Category Archives: Education, Training and Information

Would a Real Free Software Developer Group Bite Apple Like FSF Did?

2008-08-20 by mjr

I’ve been installing free software for library cataloguing onto Apples recently. It’s not been great (GNU/Linux is still easier and faster, in my opinion) but it has worked much better than older Macs. As well as making servers that are … Continue reading →

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Using at to Record DebConf Streams

2008-08-19 by mjr

While I enjoyed watching some of the DebConf 8 Video Team’s Excellent Service, not all of it was at convenient times for me, being several timezones away, so I used the following script to record some of the streams:- #!/bin/sh … Continue reading →

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Gov.UK Consults on Forced ISP Snooping: Please Say NO

2008-08-15 by mjr

Argh! Our beloved leaders have just started a consultation on making it mandatory for internet service providers to keep email and web logs for a year and deliver them to local councils and police on request. Large ISPs have already … Continue reading →

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MyDNS-NG 1.2.8.3 May Solve “out of memory” Problem on OpenVZ

2008-08-14 by mjr

Nameservers are part of the basic infrastructure of the internet, translating names like www.software.coop into numbers like 86.7.8.9. You really don’t want them to be completely unreachable because it breaks lots of things, so as well as the primary nameserver, … Continue reading →

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SPI Meeting Announcement and Why People Don’t Join SPI

2008-08-13 by mjr

Jimmy Kaplowitz writes: “Software in the Public Interest, Inc., will hold a public board of directors meeting on Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 19:00 UTC. […] SPI meetings are held on the OFTC IRC network, irc.oftc.net, in #spi. […] Agenda“ A … Continue reading →

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DebConf 8 Video Team Gives Excellent Service

2008-08-12 by mjr

DebConf, the annual Debian Conference, is held this year in Mar del Plata, Argentina. One sometimes-overlooked part of this is the brilliant video streaming service, with each stream supported by an IRC feedback channel including announcement of talks and events … Continue reading →

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Don’t Attack Your Users

2008-08-12 by mjr

It seems to me like basic business common sense not to attack your software’s users, because they’re people who might fund your future development work, when they want some new feature adding or some adaptation making. We should hope that … Continue reading →

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RFID Security and Stability

2008-08-07 by mjr

While developing an RFID extension for the Koha library catalogue system over the last few months, I’ve learned a lot about I-Code tags and security systems, but I’ve not yet looked into Mifare, which is the other big RFID product … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 Online Banking List Updates and WordPress 2.6 Upgrades

2008-08-04 by mjr

Software Cooperative News has been upgraded to WordPress 2.6 (and other co-hosted sites too), the “subscribe to comments” plugin has been activated and all comments will be pre-moderated from now on. There’s a few more changes to come, but hopefully … Continue reading →

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Debian 4.0-updated (“etch and a half”)

2008-07-31 by mjr

“The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). In addition to correcting several security problems and a few serious defects in the stable release, for the first time in … Continue reading →

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