[Wylug-discuss] WYLUG OpenStreetMap thing-Sunday 24th Feb 2008

[Towle, William]

>= Smylers:
> >= Wills:
> > ... the "should just work" advice from the Stick's bar staff the day
> > before was a poor reinterpretation of the window stickers' 
> "switch on
> > your wi-fi enabled laptop and start surfing" at best (unless, say,
> > Windows hops on the strongest unsecured signal by default? 
> That would
> > be worrying)
> 
> I have no experience of using wi-fi on Windows, but I've a feeling
> Ubuntu behaves like that if none of the available signals (secured or
> not) are ones it has a record of using before.

  It's a good job the Eee doesn't.

  That said, it probably *would* be a good thing if my
neighbours were suddenly advised to "SECURE YOUR NETWORK!!!"
by their printers ;)

Wills.