Author Archives: mjr

Tribute to Richard Rothwell

2009-07-24 by mjr

Some of you may remember Richard Rothwell from the AFFS conference at Handsworth a few years ago, or maybe through his work with M6-IT. He sadly died on Friday 17th July. There is a tribute website set up for him: … Continue reading →

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exim4 acl_whitelist_local_deny change causes some blacklisting

2009-07-17 by mjr

This was simpler… We test some anti-spam tools on the TTLLP mailserver. Some of those include exim ACLs that do various checks and tricks. Since the upgrade to debian 5.0, some of our incoming email had been delayed. The first … Continue reading →

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Consumers, Boycotts and Cooperatives

2009-07-15 by mjr

A couple of days ago, daniel stone: boycott insanity compared Boycott Novell to “people on the street shouting at the sky about the government.” Previously, I’ve explained here why I think Boycotts are consumers doing judo on corporations and it’s … Continue reading →

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A DG834GUK Joins My ADSL-2+ Adventure

2009-07-14 by mjr

As I mentioned previously, I switched over to LLU and ADSL-2+ in February. Since then, I’ve suffered unstable network connections (which has been a pain, to put it mildly) and I’ve been working with ThePhoneCoop’s engineers to try to solve … Continue reading →

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Mobile Phone Directory: In Public Between Non-Consenting Adults and Children

2009-07-13 by mjr

My communications connection According to the BBC, a mobile phone directory enquiry service launches today. If you’ve ever had a marketing call to your mobile, your number is probably on this database. It’s very difficult to remember to ask every … Continue reading →

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2009 Software in the Public Interest Board Election

2009-07-08 by mjr

It’s the SPI annual meeting tonight at 2000 UTC (2100 UK). Once again, I’m elsewhere (probably still out after Somerset Cooperative Services CIC AGM in the day and North Somerset Cycle Forum at 5.30pm), but I’ll try to connect to … Continue reading →

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OCLC Record Use: Reboot

2009-07-07 by mjr

Disruptive Library Technology Jester reports that OCLC Formally Withdraws Proposed Record Use Policy. The Series Table of Contents there gives a pretty good history, or you can read my past comments in Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP and OCLC Library … Continue reading →

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Oh no! Ex-MP Richard Allan hired to make the EU more Facebook-friendly

2009-07-06 by mjr

As you may remember from my Google-WEF rant a few years ago, I strongly believe that governments should regulate private corporations and not the other way round. It is part of our job as business owners to try to stay … Continue reading →

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Happy International Day of Cooperatives

2009-07-04 by mjr

Today is the 87th ICA and 15th UN International Day of Cooperatives. There’s a PDF message from the United Nations secretary general. It’s also the start of the Tour de France, which runs for the next 22 days. There are … Continue reading →

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Small is beautiful or big is better? (#coop09 sw audio download)

2009-07-03 by mjr

There were several interesting conferences last week. An honourable mention to the Worker Co-operative Forum, but the most interesting for me was the Cooperatives-SW annual conference in Plymouth on Tuesday 23 June 2009. This free event was split into three … Continue reading →

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