Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Ken Wilson
Maybe this is why my optus cable is getting slower Ken Dean Hamstead wrote: optus is being resold like crazy check out plans from http://www.dodo.com.au http://www.exetel.com.au/residential-hspa-information.php rumours are of woolies (safeway) and internode entering the market via optus

Re: [SLUG] Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to?

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:18 +1100, Theo Reimer wrote: There is a companion product available for Telstra BigPond USB wireless broadband modems that provides an ethernet gateway. It is called Maxon EtherMax, available from Maxon Australia at Padstow. This device is described as a USB docking

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Gavin Carr
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:45:51PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2008/12/4 david [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been following this thread and checking the links... all of them refer to software which I assume is Windows only. Should I assume that any of them work on either Mac or Linux, or

[SLUG] Installing City Navigator under Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Dear Garmin I've just bought a model Garmin GPSMap 60 CX with the intention to use the device with commercial maps and with maps I generate myself, mostly under ArcView. However, Trip And Waypoint Manager and City Navigator NT do not appear to install correctly in my Linux OS, which is Debian

[SLUG] Garmin data

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Please excuse me for cc'ing SLUG into a statement to Garmin about the compatibility of their products. I considered that SLUG would be interested in the topic from both FOSS consideration and from the technical aspects of having it just work. I did register the product on another PC (w2k at

[SLUG] Garmin GPS

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
SLUGers I apologise for a couple of emails I just bashed out. On wrapping up this topic I realise I should have first asked SLUG if the group was OK with the attack I made on Garmin Support before I launched it. Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Jake Anderson
just a small data point. Was at a client site who was using bigpond wireless (HSPDA/3G) and after setting up the external antenna I made a few quite acceptable VoIP calls over the link. (possibly slightly higher latency than ADSL but nothing drastic, no noticeable jitter/packet loss) Not

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Jake Anderson wrote: heh anybody know of VoIP software that will run on a 3G mobile? For that matter can I get these data plans on the same sim as my standard mobile? IE have the standard voice calling stuff but in the same device have the ability to suck a few GB worth of data at a sane

Re: [SLUG] Installing City Navigator under Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
2008/12/4 Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I fully understand your business' requirements to control access to commercial navigational data. However, when the City Navigator CD I legally purchased bears the logos Windows Vista, Mac and Universal, one would imagine that buying this imagery

Re: [SLUG] Garmin GPS

2008-12-04 Thread Martin Visser
Kevin, While I understand and even share your frustration, the reality is that it is up to the product vendor to make a commercial decision of where to invest their software development energy. I'm not sure about what the Universal logo on the packet implied, but I tend to take a pragmatic view

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Marty Richards
I had to replace some IBursts - I'm likely to replace 2 of them with a single 1M/1M commercial wireless service from Clever @ $399 per month. A bit pricey, but we need a decent link there. The site currently uses 2 x Ibursts which cost a similar amount anyway. I'm still looking for a better

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Marty Richards wrote: I had to replace some IBursts - I'm likely to replace 2 of them with a single 1M/1M commercial wireless service from Clever @ $399 per month. A bit pricey, but we need a decent link there. The site currently uses 2 x Ibursts which cost a similar amount anyway. I'm still

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 Jake Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: heh anybody know of VoIP software that will run on a 3G mobile? Haven't got around to test this but my Nokia E71 comes with builtin VoIP support (SIP) and someone else here uses another Nokia with SIP to connect his Italian SIP line. --Amos -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Installing City Navigator under Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/12/4 Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I fully understand your business' requirements to control access to commercial navigational data. However, when the City Navigator CD I legally purchased bears the logos Windows Vista, Mac and

[SLUG] silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've been doing shell programming for years but this got me stomped (simplified version): rsync=/usr/bin/rsync -navHz --delete --delay-updates --bwlimit=256 -e 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' local=/mnt/data/html/minicpan copyto=test01:$local $rsync $local/ $copyto/ When I execute this script with

Re: [SLUG] silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Peter Chubb
Amos == Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amos Hi, I've been doing shell programming for years but this got me Amos stomped (simplified version): Amos rsync=/usr/bin/rsync -navHz --delete --delay-updates Amos --bwlimit=256 -e 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' Amos local=/mnt/data/html/minicpan

Re: [SLUG] Garmin GPS

2008-12-04 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Martin Visser wrote: I tend to take a pragmatic view that if it doesn't mention Linux, you can't rely on the vendor support Geeez, you're being generous. rant level=goes to 11 I'm trying to get a mini-pci 802.11g wifi card to work with Linux. VIA has one based on the vt6655 chip and they

Re: [SLUG] silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd be very tempted to use a function and avoid the quoting wars. function myrsync() { /usr/bin/rsync -e 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' ... $@ } Yes I though about that but all this started when the ssh -e... part was in its own variable (for easier

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2008-12-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://www.rumble.net/ This one time, at band camp, Jake Anderson wrote: heh anybody know of VoIP software that will run on a 3G mobile? Fring. It works, but it's pretty damn flaky. It does, however, allow you to define arbitrary SIP endpoints to register with,