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Category Archives: Cooperatives
The Trouble With Big Webmail
So last week, a relative commented to me that a solicitor sent a letter in reply to an email. I suggested that it might be because the email reply address was on one of the major free web email providers. … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged anti-competitive, attack, big webmail, crackers, gmail, google, hotmail, spam, unreliable, yahoo
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International Development Webcast 30 September 2008
At 1900 BST tonight (30 September), you can take part in an international development webcast by one of my cooperatives, with guests from the Cooperative College, the International Cooperative Alliance and the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Center. Sadly, they’re still … Continue reading
Demutualised Building Society Survival Hits Rock Bottom
Our webmaster cooperative is just switching from a building society to a cooperative bank because of support for free software and web standards in their online banking – I’ve just given up waiting for it. That’s disappointing, but the building … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged building society, cooperative, demutalisation, free software, survival rate, Web Development, webmaster
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Another Wednesday, Another Joe-Job
Yesterday, another of our mailboxes got joe-jobbed, just like last week. Again, it was one of our Exim servers (yes, one got done along with a qmail last week). Again, it was an address that should never appear as the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information, GNU/Linux, ThePhoneCoop, Web Development
Tagged acl, exim, joe job, plesk, smtp, spam, yahoo
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Report on Shape the future of social enterprise in the South West 4 Sep 2008
I went to this event a few weeks ago. The immediate outcome is the call for expressions of interest in RISE-SW’s projects. The deadline is next Monday (29th September) at 12 noon, so get emailing if you’re interested in them. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged consultation, cooperatives, government, RISE, social enterprise
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Web Foundation and While I Was Out
I concentrated on work after my return to the keyboard last week and then spent much of the weekend reroofing a shed, so today was my first day catching up with the news. Here’s what I noticed:- One of my … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux, Koha, ThePhoneCoop, Web Development
Tagged debian, facebook, iPhone, iWatering, Koha, linkedin, mozilla, news, roles, w3foundation, web foundation
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BT raise phone call connection charge
The biggest competitor to our telephone service, BT, increase their connection charge to 7p per call tomorrow (16 September 2008) for many customers (thanks to MSE for the news). However, our telephone service’s basic prices remain 4.7p per call for … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information, ThePhoneCoop, Web Development
Tagged bt, connection charge, increase, per call, per minute, phone, phonecoop
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The Phone Co-op: interview, phorm, challenges
Among other things, my webmaster cooperative is an agent for the Phone Co-op. Particularly with Free Software, cost-efficient ways of downloading data is a good companion service to have and the Phone Co-op has given a good ADSL and calls … Continue reading
Posted in OSCommerce, ThePhoneCoop, Web Development
Tagged adsl, fibre, isp, line rental, mobile, phone, ThePhoneCoop
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Friday Opinion Request: Shaping the Future of Social Enterprise
As you may know, our webmaster cooperative is classed as a Social Enterprise by gov.uk because it has social primary aims and isn’t run for shareholder benefit – we have neither shareholders nor employees, which screws up lots of surveys. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged consultation, cooperatives, social enterprise, third sector, ttllp
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Oddments from Planet Debian
Three replies to things I saw today on Planet Debian on blogs of people that don’t have fully-working web comment systems:- Professional Slide Installer (usual buggy blogger.com CAPTCHA) – yes, they exist. My village’s council sometimes hires them. I think … Continue reading →