Oxford Archaeology Blogs

Eastern Blog | General | Sunday July 20, 2008 | By wintermute

Greetings fellow travellers from Silicon Fen. What a short strange trip it's been - not much seems to have changed on the surface, but dig a little deeper (sorry) and differences do become apparent. As is often the case in such changeovers, the sign over the...

The Ubuntry / El Ubuntento | General | Sunday July 20, 2008 | By RafaMJ

Hola visitante. Creo que es hora de tener nuestro propio Ubuntu 8.04, la última versión. Primero déjame explicarte el por qué del nombre de las versiones de Ubuntu. Es fácil: 8 significa 2008, el año en el que la versión ha sido lanzada; 04 significa el mes,...

The Ubuntry / El Ubuntento | General | Sunday July 20, 2008 | By RafaMJ

Hi visitor. I think it is time to get our own Ubuntu 8.04, the latest version. First let me explain you why the name of the versions of Ubuntu. It's easy: 8 stands for 2008, the year when the version has been launched; 04 stands for the month, April. There are...

A2 News and Conservation Blog | Status | Friday July 18, 2008 | By danagb

Conservation blog for work on archaeological finds from the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham Widening Scheme Skanska Construction UK Ltd have been carrying out the improvements to the A2 south of Gravesend in Kent for the Highways Agency, and employed Oxford...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Wednesday July 16, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

This keyboard is great; it's a roll-up rubber affair that can be used underwater and was designed for hazardous environments. We had a batch specially made for us by Hela with a USB mini-b connector for use on the FreeRunner without any adapters. I've just...

Yann's blog | General | Friday July 11, 2008 | By yann

All the users in Mauguio, Lancaster and Cambridge are now all using Zimbra... We have made good progress in Oxford as well - the move should be finished soon! Was a lot of hard work and literally millions of emails to transfer, but we're nearly there :)

Digital Finds | OLPA | Thursday July 10, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

The first unboxing pictures of a retail FreeRunner? I was told I wasn't a real geek unless I did this: Beautiful

Digital Finds | General | Wednesday July 09, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

I received an email a while ago sent to one of the big distribution lists here at OA, it really annoyed me at the time and I think now is the time to share it with a wider audience. This is how I read it: I have just acquired the paper report for the...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Tuesday July 08, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

All the "news" provided in this post is available elsewhere. I am, however, keen to help disseminate it as far and as wide as possible, not least because I am particularly excited about the potentials of such work; more than anything, these screen shots show...

Yann's blog | General | Tuesday July 01, 2008 | By yann

It's hot, it's new, it's the french website! Right no it's not completely ready yet, but nearly :) You can follow the development at the following address: http://fr-dev.thehumanjourney.net/ . At this stage, we would be very pleased with some feedback,...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Tuesday July 01, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

I'm currently in Cambridge ; just a quick one then. Read this: http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/

Yann's blog | General | Tuesday July 01, 2008 | By yann

It seems I am not the first one to have troubles setting up a windows XP KVM guest. The main problem seems to be that it just won't install using acceleration; on the other hand, it works fine without (qemu mode). Here is a command line that works to boot from...

The Ubuntry / El Ubuntento | General | Sunday June 29, 2008 | By RafaMJ

Hola visitante. Y bienvenido a la primera entrada de este blog, mi blog-sobre-Ubuntu-basado-en-Oxford: Ubunblox. Como puedes imaginar la dirección me salió facil... Además, quería que fuera entendido en todos los idiomas. Escribo sólo en inglés y español y no...

The Ubuntry / El Ubuntento | General | Sunday June 29, 2008 | By RafaMJ

Hello visitor. And welcome to the first entry of this blog, my Ubuntu-blog-based-in-Oxford: Ubunblox. So the address came out easily as you can guess... Besides, I wanted it to be understood in every languages. I am writing only in English and Spanish and not...

Yann's blog | General | Friday June 27, 2008 | By yann

Hello World! Sorry for that blog which aim to be quite technical and may not be of big interest to most archaeologists. It is aimed to explain a little bit what I am working on, which technology we are using, why, some technical tips and tricks, why sometimes...

Shapefile | Geomancy | Wednesday June 25, 2008 | By Anna

Yesterday I got *slightly* annoyed. I went out to set out a site on Monday and due to the GPS not having great reception I unpacked our shiny (not new) Leica TCR705 Total Station. All went well, but when it came to downloading I got quite upset about the fact...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Wednesday June 25, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

GvSIG is GIS application that is finding a lot of favour in OA offices (for those that want it, here's a Wikipedia guide to what GIS is), we plan to provide it to every member of field staff pre-installed on their FreeRunners. Currently too much of our...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Monday June 23, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

Here at OA we use the excellent Zimbra collaboration suite for email, calenders and the like. We moved to Zimbra from a Microsoft Exchange system; Zimbra performs better, costs less and can be provided to all members of staff. Email used to be the preserve...

Digital Finds | Other OLPA | Friday June 20, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

http://bajr.org/Employment/UKEmploymentDetails.asp?ID=7775 On site digital recording is coming for all sides now; can't help but think that our implementation is going to be cooler though...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Tuesday June 17, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

Theory: We'll start with chapter six of the "Essentials of Satellite Navigation", describing improving GPS performance: http://www.u-blox.com/customersupport/docs/GPS_Compendium(GPS-X-02007).pdf We'll want A-GPS and DGPS; A-GPS greatly reduces...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Saturday June 14, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

Luca Bianconi recently left the Oxford office of OA after three months here working on some really cool things for us. One of his projects was to produce an application based upon the ExifTool library that could be used by our archives department to tag and...

Digital Finds | OLPA | Monday June 09, 2008 | By iknowjoseph

Setting up mobile internet on these phones is much harder than it should be, and I know it presents people with troubles. Unfortunately the instructions on the wiki aren't very helpful and served only to confuse me. Of course, for a (currently) developer /...

Shapefile | Geomancy | Sunday June 08, 2008 | By Anna

I was given the task to create contour lines for three sites close to one another. The levels had been previously surveyed and existed as shapefiles. Here is what I did: Programmes used (in this order): GvSIG : Upload the level shapefiles. Then start...

Why Not? | Open Standards | Wednesday June 04, 2008 | By putt1ck

From a news story on http://www.digistan.org/ : UK petition on Hague Declaration OpenOffice.org's John McCreesh tells us that the UK Prime Minister s Office has accepted an e-petition: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the...