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Dustin Eyejuice – 'An Evening with Dustin Eyejuce'

In this series of segments, local man (thick Plymouthian accent, aged about 29.. not a janner as such) Dustin Eyejuice offers helpful advice to listeners as...

Dustin Eyejuice – Introducing Hammers

In this series of segments, local man (thick Plymouthian accent, aged about 29.. not a janner as such) Dustin Eyejuice offers helpful advice to listeners as...

Dustin Eyejuice – Classic Rock Ballads

In this series of segments, local man (thick Plymouthian accent, aged about 29.. not a janner as such) Dustin Eyejuice offers helpful advice to listeners as...

Manchester Free Software

Manchester Free Software Manchester Free Software was formed in response to a growing apparent need for a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on...

Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks Was on #lugradio, chatting and Cillian asked for a recipe for Sweet and Sour sauce. A quick web search...

American Politics

The Deal With Boredom – 01

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Oppose Audio Copy Protection

Just when science is making it possible to copy music perfectly, record companies are trying to make it impossible again, with government-enforced copy...

Seagull becomes crisp shoplifter

Seagull becomes crisp shoplifter The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started paying for his crisps.

Personal names around the world

Personal names around the world People who create web forms, databases, or ontologies in English-speaking countries are often unaware how different...

myExperiment secret word

GNU General Public License Version 3: A Legal View

Mark Radcliffe, General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative’s take on GNU GPL v3.

Gobuntu – maybe not a stooge distro after all?

Gobuntu is an upcoming official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system, aiming to provide a distribution consisting entirely of free software. You can try...

How Stallman operates his computer

I use gNewSense, a GNU/Linux distro. I chose that distro because it has the policy of rejecting non-free software. There are two other installable distros...

GPL: fear is the key

A great article talking about how technology writers are spreading FUD about the GPLv3.

Red Hat make ‘Liberation’ fonts available under GNU GPL

Download them now. Also Installing them on Debian/Ubuntu. (thx Ruairi)

iPhone limits Wi-Fi usage to 150/month

AT&T need to be laughed out of business. “To ensure that the Wi-Fi Service is not being used fraudulently, AT&T limits your usage of the Wi-Fi Service to 150...

Where Are The (Mashable) Joneses?

Mashable files on The Internet Archive now. Sadly, only encumbered formats for now. Add your support to Theora, MPEG-2 and DV files.

Jono posted about how he had started using Banshee. I generally tend to use Amarok, but it’s a KDE application and not quite as integrated with GNOME as I’d...

Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases

More good news – The Samba project have adopted GPLv3 as the license for future releases of Samba. This move strengthens the position of the project and will...

BBC iPlayer Petition

Sign this – http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ – to protest the BBC iPlayer using proprietary software.

Music industry attacks newspaper’s free Prince CD

Oh my word. Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper’s free Prince CD The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national...

And then there were three…

So, finally.. after 16 years, it happened. Today we released Version 3 of the GNU General Public License. Previously, we had GPLv2 (1991) and GPLv1 (1989)....

Final version of GNU GPL v3

This is the final version of the brand-new GNU GPL. read more | digg story

iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

Not everyone in the continental U.S. will be waiting in line to purchase a $500 iPhone. In fact, hundreds of thousands of digital aficionados around the...

Great free music album

Found this today – WhiteRoom – WhiteRoom – really good free (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) album.

Not going to Hack Day

I had been planning to go to the Yahoo hack day, now I’m not. Main reason:- “Organisers further reserve the right to disqualify any Hack which is, in its...

LUGRadio Live 2007: Freedom March video

Promoting LUGRadio Live 2007 on the 7th and 8th July 2007, the LUGRadio team has released this promotional video. With 40 speakers, a full exhibition,...

Why does it seem one-upmanship and snootery are more prevalent in UK geek culture than in the US?

Why does it seem one-upmanship and snootery are more prevalent in UK geek culture than in the US? It’s really weird. I’ve felt this for a long time. It’s...

Saw this for sale today – The Rutles – Archaeology (2007). It’s a re-release of the album, with all the Japanese bonus tracks, plus ‘Under My Skin’ and ‘Rut-...

How do I hit people?

Fun in Second Life.

Free Culture and Free Software

I posted this earlier. In it, I argue that Free Culture advocates need to embrace Free Software generally, even if it means they can’t play Second Life. This...

I think Wikipedia is trying to tell me something…

So, I got my password wrong. It’s 4.26am. ‘Avoid Trips’ – yeah, thanks Jimmy.

celebratory purchase order

Idle still twat

Dear The 1970s, Please return the comedian ‘Eric Idle’ to us immediately. He has become a shadow of his former self and dick at the same time. Yours in time,...

Here be dragons

Don’t look up your mates poncy portfolio picture or random girls you fancied a decade ago on a social network. Both are unappealing.

John Sullivan’s Nokia E61 notes.

Dear Advertising agencies,

Please make your adverts for technology companies easier to understand. I have no idea what the IBM ‘Are you special?’ campaign is about; same with...

I want free music

Here’s my reply to Daniel Ayers‘ (Columbia Records Digital Marketing) post ‘Do you really want free music?‘ Copied here for posterity. FYI – GoodBooks is the...

Listening to bands that insist on using proprietary technology

So, there’s a band your friend tells you about – maybe they’re the manager – and the band has a new release out. It’s on a major label, but you’re happy to...

My new perfection

Sometimes things donâ€™t always work out the way you want. Sometimes the things you want so much never come along, and you have to find a way to deal with...

DRb, Ferret and Rails

John Leachâ€™s Blog Â» News Sniffer, Ferret and Rails

Taking freedom further

What better way to justify the proprietary bits of Ubuntu than a practically useless stooge distro to point at whenever we’re questioned The best ELER evar.

Markdown in Javascript

Markdown in Javascript This is very cool.

Hear me on LUGradio

So, last week I recorded an episode of LUGradio with Jono, Aq and Chris from Canonical. It’s pretty good – I’m right at the beginning of the episode, talking...

Free Software Consultants

So, my friend John is now self-employed, and has started his own business. ifup are IT consultants specialising in Free Software and GNU/Linux Please give...

More of my book I was returning home. It had been about seven months since I’d last faced up to it. This time it felt different, like an air of change had...

Global variables in Rails

in app/controllers/application.rb add:- before_filter :foo and then:- def foo @blah = Monkey.find(:first) end This had been bugging me for ages and it turns...

Free Software Foundation releases third discussion draft of GPLv3

The community drafting process created to revise the document whose principles shape much of the free software and free culture movements—the GNU General...

When IRC gets nasty

Got this today. Are you and $colleague willing to step down yet? This is just becoming upsetting, we don’t want to have to get $leader involved. It’s...