Category Archives: Education, Training and Information

How hard can typing æ, ø and å be?

2018-02-21 by mjr

Petter Reinholdtsen: How hard can æ, ø and å be? comments on the rubbish state of till printers and their mishandling of foreign characters. Last week, I was trying to type an email, on a tablet, in Dutch. The tablet … Continue reading →

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Rinse and repeat

2016-10-18 by mjr

Forgive me, reader, for I have sinned. It has been over a year since my last blog post. Life got busy. Paid work. Another round of challenges managing my chronic illness. Cycle campaigning. Fun bike rides. Friends. Family. Travels. Other … Continue reading →

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Recorrecting Past Mistakes: Window Borders and Edges

2015-05-14 by mjr

A while ago, I switched from tritium to herbstluftwm. In general, it’s been a good move, benefitting from active development and greater stability, even if I do slightly mourn the move from python scripting to a shell client. One thing … Continue reading →

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Social Network Wishlist

2015-01-08 by mjr

All I want for 2015 is a Free/Open Source Software social network which is: easy to register on (no reCaptcha disability-discriminator or similar, a simple openID, activation emails that actually arrive); has an email help address or online support or … Continue reading →

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GPG Transition Statement

2014-12-30 by mjr

Rather late but I guess that just confirms it’s really me, right? 😉 The signed text and IDs should be at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/transition-statement.txt Thank you if you help me out here 🙂 I’ll resign keys in a while.

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New comments methods

2014-06-25 by mjr

After years of resisting it, I’ve added the least evil Twitter/Facebook comments plugin I could find to this blog as a test and updated the comments policy a little. Please kick the tyres and try commenting to see if it … Continue reading →

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Send updates to live cycling news reports to the speech synth

2013-09-29 by mjr

The BBC coverage of the UCI Women Road Race World Championship wasn’t starting until 3pm, BBC Radio 5 Live had football and Sports Extra was playing an advert loop (really BBC?), Eurosport wasn’t covering the race at all, RAI Sport … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to Debian 7 wheezy

2013-09-13 by mjr

So I have upgraded my main workstation at last, but there are a few things I wanted to figure out. Some of these I found an answer to, but others I haven’t and some answers open more questions: Where did … Continue reading →

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Misusing a Royal Baby and Child Porn to Censor The Internet

2013-07-23 by mjr

There’s been some media coverage at the start of this week about blocking child porn. Except it’s not about child porn – that’s a trojan horse. People who want to access pornography that is already illegal (Protection of Children Act … Continue reading →

Posted in Democracy, Education, Training and Information, SPI | 1 Comment

What’s the current state of Windows Anti-Virus?

2013-06-20 by mjr

One of our co-op’s clients asked me what I use for anti-virus at the moment and tips for what they should use on their Windows system. Well, flame me now, but I don’t actually use any anti-virus at the moment: … Continue reading →

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