Yes indeed. We were in the final edition of the magazine for 2011 and wrote a news piece about it. Read our news post on the Linux Format article. The original Linux Format article is now available on Techradar. Read the original Linux Format/Techradar article.
The words ‘in your aerial’ have featured in our strapline since 2002. It’s a handy play on a unique feature of Bristolian English – the terminal L – as Wikipedia explains: The most unusual feature of this dialect, unique to Bristol, is the Bristol L (or Terminal L), in which an L sound is appended…
As an organisation, we sprang into life in 2002. CLAN – an acronym for Community Local Area Network – was our first major project in Bristol, initially linking the 3 locations in Easton, Bristol, where we worked. This was a resident-led effort and provided the initial core of the Bristol Wireless network, which was built…
The Lab is what the Bristol Wireless office is called (and has been since 2002). 🙂 We prefer to go to work in a laboratory; the coffee’s better than your normal office stuff too! You can find the location of The Lab on our contact page.
We no longer sell refurbished PCs due to the lack of demand for desktop machines. However, we may occasionally have refurbished laptops for sale. These are sold with a reliable open source operating system and a software bundle that should cover most users’ requirements. Please contact us or ring 0117 3250067 for details.
FUD is an acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. It is an immoral way of promoting a product by introducing one of these elements into people’s thinking about a competitor and is frequently used by proprietary software vendors to denigrate the merits of free and open source software. When ethical business people want to sell…
This is a very brief guide to setting up a vserver (http://linux-vserver.org) to run LTSP on. Getting DHCP to work Requires NET_RAW Getting NFS to work A user space NFS server is required. “nfs-user-server” or “unfs3” should work fine. We are using unfs3. See the respective documentation for the differences between the two. Local Devices…
This is best explained by comparing mobile phone handsets and wifi, which operate on different frequencies. Depending on the network provider, the power dissipated by the radio of a mobile phone is no more than 2 watts (O2 and Vodafone) or 1 watt (Orange). Now consider that the legal limit for wireless networking is 0.1w.…
There has been some discussion as to the possible hazards of wifi. This is best explained by comparing to mobile phone handset and Wifi, which operate on different frequencies. The power dissipated by the radio of a mobile phone is no more than 2 watts (e.g. O2 and Vodafone) and no more than 1 watt…
If you have followed the instructions below, click here to consult to our comprehensive online help. Broadband 1. Get the box that your provider will have given to you and make sure it is plugged into the mains. 2. Connect the box to your computer using a piece of cat 5 cable. 3. Restart your…