Software Cooperative News

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
# Example: recordstream 09:00 09:55 -Otalk.ogv http://server:8000/stream
start=$1
end=$2
shift 2
( echo wget -q “$@” ‘&’
echo ‘echo $! > $HOME/wget.pid’ [...]

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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 been doing this, in order to make friendly-friendly with gov.uk, (do their customers know [...]

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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, it’s good to have secondary ones, both in the same hosting facility (for fast replacement [...]

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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 couple of weeks ago, I asked why people do and don’t join SPI? The answers I got [...]

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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 as they approach, start and finish.
While I was watching Martin F. Krafft’s talk yesterday [...]

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