Software Cooperative News

Apparently the LUG’s website is still off-line and there’s no idea when it will return, so let me use this site to help announce that the LUG’s regular meeting at the Knights Templar public house, near Isambard Walk, Bristol, will happen tomorrow Saturday 23 August from noon-ish until whenever people drift away.
Software Freedom Day happens [...]

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I’ve ordered some USB charging leads for various portable devices, mainly because I’ve already got mains-USB and car-USB power adapters (they came with a bluetooth headset that charges from USB) and I agree with things like this:
“management of an individual charger for each device is becoming a pain in the backside. Since the USB power [...]

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According to a recent article, 6 Common Website Mistakes That Cost Money are:

1. JavaScript or other crawler-unfriendly navigation that may impede indexing

This one is best avoided at design-time, by including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Level A in the design brief, but if you’ve ended up with JavaScript-based navigation on your site (check by doing [...]

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I had a small chuckle at the delay to Debian Project news because the listserver filter treated it as if an event was on Free Ando Penis Land. Parties in Scunthorpe and Penistone may have a similar problem.
At least it got through eventually. If only Yahoo was as responsive as debian listmasters…
Incidentally, while [...]

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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 finally getting easier, Apple lead the way in locked-down portable players, with their [...]

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