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By wnylibrarian, November 23, 2009 6:48 pm

I fell behind on my football post for Week 10 (weekend of November 15th). Not much to write home about. Another steady 9-6 record. I’ve been falling woefully short of my goal of 11 or 12 wins in a week. The problem has been there’s always a game or two that I just can’t read. I look at it, study long and study wrong I guess. The Bills are who I thought they were, but the Bears are a far cry from what I expected them to be before game one. In game one they lost Urlacher in the first half, and not just lost him—lost him for the rest of the season with a broken wrist in that first half. I knew that was going to be a huge loss, but I didn’t think they were a one-man team. I felt the defense was going to kick it up in his absence. Boy was that an error in judgment. The Bears defense is woeful. Their run stopping is non-existent, and their pass defense is horrendous. If you can’t stop the pass or the run what chance do you have in football?

As I told a close friend I feel like a Bills’ fan. Ugh. That means looking forward to the 2010 draft? What does that say on my outlook for the remainder of this season?

wnylibrarian
Week 10: 9-6
Overall: 88-56 .611%

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By wnylibrarian, November 23, 2009 6:22 pm

A brief update on WINE in OpenSUSE 11.2.

Forgive the novice, my mistake, but here is one of those times where one has to remind themselves never to assume.

Just to re-cap my plan was to set up a self check-out circulation station for a special professional collection. I had tested out the integrated library system (ILS) in Windows Emulator (WINE), under Ubuntu 9.10 (because OpenSUSE 11.2) had yet to be released.

First I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 when it became available. I could’ve gone Ubuntu, but it was so close to the release date of 11.2 I figured I’d wait a few days. I don’t always go for the latest and greatest (my cell phone is five years old—and I still love it), but I do upgrade/update when applicable. This was going to be a test anyhow.

I loaded OpenSUSE 11.2, got it configured the way I like, and then installed the WINE package. That’s when I had my little error in judgment of making an assumption. That sometimes happens when I’m working on several different projects at once. It happens.

I assumed that once WINE was installed I’d have a nice little GUI to work with just as the one that appeared in Ubuntu. Wrong. In this situation Ubuntu has it over OpenSUSE. In Ubuntu I was able to get the configuration editor set up in the GUI, then simply go and find my Windows install programs for the ILS I was going to use, and move on to the installation process.

In OpenSUSE it was a lot different. It’s still pretty simply and straight forward, but it is command line. So keep the following brief instructions in mind:

1) After you’ve installed the package WINE from YaST then navigate to the directory that has your install program. For me it was ‘/home/wnylibrarian/Download/Clients’

2) Right-click and chose ‘Open in Terminal’.

3) Run the following command: ‘winecfg’. This will bring up the WINE configuration menu that you can then work with.

4) Once you’ve set your preferences then go to install your program. You do this by typing ‘WINE’, space, and then the name of your program. For me it was ‘wine setup.exe’.

From there out installation was a breeze. I have noticed that the ILS I was attempting to install still, for what ever reason, works far better under WINE in Ubuntu rather then OpenSUSE. Not sure why that is, and this was only a test. It is not paramount to have a self check-out circulation station for this collection running under WINE in Linux. This was more of Let’s see if I can do this? type of thing. I can, and that’s all that matters. The learning curve here was seeing the nuances of WINE between OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. That’s the great thing about education. When attempting to learn one topic I ended up learning about something else.

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By wnylibrarian, November 14, 2009 6:29 pm

OpenSUSE 11.2 was released on Thursday, and on Friday morning (amidst many other projects) I set about installing it on a spare laptop.

Right now I really can’t evaluate it as it is too early, however, the reader should be aware that I had a specific goal with this laptop. I had planned on setting up as a self check-out circulation station. That plan was contingent upon the installation of WINE (Windows Emulator) as the Integrated Library System (ILS) software is strictly MS Windows based.

I had successfully installed the ILS on a virtual machine running Ubuntu 9.04, and then version 9.10 (just to see how the ILS would run under WINE). I did that a few weeks ago. Now I wanted to try OpenSUSE 11.2. However, so far I’ve run into a little snag. After installing the WINE packages for 11.2 I’ve yet to find the GUI for WINE. My mistake. I had made the assumption there was a similar GUI in 11.2 as there is in Ubuntu 9.10. I was reading one forum, and later someone posted to me on Twitter, that WINE maybe command-line. I didn’t consider that aspect. There was little time in the remainder of the day on Friday to look into that, and obviously there are plenty of other more important projects pending. (Starting on Monday we will begin gathering MARC records from one region for inclusion in the union catalog that we host.) Therefore the creation of a circulation station using the latest OpenSUSE running under WINE will have to take a back seat. I’ll post another update if I do get it to run in the next few weeks.

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By wnylibrarian, November 14, 2009 11:01 am

Not that I thought before Thursday night’s game that the season was still salvageable, but still, what I saw was horrible! Okay, so maybe the offensive line isn’t up to par, but that’s no excuse for throwing into quadruple coverage. Of the five intercepts I blame Cutler for three of them. The ones where Hester fell and the play to Olson (how was there not interference?) were by no means on Cutler. I certainly don’t blame Cutler for the season, there are bigger problems, but he’s starting to get pulled down with the rest of them. (He’s just been fined for abusing an official in Sunday’s Arizona game: click here for article.) I never thought going into this season that the Bears were as bad as the Bills. Guess I was wrong on that one! This is horrifically disappointing. A cold shower wake-up call following the jubilant warm glow of the Yankees’ 27th championship. Baseball season is over now, and I must move into the despair that is my football team.

wnylibrarian
Week 9: 7-6
Overall: 80-50 .615%

Week 10 following Thursday night: 1-0. Yes, I picked San Francisco on Thursday night.

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By wnylibrarian, November 8, 2009 10:52 am

It’s been a hectic week. Obligations for work and home, the New York Yankees (see also: 2009 Yankees) winning their 27th championship, and just trying to stay on top of things in general seriously cut into actual blogging time—and the holidays aren’t even officially here yet.

I had another average week trying to guess the winners. At the very least I was at par with these guys, and I’m not that far off from those ahead of me. If I have a good week, an 11-2 week let’s say, I’d be back in the hunt as well. The problem remains (for me anyway) that there is always a couple games that I just can’t decide on. We pretty much knew that the Bears would roll the Browns, but it’s those other games. St. Louis over Detroit for instance (yes, I had taken the Lions), or the Giants not even being competitive against the Eagles. Carolina defeated Arizona? And handily I might add. This is team that the Bills should’ve given a game ball to the previous week. What’s with that?

As I said, it’s been a tough season to try and figure out. This week, Week 9, there are plenty of such games. I’ve gone with the less is more attitude and have decided to go with my first instinct. We’ll see what this philosophy has wrought later on today.

wnylibrarian
Week 8: 8-5
Overall: 72-44 .621%