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Philip Hands

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Full Name

Philip Hands
Job Title

Consultant
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hands.com ltd
Organisation Website

http://hands.com/

Philip Hands's Activity

  • Philip Hands and Richard Morrell are now friends   10 months ago

  • Philip Hands wrote on their own wire:   11 months, 1 week ago

    What exactly is supposed to be represented by the Friend relationship on this forum?
    Am I only supposed to declare friendship to people I know, or people I trust, or just people I’ve heard of, and why would I want to tell anyone other than the individuals concerned (who already know I trust them).
    Mostly, I’m tired [...]

  • Philip Hands wrote on their own wire:   11 months, 1 week ago

    Regarding Blogs: I already have a blog, and I update it rarely enough that if I had two blogs it would be even more sparse — is it not possible for people to syndicate the relevant potion of their existing blog (as with planets — i.e. planet.debian.org) so that we could just blog in [...]

  • Philip Hands updated the “Basic Information” information on their profile   11 months, 1 week ago

  • Philip Hands wrote on the wire of the group Debian GNU/Linux   11 months, 1 week ago

    I’ve no idea if there’s a need for a Debian group on this forum, but thought I’d set one up just in case there is. If you deploy or use Debian, or are just interested in using Debian in local government, feel free to join the group.
    Note, that this is not intended to be [...]

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  • On August 21, 2009 Philip Hands said:

    What exactly is supposed to be represented by the Friend relationship on this forum?

    Am I only supposed to declare friendship to people I know, or people I trust, or just people I’ve heard of, and why would I want to tell anyone other than the individuals concerned (who already know I trust them).

    Mostly, I’m tired of receiving invites to link to people on Linked-In, or to join Facebook etc. and can do without yet another source of such nonsense — can I not simply have my account allow every member of the forum the privileges normally reserved to friends (perhaps with the chance to tag people as Enemies, or Morons, in the unlikely event that someone starts spamming me, say).

  • On August 21, 2009 Philip Hands said:

    Regarding Blogs: I already have a blog, and I update it rarely enough that if I had two blogs it would be even more sparse — is it not possible for people to syndicate the relevant potion of their existing blog (as with planets — i.e. planet.debian.org) so that we could just blog in the normal manner, and have it show up here if we decide to mark it as relevant — actually for things like planet.debian.org people also include a few irrelevant posts, which helps with community building.

    [I'm assuming that the wire is the right place for such musings]