Category Archives: Education, Training and Information

exim4 acl_whitelist_local_deny change causes some blacklisting

2009-07-17 by mjr

This was simpler… We test some anti-spam tools on the TTLLP mailserver. Some of those include exim ACLs that do various checks and tricks. Since the upgrade to debian 5.0, some of our incoming email had been delayed. The first … Continue reading →

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Consumers, Boycotts and Cooperatives

2009-07-15 by mjr

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 →

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OCLC Record Use: Reboot

2009-07-07 by mjr

Disruptive Library Technology Jester reports that OCLC Formally Withdraws Proposed Record Use Policy. The Series Table of Contents there gives a pretty good history, or you can read my past comments in Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP and OCLC Library … Continue reading →

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Oh no! Ex-MP Richard Allan hired to make the EU more Facebook-friendly

2009-07-06 by mjr

As you may remember from my Google-WEF rant a few years ago, I strongly believe that governments should regulate private corporations and not the other way round. It is part of our job as business owners to try to stay … Continue reading →

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Digital Britain Report: first glance

2009-07-01 by mjr

The Digital Britain Report was published on 16 June 2009. I only got time to look at it quickly recently because this is one of the co-op AGM seasons. At first glance, it misses the mark. It doesn’t do anything … Continue reading →

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Heatwave!

2009-06-29 by mjr

Well, what passes for a heat wave in England: “an average threshold temperature is 30 °C by day and 15 °C overnight” according to the Met Office: Heat-Health Watch. So, I’ll be following HOWTO not melt – keeping cool at … Continue reading →

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qpsmtpd Improved Things

2009-06-19 by mjr

As you may remember from past problems with joe-jobs, TTLLP still has a few (maybe only one left?) qmail servers rattling around. The comments on spam-filtering suggested a few possibilities for easing matters. As I wrote I would, I gave … Continue reading →

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Timeclock Functions in my .emacs

2009-06-08 by mjr

I’ve a ton of stuff that I want to write up, but the business busy-ness I mentioned in Elect MEPs for Freedom Now continues unabated. I’ve a good business reason for publishing these Emacs snippets, so here we go… I … Continue reading →

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Koha IRC General Meeting Report

2009-05-07 by mjr

The Koha IRC General Meeting finished quite late for us Europeans, so LibLime Developers’ Blog: Koha project IRC meeting (Galen Charlton) was the first report to appear. Rather than repeat it here, go read it there. See you on the … Continue reading →

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Koha IRC General Meeting

2009-05-06 by mjr

There will be a general meeting on the #koha IRC channel on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 at 19:00 UTC with a nominal finish time of 21:00. To convert to your timezone, try date -d @1241636400 (thanks to SPI (Joerg?) for … Continue reading →

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