Re: [Hampshire] Choice of home wireless network set-up

2009-04-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2009/4/13 Lisi hants...@googlemail.com: I have looked at the thread last year about which router people recommended, but would be grateful if people felt able to comment on these - or add any others that I ought to have included.  I would be grateful for both favourable and unfavourable

Re: [Hampshire] Digital video archiving

2009-04-14 Thread Sean Gibbins
Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all I mailed this list a few months back with something similar - but please bear with me - this question is slightly different... What's the best method for archiving video? Most of us I guess will have some form of PVR be it freeview, cable or satellite.

Re: [Hampshire] Digital video archiving

2009-04-14 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all I'd probably settle for a system that transfers from PVR to DVD by copying a file rather than making a DVD recording of a PVR broadcast so to speak but is there a simpler way? I don't have a nice enough looking case so I've not tried a media centre PC, MythUbuntu or some such

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendation on Virtualisation books

2009-04-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
One thing I've not seen that much comment on is ease of use and management (i.e you want to change settings etc). I find KVM very immature in this regard (particularly when you couple it with the equally immature libvirt* layer). If you want your life to be easy, choose vmware or virtualbox. If

Re: [Hampshire] Digital video archiving

2009-04-14 Thread Graham Bleach
2009/4/14 Rob Malpass l...@getiton.myzen.co.uk: What's the best method for archiving video?   Most of us I guess will have some form of PVR be it freeview, cable or satellite.   Clearly there's a PC at work inside them but I don't know of a way to actually get at the files that you create when

Re: [Hampshire] Choice of home wireless network set-up

2009-04-14 Thread trotter
At 23:04 13/04/2009, you wrote: I have looked at the thread last year about which router people recommended, but would be grateful if people felt able to comment on these - or add any others that I ought to have included. I would be grateful for both favourable and unfavourable feedback. I am

Re: [Hampshire] Choice of home wireless network set-up

2009-04-14 Thread Tim
On Monday 13 April 2009 23:04:10 Lisi wrote: I have looked at the thread last year about which router people recommended, but would be grateful if people felt able to comment on these - or add any others that I ought to have included. I would be grateful for both favourable and unfavourable