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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Looking Back: 2008 Part 3
This is the final part of my review of popular articles on my news websites during 2008. It follows part 1 and part 2, but it can be enjoyed on its own, like an nice ripe cheese. Unlike one friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged 2008, articles, blog, bookmarking, ethics, news, plesk, quiz, review, ssh, webmail, year
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Looking Back: 2008 Part 2
This is a continuation from part 1 but can be enjoyed on its own too, like a good red wine. It’s a bit early for me for red wine, though. May BBC TV: Click: Free=beer and facebook-flaming – my letter … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged 2008, articles, blog, news, review, SPI, telecoms, year
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Looking Back: 2008 Part 1
Over the next few days, I’m looking at the most popular articles from this site and my previous news website during 2008. I’ll be doing it in three parts. Popularity is measured by page views from local access logs, but … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged 2008, articles, blog, microblogging, news, review, year
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Representing Developers
Open and voluntary membership is a point of principle for me, so I see SPI’s membership structure as a big plus. As I wrote back in August: In my opinion, a key difference of Software in the Public Interest is … Continue reading
Posted in SPI
Tagged board, fsfe, irc, meeting, membership, open, representation, SPI, voluntary
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Results of Which Social Bookmarking?
I asked Which Social Bookmarking? almost a month ago. I was looking for a service which:- is run on free software provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK) provides all my bookmarks for download/backup … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged bookmarks, connotea, free software, magnolia, rubric, social bookmarking
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Debian, Lenny GR and the Secretary
Two policy issues have been brewing in debian and I’ve been mostly quiet about them because I’ve been busy with TTLLP work. One is the Lenny release GR which I’m still trying to make sense of. I mean: yikes! I’ve … Continue reading
SPI December 2008
The monthly board meeting of SPI will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 17 Dec) at 20:00 UTC. As it says in the meeting announcement, none of the officers have prepared their reports in advance and there are no … Continue reading
British Residential ISP Censorship News
Last week I reported that 95% of British Residential ISPs Censor – but I think I’m OK, so I’d like to quickly update on what I’ve seen happen since then:- My question to the Phone Coop’s election candidates has gone … Continue reading
Posted in ThePhoneCoop
Tagged animal farm, censorship, filtering, internet, isps, orwell, phonecoop, three, virgin
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Global 300 and chances to invest in a fuel co-op or meet Cooperatives-SW
The new Global 300 list has been released this week:- “the 300 top co-operatives are responsible for an aggregate turnover of 1.1 trillion USD which makes it the size of the 10th economy of the world nearly the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged biofuels, cooperatives, exeter, global 300, meeting, plymouth, south-west england
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Smart Tricks with ssh
Host * ControlPath ~/.ssh/sock/%r@%h:%p ControlMaster auto from Nijel’s weblog: Speed up SSH logins – is there any disadvantage to this? Also, “completition” is a great typo along the lines of my frequent “abou tit” one. ServerAliveInterval 3600 for reasons explained … Continue reading