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It used to be possible to install maps on a TomTom from Linux - http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/tomtom_maps.html

However, they've even made that impossible now.

He probably doesn't like the national health care because he's had to use it.

I've made use of the NHS both in rural areas and within London, and I will say that it is a completely different experience. In metropolitan areas, it just does not work. Try waiting 4 hours to see a ER doctor while sitting in a waiting room with drunks fighting and bleeding all over you - you'll go off of national health care pretty quickly.

Hell, I can't even legally buy enough cold medication to spend 5 days at home resting - the max I can buy is a 3 day supply - that's another helpful thing that these stupid fucking people have given us - http://blog.penguinpowered.org/2008/12/31/gps-should-pull-their-heads-out-of-their-arses/

Have a look at my doc at http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/email_virtualhosting.html

It covers most stuff, but there is still quite a bit missing. The main thing is the benefit of being on google mail for spam because they have so much more traffic to work with.

The above solution keeps mail accounts separate to system accounts and gets most things right.

How do you figure it's not that hard to run your own mailserver? Please tell me how to achieve the following, simply.

1. POP and IMAP access for all users
2. Simple ability to delegate administrative rights for the domain including creation of new user rights
3. Ability for users to manage aliases
4. Ability for users to manage mail lists
5. Spam prevention with similar success rates (including very low false positives) to Gmail or any other mass mail site
6. Webmail
7. Simple password changing for users
8. Authenticated SMTP
9. Simple SPF

I've spent a lot of time and effort, and have a good smtp / imap / pop / webmail solution, but it's still cobbled together from loads of stuff and it's still missing solutions to allow users to change passwords and delegate administration control of a domain.

What, like the Terrorism Act in the UK? Yeah, they'd never just use that against people they don't like.

I try to refrain from personal attacks, but you are exactly the kind of person that let's fascism grow. It's no good complaining when it's too late.

We already have example after example after example proving that every government will in some way abuse the laws we let them have. The only, ONLY rational response to that is to limit the tools we give them.

Once a law is on the books, you've given it to the current and all future governments and you cannot control what they do with it. Today requests may be denied. Next year they may not.

A lot of people are complaining about this law. Why do you hate our country so much? Why do you want to make things easy for scumbag terrorists who want to kill us all in our beds or on our world class public transport?

There will be checks and balances in place for this to make sure that the police do not abuse these powers and that no innocent people suffer from the outcomes. I mean, lets be honest here - why would you want to WALK on a cycle path? (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article579334.ece) That's just dodgy!

As for the bloke who kept all of his belongings close to him on the tube, he did look a little odd and he had far too much techy stuff on him. (http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html).

The 82 year old who got arrested under the terrorism act at the labour conference (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4293502.stm) was a known trouble maker having already evaded one lawful regime's attempts to bring him to justice under their current laws back in the 40's, so he probably deserved what happened.

And the bloke who recently spent 6 days in a cell (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282045,00.html) for trying to print a document freely available on the Internet should have known better - why do you REALLY need to print stuff these days?
That's killing trees, that is, and deserves this kind of punishment!

In all of the above cases, these people were set free. And it's not like just being arrested can fuck up your life or anything. Or end up with your DNA on file for life. And I'm sure that most of the MPs voting for this bill know what it's like to spend a night or 6 in prison, so they'd never do that to an innocent person, knowing how badly you can come out of that experience.

We actually NAILED on terroristwith this law already - that uppity bitch won't go writing any more bad poetry in the near future, now will she!?

I mean, you have to understand that in a post 9/11 world, things are _different_ now. Al Kayeeda is really really really scary! Ok, sure, there have been fewer attacks than during the IRA years, but that's not the point here! We need this law so that... uhm...

Hang on a sec... This is the UK right, not Iran? Fuck :(

A decade ago, Richard Stallman first published his story, The Right to Read. At the time people laughed and called him an alarmist.

This world is getting closer and closer every day, and laws like this are helping it!

Today we have a world where someone was held without trial for months, for producing software (that was totally legal in the country where it was developed!) that allowed among other things, blind people to read PDFs. J.K. Rowling threatens children with lawsuits over fan sites (well, she did say she wanted to encourage them to read, she didn't say nuffink about enkuraging them to rite!)

I wrote something on this topic after seeing the Lawrence Lessig talk from TED - http://blog.penguinpowered.org/2008/01/29/breaking-the-law/

If you want to manage tomtom maps under linux, have a look at my brief howto at
http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/tomtom_maps.html

I'm losing more and more interest in Linux because of it's lack of enterprise features. Hell, a month and a bit ago, I could have been sound asleep in bed if I'd been using Solaris, instead of up at some ridiculous time of the morning:

http://www.penguinpowered.org/wayne/blog/if_i_used _solaris_instead_of_linux-2005-12-14

A couple of months ago there was a big campaign in London to raise awareness of unattended packages. The slogan was something about don't take a chance, alert someone.

Around this time, I did see a suspect pacakge, and I called the police like a good shitizen. The full story is on my diary, but I'll give you the summary...

The police gave me such a hard time about calling them about the package that I swore then and there that I would never call them about anything again. I will get me and mine out of the way, and that's as far as it goes - civic responsibility be damned.

The woman on the other end of the line just kept asking why I thought the bag was suspicious, and I kept telling her that it was unattended, looked expensive and was out of place. Any two of these satisfied their stupid poster campiagn, but she even phoned be back to ask what made me think the bag was suspicious.

If the police want the public's help, then make it easy. If you've said call things like this in, then don't give me a hard time when I do.