Comments on: webbooks in Woking

By: Matt Dinnery

Matt Dinnery — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:18:43 +0000

And the command to make this lovely webbook into a dhcp server is…?
Might be handy for meetings and what not where I need an internet connection for a few colleagues!

Regards,

Matt Dinnery,
Webmaster,
Medical Admissions – Getting you in…

http://www.medicaladmissions.co.uk

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:13:00 +0000

@Dan, they have indeed taken a breather from the Linux build, I hope to bring you some more news on that soon. It has been an educational experience for all concerned.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:06:51 +0000

You had to do all that to get it working, lol, no wonder CPW has junked the linux.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:31:25 +0000

yep, rubbish photo, taken on a dirty two year old camera phone. When I go to the CPW offices they are shocked at the shabby state of my phone!

By: Peter Garner

Peter Garner — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:20:44 +0000

heh.. not a good picture.. but then I’m biased

It’s an interesting point, but then again with these cut-price laptops the buyer really (and I mean really) has to be aware of what they’re buying, and what’s actually left out. I bought an Elonex One because I knew exactly what I was buying, and I’m using it for basic surfing and email, plus some software development. They already have Perl on there and I’ve set up a SQLite database too, so in that respect it’s very useful. The people I feel sorry for though are the (alleged) low-income buyers who expect them to behave like a Windows PC, which it obviously won’t. In educational establishments though, surely a switched-on IT person could set up some useful software on these boxes?

By: The Open Sourcerer

The Open Sourcerer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:19:10 +0000

Nice photo! NOT.

Here’s a link to some words I wrote back in January about getting Angua (the Novatech Laptop) and how hard it was to find a UK supplier of laptops that would sell them without an Operating System. Scandalous.

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/01/29/microsofts-fixed-rate-tax-approaches-100/