Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread zen16...@zen.co.uk
Many thanks, Fergus Vodafone say their PAYG dongle doesn't work on Macs: This product is not Mac compatible (from their website - and confirmed by the Vodafone store). T-Mobile dongles are Mac happy, but have no coverage at all in Falmouth apparently. 3 are Mac happy, but I'm told the

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Bowyer
When these people say 'doesn't work with Mac/Linux', they mean that the auto-install control software on the dongle doesn't work there. My 3 (Huawei) dongle, for example, works better under Linux than it does under Windows - but you have to mangle the settings yourself (trivial under Ubuntu) and

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Tyson Key
Hi TIA. Not sure about 3's service where you are, but at least for me up in North Yorkshire (in Boroughbridge to be exact), it's rock solid and fast enough to grab a 100MB file in a few hours or so, barring an occasional DNS problem which resolves itself within about 30 minutes-1 hour. I've heard

RE: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread zen16083
Thanks for all the replies from different people. Yep, my feelings exactly - it is just a modem so it should work. I know areas (e.g. right outside the Vodafone shop in Falmouth - where they have a booster aerial) where the Vodafone will work on Windows, so I think I'll go that route and give

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Brian Butterworth
You can find the mast and services information here: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/sitefinder/ 2009/1/26 zen16...@zen.co.uk Thanks for all the replies from different people. Yep, my feelings exactly - it is just a modem so it should work. I know areas (e.g. right outside the Vodafone shop in

RE: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread zen16083
VERY useful – thanks From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:16 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband You can find the mast and

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Luf Ball
what about mobile broadband product (PAYG) that works with Ubuntu (linux) Thanks L. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tyson Key tyson@gmail.com wrote: Hi TIA. Not sure about 3's service where you are, but at least for me up in North Yorkshire (in Boroughbridge to be exact), it's rock solid

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Bowyer
As I mentioned earlier in the thread - I have my 3 dongle working fine under Ubuntu. Actually it's CrunchBase, which is Ubuntu-derived. Peter 2009/1/26 Luf Ball lufoma...@gmail.com: what about mobile broadband product (PAYG) that works with Ubuntu (linux) Thanks L. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:03, Peter Bowyer wrote: As I mentioned earlier in the thread - I have my 3 dongle working fine under Ubuntu. Actually it's CrunchBase, which is Ubuntu-derived. There are several 3 dongles - the E220 works out the box with the Asus EEE distro and Vodaphone have a linux

[backstage] What’s “Cloud Interop”?

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Forrester
Interesting bit from Tim Bray What’s “Cloud Interop”? http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/01/22/What-Does-Interop-Mean I’ve seen verbiage on this echoing around the Net while the various Cloudy festivities go on down in the Bay Area. You could spend a lot of time

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Bowyer
2009/1/26 Fearghas McKay fm-li...@st-kilda.org: On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:03, Peter Bowyer wrote: As I mentioned earlier in the thread - I have my 3 dongle working fine under Ubuntu. Actually it's CrunchBase, which is Ubuntu-derived. There are several 3 dongles - the E220 works out the box with

Re: [backstage] OT - Mobile Broadband

2009-01-26 Thread Fearghas McKay
fwiw those two emails with an ITV sig at the bottom are nowt to do with me... f On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:14, Fearghas McKay wrote: On 26 Jan 2009, at 17:03, Peter Bowyer wrote: As I mentioned earlier in the thread - I have my 3 dongle working fine under Ubuntu. Actually it's

[backstage] Mozilla to support open video natively

2009-01-26 Thread Dogsbody
Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will include native support for video in the browser and they have chosen Theora as the format of choice. Short post: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2009/01/26/advancing-open-video/ Long description: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=977 So does that mean we can have

Re: [backstage] Mozilla to support open video natively

2009-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/1/26 Dogsbody d...@dogsbody.org: Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will include native support for video in the browser and they have chosen Theora as the format of choice. Great news! :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Mozilla to support open video natively

2009-01-26 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 00:04, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: 2009/1/26 Dogsbody d...@dogsbody.org: Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will include native support for video in the browser and they have chosen Theora as the format of choice. Great news! :-) You'll be able to rickroll yourself and