UK Indymedia - UK Technology Newswire Archive

ESF Official Website Replaced with GLA / Mayors Website!!!

05-05-2004 10:50

The official website of the ESF:

http://www.fse-esf.org

has been replaced with the GLA Greater London Authority and Ken Livingstone Mayor of London website!

What is going on...

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!

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Free Software

04-05-2004 03:11

This is an essay by a non-geek about the political implications of Free Software, with a bit of history. For the very beginners

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Two Media Hacklab open meetings (one tomorrow 5pm!)

01-05-2004 01:26

The next two open meetings for the Hacklab are taking place this
Sunday the 2nd of May (tomorrow) at 5pm at at the at the ex-Grand
Banks social centre and 5pm Saturday the 8th of May at Freedom
Press Bookshop, Whitechapel. Sunday's shorter meeting will mainly
be about the plans for our next benefit event on the 15th of May,
while the 8th of May meeting will be more about the long term
direction of the Hacklab. All are welcome to both.

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EU: Data retention comes to roost - telephone and internet privacy to

30-04-2004 15:26

Statewatch press release, 29 April 2004

EU: Data retention comes to roost - telephone and internet privacy to
be abolished

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Opposition to Mandatory ID cards

29-04-2004 08:30

David Blunket proposes that by 2012 everybody in the UK should be forced to carry an ID card which carries biomentric data about the owner.

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Sheffield Call Centre Job Losses

26-04-2004 18:38

Job Losses at Sheffield Call Centre

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This day in history.

26-04-2004 13:18

This day in history.

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Electric Cars are available in the UK

23-04-2004 15:17

Getting off the sauce

I was listening to a song called “self-evident” by female singer/songwriter Ani Difranco the other day. It was about the tragic events of September 11th 2001 and some issues related to that day. The song covered a wide range of issues, and focused particularly on levels of violence in the world today, and also the damage that we are doing to the environment. There was one particular line that stuck in my head … “we must vow… to get off… of this sauce”. The sauce she was talking about being the sauce that most of us pump into our cars on a weekly basis.

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South West renewable projects

22-04-2004 13:28

Renewable Bulletin from Regen SW - Somerset renewable strategy, SW wind power plans, renewable education, Devon renewable energy guide

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US/BAe rail-gun testing

22-04-2004 09:36

click on the link-

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New Diebold Memos

21-04-2004 14:16

New Diebold Memos, detailing internal communication with lawyers have hit the wire today... good stuff, copy the Zip files and share them far and wide...

Andy Stephenson, Voting Activist and Candidate for Washington’s Secretary of State Releases 150 pages of leaked documents received anonymously from Diebold Whistle Blower

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EuroMayDay NetParade - JoinUs!

20-04-2004 23:01

EuroMayDay NetParade
JOIN US!

http://www.euromayday.org/netparade/index.html

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Free Computing

19-04-2004 09:07

Oxford Indymedia are building a network of computers assembled from scrap, as a community resource, to be deployed at the OCSET community centre (220 Cowley Road, Oxford).

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Peer to peer sharing of political information

16-04-2004 01:36

Why not use Peer-to-peer networks for sharing of cool content that is legitimate anyway?

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How blogs are changing electoral politics

15-04-2004 17:38

What do George W. Bush, John Kerry, and Paul Martin have in common? The answer: campaign blogs. But just how effective are they? Journalists and politicians who blog sound off:

http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/

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Hacklab benefit and learn-to-build-a-PC workshop Saturday!

13-04-2004 17:50

The next benefit to raise funds for the Freedom Media Hacklab is happening at 8pm this Saturday at the ex-Grand Banks social centre. There will be food, a cafe, a juice bar, DJs and even a live acoustic set. Suggested donation at door: £2 waged, £1 unwaged. This time around we will be having a PC building workshop at 6pm, before the main event. If you've ever wanted to learn how to build your own PC from scratch (either from new parts, saving yourself money or from reused parts, saving even more money!) then this is the place to learn. No experience required! You can even bring your own parts and we will help you to get your PC working.

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The gloves come off for Round Two in the EU fight over Software Patents

09-04-2004 16:52

A mass action in Brussels on Wednesday 14 April has been called in opposition to software patents see: http://demo.ffii.org/

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Bio-Chip Implants

07-04-2004 21:55

Until now the mention of bio-chip implants or RFID chip implants has received ridicule and accusations of conspiracy theory.

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Media Hacklab Open meeting tomorrow 5pm

02-04-2004 11:17

The next open meeting to plan the road ahead for the Hacklab is taking place on this Saturday the 3rd of April at 5pm at Freedom Press Bookshop, Whitechapel. This will include plans for our next benefit event on the 17th of April.

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'DUST OR MAGIC' is a conference on now at Wadham collage

26-03-2004 13:50

'DUST OR MAGIC' is a conference about how people do 'good stuff' with computers: games, hypertexts, web sites, interfaces, software tools. It's for everyone who's seriously concerned about the fate of creative work and creative workers in the 'new-media' workplace. We talk about software and hardware, design, industry economics, workplace politics, psychology, each others' work, and the practicalities of making things that delight, as well as making a living.