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Thursday, December 08, 2005
  Who's site is it anyway?
Who's site is it anyway?
from the web-privacy dept.

The BBC is reporting on a US congressional report that has shown that more than 5% of registered domains have been registered with "patently false" data (such as addresses and phone numbers).

Supporting this scaremongering, the BBC goes on to say "The findings could mean that many websites are fronts for spammers, phishing gangs and other net criminals."

Or could it be that there are other domain owners like myself, that don't want every Tom Dick and Harry using WHOIS and phoning me or turning up on my doorstep.
 
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
  Free at last
Free at last
from the open-source-principles dept.

There are some Debian (and thus Ubuntu) packages that are not compatible with RMS' definition of true "Free Software".

So I installed vrms, the "Virtual Richard M Stallman" to check for these packages. After removing the ones that didn't comply (which I didn't really need anyway), I now get

niceguyuk@nicemini:~$ vrms
No non-free packages installed on nicemini! rms would be proud.
 
  Bit 'n' Bobs
Bits 'n' Bobs
from the misc-news dept.

Tried a LiveCD version of Kubuntu today - the KDE based version of Ubuntu. Worked to the same standard as I've come to expect from Ubuntu, but I just still don't like the KDE desktop. Still, thats one of the benefits of FOSS - choice.

Also watched the film Napoleon Dynamite after seeing references to it all over the web lately. Gotta say I was pretty much unimpressed by the whole thing (apart from the famous dance sequence) - I guess you have to be a product of the American high school system to appreciate it fully.
 
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