Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
Rick Phillips r...@greyheads.net writes: I presume some people on this list travel to the UK and Europe. We will be travelling in Europe on a guided tour where the use of free internet in coffee lounges is not an option and my experience of a couple of years ago was that buying Internet time

[SLUG] Re: Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Rick Phillips r...@greyheads.net writes: Are USB 3G modems a reasonable alternative? If so, what would members recommend? Plenty of pay for Wi-Fi out there. Such as British Telecom, Belgacom in Belgium, Deutsch Telecom in Germany and so on. For a USB based broadband service you

Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: We will be travelling in Europe on a guided tour where the use of free internet in coffee lounges is not an option and my experience of a couple of years ago was that buying Internet time in the hotels where we stayed was

Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Piers Rowan
Rick Phillips wrote: I presume some people on this list travel to the UK and Europe. Any pointers would be appreciated. Mc Donalds free wifi? I did some emergency coding from one of these restaurants when w/o internet access a few years back. Depends on what you need but for the

Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Rick Phillips
Hi Paul, I'm currently travelling around Europe, and I've been buying pre-paid sim cards for internet access in almost every country I've spent more than a few days in. I've been using both my phone (Nokia N85) tethered via a usb cable, and my Huawei E169 USB 3G adaptor which I bought

Re: [SLUG] Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 07:09:56PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: I also have servers here in Oz that I have to look after and, while I could tether my iPhone, I don't want to be swapping sim cards in that in case I get a call from home that a server needs attention. There might be occasions

Re: [SLUG] [slightly OT] video upload site with API?

2010-09-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Thanks guys, I'll check out blip.tv. Also, there seems to be a few ruby api's for youtube around, I'll have a play with them. I like that blip.tv seems to have an ftp upload interface, too. Sonia. On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 14:39:24 +0930, Ryan Verner r...@uanywhere.com.au said: blip.tv - seems to

Re: [SLUG] Is the Internet Filter Australia's Berlin Wall

2010-09-05 Thread Kevin Waterson
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:42 +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Is_the_Internet_Filter_Australia% 27s_Berlin_Wall I'm not sure if you should take anything too seriously on this site but there are times when it makes for interesting reading. The above seems to