http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress that’s breviary stuff, that is Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:08:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The twenty-four orders of rogues and vagabonds, as detailed in Thomas Harman's pamphlet, Caueat for Commen Cursetors, London 1566. (quoted from Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds, 1913) Rufflers sturdy vagbonds who begged from the strong and robbed the weak Upright Men vagabonds who were strong enough to be chiefs or magistrates among ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/18/rogues-and-vagabonds-the-24-orders/ No Quarter a zine about radical history http://anarchistpirates.blogspot.com Issue 3 of No Quarter has recently been published. This issue contains… • A reprint of Lost Utopias by Ron Sakolsky, "scholar of music, revolution and radio", from issue 3 of his self-published, anarchist-surrealist zine, Oystercatcher. • An interview with a member of the Bristol Radical History ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/18/no-quarter-3/ Between the years 1626 and 1632 there were massive anti-enclosure riots in western England. Collectively known as The Western Rising, these riots occurred in Gillingham Forest on the Dorset-Wiltshire border, the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, Braydon Forest in Wiltshire, Feckenham Forest in Worcestershire and Leicester Forest. The cause ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/18/the-western-rising/ Knowing the history of the relationship between Claws Mail and Sylpheed, it was amusing to read the release announcement for Sylpheed 2.5.0 earlier this week: * New features o The vertical 3-paned view mode was added. ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/06/19/sylpheed-apes-claws-mail/ the hancock project. A film by Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson (London Fieldworks) Institvtvm Pataphysicvm Londiniense Department of Reconstructive Archaeology, dora 4 DVD. For distribution only to members and friends of the Institute. 33 signed copies (I to XXXIII), and 99 copies numbered 1 to 99. Anthony Hancock, Paintings & Sculpture: A Retrospective Exhibition ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/06/14/the-hancock-project/ The enclosure movement and the slave trade ushered industrial capitalism into the modern world. By 1832 England was largely closed, its countryside privatized (some even mechanized), in contrast to a century earlier when its fields were largely open—"champion" country, to use the happy technical term—and yeoman, children, women could subsist ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/06/07/the-power-is-always-on-the-side-of-the-people-when-they-choose-to-act/ The first official release of an unofficial Claws Mail plugin is now available. It is available from the Unofficial Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin page here on this blog. This latest release of the plugin will build against the ClamAV™ 0.93 (libclamav 4:1:0) release and all older versions, once it is patched, of ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/04/unofficial-claws-mail-clamav%e2%84%a2-plugin-v34-unleashed/ Everyone is familiar with this, no doubt… I recently switched power supplier, because the previous one's prices were rising steeply. The previous company had overcharged me, my final statement from them told me as much. Two months later they still hadn't paid me back, so I telephoned their 'customer support' line, ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/01/bullshit-companies/ Following the awful review of Claws Mail in issue 86 of Linux Magazine — awful because of its inaccuracies — I wrote a critical blog post and informed the editor, Joe Casad, of my post, thoughts and feelings. He quickly responded, apologising and offering further coverage of Claws Mail ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/26/claws-mail-article-in-linux-magazine/ Since the Claws Mail ClamAV™ plugin was dropped there have been several comments made in several places; Naturally enough, people have been confused over the incompatibilities of GPLv3 and GPLv2 — some thought it would be possible to simply release the ClamAV™ plugin under GPLv2, (it's not), some imagined that ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/29/claws-mail-clamav-gplv2-gplv2-gplv3-and-the-clamav-plugin/ Due to Licensing Issues™ the Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin has been dropped. It seems that Sourcefire®, the company who employ the core ClamAV™ developers, wish all the ClamAV™ code to be published under GPLv2 only, and this is Incompatible™ with the GPLv3+ license that Claws Mail has. You might Think™ that it ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/14/claws-mail-drops-clamav-plugin/ From an interview with John Pilger in today's The Guide supplement in The Guardian… Q: Who wants to be a millionaire?A: This is the song Tony Blair hums every morning when he rises and tots up his latest windfall — a million for telling business groups in China nothing they didn't ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/09/hums-every-morning/ Following my ripperX patch, which added a GTK2 interface, internationalisation, and improved the use of the autotools build system, [read about it here], I became a member of the ripperX development team at SourceForge. Today I committed a modified version of my patch to the ripperX SVN. The modifications involved a ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/01/25/ripperx-gtk2-goes-official/ Four Henry Snowstorm beats have been used on the recently released DannyHouse EP by MC Jon Wayne. MC Jon Wayne - DannyHouse EP 1. Read The Script 2. Sexual Harassment* 3. Not Bombs* 4. Lyrical Diabetes* 5. Interlude 6. Don't You Think?* 7. Garbage Rhymes These beats were originally available on the Henry Snowstorm instrumental album Civil Unrest. ___________________________________ Henry ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/12/01/henry-snowstorm-meets-mc-jon-wayne/ Also see the Winsor McCay - Little Nemo In Slumberland Vol 1 entry in the Reading List category. