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Wireless "crossover cable"?
by Leo Mauler 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

I'm going to be going to a private outdoor festival in Kansas in about six months. The festival is held in an area without wireless access (no Internet, no cell phones) but electricity/generators are scattered around the site and you can park your car next to your tent for electricity if necessary. A couple of friends of mine are going to be coming to the festival too, but because we're in different groups we will be camping in different areas of the campsite. We all have handheld CB-like radios, but we were also considering bringing our laptops and setting up some sort of wireless connection between the computers. There are a couple of telephones available, and--among other things--transmitting current photographs over landlines to people who weren't able to make it was one idea we had. My question is: is there a way to connect just two computers together with wireless (probably 802.11b) without a wireless AP between the two of them? If not, I suppose we could just use a wireless router in a plastic bag. There's a rather large hill on the site with a telephone pole and electrical connection near the middle, rather ideal for some central wireless AP to sit on and provide access throughout the campsite. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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RE: Computer stores
by Brian Densmore 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Hutchins > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:24 am, Leo Mauler wrote: > > > I haven't been there in awhile, but "Telectronics" is > > still at 80th & Santa Fe. Run by a nice Korean > > Family, they do a two page ad in "ComputerUser" and > > they always have inexpensive things such as $20 CDROM > > drives. > > Note that should you have any problems with items purchased > there, the ability > to speak Korean is essential - no-one who speaks English will > be available. > They make their living on price and price alone, quality is no object. And should you find an English speaking person, you will be accused of having configured something wrong, regardless how expert you may be. At least that has been my experience and others also. So as long as you never need to have customer support they have great prices. Of course it has been a long time since I've shopped there, having found other sources where price is comparable, or from NewEgg.com.

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Need video converter or monitor for Sparcstation 5
by Chris Bier 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, ~ I just got a SPARCstation 5, and don't have a way to connect a monitor to it. Does anyone have an adapter or monitor that will work for sale? Thanks, Chris - -- I digitally sign my emails. If you see an attachment with .asc, then that means your email client doesn't support PGP digital signatures. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q1.1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3ggvE5xXU3JS1mQRAkSJAKCZMEkS2lqHdeo0eXgqrS2IXL2APQCfdlK5 1RlN0Q+Gwntqr6X5hdkEe7k= =M61+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Quoting
by Jonathan Hutchins 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Just a reminder: This list is archived at kclug.org. There is no need to quote the entire preceeding conversation to give relevance to a reply. (There is never a need to quote the entire preceeding message, including signatures, headers, and other irrelevant material.)

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RE: anybody using SBC Yahoo DSL?
by Jonathan Hutchins 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

On Thu, January 6, 2005 3:04 pm, Brian Densmore said: > SBC. > A company notorious for being the most > anti-customer company ever. > (well maybe not "ever", but damn close) British Telecom - BT. Beats SBC, Cingular, and Sprint easily.

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RE: anybody using SBC Yahoo DSL?
by Brian Densmore 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Man this sounds real tempting ... except for the three letter initial ... SBC. A company notorious for being the most anti-customer company ever. (well maybe not "ever", but damn close) > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Kelsay > > ... > > Current pricing is $26.95/month (1.5Mbps down) for a one yr > commitment with free hardware and self-install. The higher > speed (3Mbps down) is avail. for $36.95/month and same free > hardware and install. >

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install and use of linux with a drive too big for bios
by hanasaki 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Have an old Asus k7m motherboard who's bios cannot handle the 120gig drive that replaced the 13gig that died. Any tips on how to get Linux installed and running again? thanks

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Meeting time
by mike＠handuma.com 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

The downtown library's Web site says the building will closing at 5pm today. handuma http://www.handuma.com

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MSIE slipping further?
by Gerald Combs 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I was looking at my web site statistics for December, and the "Browsers" category shows the following percentages: MS Internet Explorer 58.6 % FireFox 24.8 % Mozilla 8.1 % Opera 2.3 % Unknown 1.6 % Netscape 1.5 % Safari 1.4 % Konqueror 0.8 % Galeon 0.2 % Others 0.1 % According to the OS stats, 84.2% of the site's visitors were running Windows. Is anyone else seeing numbers like this?

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OT: Seeking Politically Progressives Who Love Music
by Jim Herrmann 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

If you consider yourself a politically progressive person, and you love music, go to Musical Progress (http://musicalprogress.org) and join in the discussion of music that promotes progressive values. It's absolutely free to join, and then you can post comments, and submit your own song ideas for discussion. Post your progressive poetry for everyone to see. The idea is to build a community of progressives by discussing the music that fits our values. This is my new adventure in web sites. If you're a progressive, please come and join me in this journey. I look forward to seeing some of you there. Peace, Jim Herrmann -- Progressive Values ARE American Values Responsibility, Empathy, Freedom, Opportunity, Prosperity, Fairness, Trust, Honesty, Open Communication, Community, Cooperation http://musicalprogress.org

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