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Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers
'I am sworn to carry your burdens'
Freebie anti-virus scanner Avast falsely identified an executable associated with the popular Steam gaming platform as a Trojan on Sunday.…iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberware
Siri won't run on iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it, an analyst at the Linley Group has said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar with the I-hacked-my-iPhone-4-to-run-Siri stories.…UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing
Wartime codebreaker's 'absurd' conviction must stand
The UK government has turned down a call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.…Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz
Apple strong in upgrade arena
Punters picking their first smartphone are more likely to select an Android handset. When they come to upgrade, however, there's a good chance they'll defect to the opposition.…An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...
MS mulls partying like it's 1996....
Sources close to Microsoft have confirmed the veracity of last week's Windows Phone leaks – but say no decision has been taken to base the mobile platform on the Windows 8 kernel.… Copyright 2012, Situation Publishing
Oxford Indymedia
Glimpses of a possible future
Several empty buildings in Oxford have recently been opened as squatted social centres. In August an empty industrial workshop on Randolph Street was squatted. After several "Free Uni" events (sharing skills and ideas), community meals, film and info-nights the court process provided only a short delay and then eviction. The building now remains unused.UK border regime claims another life
"When they put him in the room they were putting pressure on him saying he had no right to stay in this country. He was normally a very quiet person [...] but the pressure is too much for people in here."-Campsfield detaineeFairford Air Tattoo - Scarring for Life
Gloucestershire's skies were darkened again by the Royal International Fairford Air Tattoo as some of the world's worst climate criminals and human rights abusers compared their best killing machines. This is an event about the glorification of everything that a civilised society should feel repelled about. Despite this, virtually every single newspaper, TV and radio show lavished it with praise. In so doing, they justified the entertainment budgets that the military industrial complex lays on at our expense.Oxford's early summer round up
Asylum has been high on the agenda recently as 24 Iraqi refugees went on hunger strike in Campsfield House. This was followed up with a very successful blockade of deportation coaches near Heathrow Airport [ 1 | 2 ] by No Borders.Spring roundup: Mischief, Cuts and Campaigns
Mischief: In response to the nationalist hype, several hundred people gathered for a "Never Mind the Royal Wedding" street party on Manzil Way to create "some mischievous DIY fun". Elsewhere various other mischievous creatures were using unorthodox methods to spread radical messages.
New Internationalist - New Internationalist Blogs
A fair economy is not radical – it's common sense!
...and a new podcast from the Tax Justice Network is set to explain why.
Release Somali hunger strikers from Lutsk detention centre!
Join campaigners on Monday 6 February at a picket outside the Ukrainian Embassy in London.
Lobbyists lie to avoid copyright treaty scrutiny
Another week, another secret copyright treaty and this time it's the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a hotel lies to pressure groups to keep them away from negotiations, reports Charlie Harvey.
Greece in debt bondage: the people will pay
The proposed bond swap agreement will do nothing to help the country but plenty to line the pockets of the rich, says Katerina Kitidi.
Olympic sex-trafficking myth creates climate of fear
Fears of a flood of sex workers entering London are creating extreme unease despite little evidence to back this up, says Giedre Steikunaite.
PerlMonks - Newest Nodes
dmake not found
Hi all, I have a CGI script running on a web server that works fine, until I add the Archive::Extract module. Then I get this error in the browser when loading the script: dmake could not b...
limited input lines of textarea of IE
Monks: I may have a silly question regarding HTML format. I have implemented a CGI script. The front html will show a text box. However, it seems that this only works well when I use chr...
Perk/Tk fork()predicament
Monks, I have a perl Tk program that displays a network on a Canvas. Upon clicking a certain place on the canvas, I fork a process and immediately exec() a new process. if (!($pid = fork)) ...
Module forwarding
Dear Perl Monks, I have a set of libraries that my team would like to shares, (e.g., myLib/1.0/myLib.pm). The trouble is that we want a "symlink" in a standard location to myLib.pm -- BUT: symlink...
Answering CPAN questions
Hi Guys, If I want to automate the custom responses to cpan install questions is there some way I can do that in a shell script: cpan -i DBD::InterBase bin directory : "/usr/lib/fireb...
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base.ox4.org: ox4 webhosting news
More powerrr! OX4 server upgrade
Just to let you all know that we've taken the plunge and got a more powerful server set up from our wonderful network providers Bytemark.Slowloris Protection/Varnish Deployed 24 Jan 2011
24 January 2011: We've deployed a bit of software called Varnish, you can read about it in the Varnish/Slowloris blog post.New modules - calendar & events, admin, syntax highlighting, captcha, views cloud
We've added the following modules that are available to people hosting sites on ox4.org:New modules - feeds & chaos tools
Two new modules are now available on ox4.org.New modules - links & emails
More modules added that you can use on your ox4.org site:
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