Re: Linux support in schools & universities

2009-09-15 Thread Lisa Milne
My only experience with Linux in school/uni was at tafe. The teachers let me install Ubuntu on a number of desktop machines in several rooms, as long as it was dual boot and I told them the password. I had better network access than the windows systems (although they did eventually manage to stop m

Re: Linux support in schools & universities

2009-09-15 Thread dean
Timmy wrote: > Which UNI's do you guys go to? I'm a IT student and have yet to bother > to bring my linux laptop to school. I did task my teacher today if it > will work and he just told me to check their website and said i have > to install VPN software... But I think Ubuntu comes with that built

RE: Modem Router

2009-09-15 Thread Greg McNamara
Interesting. I will have a look as my router is a Dlink DSL604T Wireless router/modem and see if its supported Will be worth a try and as you say if it bricks nothing lost really. Regards Greg > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:49:08 -0700 > Subject: Re: Modem Router > From: joew...@gmail.co

Re: Linux support in schools & universities

2009-09-15 Thread Timmy
Which UNI's do you guys go to? I'm a IT student and have yet to bother to bring my linux laptop to school. I did task my teacher today if it will work and he just told me to check their website and said i have to install VPN software... But I think Ubuntu comes with that built in so I hope I just n

Re: Modem Router

2009-09-15 Thread Joe Howski
Hi Greg, Just a suggestion have you tried flashing your ADSL/Router to WW- DRT.com. A long time ago I had problems with torrents overloading my Linksys wrt54gs causing disconnects. I did some research and found this open source replacement for my cisco firmware. Many routers are supported. (Rember

Re: [Linux-aus] Linux support in schools & universities

2009-09-15 Thread Barry Williams
Just a quick update I replied to the IT staff that gave me the ip address the method I used to get it working and he said he would put it in their (I imagine internal) wiki. So hopefully they will be more helpful in the future. Regards Barry -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ht