On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:41:29 +0100 (BST) "D.I. Redhouse" wrote:
On 16 Aug 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
Mark Elliss mark.elliss@btinternet.com writes:
Ok I'll stop lurking and introduce myself too.
Hooray! Oh, and hello too.
Ooohhh, OK.
My name is David. I provide computing support to a humanities department at a University somewhere in south-east England.
Hello, welcome, from your cam.ac.uk address I am assuming you are from Cambridge Uni.
I administer Netware, NT/95/98/2000, Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD and Macintrash boxen. None of them very well. Also, anything with a plug on it.
Cool, Netware still lives, just out of interest which of the above is your favourite?
I am a big fan of Oracle Applications, NT Roaming Profiles, and IIS.
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A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was a Field Archaeologist, and have been responsible for introducing 22 tonne tracked excavators to some of Britain's less interesting Scheduled Ancient monuments.
I'm not going to ask.
Possibly my least interesting experience to date was trying to work out why `the internet isn't working' via mobile phone whilst standing on top of a Bronze Age barrow somewhere in the Fens.
Have you tried using a real networking technique, if you can get a little bit of height and some big twigs yoy could use 1-11Mbps wireless ethernet to connect these up, we have had success with over 8 miles per link!
On occasion I work in central (i.e. the sticks of) Sicily. I /was/ going to use this experience as the basis of an article on computing in the field. I /was/ expecting to do some nifty juggling with English modems, the Italian phone system and NAT/IP Masquerading, but when I arrived a very nice man just connected me to his 100Mbps switched network. Which was nice.
Perhaps you can lend advice to a poor student who has be accused of being a wireless network expert and given the task of connecting a field somewhere in the bottom left hand corner of belguim a network connection for a week so a large quantity of geeks in various states of soberness can connect to the web! bugger!
Thanks
D
-- David Redhouse