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/11/29/little-nemo-in-slumberland/ Mirko Albrecht is a lazy reviewer, but I don't believe he is unique in having this quality. I am referring specifically to his article in the January 2008 issue, (No. 86), of Linux Magazine, entitled "YOU’VE GOT MAIL", which can be downloaded in PDF format here. The article claims to ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/11/29/linux-magazine-reviews-claws-mail/ Wee (as men) confident of your integrity did chuse you as our Proctors and Atturnies, the King's Majesty with his best councell and we (the poore Commons) entrusted you with all we had but we had no mistrust that you would deceive us of all we had. We trusted you ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/11/29/the-generall-complaint/ I left my provincial small town this morning for a job interview in a city, a reasonably lengthy train journey away. The extremes of poverty and wealth that are seen side by side in a city are sickening, so it was nice to return. I sat for a while in a ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/27/a-job-in-the-city-thats-the-life/ Having recently sorted out a wifi connection at home and bought a couple 2GB SD cards, my n800 has suddenly come to life. But what has really made it sparkle is booting from the internal MMC card. Plenty more space and also almost double the speed. For anyone who hasn't ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/22/n800-bigger-better-faster/ I wanted to listen to the French radio stations France Inter and Europe1 on my n800 internet tablet but found that I could not launch the players available on their web sites using the browsers, (or, more likely, the Flash plugin), on the n800. Should anyone else want to do the ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/22/listen-to-french-radio-on-n800/ It was sadly inevitable. Gordon Brown's government are encouraging the police to use the new 'anti-terror' laws against peaceful protesters in the UK. (That is the Gordon Brown who is the unelected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.) These are climate change protesters who are against the further expansion of Heathrow ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/08/12/drop-the-tent-peg-or-ill-shoot/ I saw a picture of a balloon suddenly and unexpectedly soaring and some people still holding onto the ropes connected to the balloon were suddenly jerked into the air and most of them didn't have the survival IQ to let go in time. Seconds later they are sixty, a hundred ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/08/11/survival-techniques/ Thanks to a very generous donation from Claws Mail user Guido Rudolphi, Colin and I are now owners of the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. This will enable us to discover just how justified the complaints from the oh-so-demanding n800 users of Claws Mail actually are, and where other improvements can ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/07/09/claws-mail-development-on-maemo/ No Quarter an anarchist zine about pirates, brigands, and millenarian revolt http://anarchistpirates.blogspot.com My article from this breviary stuff, entitled TheaurauJohn : A Name, Not The Thing, is reprinted in the recently published issue 2 of the No Quarter anarchist zine. It also includes an interesting interview with Marcus Rediker, the historian, writer, teacher, ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/18/no-quarter/ RipperX is a GTK app that rips CD audio tracks and encodes them to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats. It is also my favourite simple ripping tool, but it still uses the ugly GTK1 interface. That was my motivation to write a patch that ports ripperX to GTK2. Patch against ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/21/ripperx-gtk2/ Hypnotic Brass Ensemble : War / Mercury 10" single This record just arrived in the post, so I slapped it on the turntable and immediately the clouds parted and the sun began to shine, a feeling began to develop inside and a smile appeared on my face. Music rarely gets as ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/12/hypnotic-brass-ensemble/ French citizens vote for the police state. President George W Bush has already phoned to say well done. Thatcher reborn? Let's hope not. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/07/sarkozy-wins-french-election/ Perhaps Jeremy Paxman's only quality is his interview technique, but it's a good one. Here's one such example, from BBC TV's Newsnight, 4th June 2001, which is worthy of recollection. Tony Blair provides the role of the ideal interviewee, stumbling and bumbling through his responses and clumsily confirming New Labour's ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/02/that-is-not-my-question/ Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modelled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, their music incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa. ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/antibalas-afrobeat-orchestra-live-recordings/ Moving from Thunderbird to Claws Mail is getting easier. Now, in addition to the mailbox conversion script, (tbird2claws.py), we have added a script that converts Thunderbird filtering rules to Claws Mail filtering rules, thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl. So, in next to no time you can start a leaner, meaner email experience. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/ Henry Snowstorm has just released his first album, entitled 'Civil Unrest'. It's available as a free download from the Wild Beast, so head on over to www.thewildbeast.co.uk/henrysnowstorm/ and give it a listen. File it under beats, under hip-hop, under jazz, under funk, under leftfield, file it under whatever you want ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/10/henry-snowstorm-civil-unrest/ Component: Sidebar Widgets Plugin, version 1.0.20060711 Patch: SidebarWidgets_no-title-means-no-header_plus_rem-wordpress.com-meta-link.patch Apply this patch in the /wp-content/plugins/widgets/ directory. Description: This patch does 2 things: 1. It affects the Text widgets, removing the empty header, ( ), that is added to a text widget that has no title. The empty header is an annoyance because it adds an empty ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/29/2-wordpress-patches/ Claws Mail 2.7.2 has been unleashed! [release notes] [download] http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/27/claws-mail-272/ Of course, don't believe everything you read, especially if you read it in a newsgroup. The Claws