[SLUG] Re: Brief note on eeePC 701 - 3G with Huawei E169G

2008-09-21 Thread Jan Newmarch
The latest generation of USB devices appear to store their Windows drivers directly on the device instead of on a CD. So they have to appear as though they are disks in the first place and the real device later. This cause problems for the EEE with 3G devices such as the Huawei E169G. We got one

[SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-21 Thread Jim Donovan
Hi, I run a site with about 20MB of files and a finite amount of traffic. We've been using a $100/100MB plan with Smartyhost which gives us SSH access and a linux server. Unfortunately, smarty's service seems to be falling off. They keep trying to move us to a server which does not allow SSH

Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008, Jim Donovan wrote: Can anyone suggest a better host which also allows SSH logins? http://www.anchor.com.au/ is a SLUG-friendly Aussie company that has SSH logins. Dreamhost is a widely used US company and costs US$6 per month. They have had 'incidents' in the past with

Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
maybe try http://www.bur.st/ Dean Mary Gardiner wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008, Jim Donovan wrote: Can anyone suggest a better host which also allows SSH logins? http://www.anchor.com.au/ is a SLUG-friendly Aussie company that has SSH logins. Dreamhost is a widely used US company and costs

Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
I also offer commercial VPS/hosting services; you can get ssh access to the virtual web server group if you ask very, very nicely. I've also capped bandwidth costs so you don't get turned off or charged excess if somehow you go over. Adrian On Mon, Sep 22, 2008, Dean Hamstead wrote: maybe try

Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-21 Thread Ben
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET run on BSD, and are a shared hosting service, so no root access, etc. They have PHP 4 or 5 and MySQL. They have SSH access. 20MB would cost US20c/month to store, and traffic is $1/GB on top of that. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Jim Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

[SLUG] keyboard layouts

2008-09-21 Thread david
I've bought an ASUS laptop which has some strange keyboard configurations. How do you customise the keyboard layout in Hardy? The system preferences tool only does specific pre-ordained layouts like Dvorak etc. I want to make keys do odd things (eg, the enter key to become a period... it makes

Re: [SLUG] keyboard layouts

2008-09-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
david [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've bought an ASUS laptop which has some strange keyboard configurations. How do you customise the keyboard layout in Hardy? The system preferences tool only does specific pre-ordained layouts like Dvorak etc. I want to make keys do odd things (eg, the enter