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Paypal and Ethical Business

MJ Ray - Wednesday 03.03.10, 06:58am

DoctorMO is calling Paypal the Pocketing Police after this “Paypal [...] decided we were scammers and took our money” comment by Daniel Stone during the Xorg foundation election discussions.
Our co-op has avoided Paypal for a number of years for two reasons:

Paypal didn’t recognise UK company registration “numbers” that contain letters (like ours) for years after [...]

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Tags: GNU/Linux · SPI · Web Development

An Introduction To The Debian Project by Leslie I’Anson – Tuesday, 16th February, Manchester

MJ Ray - Thursday 11.02.10, 07:40am

This talk at Manchester Free Software’s meeting is covering the question:
“From the literally hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions in existence, what makes Debian special?”

For our co-op, it’s that “Debian GNU/Linux, like all GNU/Linux distributions, is the product of a massive cooperative effort” (in the words of former Debian project leader Branden Robinson) and that debian is [...]

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Tags: GNU/Linux · lugradio

Gnus added to List-friendly Mail Clients

MJ Ray - Wednesday 13.01.10, 07:10am

It’s nice to see that Emacs isn’t being outdone since Thunderbird 3 Introduced Reply-To List: Alok G. Singh got in touch and pointed me at Gnus’s support for List-* headers. I’ve updated my page of email clients that support mailing lists.

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Top 10 Crimes of Developer Engagement: a common problem?

MJ Ray - Monday 30.11.09, 07:18am

savs seemed to agonise about posting it but I think his Top 10 crimes of Developer Engagement is spot on even if it might not be as amusing as Aral Balkan’s similar message.
I think it applies to my recent RFID development work too: the public information is fluffy and you have to hunt or reverse-engineer [...]

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Tags: GNU/Linux · Koha

ssh with unstable and mobile clients

MJ Ray - Saturday 21.11.09, 07:12am

Revisiting two old ssh points:-

Smart Tricks with ssh mentioned ServerAliveInterval 3600 and the page I referenced for it mentions ClientAliveInterval on the server-side. Is there any reason not to use that?
ssh security mentioned sslh to put ssh on port 443, but it seems Top J2ME MIDP Application MidpSSH can’t connect to ssh on other [...]

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