Reviews for UKUUG Newsletter of:
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
by Jeremy Jones and Noah Gift
The Google Way by Bernard Girard.
Also a review of:
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.
Last updated: Monday 15th June 2009
Monday 15th June 2009
Saturday 23rd May 2009
Friday 15th May 2009
It might be quite fun if this one goes "viral" and stirs things up even more
in the UK:
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/27778.html.
Thursday 14th May 2009
Trip to Lille on Tuesday.
Notice the bizarre (but hopefully temporary) public art, and the continuing cactus theme.
Sunday 10th May 2009
The Guardian reports on complaints that the police were using agents provacateurs at the G20 protests.
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.
Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed through the cordon.
See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs.
Tuesday 5th May 2009
Repotting Cacti is difficult even with thick gardening gloves.
Results here.
Tuesday 28th April 2009
Three stories about the end of the "7/7 helpers trial".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8023148.stm
http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/2009/04/no-justice-no-truthyet.html
http://antagonise.blogspot.com/2009/04/another-miscarriage-of-justice-averted.html.
Tuesday 28th April 2009
Tuesday 28th April 2009
The story about collusion between the Government and Phorm is also on Slashdot.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/28/1759254.
See also:
http://disruptive.org.uk/2009/04/28/phorm_3.html
http://disruptive.org.uk/2008/03/26/phorm_2.html
http://disruptive.org.uk/2008/03/23/phorm.html.
Tuesday 28th April 2009
It seems that the government has been secretly supporting and advising Phorm.
The Home Office has been accused of colluding with online ad firm Phorm on
"informal guidance" to the public on whether the company's service is legal.
E-mails between the ministry and Phorm show the department asking if the firm
would be "comforted" by its position.
The messages show Phorm making changes to the guidance sought by the ministry.
Lib Dem Home Affairs spokeswoman Baroness Sue Miller, who has questioned the
Home Office about Phorm, said the e-mails were "jaw dropping".