Category Archives: Education, Training and Information

WordCamp UK, 17-18 July 2010 in Manchester

2009-12-17 by mjr

Advance notice of WordCamp UK 2010 on 17-18 July 2010 in Manchester. Ticket sales expected in early April 2010. I voted for the Portsmouth bid, so of course Manchester won(!) I’ve passed the event details to our co-op for consideration. … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 3 Introduces Reply-To List

2009-12-16 by mjr

I’ve kept a page of email clients that support mailing lists for a while and it’s been a bit disappointing that I couldn’t suggest Mozilla Thunderbird or its freer derivatives (IceDove?) as good clients. They work fine in most other … Continue reading →

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On The Road, #online09 and #koha

2009-12-03 by mjr

It was great to meet the newest member of our co-op yesterday and discuss a new ethical business referral network, but I’ve barely spent any time back at home and I’m heading out again, partly to visit online09 and IMS, … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Crimes of Developer Engagement: a common problem?

2009-11-30 by mjr

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 … Continue reading →

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Who wikis Who in British Librarianship

2009-11-26 by mjr

It’s great to discover this experimental wikified version of W. A. Munford’s Who was Who in British Librarianship 1800-1985 (1987). As a statistician who has strayed into serving libraries, I don’t know many of the famous names and a lot … Continue reading →

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US Defense or Sirsi-Dynix – which is more credible?

2009-11-23 by mjr

Most librarians probably already know this, but maybe the programmers don’t yet. A SirsiDynix Corp lobby paper against Open Source technologies escaped onto the internet. SirsiDynix is a competitor of our co-op with products that compete with Koha. They’re also … Continue reading →

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ssh with unstable and mobile clients

2009-11-21 by mjr

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 … Continue reading →

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Cookies: Ask Me Every Time – by law?

2009-11-20 by mjr

SME Web – Internet advertisers: New cookie laws approved: reports that: “internet users will have to provide consent to cookies being stored on their computers. This could result in them being bombarded with pop-ups seeking their permission to accept the … Continue reading →

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A browser tip I should have known before…

2009-11-18 by mjr

I knew that / (slash) activated the Quick Find in Firefox and its close relations, but I didn’t know that ‘ (apostrophe) activated a Quick Find (in links). That’s quite helpful when jumping through web admin interfaces where I know … Continue reading →

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ssh security

2009-11-04 by mjr

A periodic security review at our co-op suggested switching PasswordAuthentication no on even more hosts. One of those caused a bit of a heated discussion about the benefits of increased security and the drawbacks of making emergency access harder, reminding … Continue reading →

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