Software Cooperative News

I don’t think it will be a surprise to anyone, but Ananova reports: No-one getting top broadband speeds based on the Ofcom/SamKnows/GfK research.
In the village where I live, our “up to 8Mbps” service is stable at about 4. As I mentioned previously, it will go faster, but it will break. Our end of [...]

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Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is currently electing to fill two vacant seats on its board. The dates aren’t shown on the vote pages, but on the email: voting closes at 2009-07-28 23:59:59 UTC (UK residents note: UTC not BST). In other words, if you’re an SPI member, vote now!
Here are my [...]

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I’ve been reading ebooks for years, since I had a Palm IIIe. It’s probably approaching ten years, looking at the sale date of the IIIe. Now I read them on my mobile phone (see app 7).
One common thread all the way through has been my scepticism of locked ebooks. I won’t buy [...]

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Some of you may remember Richard Rothwell from the AFFS conference at Handsworth a few years ago, or maybe through his work with M6-IT.
He sadly died on Friday 17th July. There is a tribute website set up for him:
“Adored son, brother, husband, father, and friend, Richard decided that he no longer wished to be here, [...]

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This was simpler…

We test some anti-spam tools on the TTLLP mailserver. Some of those include exim ACLs that do various checks and tricks. Since the upgrade to debian 5.0, some of our incoming email had been delayed. The first problem is summarised by this NEWS entry:-
“exim4 (4.67-6) unstable; urgency=low

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