Re: [Sheflug] E-Petition for Unusual ADSL Business Practices

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David

> <off topic>
>
> Personally, I'm in favour of capping and restrictions (ducks
> incoming muck and bullets), especially on what are designated
> 'domestic' lines. I'm a fairly low user at home. 

There are domestic users like yourself who aren't all that bothered.  
There's also thousands of people like me who have to have 1 to 8 
M-bit on a domestic line to do any work or stay alive due to various 
personal circumstances.  An ideal for me would be 50 to 100 Gb of 
download capacity each month but I can get by on 20Gb.  There's a lot 
of people like me who need this.   Daily working practices are moving 
away from the office to the home.  The dark dungeon at Attercliffe is 
beginning to disappear.

I think that ISPs go on about peer to peer use of the internet and 
point to that as being something to do with excessive use.  Quite a 
few Microsoft based computers work this way.  It's not just the 
minority Linux community in the UK.  The whole point of ADSL is that 
you can do what you like with it (as long as you don't blow up parts 
of our cities with it).  It was never designed to be capped or 
blocked in some way which is what the UK ISPs are doing to it.

In the UK if you are involved in a business activity which might be 
something to do with consumer law or retail law then you have to 
explain yourself before you sell anything to anyone.  This means that 
suddenly changing something isn't going to help you to win friends 
and influence people.  Specially if your ISP suddenly kicks you out 
for complaining about their lack of service and OTELO sit there and 
do nothing.  Which they do.

> ...and dragging on topic...
>
> I've been playing with Beryl recently (don't tell the wife!) on
> openSuSE10.2 (despite saying I wasn't going to install it) and it's
> really nice. I love the desktop cube, and it runs quite nicely on
> my Dell Latitude 410 with a bog-standard Intel graphics chip. Hit
> does seem to kill video playback though.

Hmm... I tried to get it going but couldn't find a driver for my 
Nvidia card that will work.  SuSE are not allowing the legacy drivers 
to work with their software.  Ubuntu and Debian Etch and Fedora Core 
6 will do that without any problems.  Point and click configuration.

-- 
Richard

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