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Category Archives: Cooperatives
Betting on British Broadband Bugfixing
High-speed internet links are something that makes FOSS development much easier, but I’m still having reliability problems with my ADSL. A fringe benefit of moving to a more open Linux-based router is that I can see what’s going wrong in more detail. But now I have to gamble … Continue reading
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Tricky question for a worker co-op: @CooperativeWave
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
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged change, climate, cooperative, environment, green, transport
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Avon and Somerset Police’s Worrying Approach to High-Tech Crime
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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Green or Pirate Party Membership?
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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Would you help to Connect SouthWest England?
Martha Lane Fox, the recently appointed Champion for Digital Inclusion visited Bristol recently and met Bristol Wireless Community Cooperative. I follow Digital Inclusion topics, but I only heard about that after the event because of a technical fault on ConnectingBristol.org, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged champion, connecting, consultation, digital britain, government
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Karoo Chooses to Start Three-Strikes
You may remember that I did some work last year campaigning against the “three strikes and you’re out” disconnect system, where suspected filesharers are disconnected from the internet after the third allegation is made. That’s allegation, not any sort of … Continue reading
The Great British Broadband Speed Lie
I don’t think it will be a surprise to anyone, but Ananova reports: No-one getting top broadband speeds based on the Ofcom/SamKnows/GfK research. In the village where I live, our “up to 8Mbps” service is stable at about 4. As … Continue reading
Consumers, Boycotts and Cooperatives
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
Posted in Cooperatives, GNU/Linux, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged boycott, consumers, cooperatives-uk, ed mayo, novell
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A DG834GUK Joins My ADSL-2+ Adventure
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
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged adsl, dg834, dg834gukv4, dsl, LLU, modem, netgear, router, thephoneco-op
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Mobile Phone Directory: In Public Between Non-Consenting Adults and Children
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
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged connectivity, directory, invasion, mobile, phone, privacy, removal, suspended
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