Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 -Directions to meeting

2010-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, David wrote: > is there an easy way to spot the meeting in the Kings Arms lounge bar > area? The standard answer is to look out for Terry Coles. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles But work commitments have got in the way of his attendance recently. The

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 -Directions to meeting

2010-02-01 Thread David
Hi is there an easy way to spot the meeting in the Kings Arms lounge bar area? Just joined the list and IRC (PayableOnDeath) so might as well pop up to the meeting too :) Regards David - Original Message - From: "Ralph Corderoy" To: "Dorset Linux User Group" Sent: Monday, February

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread David
Wow I didn't realise my browsers where unique, tested on a couple of machines and all where unique, only one that wasn't so far was my G1. - Original Message - From: "Ralph Corderoy" To: "Dorset Linux User Group" Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:53 PM Subject: [Dorset] Your Browser'

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 -Directions to meeting

2010-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ron, > Whereabouts in the Wallisdown rd is the King's Arms? Which is the > nearest side-road?(I hope to get there (from Pokesdown) on a number 6 > bus Let us know if http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_king_s_arms doesn't give enough information. Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 -Directions to meeting

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 20:46 +, Ron Mahony wrote: > >Whereabouts in the Wallisdown rd is the King's Arms? Which is the nearest > side-road?(I hope to get there (from Pokesdown) on a number 6 bus > Near the junction of Wallisdown road with Kinson Road/Alder Road. It's beside the ALDI.

Re: [Dorset] dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 -Directions to meeting

2010-02-01 Thread Ron Mahony
Whereabouts in the Wallisdown rd is the King's Arms? Which is the nearest side-road?(I hope to get there (from Pokesdown) on a number 6 bus > From: dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk > Subject: dorset Digest, Vol 317, Issue 3 > To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:0

Re: [Dorset] Long range wireless network

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:21 +, Terry Coles wrote: > On Monday 01 Feb 2010, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > > I'm not especially clever on RF stuff and I know a few people on the > > list are. Can anyone advise? Has anyone set something similar up? > . > > This latter problem may not manife

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread Victor Churchill
2010/2/1 Ralph Corderoy : > > > True. And some of them, like me, will have gone there in browsers that > can't turn Javascript on as they don't support it, like lynx(1) and > elinks(1). Think I might try curl(1) next. :-) > :-) It's people like *you* who go messing up their stats (and everybody

Re: [Dorset] Long range wireless network

2010-02-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 01 Feb 2010, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > I'm not especially clever on RF stuff and I know a few people on the > list are. Can anyone advise? Has anyone set something similar up? I've never set this up, but there are a couple of things that apply to any RF comms link. If you look at

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Victor, > Just tried it from a machine where FireFox uses NoScript; it show that > one in five visitors have JS turned off! I find that quite surprising. > However, visitors to that site are hardly a random sample of Joe > Public on t'Internet, I imagine. True. And some of them, like me, wil

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread Victor Churchill
Hi Ralph, what an interesting diversion you have served up for us here! Just tried it from a machine where FireFox uses NoScript; it show that one in five visitors have JS turned off! I find that quite surprising. However, visitors to that site are hardly a random sample of Joe Public on t'Internet

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Victor, > Interesting! I did not realise that that much information was passed. > From the 'Browser plugin details' figure for my test ( 1 in 159736.33) > I infer that there are three users out of ~48 who have the same > set of plugins as me ;-) I just did it from this Firefox again but p

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread dandart
Interesting. Safari/iPod, Chrome/Linux. Namoroka/Linux for me are unique. One other person has the same Chrome plugin details as me, my system fonts are unique. 2 others had the same browser plugins as my Namoroka. Wow, it's live! Suspiciously unique, me. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-

Re: [Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread Victor Churchill
Interesting! I did not realise that that much information was passed. >From the 'Browser plugin details' figure for my test ( 1 in 159736.33 ) I infer that there are three users out of ~48 who have the same set of plugins as me ;-) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dor

Re: [Dorset] Long range wireless network

2010-02-01 Thread Simon P Smith
John, I have found these guys useful too. They also do a range of 5GHz stuff. http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-outdoorantenna-24.htm You can also brew your own ;-) Si On 01/02/2010 14:38, Tim wrote: > On Monday 01 February 2010 14:08:54 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > >> They live about 800

Re: [Dorset] Long range wireless network

2010-02-01 Thread Tim
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:08:54 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > Dear list- > > Since I can't get any ADSL in my new house, I need to try and share my > parents' ADSL. They live about 800m away, within line of sight. > Ideally I want to do this with a point-to-point wireless bridge. > > I believe

[Dorset] Long range wireless network

2010-02-01 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Dear list- Since I can't get any ADSL in my new house, I need to try and share my parents' ADSL. They live about 800m away, within line of sight. Ideally I want to do this with a point-to-point wireless bridge. I believe that a couple of Linksys WRT54G units with OpenWRT are the best bet for

[Dorset] Your Browser's Signature.

2010-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I forget that some folks here don't read Slashdot so won't have seen a recent story detailing the EFF's measurement of how unique your browser signature is. IOW, even without cookies or your IP address, can they spot enough things to narrow down who you may be out of previous visitors. http

Re: [Dorset] This should please a few people.

2010-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Sean Gibbins wrote: > Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article890196.ece > > It makes perfect sense to me, but no doubt the MS carrot/stick > department have already been scrambled... I thought this Slashdot comment by fuzzyfuzzyfungus a succinct argument. h

Re: [Dorset] This should please a few people.

2010-02-01 Thread Sean Gibbins
Simon O'Riordan wrote: > http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article890196.ece > It makes perfect sense to me, but no doubt the MS carrot/stick department have already been scrambled... Sean -- And I've made disapointment My very best friend [Anton Newcombe - Straight Up And Down] -- Ne

[Dorset] This should please a few people.

2010-02-01 Thread Simon O'Riordan
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article890196.ece -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/