Author Archives: mjr

Reminder: Meeting about a Koha Foundation

2009-09-15 by mjr

A quick reminder about the meeting about forming a Koha foundation in a few hours. The agenda and information links are on the wiki. I’d really like to see everyone invoved in koha development there, or you could leave comments … Continue reading →

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55% of Ecommerce Sites Tested Misled Consumers

2009-09-14 by mjr

There will be an EU crackdown on websites selling consumer electronic goods which is entirely understandable when 203 out of 369 sites appeared to break the law. (first seen on BBC News) If you’re a shop owner, the good site … Continue reading →

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Tricky question for a worker co-op: @CooperativeWave

2009-09-11 by mjr

This isn’t a problem which many companies have to deal with. It’s simple for lots of them: ignore things like climate change except when laws or public relations (or employee relations?) require otherwise. As far as the company is concerned, … Continue reading →

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Meeting about forming a Koha Foundation, 15 September 2009

2009-09-10 by mjr

Following suggestions by some other koha developers and with an increasing amount of silence from long-time koha community supporters liblime, we’ve called an IRC meeting next Tuesday. We’re concerned that our community is currently not sustainable: the withdrawal of any … Continue reading →

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Koha meetings and case studies

2009-09-02 by mjr

It’s been a fairly good month working with Koha for me. Our co-op installed Koha 3.0 for a few more libraries and had quite a few enquiries. This means our test servers still need upgrading to 3.0.3, which is disappointing, … Continue reading →

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Everyone and his dog has their multihost ssh so why not me?

2009-08-28 by mjr

I call this sshtomany: #!/bin/bash cmd=”$*” cmd=”${cmd/#* . /}” [ “$cmd” = “$*” ] && echo “Usage: $0 [HOSTS] . [COMMAND]” && exit 127 while [ “$1” != . ] && ssh $1 -vt $cmd ; do echo Success at … Continue reading →

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Avon and Somerset Police’s Worrying Approach to High-Tech Crime

2009-08-27 by mjr

Last week, I wondered about Green or Pirate Party Membership and got some good comments. Thanks to all for those. There seemed a slim leaning towards the Greens and a good point made that “Pirate Party” is a very bad name in a coastal area like mine. I’ve ranted … Continue reading →

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Youth Freedom and an IRC Q+A

2009-08-24 by mjr

Advertisers try to “get ’em young” to get them buying their wares from an early age. So why don’t we advertise freedom at young people more? The younger we make them aware of freedom, the more time they’ll spend defending … Continue reading →

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Green or Pirate Party Membership?

2009-08-20 by mjr

Cooperators are spoiled for choice in the UK because all the major parties say nice things about cooperatives and there’s even the Cooperative Party, but a lot of us who take a sharing view to software (usually Free and Open Source Software) are concerned by the attitudes of the Top … Continue reading →

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SPI August 2009

2009-08-19 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 19 August) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and the main business is selecting the officers after the SPI Voting … Continue reading →

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