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2 Step Howto to set up a local wildcard domain resolution on Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Submitted by dave on Thu 5 Nov 2015 - 11:18

So today it occurred to me as I was doing web development on several different Vagrant instances simultaneously on my work laptop, that it'd be very convenient to have a single wildcard domain

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FOSS alternative to Equella for tertiary institutions

Submitted by dave on Tue 3 Nov 2015 - 12:52

If your educational institution is looking for (as all institutions should be nowadays!) a system for Digital Asset Management (DAM) to complement your Learning Management System (LMS) this is for

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Civil Disobedience and EULAs

Submitted by dave on Thu 24 Sep 2015 - 9:26

I don't use a lot of proprietary software, but I know a lot of people who do.

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Response to Ian Apperly regarding Online Voting

Submitted by dave on Mon 21 Sep 2015 - 10:51

My response to Ian's blog post supporting online voting:

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Brakes on Headlong Rush Into Online Voting

Submitted by dave on Tue 15 Sep 2015 - 21:14

Last week I was able to participate in a "deputation" of concerned citizens (who happen to have a pretty strong set of software development credentials, as well as running bespoke develop

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The Problem of Online Voting

Submitted by dave on Mon 7 Sep 2015 - 14:11

A democratic society can only function when the actors in that democracy, the citizen/voters, have trust in the mechanisms of that democracy.

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IRD: How to Avoid Catastrophic Failure

Submitted by dave on Fri 28 Aug 2015 - 0:03

Greg James of IRD (NZ's tax department for anyone not from NZ) has chosen to replace the current obsolete, unmaintainable monolithic bespoke software system

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Fear of Freedom?

Submitted by dave on Thu 13 Aug 2015 - 22:52

I am reminded of a story about a chimpanzee who has only ever known a world inside an underground laboratory.

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NetHui Insight: Open is about Intent

Submitted by dave on Mon 13 Jul 2015 - 11:47

At the recent NetHui conference in Auckland last week (8-10 July 2015), in a session titled "

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TPPA Analogy

Submitted by dave on Fri 3 Jul 2015 - 20:58

Yesterday, my local MP, Nicky Wagner, did me the courtesy of returning my phone call to her office the day before asking to speak with her about the

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