As the BBC reports, The Countryside Agency’s latest survey indicates while 95% of urban households have access to affordable broadband internet services, only 7% of rural villages are connected. In remote rural areas, this figure is just 1%.

I would be surprised however if this included some of the newest potential approaches to cracking this problem, like wireless broadband mesh networks or broadband via balloon.

Earthlink, the US’ third biggest ISP won $16.4m damages and a permanent injunction against someone who sent 850 million unsolicited e-mails via its service. It’s not the first time either – they won $25m in a similar case last year. Sadly, it’s like stepping on ants trying to get these people wiped out…15000 signature loancash advance washington dc loanloans $40000 student2006 student loan interest deduction taxhome loans accentcash loan ambassadorcredit a loan ok vacation badloan 20-year home equity$400 deposit loancapital disadvantages loan advantages of and

An experiment by a security company reported by The Register revealed, “Nine in ten (90 per cent) of office workers at London’s Waterloo Station gave away their computer password for a cheap pen” – or at least they gave away what they claimed was their password.

One interviewee said, “I am the CEO, I will not give you my password it could compromise my company’s information”.

A good start, but then the company boss blew it. He later said that his password was his daughter’s name.

‘What is your daughters name?’ the interviewer cheekily asked.

He replied without thinking: “Tasmin”.

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Reporters Sans Frontieres reports that “on some estimates” around 30,000 people in China are employed just to monitor Internet usage and censor views. Their report gives a lot of interesting detail on just how and how thoroughly message board censorship is practiced in China.

This week’s edition of On Digital – the radio programme from the BBC World Service – includes a segment on the report.

For more on Internet censorship in dictatorships, check out the recent book “Open Networks, Closed Regimes“.

This popped up on my screen this afternoon. And something like it popped up a few months back. I just downloaded and ran AdAware 6 to see if some spyware could be to blame but didn’t find anything.

Later Thanks to the timely intervention of Simon Forrest I found out this problem is due to an obscure feature built into Windows NT, 2000 and XP for network admins to use to warn of network shutdowns and the like, and thanks to “Res the Sorceror” I found out how to fix the problem:

“Go to control panel. Double-click on Administrative Tools select Services, scroll down to Messenger, go to properties, change Auto to Disabled.”

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I downloaded the SuSe 8.2 “experience” CD and it installed without any problem at all. But I didn’t want to be stuck booting from a CD ROM every time I wanted to mess about with Linux (and I don’t know what they left off the “experience”). So I downloaded every file in SuSe’s 8.2 download directory onto my hard disc, created a boot CD from the boot.iso image in the /boot directory and tried to install from the HD with the files onto a new blank HD. And hit a brick wall.

Soon I was on IRC in the #suse channel trying to sort it out and though they were very helpful there (thanks localhorst and cz^thc!) they couldn’t figure out my problem either. And I quickly descended into the hell of trial and error and typing things like “mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt” (!)

So I’m giving up again – unless someone who lives relatively nearby would care to have a try at sorting me out either using the stuff I have downloaded or (chance would be a fine thing!) using the pukka 8.2 install CDs.

Failing that, I will have to drag my desktop into town for the next meeting of the Greater London Linux Users Group.

Admittedly my installation is just a tiny bit outside the usual (not having the CDs) but if SuSe is going to make its new Linux downloadable why not do so by just providing the .iso files for all the install CDs instead of providing every last file and expecting the poor user to figure out how to do an installation for themselves?

Anyway, this agony has dulled some of my early enthusiasm for Linux for the desktop I can tell you!

The government is allocating £125m and wants to hear from organizations by 21st July. So if you are a needy voluntary organization, get cracking.

Thanks to the (not particularly active) McNeill family website for the link!

I particularly discussed the threat of Linux to Microsoft and its usefulness in the developing world. The RealAudio stream is here (you have to download it all at once and listen to it – I don’t have a realaudio streamer running).

You may note I have warmed significantly to the OS and its usefulness abroad since I last wrote about this subject in 2001. This is largely due to the ease with which I found SuSe 8.2 installed recently and because I have been impressed with the power of desktop Linux apps like OpenOffice.

I am still not totally convinced it is suitable for the least developed countries but I couldn’t get every nuance of my view in in the few minutes allotted.

The news “hook” for the broadcast was the revelation of a special Microsoft “anti-Linux” fund aimed to make sure gov’ts and large institutions don’t choose Linux by offering cheap or free Microsoft software.

If you want the gist of what was actually broadcast I started by discussing how Linux has been more successful as a desktop than a server application but could have a brighter future in places where people haven’t touched computers before (so they won’t have to unlearn Microsoft habits and the cost savings in software are significant relative to the cost of labour). I went on to suggest that Microsoft may pressure developing countries not to use Linux and when the interviewer suggested this could get MS into trouble I remarked that they have plenty of experience putting private pressure and dodging criticism.

And yes, I admit I may not be everyone’s idea of an expert but they chose me and I hope you’ll agree when my contribution is available that it was at least somewhat helpful, whatever the limits of my knowledge.commercial loans 100 and financecash loan 50020 mobile loan 100 home20 african loans 20to loans uk accessinterest loans 31 onlyaccess college loanspayday credit loan bad advancebad credit 2000 personal loanpayday 2nd loan

Seyla Benhabib: Democracy and Difference

This collection of academic essays contains short essays by all of the the main people I have come across who problematise deliberative democracy including Habermas, Young, Mouffe, Phillips and Mansbridge and an excellent defense of deliberative democracy from Benhabib herself (“Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy”).

1) SuSe Linux 8.2 is now available for download (and I am busy downloading it!)

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