Comments on: Episode 42 – The Real World

By: Bea Pires

Bea Pires — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:26:22 +0000

Hello Dan, Mills, and Tom,
During the last ten days I listened to your 42 podcasts in chronological order. I found them tremendously interesting and an excellent preparation for my upcoming (second-career) MLIS studies at UBC. Having taught in the post-secondary system for over 20 years and having worked as an administrator for the last three years, I could certainly appreciate your thoughts and observations from both the faculty and administrator perspectives.
Thank you for sharing your experience and insights so generously.
Bea
P.S. Please let me know when you accept applications for the University of Washington Zotero Trainer Workshop.

By: Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:53:28 +0000

Pete,

Virtual Box would be a great option for running Omeka on your Vista PC. Don’t bother investing in VMWare, at least until you try Virtual Box. In relatively short order you should be able to create virtual machine in Virtual Box, install your preferred flavor of Linux (Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva, etc.) and then install Omeka locally. You will, of course, have to make sure your Linux environment is also running Apache, MySQL, and PHP 5.2 or greater.

Thanks for listening.

Tom

By: Pete Jones

Pete Jones — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:51:11 +0000

So on the Virtual Box suggestion: Would this be an elegant way to try out Omeka for someone who normally uses Vista? The Omeka web sandbox is great, but having a more permanent “sandbox” would be helpful.

Or should I just bite the bullet and run Linux/VMWare.