Software Cooperative News

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 been reading debian-legal and -vote for years and this ballot confuses me. [...]

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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 proposed actions, so I guess it’ll be a very short meeting. Disappointing.
Watch the [...]

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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 unanswered – not sure why
I asked 3 how to switch off IWF filtering on Tuesday – [...]

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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 the Spanish economy. The list also shows that co-operatives are growing in terms of turnover 14%”

Also, [...]

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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 in the comments here.
Anything you like on the Standalone Sysadmin [...]

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