Author Archives: mjr

Get Safe Online – but no encryption advice

2008-10-29 by mjr

One of the main UK computer security websites (Get Safe Online, GSO, a public/private partnership) has recently changed to using a website for security alerts, instead of sending emails that contained a “secret” word. Of course, a non-SSL website is … Continue reading →

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HOWTO Apache httpd 2.2 PAM Authentication Modules

2008-10-28 by mjr

One consequence of the server outage was that I could finally justify the time to solve an irritating Apache authentication problem. In fact, I had to solve the problem, because I needed to log in to our control panels. (I … Continue reading →

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We Need Social Network Networks

2008-10-27 by mjr

A recent project was to install a WordPress plugin that will announce new articles to Twitter. As you might guess, I’m not a big fan of Twitter, or any other closed-source Web 2.0 thing. I use a few social network … Continue reading →

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Social Enterprise Photography Competition and Cooperatives South-West Trade Fair

2008-10-24 by mjr

Cooperatives South West is working in partnership with the Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise (RISE) to hold a Trade Fair with support from CDA (BRAVE Ltd.), Social Enterprise Works, Co-opportunity and Watershed Media Centre. It will be held on Monday … Continue reading →

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Firmware and the Shape of Debian Lenny

2008-10-23 by mjr

Lenny is the codename for the next release of debian, which will be debian 5.0 formally. For the first time that I can remember, debian will fit on one disk. OK, so it’s a blu-ray disk (BD), but I’m sure … Continue reading →

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The Phone Coop, Best Social Enterprise 2008

2008-10-22 by mjr

ThePhoneCoop Congratulations to all our friends at The Phone Coop for winning the Best Social Enterprise Award at the Enterprising Solutions Awards 2008 yesterday. (TTLLP is an agent and I’m a member personally too.) Longer report at Cooperatives-UK. Comiserations to … Continue reading →

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Looking at an SPI Project: OpenOffice.org

2008-10-22 by mjr

I’m not sure which is the second-largest of the projects supported by Software in the Public Interest, but I thought that OpenOffice.org was up there with them. It’s been a bit of a surprise to me that SPI hasn’t done … Continue reading →

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Monday Machine-Mangling Madness, or: Server2 on fire!

2008-10-21 by mjr

Bonfire Onlooker by dominicspics (cc-by) Of all the things I wanted to do yesterday, testing TTLLP’s disaster recovery plan was not one of them. I often suggest customers make disaster recovery plans, but I don’t like having to use them. … Continue reading →

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“your country continues to turn into Big Brother”

2008-10-20 by mjr

Just received this comment from Jimmy Kaplowitz over in the US: “yuck, your country continues to turn into Big Brother: BBC News: Giant database plan ‘Orwellian’” Hell, yeah. That’s a reason why my support for the party is so weak … Continue reading →

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You Wait Ages for a Survey…

2008-10-18 by mjr

As well as my little What topics do you want to read here? survey, there’s a more serious Free/Open Source Participant Satisfaction Survey by Brenda Chawner for the Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand which you might like to answer. … Continue reading →

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