Posts by happygeek

Oh yeah, agreed, when it works it is great.

Trouble is, when I need it rather than just want it, it doesn't work. Hardly ever.

And I'm just so fed up with all these hotels that think by simply having an AP on each floor that's the job done. Support doesn't seem to come into the equation...

Hi cytotech, welcome to DaniWeb where you will find plenty of Linux gurus and enthusiasts ready and willing to help.

Some outfit, whose name escapes me (something like CredECard or similar) have been doing a marketing push in the UK so I have a collection of £10 pay-as-you-go topped up cards that let me access The Cloud hotspots across the country. Works wonders at most airports here :)

Agree with you in general though, airport WiFi stinks.

I wonder what it's like in an airport hotel? Never having stayed in one, a trend I sincerely hope continues, I wouldn't know...

Not sure of that is a good (exposes all postings on the subject) or a bad (no quality/relevancy filtering) thing to be honest. I think I tend to veer towards the bad.

Cool and geeky.

I like it :)

Specifically I hate hotel WiFi, apart from those odd few times it actually works.

Take last night, staying in a very expensive ($750 per night) central London hotel - it's OK, I wasn't paying the bill :)

I had been out delivering a keynote speech to a collection of the great and good in the corporate IT security business in the UK, returning to my room at midnight.

Of course, being a good geek, the first thing I do is fire up the lappy. My aim, in fact, was to check everything was OK at DaniWeb, maybe post a blog, do a bit of forum housekeeping, yada yada yada.

Apart from the fact that the in-room wifi wasn't working. And not was anyone who could fix it at that time of night. I wasted an hour trying to get it working from my end, running down my battery in the process.

So while one of the best known hotels in London could not provide me with WiFi, the train on the way home could. What's more, in my first class carriage (you really can tell I wasn't paying can't you) that access was totally free as well.

Shame my battery ran out after just 30 mins though. Another reason I hate WiFi.

I'm hopeful that my new 3.5G equipped MDA Vario II smartphone (a t-mobile version of the TyTN) will, finally, provide me with relaible web connectivity wherever I need it.

So, …

Thanks for the kind words Zoom, making people happy while sharing information is what DaniWeb is all about.

Indeed, welcome to DaniWeb - home of the dead computer helpers :)

Car wrecks, huh? Was in a BIG one 8 years ago myself - car 5 in a 6 car smash up on the M25 motorway just outside London. As you say, makes you appreciate life a tad more following that...

Hi Rikaz, sorry I can't bring myself to call someone I don't know 'nasty' :)

Welcome to DaniWeb, you are in good web development company here.

Hi Bennita, welcome to DaniWeb. Here's hoping you find the help and the community discussion you are looking for.

Click on your name, right at the top of the screen, to open your user profile.

Click on link that says 'find all threads started by mbusitim' top left on your profile page.

Hey Curt, welcome to DaniWeb. I can certainly sympathise with you, having been through the whole brain illness, lengthy hospitalisation, paralysed in a wheelchair thing. For me the wheelchair was home for many years, and my memory loss and loss of mental function thankfully much shorter.

I was very fortunate to eventually regain all my physical function, but am sure I would have gone mad had it not been for the help, support and friendship I discovered online back in the late 80's and early 90's.

I wish you well, and if ever you want to chat about stuff I'm never far away in the virtual world at least :)

Looking OK here at the moment, coming up for 8pm GMT.

I find them useful for getting a quick peek inside a thread without having to open up the whole thing just to find it's not what you were expecting.

Nice one...

Hi Ken, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Tim, welcome to DaniWeb even if you don't like onions :)

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb. Rather than ask for a book, why not explore the VB forums here instead and learn from the experience of others?

There's small and there's me plus a couple of others. :)

I suspect that something like a DaniWeb UK Chinese Dinner in Chinatown, London might be flexible and fun...

Hiya, welcome to Daniweb, here's hoping you find what you are looking for.

Dani started it, coded it, still runs it!

Oh, and yes, I do like mushy peas and chips, although not as much as pie and mash with liqour gravy :)

Welcome to DaniWeb...

To be honest, this is looking less and less like being worth organising, as an official event anyway. There just hasn't been enough interest in terms of numbers of people to make it viable.

Of course, that doesn't mean that some kind of informal get together of UK based DaniWebbers (is that a good collective noun do you think?) is out of the question.

Hi Kevan, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Ben, welcome aboard the good ship DaniWeb.

Hi CJon, thanks for the positive feedback about the DaniWeb rep. Let's hope we can live up to it as far as you are concerned!

Welcome to the community...

Hi Welton, welcome to DaniWeb.

Deputy Sheriff huh? I had better be on my best behaviour then :)

Welcome to DaniWeb, where knowledge comes to be shared :)

Hello and welcome to DaniWeb.

Crikey, now that was some introduction, Uncle Scruffy :)

Welcome to DaniWeb, where beards are not an issue...

Welcome to DaniWeb.

Try looking at the C and C++ forum and tutorials where you'll find loads of information...

Hello roadmut, congrats on the new career. As they say, some good always comes out of some bad, if you let it...

Hi Westy, welcome to Daniweb.

Hi Annie, welcome to Daniweb! Take a minute to read the welcome guide and rules, and you shouldn't go far wrong :)

Hi Preye, thanks for the kind words and welcome to DaniWeb!

Well, if you had clicked the link in my previous reply you would have found yourself with just whichever forum covered the OS you have installed to choose from. Hardly rocket science...

In fairness, pointing you at the appropriate forum is meant to help you: once there you will likely get the help you are after, posting a tech support question in a forum clearly marked community introductions is like going to the hospital and asking people in the waiting room to help fix your broken leg.

But anyway, good luck with your problem. Although seeing as you have already stated you've 'tried various tech supports and nobody has an answer' you might want to reconsider, follow that previous link and post your question in the forum covering whatever version of Windows you are running on.

All working fine and dandy again here, after that small glitch a few days back.

Hello Ajith, welcome to the DaniWeb community. Here's hoping we are all you expect us to be.

Hello, welcome to DaniWeb, and looking forward to reading your copy protection muses. Maybe you could start a blog here on the subject?

Hi Farook, welcome to Daniweb.

Hi Ashwin, you've come to right place as DaniWeb has plenty of C++ Gurus around to help.

Erm run that past me again?

But anyway, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Satish, an embedded engineer huh? sounds painful :)

Welcome to DaniWeb.

If you are running Windows, then you need to ask in the appropriate Tech Talk forum.

Hello, and welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi lax202as, welcome to DaniWeb my friend.

Whatever you do, don't use:

Yo Dude
Howdy Pardner
'ello 'ello 'ello

or

How's it hanging.

I find, to be honest, that hello works best.

So, hello.

And welcome to DaniWeb...

Hi Mabuhay, I'm sure you will learn all you need here at DaniWeb. Welcome to the community...

Hi John, welcome to DaniWeb. I trust you found the answer you were looking for?

Hi KO, welcome to DaniWeb from cold Heathrow, about to colder as I'm heading for Helsinki today...

Hi all, even a hello to Wolfy (waves), I've only been into computers for 20 years - a mere baby comapred to some folks hereabouts...

1. Remove Windows.
2. Install Linux.
3. Performance optimised.

:)