Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider withFast Upload

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I recently came across a problem with a device (the Vodafone Sure Signal) that would only work on a network with an MTU of 1500. I believe that Be (and a number of other LLU providers) use PPPoE rather than PPPoA and therefore have an MTU of 1492. Probably not a problem in most applicatio

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider with Fast Upload

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 16:08:50 Stephen Pelc wrote: > > We're moving office premises soon and the local exchange [1] supports > > a number of broadband providers that are LLU enabled, so this gives us > > some providers that do not use BT's network. > > > > We're after a reliable fast upload

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider with Fast Upload

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Pelc
> We're moving office premises soon and the local exchange [1] supports > a number of broadband providers that are LLU enabled, so this gives us > some providers that do not use BT's network. > > We're after a reliable fast upload provider that won't break the bank, ... Since Demon moved over to n

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Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider with Fast Upload

2010-01-27 Thread LinuxLearner
Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Hey All, > > We're moving office premises soon and the local exchange [1] supports > a number of broadband providers that are LLU enabled, so this gives us > some providers that do not use BT's network. > > We're after a reliable fast upload provider that won't break the b

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:35:12PM +, Keith Edmunds wrote: > This should be trivial, but I'm struggling to do it. > > I have a few 8-bit .bmp files that I want to convert to 32 bit. I realise > they won't look any different... I have tried: > > $ file x.bmp > x.bmp: PC bitmap, Windows 3.x for

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider with FastUpload

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, I get my broadband from IDNet.net. They are BT delivered and are a fantastic ISP. I'm on their home Supermax tariff which gives me 832k upload and traffic priority at the exchange for £35 a month. I have a 60GB monthly limit but for double the price you can get their business service which

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:10:11AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: > 2010/1/26 Keith Edmunds : > > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:22:10 -, mar...@antibodymx.net said: > > > >> Perhaps a better question is, why do you _think_ you need a 32 bit colour > >> image? > > > > Because the Sygic Moving Maps applicat

[Hampshire] Recommendations for LLU Broadband Provider with Fast Upload

2010-01-27 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Hey All, We're moving office premises soon and the local exchange [1] supports a number of broadband providers that are LLU enabled, so this gives us some providers that do not use BT's network. We're after a reliable fast upload provider that won't break the bank, thus proper full SDSL is out. T

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Changing default Search Enging to Yahoo

2010-01-27 Thread Philip Stubbs
2010/1/27 Stephen Davies : > Groklaw is reporting that as a result of a revenue sharing deal the > default search engine for FFox in future Ubuntu releases will be changed > to Yahoo. > http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20100126135326412&title=Ubuntu+switches+default+search+engine

[Hampshire] Ubuntu Changing default Search Enging to Yahoo

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Davies
Groklaw is reporting that as a result of a revenue sharing deal the default search engine for FFox in future Ubuntu releases will be changed to Yahoo. http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20100126135326412&title=Ubuntu+switches+default+search+engine+to+yahoo&type=article&order=&hid

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
2010/1/27 Bob Dunlop : > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 26 at 10:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: >> This should be trivial, but I'm struggling to do it. >> >> I have a few 8-bit .bmp files that I want to convert to 32 bit. I realise >> they won't look any different... I have tried: > > Can't do 32 but if you don't m

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Tue, Jan 26 at 10:35, Keith Edmunds wrote: > This should be trivial, but I'm struggling to do it. > > I have a few 8-bit .bmp files that I want to convert to 32 bit. I realise > they won't look any different... I have tried: Can't do 32 but if you don't mind using 15 year old tech Xv will

Re: [Hampshire] Convert 8-bit .bmp to 32 bit

2010-01-27 Thread Anton Piatek
2010/1/26 Keith Edmunds : > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:22:10 -, mar...@antibodymx.net said: > >> Perhaps a better question is, why do you _think_ you need a 32 bit colour >> image? > > Because the Sygic Moving Maps application (a SatNav application) on my > Android phone crashes with Point Of Inter