[Klug-general] It’s finally here – the new Kent Linux User Group website

[nic dan]

Hi, J

 thanks

"Which part of the costs do you want to reduce? Hardware costs? Running
costs (power, phone line?)"

running costs, both PC & phone - hardware comes and goes [thanks to fish, btw :)]

I'm working on the power bit, with an epia mini itx I'm currently building, 
but phone/broadband costs are a struggle

I keep reading about voip but haven't got my head around it, though I did download a copy of trixbox 2.4, 
but had a mobo failure on the box I was going to try it on

tried skype - sucks IMHO, uses too much resources 

I use meebo for my msn messenger as I still have my legacy hotmail account not all transferred to fastmail yet

I keep reading about ATAs, as using a phone that only works when the PC is on, sucks, too

I have a huawei 220 on 3/payg for my IBM t21 that's expensive to use, too, but works well with puppylinux
I never got wifi roaming to go other than where you had to pay to log-on

- not very good at cracking passwords~~~LOL

I have many friends abroad Europe/Canada/US and travel a fair bit, too  

any ideas?

Aitch :)
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> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:20:18 +0100
> From: klug at quixotic.org.uk
> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general]	It’s finally here – the new Kent Linux User Group	website
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> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:10:15PM +0000, nic dan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > Perhaps a talk is needed on setting up a twitter account [or rss feed] & it's advantages/disadvantages for boring old farts like me
> 
> Twitter is simply a way of finding out what other people are doing. Quick
> simple text blurts in 140 characters or less. 
> 
> https://twitter.com/about 
> 
> This link will tell you more about it. 
> 
> RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It allows you to subscribe to
> a feed (an xml document) using a reader, to keep upto date with what
> websites. So rather than having to flick round the bbc, guardian, times,
> cnn, etc.. in the morning, your rss reader will take the feed from each of
> their sites and put it in a simple display were you can read all the
> headlines for all of the sites. Readers come in various forms, from
> googlereader (http://google.co.uk/reader), to rawdog
> (http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html), to some browsers, and so on and so
> forth. 
> 
> > I still struggle with texting...~~~ ....& I'm only a novice emailer so why would I want/need a mega feed [unless I'm hungry??]
> 
> The megafeed is different from email. 
> 
> > My mailbox gets full enough already, or did I miss something here?
> 
> Kinda.
> 
> > Are you really all that geeky, or is it just, young?
> 
> No, some of us are infact proud to admit to being geeks. Sad tho some may
> feel that to be. (see http://catb.org/jargon/ for more info).
> 
> > I need to know how to reduce my communications/computing/network costs, if anyone has any tips....pension doesn't go far
> 
> Which part of the costs do you want to reduce? Hardware costs? Running
> costs (power, phone line?) 
> 
> HTH
> 
> J
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