I recently discovered the joys of Arduino! But setting up the development environment on Debian Testing (Wheezy) took me a while. Here is what I did… read more
Having recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Linx) on my partner’s Acer Aspire 3690, I was, as usual, impressed at how much of the hardware worked out of the box. Pretty much everything worked, from wi-fi to volume keys. There were only a couple of things that didn’t… read more
This evening, I went to install Enigmail on my 64-bit Ubuntu machine. Enigmail is an excellent Thunderbird extension which integrates GnuPG. I was rather shocked though to discover that the Enigmail team don’t offer a 64-bit 4Linux download for their latest version either on their own site, or at AMO.
What they do offer for 64-bit users (of Linux, or Windows for that matter) is a source code tar-ball and a some build instructions. The build instructions require you to first build part of Thunderbird before tackling Enigmail. Seems like a lot of effort to expect your average Joe-user to spend.
I spent that effort anyway, and here is what I did: read more
Virgin Media…
…appear to be tampering with network packets if they detect you are using a router on your network.
…are monitoring and policing the data you send through your internet connection and have begin sending threatening letters to it’s customers on behalf of the record industry; entirely of their own volition.
…believe that net neutrality is, “a load of bollocks“.
…are participating in Phorm (see here for info about Phorm).
We should boycott them. Sadly, it’s our only option as consumers. Fortunately, it’s also the language shoddy, money-grabbing companies like Virgin Media understand.
Update: The ASA have upheld complaints that advertised claims about Virgin Media’s broadband speeds are misleading.
Update: Since BT are now also on the bandwagon, my advice to anyone looking for an internet connection would be to get a BT phone line but go with 3rd party broadband. I’m currently with Be and I can definitely recommend them.
