mold and fungus become sentient at 90%.  I fully anticipate an army of attacking mushroom soon.
10:28 paxed heh
10:29 rfrasur Your weather sounds pretty nice actually.
10:29 rfrasur just about perfect
10:29 paxed we've had excellent weather for the last week, the current weather doesn't quite reflect that fact. and our room at the library finally got hot during the weekend :/
10:30 rfrasur our lib isn't hot...but it feels clammy.  I keep nudging the thermostat just to get the dehumidifier running.
10:31 * rfrasur doesn't nudge it too much though because big utility bills aren't friendly.
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10:31 paxed humidity does books goo.... err. :P
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10:32 rfrasur lol :D, thankfully we're not an archive anyway.  Well, there are some vaguely important things...but yeah.
10:33 paxed hm, i guess i could go and see if i can signoff any pullrequest bugs. still need to scrounge up 3 more hours of work today.
10:35 rfrasur you have to work til 8:30?  I hope you didn't have to come in until later.
10:36 paxed nah. i can pretty much work whenever i feel like it. usually i go to work around 7 or 8am, work until noon or 1pm, come home, take a nap and do other stuff, and then do few more hours during the evening when people here are awake.
10:37 rfrasur Ahhh, I gotcha.  Hmm, that sounds pretty nice actually.  Unfortunately (fortunately?), tis not the nature of my job at this point.
10:37 * rfrasur is head molifier and crap catcher.
10:38 rfrasur of course, that can be pretty fun at times, too.
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11:22 csharp ~contribute
11:22 pinesol_green Interested in contributing to the Evergreen project?  Please see http://www.evergreen-ils.org/do​kuwiki/doku.php?id=contributing
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11:30 paxed tsbere: re. your comment on bug 959594, are you still planning on doing tpac-style UIs (vs. the dojo ones)? I'd be interested.
11:30 pinesol_green Launchpad bug 959594 in Evergreen "Teach Fieldmapper (Perl) to record and expose field datatype" (affected: 1, heat: 6) [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/959594
11:31 tsbere paxed: At this point I am not sure. I have since thought about going with xulrunner-based UIs instead for flexibility purposes in the staff client. Web pages aren't all that flexible, TPac style or not.
11:31 * paxed isn't too enthusiastic about xulrunner.
11:32 paxed also, isn't moz putting xulrunner on backburner or something?
11:36 phasefx README.xulrunner: It is a byproduct of Firefox development and the Mozilla community does not have a strong commitment to support XULRunner development apart from Firefox development.
11:37 * rfrasur listens
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12:28 paxed hmm... i guess barcodes can't (or at least shouldn't) contains spaces or tabs.
12:28 rfrasur truth
12:28 csharp they can, but shouldn't
12:29 csharp well, spaces anyway
12:29 * csharp opens a wishlist bug for adding newlines to barcodes
12:29 rfrasur btw, just fyi, yesterday during our outage, we did have some dropped characters from barcodes...but I'm not sure if it was a software issue or a scanner issue or a user issue.
12:30 csharp rfrasur: in my experience, that's always the scanner
12:30 rfrasur csharp: That was my thinking as well, but I figured I'd mention it since it's been mentioned in here before and because I wasn't the one scanning the items...just cleaning up the mess afterward
12:32 * tsbere ran into a barcode recently that had a trailing space in the actual barcode itself
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12:32 tsbere Not the database entry, but the actual scanned barcode
12:32 rfrasur hmm, tsbere: was the scanner improperly set up or the barcode itself?
12:33 tsbere The barcode itself
12:33 rfrasur nice
12:33 tsbere The other 9 barcodes I scanned along with it were fine
12:33 * tsbere had been wondering why that one barcode was longer than the others, though
12:33 rfrasur that's good at least.  special words would have been reserved for that vendor.
12:34 tsbere Library staff member with a manual-entry barcode duplicator. <_<
12:34 rfrasur ohhhh....err.  Then maybe gentler words.
