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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Hi, Why Are You Doing?
In a great post a few days ago, Jono asks why you are doing free software and reminds us to remember it. It’s quite easy to lose sight of our goals and motivations while working on the day-to-day tasks. This … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information
Tagged community, cooperative, ethos, foss, free software, goals, jono, linux, motivation, principles, values
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Audio Processing Tips for ffmpeg
I did some sound file mangling earlier this week. I’ve been using the Bambuser app for Symbian recently to capture some recordings. If you tell their site your User-Agent is a mobile browser, it’ll work OK with free software – … Continue reading
Library Cuts
Another day, another story about #ukgov cuts and today it’s the turn of libraries. When I turned on the TV at breakfast, they were discussing BBC: A novel idea: Take a look inside the library pub. There’s also a discussion … Continue reading
Posted in Koha
Tagged bbc, breakfast, consultation, council, cuts, debt-crisis, Koha, library, microbranches, pub
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Reasons to use cat unnecessarily
Recently, I read on planet debian another rant along the lines of “why oh why do people use cat when they could just redirect from a file?” – but not that this is a new complaint from expert users. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux
Tagged cat, debian, destruction, overwrite, rant, redirection, script, shell, typo
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Respond to the European Consultation on Library RFID
As you may remember, our co-op is working on various RFID (radio tags instead of barcodes, basically) extensions for Koha. One of the main ethical concerns about RFID is privacy – if done wrong, it could become quite easy to … Continue reading
Posted in Koha
Tagged consultation, ec, ethics, eu, europe, government, Koha, library, privacy, review, software
5 Comments
Welcome Back
I’m back. Where have I been? I was in Portishead, Plymouth and Taunton in Co-operatives Fortnight back in late June/early July. I seemed to spend July flat out with work trying to catch up again, then I fell ill just … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged business, co-op, cooperatives, event, Koha, mobile
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