[HLUG] Presentation to FoE and the Green Party

[George at dicegeorge.com]

hmmm..
when it connects to the internet
my pc automatically looks for updates
and downloads them
without me knowing whats going on
and installing things like ubuntu in pcs in the room
could also trigger automatic updates-

so i'd put wireless encrypted
if you bring your 3g router along
at least you know who's plugging in ethernet...


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Presentation to FoE and the Green Party


> Hi all,
> 
> I _may_ be able to bring along the Vodafone 3G Broadband Router from 
> work.  Assuming there is a reasonable signal this would give an Internet 
> connection equivalent to about 1Mb ADSL to any PC with a wireless 
> Ethernet adaptor or a wired Ethernet connection to the unit (it has four 
> Ethernet sockets).  This could be useful for demonstrating the Internet 
> applications.
> 
> This is not guaranteed though - it depends if the boss is travelling or 
> not (he uses it when he's away).
> 
> The system compresses image files to save bandwidth, so some pages will 
> not look as good as they should.  Also please do not consider 
> downloading big distro files etc with it.  We only have about 2GB/month 
> bandwidth limit, so a 700MB CD ISO file will take quite a chunk of that.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> Mark Broadbent wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> The presentation to FoE and the Green Party will _start_ at 7:30pm on
>> Wednesday 7th November.  I'll re-iterate that as we are notorious for
>> starting later --> 7:30pm <-- :-)
>> 
>> As we all will have laptops or machines to set-up then arrived at
>> least 20 minutes prior would be appropriate.  I plan to be there from
>> around 6:30pm to do a bit of networking and tea eating.
>> 
>> I hope everyone who has a workshop session is prepared and ready and I
>> look forward to seeing you next Wednesday.
>> 
>> All Best
>> Mark
>> 
> 
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