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Category Archives: ThePhoneCoop
Dot-coop Domain Renewal Hell
Without emailing us in advance, UK.domains.coop just expired our software.coop domain on 29 October instead of 5 November. When I looked at the renewal option in the control panel, the fees have increased by about 30% since last year. I … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, ThePhoneCoop
Tagged cooperatives, domain registration, dot-coop, service, software.coop, support
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Time to Re-Regulate the UK Mobile Phone Market
One of the things I wished for last month was a decent cooperative pay-as-you-go mobile phone service. About the same time, Ofcom started a social web consultation about mobile phone services. Now there’s an excellent presentation by Vivian Woodall, Chief … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged co-op, mobile phone, ofcom, orange, phone, problems, regulation, t-mobile, three, vodafone
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The Phone Coop, Best Social Enterprise 2008
ThePhoneCoop Congratulations to all our friends at The Phone Coop for winning the Best Social Enterprise Award at the Enterprising Solutions Awards 2008 yesterday. (TTLLP is an agent and I’m a member personally too.) Longer report at Cooperatives-UK. Comiserations to … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged award, banks, co-op, icelandic, phone, social enterprise
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“your country continues to turn into Big Brother”
Just received this comment from Jimmy Kaplowitz over in the US: “yuck, your country continues to turn into Big Brother: BBC News: Giant database plan ‘Orwellian’” Hell, yeah. That’s a reason why my support for the party is so weak … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged allegations, encryption, fascist state, labour, stand, terrorism, tory, uk
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Improved Telecom Package Passed by EuroParl
or “how did we do Batting Against Three Strikes through the Back Door?” In the latest EDRI-gram, there’s a report on the telecoms package EuroParl vote which is mostly positive. Thankfully both the Harbour and Trautmann reports were amended in … Continue reading
Three Internet (GPRS) with Sony Ericsson k608i and GNU/Linux
One massive annoyance with last week’s trip to the L2SE conference was the terrible state of WiFi access in London. I’d actually paid a little extra for first class on the home trip because it gives access to Paddington’s Victorian … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged cloud, extortionate, fon, gprs, internet, pan, ppp, pppd, three, wifi
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The Trouble With Big Webmail
So last week, a relative commented to me that a solicitor sent a letter in reply to an email. I suggested that it might be because the email reply address was on one of the major free web email providers. … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged anti-competitive, attack, big webmail, crackers, gmail, google, hotmail, spam, unreliable, yahoo
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International Development Webcast 30 September 2008
At 1900 BST tonight (30 September), you can take part in an international development webcast by one of my cooperatives, with guests from the Cooperative College, the International Cooperative Alliance and the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Center. Sadly, they’re still … Continue reading
Another Wednesday, Another Joe-Job
Yesterday, another of our mailboxes got joe-jobbed, just like last week. Again, it was one of our Exim servers (yes, one got done along with a qmail last week). Again, it was an address that should never appear as the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information, GNU/Linux, ThePhoneCoop, Web Development
Tagged acl, exim, joe job, plesk, smtp, spam, yahoo
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Web Foundation and While I Was Out
I concentrated on work after my return to the keyboard last week and then spent much of the weekend reroofing a shed, so today was my first day catching up with the news. Here’s what I noticed:- One of my … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux, Koha, ThePhoneCoop, Web Development
Tagged debian, facebook, iPhone, iWatering, Koha, linkedin, mozilla, news, roles, w3foundation, web foundation
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