12:35 tsbere (set to the wrong barcode type, the one they were supposed to be using doesn't have a way to encode spaces to begin with)
12:35 rfrasur fairly easy mistake to make - especially if they don't deal with a lot...and prolly even if they do.
12:36 tsbere They were handed the duplicator pre-configured, set up, and ready to go. Their mistake was putting it into configuration mode to begin with. ;)
12:36 rfrasur lol, I'm TRYING to give the benefit of the doubt?
12:37 tsbere I'd stop wasting your time then. ;)
12:37 rfrasur yeah...I'm done with it.
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12:42 rfrasur "what?  I have a fine?  How do I have a fine?" Um...yeah.  Probably because you returned something late/didn't return something/returned something smelly/torn/untouchable.
12:43 rfrasur thank goodness, the circ staff is more consistently diplomatic than me.
12:44 tsbere "What? I owe $50? When did that happen? I only checked the book out yesterday!" The joys of the item price being dropped into the deposit price field.
12:44 rfrasur lol, we've had that, too.  Not often though.  It scared the crap out of the staff thinking they'd broke something.
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13:11 jeffdavis we are intermittently getting an error "This page uses an unsupported technology that is no longer available by default." on staff client login.
13:12 jeffdavis I take it this has something to do with remote XUL, trying to wrap my head around it.
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13:18 krvmga the "keep me logged in" bit in the opac...it sort of works...except when it doesn't
13:19 krvmga so here's the scenarios, i think: first, they close their browser and the session gets cleared. they open the browser and think it's still gonna be there.
13:19 krvmga this is a privacy/security settings problem, potentially, on their end
13:20 krvmga then, on the server, don't things get dropped from the cache when the cache grows to a certain degree?
13:20 rfrasur krvmga: my assumption is that you're referring to patrons using their accounts?
13:20 krvmga rfrasur: yes
13:21 krvmga what i'm actually looking for is help explaining to an irate patron why "keep me logged in" isn't working as she expects it to.
13:22 rfrasur then it seems the answer would be that you're right on both accounts...their local cookiness and the server cache as well probably...but I suspect it's their local setting...or possibly an antivirus they have running that affects cache/cookies
13:23 krvmga rfrasur: i think tsbere has mentioned - once upon a time - something about antivirus but i'm not clear on how that figures in
13:24 rfrasur I'm not sure how the "keep me logged in" works exactly, but if they have an antivirus that's clearing cookies and scrubbing the cache unless there are exceptions, it makes sense that it'd wipe out whatever was keeping whoever logged in.
13:24 tsbere too many things can go wrong. Long story short: Both the cookie *and* the memcache entry have to still exist, and the latter is determined in part by the time limit applied to that login type.
13:25 rfrasur tsbere++ # I also forgot about the time limit.
13:25 * krvmga wonders what the default time limit is
13:26 * krvmga thought it was a loooong time.
13:26 rfrasur I haven't had to deal with the time limit for awhile (months), but it wasn't very long then...at least here.
13:26 tsbere Hmmm. 2 weeks, maybe?
13:27 * rfrasur was having to constantly affirm that I was still there.
13:27 rfrasur that could be a local thing tho, and could even be changed now locally.
13:27 tsbere Library settings and xml configs can be adjusted, to my knowledge
13:28 * tsbere has also run into issues with things like "2 weeks" being treated as "2 seconds" due to the "weeks" part being ignored
13:31 rfrasur ahh, parts.  the word most loved by so many
13:33 * paxed thinks he's done enough for today.
13:34 rfrasur paxed++
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13:36 rfrasur howdy, laque_
13:40 laque_ hi
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14:29 jeff_ oh neat. Jaspersoft Studio 5.2 introduces a schema navigator in the query editor.
14:31 jeff_ hrm. perhaps not that neat. it isn't immediatly apparent what function it is intended to perform.
14:32 rfrasur lol
14:32 rfrasur shiny w/ no purpose?
14:33 jeff_ ah. it just takes some time to populate.
14:35 rfrasur did it do something cool?
