Thursday, October 05, 2006

Shilling for da man...

Sorry to do this - I know this site isn't fantastically "monetizable" but any advertising link you click on will help raise money to buy posters and flyers. It's better than hanging 'round town with a collecting tin. Also, if you follow one of the firefox links from this site and install the software in question, that also raises money. I can strongly recommend Firefox - it is better and more secure than IE. Google pack has popup and spyware killing tools and Picasa looks a lot like iPhoto - so download it only if you aren't lucky enough to have a Mac!

I promise the ads will go when we have enough money to buy some posters/leaflets. For reference - the ones we're after are this and this. If you're a generous printer prepared to give good rates on A5 leaflets in return for a big shout out on the blog (indeed, even a permanent advert!) then please email aberystwyth@no2id.net.

The processing centre is opening soon. When it does, the database will have us all no matter what the Tories or Lib Dems may do. Help us stop it before it is too late.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

www.firefoxmyths.com

Auntie Em said...

A little unfair - comparing the sys reqs to the previous version of IE with Firefox. I had a handy word processor that only required 16k of memory - it was for a ZX81, but it still had much lower system requirements than office!


To counter the points on the security "myth", Firefox doesn't claim to be exploit free. It is, however, opensource, which means that there are quite a few extra eyeballs looking for problems than even Microsoft can afford to employ.

Also, unlike IE, Firefox doen't try to beam my data back to the mothership.

I should point out that I'm not connected with Firefox or the Mozilla foundation in any way, but I am a happy user of their products. I should also say that my partner, who uses the same products under Windows, (I'm Mac/Unix) doesn't find them quite so good. So depending on your platforms, YMMV.

Auntie Em said...

Still - it all makes for good comedy!

Martin Sewell said...

IE 7 is vastly more secure than IE 6 and, overall, a better browser than Firefox 2.