Re: [Hampshire] Lucid network manager

2010-07-03 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Rob, On 03/07/10 19:24, Rob Malpass wrote: The reason I need to fiddle is the internet connection I'm using is, for some reason, painfully slow at the moment so my first thought was to run everything through my ADSL router to see if it was a cable problem. To do so, I need to change my

[Hampshire] Lucid network manager

2010-07-03 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all As usual, I must have missed something obvious but, running Lucid - I can't make any changes to my networking. Clicking on network connections from the system->preferences menu, it brings up something (which I think is) called network-connection-editor - but under the wired tab - I get

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

2010-07-03 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
> One [1] suggests that USB hardware can be used as a Trojan horse to > steal your data. It's possible. Though there are probably easier ways to steal data. > And the other [2] claims that Google biasses its search results in > favour of its own sites. For example Google's YouTube gets higher

[Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

2010-07-03 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello folks A couple if items in this week's New Scientist may be of interest. One [1] suggests that USB hardware can be used as a Trojan horse to steal your data. And the other [2] claims that Google biasses its search results in favour of its own sites. For example Google's YouTube gets hig