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Category Archives: SPI
Enemies of Digital Economy Workers: the TUC
The Trade Union Congress’s chief executive recently came out in the crazy position of sharing a platform with the British Phonographic Industry (and why are they still relevant? What is the market share of phonographs now?) and supporting the much-hated Digital Britain guilty-without-trial “three strikes” disconnect measures.
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SPI March 2010
The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC. It’s another pretty lean meeting, with only some minutes to approve, so why not come along and let the board know … Continue reading
Paypal and Ethical Business
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 … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux, SPI, Web Development
Tagged company, election, foundation, merchant service, money, payment service, paypal, registration, scammers, transfer, xorg
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SPI February 2010
The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC (an hour earlier than last month, back at usual time). It’s another pretty lean meeting and I don’t know why. Last … Continue reading
Posted in SPI, Web Development
Tagged board, git, help, ikiwiki, irc, meeting, SPI, volunteers, website
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Home Access Scheme or Hope Abandoned to Scandal?
After its puff by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in newspapers and his podcast (mp3 file link) I’ve had a few people asking about the Home Access Scheme where families apply for a package from a closed list of six suppliers of new PCs, software and internet access. No … Continue reading
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Get the Survey Monkey Off Your Back
I’ve been asked why I dislike surveymonkey surveys, I don’t want to reply fully in that forum (because it’s off-topic there) and I want to publish this for your feedback now. surveymonkey really frustrates me. In short, it’s often confusing, … Continue reading
Posted in SPI
Tagged askpeople, co-op, doodle, google docs, limeservice, limesurvey, surveymonkey
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SPI January 2010
A clear announcement went out in plenty of time and the meeting agenda is already posted for Wednesday’s SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2100 UTC (an hour later than recently). As I write this, it’s a pretty … Continue reading
Anyone with TLC for Mac VLC?
VLC is free and open source portable media player software that supports a lot of formats and inputs and can also convert and stream. I think it’s been pretty useful for users who didn’t like MPlayer for whatever reason. Nicole … Continue reading
2009 Top 10 Software Cooperative News
Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books was the most-viewed news item on my blog this year. Once again, a lock-out/bad-business story takes the top spot. I don’t think that one got as much coverage in the mainstream media as they usually do, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, SPI, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged #ukgovOSS, amazon, apache, authentication, board, Cooperatives, foundation, httpd, j2me, kindle, midp, pam, richard, rothwell, security, SPI, ssh, top 10, windows 7
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Do you think Directgov Delivers?
Directgov is the Government’s official website for the general public. As both a member of the public and a parish councillor, I use it fairly often to look things up. Sometimes it’s surprisingly good, but much of the time, it’s a frustrating page-hunt and leaves me going around … Continue reading
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