Mail 2.6.1 thread on alt.comp.freeware is full of it. Susan Bugher writes of Claws Mail/Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed, "I've been trying to sort out the current situation with these apps", but apparently didn't think of ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/16/claws-mail-fud-on-altcompfreeware/ Yes, Margaret Thatcher, the bane of the British people, is reported to be 'greatly saddened' at the news of Pinochet's death, (see the BBC news report). Some time soon we'll be reading of Thatcher's death - she can't have that many years left in her. But more important and welcome than ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/12/13/pinochet-dead-thatcher-saddened/ An extract from Peter Linebaugh's The London Hanged, Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, (2nd edition, Verso 2006) (For further information, see the entry in the Reading List category) Colquhoun was the London agent for the planters of St. Vincent, Nevis, Dominica and the Virgin Islands. He worked tirelessly for ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/12/09/workers-of-the-world-relax/ Today we changed the name of Sylpheed-Claws to Claws Mail, as we move further from our Sylpheed origin. This will help those people who still mistakenly think that Sylpheed-Claws is the development or bleeding edge version of Sylpheed - which it ceased to be a long, long time ago - ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/11/07/goodbye-sylpheed-claws-hello-claws-mail/ The Sylpheed-Claws meeting took place in Bristol over the 14th and 15th of October, I'd been meaning to blog about it sooner, but I didn't for one reason and another. It was good to finally meet everyone, (not everyone, but Colin, Hoa, Ricardo, and wwp), since we have been engaging in ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/10/25/the-sylpheed-claws-meeting/ Every day, without fail, my ISP attempts to connect to my machine on the edonkey ports. I don't use the edonkey network. These violations began around the time that it was reported in the news that so many people had been arrested for using the file sharing networks. Annoying. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/10/06/isp-firewall-violations/ The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), or perhaps more aptly, the Bush and Blair Corporation, (a term coined by George Galloway in relation to the BBC's biased news reporting and, I believe, its political agenda), goes from bad to worse. Apparently they're still a public service broadcaster, paid for mainly by ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/09/27/the-bush-and-blair-corporation/ The Reading List was a Page, and that made it overly long and hard to manage. It was awkward and inadequate for any comments to be left on a particular book, as a comment applied to the Page rather than the individual 'entry'. I didn't want the book list to ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/09/23/reading-list-recursively-re-organised-for-responses-replies-and-rapid-writesrewrites/ I don't know what's up with our neighbours, maybe they're just insane. New neighbour next door, quite a nice garden there - next thing you know, chop chop chop chop chop: about 10% of the plants, trees, and bushes left. Ugly. A house just across the way, quite a nice little garden ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/09/07/neighbours-and-their-gardens/ The latest release of GCstar, version 0.4, the collections manager, has support for importing Borrower information from Sylpheed-Claws' address book. Hopefully a later version will support mailing via Sylpheed-Claws also. Hmmm, perhaps I could find the time to create a patch to do that? http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/09/06/gcstar-and-sylpheed-claws/ There is a name and a thing, and a thing, And a name, And a name, And not the thing, And the Name and the thing both in accordance to the thing and name. from The Nations Right in Magna Charta discussed with the thing Called Parliament. [Dec 1650] I have come ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/07/29/theauraujohn-a-name-not-the-thing/ I first chanced upon the work of Frans Masereel (1889-1972) some 20 years ago, a copy of Passionate Journey (1919), a wordless, graphic novel in 165 woodcuts, published by Subterráneo Press, and I still find it an inspiring read. Highly recommended. Graphic Witness, a site dedicated to social commentary through ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/06/11/frans-masereel-passionate-journey/ Yesterday Sylpheed-Claws version 2.2.1 was released. This was a bug-fix release from the stable branch, details of the fixes can be found in the release notes. As per usual, I updated the freshmeat.net project listing. Today we discovered (and fixed) a failing in the URI check which protects against phishing attacks, ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/06/06/too-fresh-for-freshmeatnet/ Blair backs nuclear power plans http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/05/16/nuclear-power-no-thanks/ On 21-Nov-2001 Melvin Hadasht submitted a Mailing list support patch for Sylpheed-Claws 0.6.5claws25 on the old, dusty, now obsolete Sylpheed Patch Page. Looking back over the mailing list archives, it appears that it received virtually no response - I don't know why. Recently, on the freenode #sylpheed channel, cromo drew attention ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/05/09/over-4-years-later-the-patch-hits-cvs/ Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 was released today, along with the accompanying Extra Plugins package. There were, of course, several improvements and fixes implemented, as can be seen from the Release Notes. My particular favourite was 'Fix returned quick search results when search term contains an underscore', not the most glamourous change perhaps, ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/05/08/sylpheed-claws-220-unleashed/ The Galeon browser has the great image-blocker feature, (which has since become more common in other browsers), enabling the blocking of advert-serving sites. Unfortunately, flash adverts have become more and more widely used and cannot be blocked using the image-blocker feature, and these flash adverts, with the moving images and ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2006/04/28/galeon-and-blocking-flash-adverts/