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Category Archives: Education, Training and Information
debian kernel, firmware and virtualisation
The debian GNU/Linux kernel’s firmware content is one of the most troubling bugs, and (as I understand it): it mostly came from upstream (so fixing it only in debian isn’t sustainable), it’s something some FSF supporters kick us for (often … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux
Tagged debian, dom0, firmware, kernel, openvz, team, virtualisation, xen
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Final Decision Time: Koha Foundation Options
Thomas Dukleth writes in: “Remember to vote for your choices in the final Koha foundation forming election before the poll closes on the 25th. Turnout in the final Koha foundation forming election is lower than in the previous preliminary poll … Continue reading
Posted in Koha, SPI
Tagged association, forming, foundation, Koha, organisation, poll, voting
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Some Good Does Come From Ubuntu
I’ve been mouthing off about Ubuntu again, after the forthcoming release parties were advertised in some pretty inappropriate places, lamenting: “Ubuntu has taken a voluntary-sector aim-for-100%-free distribution, built a private-sector free-and-non-free distribution and gets more love and free marketing from … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux
Tagged accessibility, bug, colour, debian, diff, foss, free software, gnu, mailman, ubuntu
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Sharing git repositories
Our co-op uses the git revision control system pretty extensively, both directly and through etckeeper. With more workers, we’re keeping more shared copies of our git repositories. So inevitably, we ran into permissions problems. Thanks a lot to Moser for … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux
Tagged config, cooperative, etckeeper, git, repository, revision control, settings, shared, umask, version control
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Koha.org Desires Poll Results
Here are the results of the Koha Foundation Desires poll. More than 75% of respondants support the Koha foundation/association doing these things:- 1. ensure the ongoing shared governance of the project = 32 out of 35 = 91.43% 2. owning … Continue reading
Concentration, Community and Cooperation
I read the news about the launch of Ubuntu User by Linux New Media AG with some sadness. I believe that free software is stronger because of the informal cooperation between different distributions that usually do different jobs. It lets … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information
Tagged collaboration, community, concentration, cooperation, gentoo, ubuntu, user
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Strange Spammer Sightings
I’ve seen a couple of the conversation-spams described in Misspelled nemesis club: A new twist on spam? It looks like they exploit the typically weak moderation practices of many software discussion mailing lists. Do you think they are human-powered? Are … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux
Tagged authenticated, conversations, email, missing*email*address, smtp, spam
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Big Bad Biased Bing and Other Search Alternatives
Away from the Yagooglive search engines, there have been some recent changes in the search space. Bing launched a while ago, but I’ve only just read from Anglian LUG that Bing is badly biased, returning pretty poor results for openoffice, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information
Tagged alternative, bing, clusty, engine, google, live, quintura, search, searchme, yahoo
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Co-op Sells Boxed Fairtrade T-shirts
I’ve done a bit of investigating ethical Free Software T-Shirts here in the past. Even when they’re available, it seems a bit odd to buy a fairtrade t-shirt and then get it in plastic wrap and/or on a plastic hanger … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information
Tagged cooperative, cotton, ethical, free software, t-shirts
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PHP mime_content_type Alternatives In Debian 5.0
We were called in to help someone with a failing file upload feature on a PHP website. It turned out that we’d recently upgraded their server to debian 5.0 and the mime_content_type() PHP function was no longer available. This isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged content, file, fileinfo, finfo_file, mime, mime_content_type, php, type, uploads
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