Author Archives: mjr

What’s the current state of Windows Anti-Virus?

2013-06-20 by mjr

One of our co-op’s clients asked me what I use for anti-virus at the moment and tips for what they should use on their Windows system. Well, flame me now, but I don’t actually use any anti-virus at the moment: … Continue reading →

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Wireless Networking on this Clevo

2013-03-22 by mjr

This Clevo laptop is a new machine and like a lot of new machines, not all of its hardware has drivers in the current stable release of debian. Happily, there is a driver for its rtl8723ae wireless networking device in … Continue reading →

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Debian Project Leader 2013 election campaign links: part 1

2013-03-15 by mjr

This is basically a link-post to the Debian Project Leader election email discussions on GMANE’s blog-style interface to debian-vote. After only 3 days of the 21, there’s already a pageful, so if I don’t start collecting links now, I’ll probably … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Consensus

2013-02-21 by mjr

The constitution of the debian operating system project says things like “consistent with the consensus of the opinions of the Developers” at various points but doesn’t say how strong a consensus or how the project will test for consensus. I … Continue reading →

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Clevo 7872-9040/A built Jan 13 with Debian 6

2013-02-08 by mjr

My trusty Asus seems to have succumbed to graphic fault. I got an OS-free Zoostorm as its replacement, to avoid paying the MS tax. Zoostorm is one brand that Clevo laptops are sold under. It was actually a Clevo 7872-9040/A … Continue reading →

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One of them, one of us

2013-02-07 by mjr

Interesting stuff is happening again and I’m doing a bit of travelling where I’m not driving much, so I can write some blog posts. If this train stops bouncing quite so much! I think most readers are interested in technology … Continue reading →

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We Have Moved! Again!

2012-12-11 by mjr

With immediate effect, our co-op is now at: 384 Lynn Road, Setchey, Norfolk PE33 0PD Please send any official post there instead of Somerset or London, because the forwarding is slow and I expect it to miss a few items. … Continue reading →

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Please vote for police commissioners

2012-11-15 by mjr

Contrary to http://blog.einval.com/2012/11/13, I’ve just been and voted (four times, or 2×2 – one for me, one as a proxy) for a police and crime commissioner. I agree with much of what Steve writes and more besides. It’s a very … Continue reading →

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Adrift @coopsutd in @coopParty workshop

2012-11-07 by mjr

Sometimes I felt at home at Cooperatives United, like at the wonderful fringe dinner at Eighth Day last Thursday night. Sometimes I felt overwhelmed by the flood, like at the cooperative party workshop on Friday morning. The workshop addressed the … Continue reading →

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Why co-ops and social enterprises should avoid publishing Word files

2012-11-06 by mjr

I sometimes ask other co-ops and social enterprises to publish things as web pages, PDFs, ODFs or basically any standard format instead of Microsoft Word Doc files. Doc files have the practical problem that they look different even in different … Continue reading →

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