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Topic: Advice Wanted - Wireless Broadband |
michael
Replies: 20
Views: 11880
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Mon Aug 15, 05 7:32 pm Subject: Re: Advice Wanted - Wireless Broadband |
My OH has got NTL coming on Friday to install Broadband. The PC is in the attic and I don't want wires trailing up the house if I can avoid it, especially those installed by NTL who take the quickest ... |
Topic: My mother-in-law.... |
michael
Replies: 14
Views: 9256
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 8:05 pm Subject: My mother-in-law.... |
Ooh ooh ooh! Buy a Mac Mini! Well sexy (for those of us who like that sort of thing), easy to use, just right for someone who wants to store photos and read email and browse websites. I use one ... |
Topic: Downsizing to a caravan? |
michael
Replies: 17
Views: 43903
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 6:46 pm Subject: Downsizing to a caravan? |
Could you not "go on holiday" or visit friends, or stay in B&B for the closed months.
That's something we haven't investigated yet.
It would be nice to spend the winter in Spain, long-term hol ... |
Topic: Downsizing to a caravan? |
michael
Replies: 17
Views: 43903
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 6:42 pm Subject: Downsizing to a caravan? |
Hi Sally,
That sounds like a good idea - nice lump sum plus much reduced mortgage payments, if any. One potential problem is that my partner is not a white anglo-saxon female, so he's a little bit co ... |
Topic: Which Linux to try next? |
michael
Replies: 4
Views: 3854
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 2:24 pm Subject: Gentoo? |
If you want to get your hands dirty and learn how U*nx operating systems work, why not try emerge --update world and it downloads, configures, compiles and installs the chosen packages (and any depend ... |
Topic: Downsizing to a caravan? |
michael
Replies: 17
Views: 43903
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 2:00 pm Subject: Downsizing to a caravan? |
Hi Tahir,
Lots of people from work rave about Southern Portugal as well, but we have never been yet. I'll put it on the list of places to visit...
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Topic: Anyone have a decent level of Linux experience? |
michael
Replies: 6
Views: 5923
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 1:58 pm Subject: Anyone have a decent level of Linux experience? |
I've been using Linux for about ten years, I've now converted almost exclusively to [url=http://www.gentoo.org/]Gentoo because it is so much easier to install bleeding-edge software than RedHat and ot ... |
Topic: Using RCP |
michael
Replies: 8
Views: 6034
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 1:18 pm Subject: Using RCP |
The -C means "suck up all the files, compress them, then transfer to the other computer and uncompress them", so yes, they are zipped up, but they are automatically unzipped so it is as if they had no ... |
Topic: Using RCP |
michael
Replies: 8
Views: 6034
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 12:54 pm Subject: Use SSH instead? |
RCP and the other R-tools are insecure. Whilst this is probably fine on a home network, it is a good idea to switch to SCP, because this is secure (encrypted connection), is safe to use across the Int ... |
Topic: Downsizing to a caravan? |
michael
Replies: 17
Views: 43903
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Forum: Finance and Property Posted: Sun Jul 24, 05 12:26 pm Subject: Downsizing to a caravan? |
Hi All, I'm a newbie to this group, found you after searching on Google.
My partner and I are planning to move to Spain in a few years, when we can both speak Spanish reasonably well. I like the id ... |
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