In October, Cellnet (UK) switched off their ETACS analogue service. AFAIK Vodafone's analogue service is still running, but not for much longer. Orange and one2one only ever had a GSM network.
Unfortunately Orange and Cellnet do the same, inclusive minutes are zero rated until the inclusive minutes are used up. Incoming calls are free though:) No clue what Vodafone and one2one do, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're the same.
...oops. For once any non-US post here is irrelevant:-/ Posted for any UK geeks in a similar predicament.
According to any official web log my machine has never browsed outside the organisation's localnet.:-)/. sees this post coming from my external shell account, which I'm using as a web proxy and the far end of an SSH tunnel...
There are the obvious solutions, e.g. using an ssh tunnel to an external web proxy and doing all your non-business-related emails through that or at the external shell account at the far end of the ssh tunnel. All you need is a shell account on an external box and a copy of Junkbuster to act as a (non-caching) web proxy to tunnel to. Of course it helps to have sshd running on the remote box too...
now if only I could find a free ssh program that supported port forwarding/tunneling for Windows...
I'm another RiscOS-to-Linux user and in the RiscOS world, like the previous poster says, UI design is very important. As a result, most apps are dead easy to pick up.
I've never used Zap, but I've used Pico almost as long as I knew it existed (and indeed, I'm wondering if someone has ported it to RiscOS:-) I ran into Nedit while on a work placement with a semiconductor firm in southern England and now use that for most editing tasks in Linux if I've got X running.
Indeed, the forthcoming Eridani Linux 6.3 release will include Nedit as standard:-)
I'm one of those unfortunate UK geeks to have a genetic disorder. I've only managed to get medical insurance since I was covered since I was a kid, and the condition wasn't discovered until afterwards. A lot of insurance companies have totally refused me any cover at all, since I have this rare (1 in 500000) condition. Even then I have a higher premium as a result. My finances right now don't really allow me to afford this medical insurance, but if I stop my insurance now I will never be able to get insurance again.
That sounds bad enough, but just imagine what it'll be like if you can't get insurance because they've been able to look at your genes and find out you have a greater-than-average disposition to a medical condition that even your doctor didn't know about at the time. It scares me to be honest.
Charge me improperly and I'll blow flaming liquid electrolyte everywhere. Just the sort of thing I want in a computer on my lap.
My laptop battery (NiMH) gave up the ghost a while back... nowadays when I need to use it 'on the road', I use an external 5Ah lead-gel battery plugged into the 12V socket on the back. It powered my machine for an entire transatlantic flight...
How about patenting the concept of covert distribution of contentious bits of code e.g. DeCSS, for example by steganography, distribution using viral techniques, and conning search engines to hold a copy.
I would patent Altenating Current, that is, sending electrons down a wire in one direction for a very short period of time, then getting them all to stop, turn round, and move again in the opposite direction for an equal period of time.
This is actually quite a cunning idea because you get all your electrons back (overall they don't actually go anywhere) so you can charge loads of money and still get your electrons back to resell to someone else. And then someone else......
Sinclair really made it with ZX Spectrum which was one of these "famous" micros (among c-64 and Apple)
...and I've still got two of those knocking around somewhere. I've been toying with the idea of trying to implement some form of networking on it (such as 9600bps SLIP), but I don't think I'd ever seriously get round to it. Especially since I'd have to write it in Z80 assembly...
That's precisely what I do. However software MPEG encoding isn't exactly fast, so I use Intel Indeo 5.1 quick compress with the quality around the 95% mark and then do an offline recompress with DivX;-).
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In October, Cellnet (UK) switched off their ETACS analogue service. AFAIK Vodafone's analogue service is still running, but not for much longer. Orange and one2one only ever had a GSM network.
They did? Not according to my Orange (roaming) bill....
You could always add them to the payload of an email virus ;)
He wanted it to go down in history. And down it went.
Windows has detected the user wishes to exhale. Proceed?
[ Yes ] [ No ] [ Exit Program ]
Try sunsite.org.uk.
According to any official web log my machine has never browsed outside the organisation's localnet. :-) /. sees this post coming from my external shell account, which I'm using as a web proxy and the far end of an SSH tunnel...
Following up my own post... I've found that free SSH thingy. TeraTerm Pro. Dunno what the current version is, but ver 2.3 (1998) is doing the trick.
now if only I could find a free ssh program that supported port forwarding/tunneling for Windows...
I can only assume Debian is using a version older than 5.1, since from 5.1 NEdit has been released under the GPL.
I personally use Nedit dynamically linked against Lesstif... and it still hasn't crashed on me yet. Using it with Lesstif, it becomes completely free.
^W^T
Yeah well, slashdot its 404 page. :)
I've never used Zap, but I've used Pico almost as long as I knew it existed (and indeed, I'm wondering if someone has ported it to RiscOS :-) I ran into Nedit while on a work placement with a semiconductor firm in southern England and now use that for most editing tasks in Linux if I've got X running.
Indeed, the forthcoming Eridani Linux 6.3 release will include Nedit as standard :-)
I'm one of those unfortunate UK geeks to have a genetic disorder. I've only managed to get medical insurance since I was covered since I was a kid, and the condition wasn't discovered until afterwards. A lot of insurance companies have totally refused me any cover at all, since I have this rare (1 in 500000) condition. Even then I have a higher premium as a result. My finances right now don't really allow me to afford this medical insurance, but if I stop my insurance now I will never be able to get insurance again.
That sounds bad enough, but just imagine what it'll be like if you can't get insurance because they've been able to look at your genes and find out you have a greater-than-average disposition to a medical condition that even your doctor didn't know about at the time. It scares me to be honest.
My laptop battery (NiMH) gave up the ghost a while back... nowadays when I need to use it 'on the road', I use an external 5Ah lead-gel battery plugged into the 12V socket on the back. It powered my machine for an entire transatlantic flight...
How about patenting the concept of covert distribution of contentious bits of code e.g. DeCSS, for example by steganography, distribution using viral techniques, and conning search engines to hold a copy.
This is actually quite a cunning idea because you get all your electrons back (overall they don't actually go anywhere) so you can charge loads of money and still get your electrons back to resell to someone else. And then someone else......
Can you imagine.... ...a beowulf cluster of ZX81s?
(sorry, but it had to be said!)
That's precisely what I do. However software MPEG encoding isn't exactly fast, so I use Intel Indeo 5.1 quick compress with the quality around the 95% mark and then do an offline recompress with DivX ;-).
Why would it need to stay online for 4 hours? This is going to result in some stupendously big phone bills...
... but when is it going to be available in the UK - if at all?