Mark Lyndersay’s latest Bitdepth column #595 for Tuesday 25th September 2007 is online featuring the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society’s Software Freedom Day meeting on September 15th, 2007.
(Edit 28/9/2007 : corrected date of BitDepth column)
Year: 2007
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Teen charged with hacking into Attorney General’s computer??
Saw this news item in the Wednesday September 19th, 2007 Trinidad Express newspaper :
Teen charged with hacking into AG’s computer
Wednesday, September 19th 2007A TEENAGER has been charged with hacking into the internet account of the Attorney General’s office.
Shezie Huggins, 19, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Ejenny Espinet in the Port of Spain First Magistrate’s Court.
Huggins is alleged to have illegally attained and used the internet account of Attorney General John Jeremie on two separate occasions.
The incidents are said to have occurred on July 31 and August 1, respectively.
Huggins, who was represented by attorney Sean Cazabon, pleaded not guilty to the two charges.
The court heard that police officers entered the Diego Martin home of Huggins’ parents and seized the family computer he is alleged to have used.
The case has been adjourned to November 20.
A few observations :
- It doesn’t mention it, but this is probably the second time in Trinidad and Tobago’s history that someone has been charged under the Computer Misuse Act.
- The headline is inaccurate, according to the article, the person used the internet account of the Attorney General, not “hack” into the AG’s computer.
- Is the internet account of the Attorney General’s office a dialup account?!!!
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TTCS Software Freedom Day preparations update – meeting on Sept 9th, 2007
Meeting on Sept 8th, 2007 went well and the TTCS will be having a meeting on Sunday 9th, 2007 at ENCO from 10am to continue preparatory work for Software Freedom Day on September 15th, 2007.
You can read a summary of what happened on Sept 8th, 2007 and other TTCS SFD preparations at the TTCS SFD wiki page.
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TSTT defers implementation of Single National Rate
TSTT’s website has this short press release regarding the Single National Rate (SNR) :
TSTT defers implementation of the Single National Rate
Trinidad – TSTT today announced its intention to defer implementation of its proposed Single National Rate plan. The current rate structure will remain in place until further notice.
TSTT has pledged to continue its commitment to implement pricing plans based on customer preferences which deliver exceptional value to its customers.
Wonder if this is a rethink by TSTT to implement SNR at all, or was this this due to TATT’s objections (not in principle about SNR but how TSTT went about doing it). Or maybe enough customers (including government) complained once they did the math and realised that the cost of business would increase with the proposed SNR.
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TTCS Software Freedom Day 2007 flyer
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society Software Freedom Day event flyer (PDF ; 180K) has been uploaded. Print and redistribute! Also see the TTCS wiki page on SFD to keep track of the TTCS preparations for the event.
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TTCS Software Freedom Day event on Saturday September 15th, 2007
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS), will be having a tech meeting on Saturday September 15th, 2007 from 1pm to 6pm at Hand, Arnold (Trinidad) Limited, El Socorro Road Extension, El
Socorro, San Juan (View satellite image at http://tinyurl.com/knbef)We will be celebrating Software Freedom Day 2007, a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the benefits and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
Anyone interested in computing and related technology are welcome to attend this event. While stocks last, attendees will receive the TTCS OSSWIN CD and Ubuntu CDs (or any Linux distro) free of charge. Additional linux distros can be obtained for $5 TT each.
Some of the activities planned at this meeting include :
- demoing open source software (OSS) for Windows from the TTCS OSSWIN CD .
- demoing Ubuntu , a popular Linux distribution.
- how to install Ubuntu on your Windows PC (dual booting).
- how to use a Linux “live” CD (no need to install Linux on a hard drive).
- how to do common computing tasks using Linux and open source software.
Please let us know via email at admin at ttcsweb d.o.t org if you are attending and what distros you may be interested in getting) so we can prepare the venue accordingly.
See you there!
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TTCS meeting on Saturday September 8th, 2007 – Software Freedom Day 2007 event preparations
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/) will be having a meeting on Saturday September 8th, 2007 from 1pm to 6pm at Engineering Consultants at 112A Edward Street, Port of Spain (corner of Oxford and Edward Streets).
We need your help at this meeting to prepare for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on Saturday Sept 15th, 2007. SFD is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the benefits and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
In order to make SFD a great experience for those learning about Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) for the first time, we need to:
- make a flyer about TTCS, TTCS OSSWIN CD, Ubuntu and Open Source.
- make a flyer to promote the Software Freedom Day event
- test machines which will be used for SFD. Minimum of three PCs needed, so far.
- test a PC with Ubuntu installed.
- practice how to do various tasks in Ubuntu that persons on other OSes are accustomed to.(e.g. common internet tasks, playing media content, installing a printer, etc).
- have a Windows PC to show how to dual boot with Ubuntu or another “live”/hard drive-installed Linux distro.
- have a Windows PC to demo Open Source Software for Windows (Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP).
- have a Windows Vista PC (if possible) to demo Open Source Software on this latest OS.
- if possible, have a laptop running Ubuntu to show how it works on such a device.
Linux/OSS fans, Windows users, Mac users, anyone is welcome to assist ith this project. If you can help us with these tasks, have ideas, suggestions, would like to volunteer to help with SFD 2007, then email the TTCS at admin at ttcsweb d.o.t org. Let us know if you will be attending the TTCS meeting on Saturday September 8th.
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TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.80 released ; just in time for Software Freedom Day
The TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.80, a collection of over 100 Free/Open Source software (108 to be exact) for Windows is available for download.
- Date created : September 3rd, 2007
- File name : ttcs_osswin_cd_v1.80.iso
- File size : 699 MB (733,886,464 bytes)
- MD5 checksum : d8e7e33ede82cb33d538068a6c06f816 / d8e7e33e de82cb33 d538068a 6c06f816
- SHA-1 : 0e0ff287 a70bdbc1 ef4af877 6882055a f9d99fd6
- SHA-256 : f354aaeb f1025743 4dbad26f bb644b5e 15751ca6 a4bdab39 885418b3 3c12c91f
Changes from v1.77
- added Sumatra PDF, Kompozer ; added link to the TTCS OSSWIN CD RSS feed on each page
- removed Trigger, Nvu
- updated Notepad2, Maxima, Portable Puzzle Collection, Sokoban YASC, Paint.NET, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Wackget, XAMPP Lite, ClamWin Free Antivirus, Keepass, Autohotkey
First download location is at Filefront ; other download locations and BitTorrent will follow in the next few days.
The TTCS plans to use this CD for Software Freedom Day 2007 (SFD) on September 15th, 2007. More about Software Freedom Day and our activities in another blog post. If there are other groups planning to use the TTCS OSSWIN CD for SFD, let us know (ttcs…I might even do a more up to date CD on the 8th September if need be.
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TTPS, TUCO websites defaced
Recently, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) website at http://ttps.gov.tt/ was defaced sometime last week (at least since August 19th, 2007 according to the Microsoft cache of the site). The main page contains several images and the title of the website reads “Welcome to Rum Bar Jamaica” and several links to a Jamaican social/portal site. The TTPS site is offline for now….here is the Google cache of ttps.gov.tt
Also, the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organization (TUCO) website at http://www.tuco.co.tt/ was also discovered to be defaced apparently by persons from Turkey.
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Answers from Flow (August 2007)
Introduction
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society met with Ian Serrao, Director of Network Services at Columbus Communications Trinidad
(Columbus is the parent company of Flow) at a TTCS Meeting on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
These are some of the questions supplied by members (the title of this article was first “Questions for Flow”) and the answers provided by Flow (hence the change in title).