Monthly Archives: August 2009

Everyone and his dog has their multihost ssh so why not me?

2009-08-28 by mjr

I call this sshtomany: #!/bin/bash cmd=”$*” cmd=”${cmd/#* . /}” [ “$cmd” = “$*” ] && echo “Usage: $0 [HOSTS] . [COMMAND]” && exit 127 while [ “$1” != . ] && ssh $1 -vt $cmd ; do echo Success at … Continue reading →

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Avon and Somerset Police’s Worrying Approach to High-Tech Crime

2009-08-27 by mjr

Last week, I wondered about Green or Pirate Party Membership and got some good comments. Thanks to all for those. There seemed a slim leaning towards the Greens and a good point made that “Pirate Party” is a very bad name in a coastal area like mine. I’ve ranted … Continue reading →

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Youth Freedom and an IRC Q+A

2009-08-24 by mjr

Advertisers try to “get ’em young” to get them buying their wares from an early age. So why don’t we advertise freedom at young people more? The younger we make them aware of freedom, the more time they’ll spend defending … Continue reading →

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Green or Pirate Party Membership?

2009-08-20 by mjr

Cooperators are spoiled for choice in the UK because all the major parties say nice things about cooperatives and there’s even the Cooperative Party, but a lot of us who take a sharing view to software (usually Free and Open Source Software) are concerned by the attitudes of the Top … Continue reading →

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SPI August 2009

2009-08-19 by mjr

The monthly board meeting of Software in the Public Interest will take place on irc.oftc.net #spi tonight (Wed 19 August) at 20:00 UTC. The meeting announcement was posted and the main business is selecting the officers after the SPI Voting … Continue reading →

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Python 3 and Backwards Compatibility?

2009-08-18 by mjr

A while ago, we had a big discussion in the software.coop about what programming language we should prefer when we have a completely free choice. Ultimately, while all the workers have our own favourites (like my Lisp and Perl bias), … Continue reading →

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#ukgovoss and Poor gov.uk Websites

2009-08-17 by mjr

Using gov.uk websites is an ordeal at the best of time. Even the most polished websites tend to reflect the structure of the government body, which I find counter-intuitive – and I’m a councillor who pays attention to these things. … Continue reading →

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Would you help to Connect SouthWest England?

2009-08-14 by mjr

Martha Lane Fox, the recently appointed Champion for Digital Inclusion visited Bristol recently and met Bristol Wireless Community Cooperative. I follow Digital Inclusion topics, but I only heard about that after the event because of a technical fault on ConnectingBristol.org, … Continue reading →

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Facebook Disrupts Activism

2009-08-11 by mjr

Last week, I caused a little bit of upset by using the wrong word when questioning why an online course was advertising Facebook in its title. (Another typical MJR tact failure… I’m sure many people can guess how it went … Continue reading →

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Karoo Chooses to Start Three-Strikes

2009-08-08 by mjr

You may remember that I did some work last year campaigning against the “three strikes and you’re out” disconnect system, where suspected filesharers are disconnected from the internet after the third allegation is made. That’s allegation, not any sort of … Continue reading →

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