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    Automatic XP user logoff

    I was getting tired of having to logout other users on my XP machine at home using the task manager.  Essentially, my wife and assorted guests occasionally use the computer.  Often they would remain logged in and running several applications.  This caused me some issues with stability, but more often, with the system performance. 

    I sought a simple solution that would allow me to logout other users on the system with just a click of an icon, as opposed to the more time consuming effort required by using task manager.  So a made a little batch file called logoutuser.bat for that purpose. 

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    @echo off
    rem logoutuser.bat

    for /F "tokens=2 skip=1" %%G IN ('qwinsta tammy') DO LOGOFF %%G
    for /F "tokens=2 skip=1" %%G IN ('qwinsta guest') DO LOGOFF %%G

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    qwinsta lists the current system users, I select the most common offenders, and invoke the logoff command providing the users ID as a parameter (as provided by qwinsta).

    I'd not found an adequate solution for this issue elsewhere, so I thought I'd just post it.

    Library puppet videos - Weasel and Goose

    Despite my usual rule against posting about things that Richard Akerman has already blogged, I feel it's required that I pay homage to the creativity and comedy of Llord Llama (or is it King Goose?) who provides a collection of amusing and silly puppet-based videos - mostly about libraries, copyright, publishers and such.  Awesome.

    The one about copyright vs publisher vs librarians is particularly poignant.

    National Science Advisor position to be phased out

    CBC is reporting that upon the retirement of the current (as well as first and only) National Science Adviser, Arthur Carty, the position will not be re-filled and will be phased out.  Dr. Carty was formerly the President of the National Research Council.

    Dealing with large sets of data

    theinfo.org is a nascent wiki resource for members of the library community dealing with large data sets, and related visualization, tools, algorithms.

    - via oss4lib - Aaron Swartz.

    OCLC acquires EzProxy

    OCLC has acquired EzProxy.

    - Via Richard via the Distant Librarian