Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread James Tait
Dave Walker wrote: > Also, if you want to - you can even load custom firmware onto it. One > good one is, http://www.dd-wrt.com . This is very easy to do, and will > even allow you to 'ssh' in. It will basically be a headless linux box. Maybe not such a good choice: http://xwrt.blogspot.com/200

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
On Thursday 08 March 2007 21:59:53 Adam Bagnall wrote: > Adam McMaster wrote: > > On 08/03/07, Adam Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm using a Belkin router and it's forever crashing. My Dad has a > >> netgear router, which I believe is running Linux as it came with a copy > >> of the gpl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread Adam Bagnall
Adam McMaster wrote: > On 08/03/07, Adam Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm using a Belkin router and it's forever crashing. My Dad has a >> netgear router, which I believe is running Linux as it came with a copy >> of the gpl in the box :-) Most routers have a web interface so they can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread Adam McMaster
On 08/03/07, Adam Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using a Belkin router and it's forever crashing. My Dad has a > netgear router, which I believe is running Linux as it came with a copy > of the gpl in the box :-) Most routers have a web interface so they can > be configured under OSes oth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread Adam Bagnall
alan c wrote: > I want to buy a wireless access point to add to my existing wired > network, (and learn a bit about wireless). I want good security, and > being a novice at wireless setup, I would strongly prefer something > easy at first, with the facility to do advanced things later. > > I wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Walker
Hi Alan, Personally i would recommend the "Buffalo WHR-G54S-1" - currently £28.78 (free P&P) from amazon. It's very Linux friendly (it's even running it inside). It supports 802.11g (currently the fastest official standard) & has 4 wired Ethernet ports. Also, if you want to - you can even load

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread alan c
Andrew Price wrote: > I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this > interesting: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm > > "The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more > open source software, the shadow chancellor has estimat

[ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread alan c
I want to buy a wireless access point to add to my existing wired network, (and learn a bit about wireless). I want good security, and being a novice at wireless setup, I would strongly prefer something easy at first, with the facility to do advanced things later. I would prefer to favour (tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Webb
On 08/03/07, gord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:20 +, Andrew Price wrote: > > I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this > > interesting: > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm > > > > "The government could save more than £

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Don't trust the tories to do this. Mr Cameron will promise miracles for another vote. These are the same people who just promised to put a border police around all of Britain's costline remember. On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:20:38 Andrew Price wrote: > I usually stay away from politics as much

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread gord
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:20 +, Andrew Price wrote: > I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this > interesting: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm > > "The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more > open source software

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
Andrew Price wrote: > I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this > interesting: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm > > "The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more > open source software, the shadow chancellor has estimat

[ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Price
I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm "The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software, the shadow chancellor has estimated." I'm not quite sure what to t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] App for organizing pdfs

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, john levin wrote: > I'm looking for a desktop program to manage Could you describe a few examples/use-cases of what "manage" might mean to help to narrow things down. > the vast number of pdfs I've accumulated; something similar to Yep > http://www.yepthat.com/ which bills its

[ubuntu-uk] App for organizing pdfs

2007-03-08 Thread john levin
Hi, I'm looking for a desktop program to manage the vast number of pdfs I've accumulated; something similar to Yep http://www.yepthat.com/ which bills itself as iPhoto for documents. Any suggestions? GTK/QT/anything else, as long as it is FLOSS. TIA John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https:/