Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-01-31 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 20:46 +, Peter Washington wrote: Hi Folks, On 30 January 2011 20:38, Bryn Jones bryn.jon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 20:29 +, Peter Merchant wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 14:35 +, chris.b.c...@ntlworld.com wrote: hi This was forwarded

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-01-31 Thread StarLion
Out where I live fibre is something you feed to horses. But I was talking to a BT man a few months ago and he did say that eventually they would get fibre out to the green boxes, but that there was some negotiating to do to arrange electricity to them first. We got told the same down here in

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I haven't been following this much but did spot a run of comments on #dorset that may be relevant. One might conjecture they're reselling this C4L's services, since they appear to have a very similar service line up, and the technical specifics of the bournemouth service are

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-01-31 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 31/01/11 10:00, StarLion wrote: We got told the same down here in Weymouth, but that was quite some time ago. It seems way down south, we're not important enough to get it. Not even with the Olympics looming large? I would have thought this was just the sort of benefit the locals might

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Wifi Broadband...

2011-01-31 Thread Dan Jones
Not even then. On the other hand, it seems to have been a wonderful idea to cause complete chaos by overhauling the roads with a new layout that doesn't even make sense - and what's more, we're not just being told conflicting stories over it, when it'll be done/opened, but now it seems that

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Short and sweet. It's the Broadway tonight at 8pm. We'll try and be in that off-the-end-of-the-bar room again. The Broadway http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] screen resolution issues in ubuntu 10.10 (SIS Mirage 3 Graphics)‏

2011-01-31 Thread james weeks
cant really be much help as looks like X changed a bit in the latest Ubuntu and i only just noticed because of your post. But the following two links may help https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1548547 Sounds like you can still create a