14:38 jeff_ just gives an in-window list of the schemas, tables, and columns in the database.
14:38 rfrasur is that already done by something else?
14:38 jeff_ which can be handy if you're writing an SQL report against a table that you don't have committed to memory.
14:39 rfrasur if not...it sounds like it could be pretty useful.
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14:49 jeff_ it is information available elsewhere, but this could be a useful place to have it which is more convenient and closer to the work being done.
14:50 jeff_ alas, it seems to take quite some time to populate on anything but the simplest of databases, and it does not seem to be something which caches the data.
14:50 jeff_ nor can it be disabled.
14:50 jeff_ so it just sits there building a metadata view, and rarely completes before i'm done doing my work in the editor. :-)
14:53 rjackson-isl Seeing the following errors from mostly our 5 SIP servers - any consequences to bump up max childre setting in opensrf.xml?
14:53 rjackson-isl open-ils.cstore: [DEBG:20011:osrf_prefork.c:770:] Not enough children, attempting to add...
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14:58 rfrasur_ first - either freenode is not liking me today or something else is going on.  second - jeff_, it's unfortunate that it doesn't work in a more useful way.
15:01 rfrasur_ off the top of anyone's head, has a bug report been submitted (or is this addressed in 2.3 or 2.4) allowing one to "copy to clipboard" from the alternate item status screen?
15:04 mmorgan rfrasur_: in 2.3, and I think previously, you can do this under "Actions for Selected Items". It's the first option.
15:04 rfrasur_ mmorgan: thank you.  Good to note.  Will look forward to our 2.4 upgrade in Dec.
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16:29 rfrasur_ eldest son has officially signed away his first year of wages in the form of student loans!  yay!  I think!
16:59 dbs rjackson-isl: we had to bump up our max_children for a few services after upgrading to 2.4. there can be consequences (be careful that your PostgreSQL config allows enough simultaneous database connections, if bumping up cstore and the like, for example)
16:59 dbs but the consequences of not bumping up max_children were occasional death spirals and timeouts for services, which people* did not like
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17:17 rfrasur (just what people need....more children)
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17:19 Dyrcona rfrasur: Don't worry. Children typically die before the parent.
17:20 rfrasur with regard to software, I hope
17:20 Dyrcona UNIX.
17:20 rfrasur that's good....I think
17:20 Dyrcona "If you think UNIX is family friendly, just remember, all children must die."
17:20 rfrasur UNIX++
17:21 * rfrasur signed TWO master promissory notes today.  TWO.
17:21 rfrasur Now I'm going to drive home swearing under my breath for the entire 45 minutes.
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17:46 sidion anyone got a moment for a novelist tpac question?
19:25 bshum sidion: What are you working on?
19:26 sidion hey bshum i trying to find when the templates/opac/parts/acjs.tt2 was removed from 2.4
19:26 sidion getting a novSelect error in the tpac as it doesn't seem to exist anywhere execpt where its called
19:27 bshum Hmm
19:31 bshum sidion: So acjs.tt2 seems to be part of master and 2.4
19:31 bshum I don't think it was removed.
19:31 sidion weird, i grabbed a copy of master and i didn't see it in there
19:32 bshum There was a change recently for 52f893edbec7b71a2e9c40afb1cd5a7c2cc1cc9b which fixes an error with Novelist in that file.
19:32 pinesol_green [evergreen|Dan Scott] Prevent JavaScript error on non-Novelist sites - <http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=​Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=52f893e>
19:32 bshum For when the variable isn't defined properly.
19:32 bshum So the file should exist.
19:34 sidion alright then i certainly have a wrong copy of master, thanks i will keep digging
19:34 bshum If it's a git checkout, you could use something like git status to see if maybe the status shows it being deleted / missing.
19:34 bshum And then git checkout that particular file should bring it back to default I think.
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21:26 jrshaw I've started working with the developers version of evergreen debian squeeze 6.0.x, evergreen 2.x. from 2011. Is there a more up to date VM image available that is 2.4?
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23:59 * jrshaw signing off

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