Asus have kindly lent Bristol Wireless a ChromeBox for evaluation and I’ve had a chance to put it through its paces. On opening the box I was surprised by its compact form; it’s about the size of a CD case and an inch high. The boot time’s impressive, taking only a few seconds to launch […]
Some years ago Bristol Wireless were involved in a project with a wild life sanctuary called Secret World on the levels in deepest, darkest Somerset. Recently we were approached again to stream more critters. How could we refuse? Needless to say, a couple of us went to Somerset to see what we had to achieve […]
Over the last few weeks Bristol Wireless volunteers have been installing seven LTSP workstations for public use in the foyer of Easton Community Centre in Kilburn Street. In keeping with our greener credentials, the Compaq workstations (also known as clients. Ed.) run on minimal power, having no moving parts such as hard disks and optical […]
July 15-16th Bridgewater hall Bristol Wireless took its new revised LTSP suite for 2 days to the Substance Conference in Manchester. The Dell server laptop has been newly installed and the Evo T20 thin clients have been configured on the server, 7 flat screens and 3 laptops made up a suite of 10 machines: it […]
Digital Inclusion Conference, The Brewery, London, Tuesday 30 April 08 Only two-thirds of people go online in the UK. The remaining third don’t use the internet at all. That’s 17 million people who are ‘digitally excluded’. This conference set out to address this remaining third. The government are so keen to address this issue that […]
On Wednesday 26th September the Bristol Wireless mobile LTSP suite went to the Beyond Engagement: Inclusion, Sport and Popular Culture conference organised by the Substance co-op at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. The aim of the conference was to explore ways of building on developments after the target audience has been found through the channels of sport, […]
On Thursday 21 June, Bristol Wireless’ Bails and Rich Higgs attended the Connecting South West Conference in Taunton organised by the SWRDA on the future of ICT support for business. This event considered recent changes and developments in the provision and delivery of ICT support in the South West of England and was opened by […]
Venn festival 1st-4th Jine
Bristol Wireless ran their mobile cybertent once again for 5 days in a field near Cheddar at the Big Green Gathering 2005. With our old friends and collaborators Psand providing connectivity to the net via their Satellite Uplink trucks. With up to 20 terminals in use by festival goers for over 6 hours a day […]
Bristol Wireless members attended the inaugral event in London last year and will be organising a trip to London in the Autumn. http://www.socialsource.org.uk/pmwiki.php/Main/LatestNews Latest News June 2005 Our next event has now been fixed for November 2005 and will take place immediately after this year’s UK Riders conference. The theme will be mix/match/migrate and will […]
Glastonburys loss is HesFes kids gain. Hackers and Home Educators come together on the South Coast for a week of Linux and free Internet fun in the sun.
Bristol Wireless have successfully installed a new broadband computer suite in a sheltered housing unit, improving the quality of life for its 54 residents.
After some successful trials we are now streaming regular nights from the Chelsea Inn. Already we have had Jessie’s regular Wednesday open mike running for the last month and last week was Henry’s Hot Six, rocking modern jazz band plaing Tuesday night. The streams are live on internet and available using your favourite media player. […]
We were there!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39166812,00.htm
With the temporary demise of the Computer Courses at the ECC, the Lab has had quite a few computers waiting to get refurbished, fixed up and given away; some volunteers have been busy making them work again. The last couple of weeks we have been giving away some to local people who can plead a […]
Saturday 3rd June 12am the Lord Mayor will be opening the celebrations of Easton Residents Network Independence day at Greenhaven, Greenbank Av Easton, Bristol. 12.00-5.00pm no doubt an opportunity to meet the press with tea and cakes. Greenhaven is residential supported housing that’s been connect to the wireless network since March, two Linux computers have […]
Bristol Wireless have 10 tickets available for this event, contact the Lab for more details Richard Stallman: Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks Sat 22 May 1400hrs Waterside 3, Watershed Richard Stallman has been cited as one of the most important people in computing today. As founder of the Free Software Foundation, […]
As agreed at the last meeting, this meeting will be be at the Easton Community Centre. A draft agenda is available at http://docs.psand.net/twiki/bin/view/CLAN/ClanAgendaNextMeeting and the minutes of the last meeting at http://docs.psand.net/twiki/bin/view/CLAN/ClanMinutes080304
Tonight at 6.30 there will be an IRC meeting to discuss the Community IT festival. The lab has 6 terminals for people to use if you don’t have a connection at home and there’s the Chelsea with 2 machines too. If you don’t know how to use IRC – a good tutorial can be found […]
Bristol Wireless have been asked to have a stand at this event, any ideas what format this can take. All welcome. Hello everyone, Following our last Street Party meeting, it was suggested that we have a get together, photo exhibition, etc…. Well, my suggestion is – to link our get-together with the Winter Celebration and […]