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I think maybe the confusion is coming from the fact that I will be using MY Yagi on a 3G wireless modem/router on the 850Mhz (UMTS) permanently installed to a house not 2.4Ghz for a WiFi for war driving or stealing megabytes from my neighbours.

If you point it at the cellular tower it's exactly what you need. I'm talking about a fixed installation into a house. A Yagi is perfect. Direct that sucker at the tower and let the magic happen. I can just imagine it now **dream sequence**

Because the modem has an input for an antenna. And the little one it came with was wildly in adequate, and the broomstick 6dBi antenna that is currently connected only just gets enough signal to work. And as it acts as a wireless router it would be the better option. Or are you just pulling my chain?

I'm thinking more along the lines of: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/14dbi-YaGi-antenna-...=item1c11f2ba41 It's going to be connected directly to the modem. This is what I was going to build http://www.perite.com/vk7jj/nextgyagi.html

I was actually looking at making myself a Yagi. Now I think I might just buy one as I don't have the time but it'd be a fun project. I am hoping to boost internet 3G signal for a friend of mine in a regional area.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent

And for your first Q regarding reading ext3 from Windoze http://www.fs-driver.org/

Mate you can, try searching the Ubuntu How-To. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto You can change grub to boot whichever distro you want and not wait 10seconds to do it.

Neither have I. Usually drag out the -V-, so fiv-ve. But then again like you said geocities. Not somewhere I'd be getting accurate and trustworthy military info from.

It's not how the word is spelt but rather how it is pronounced, it's called a phonetic alphabet for a reason. Basically by pronouncing the numbers in that way you eliminate some of the possibility of them getting mistakenly misinterpreted over the radio. Possibly a good thing if you are in the military and don't want bombs/mortars dropped on you by friendlies.

That is random. Rolf Harris? Crikey, haven't seen him in a while. Oh! GoogleMaps finally comes in hand for more than looking at the whitehouse lawn just to see if you can

I'd laugh at more of the population than that if i were you. I just did some Googling and found that only approximately 120Million out of a population of 300Million voted. So that means that 80% of the population didn't vote for him.

I did. Fat fingers and late night installs don't go well together.

G'day all, Long time reader first time poster. . . (ah, that's lame what a great way to start the day. ) So after reading this thread I was filled with dread as I had just downloaded the iso's for 6. 2-Release for AMD64. My first installation failed miserably . . . that is until I realised it was working and just booting me straight into a shell, problem being that the FreeBSD boot loader had stolen my grub from the MBR. So after some tweaking I got grub back to it's old self. As I wasn't getting a graphical X environment when I booted I assumed that I had missed a few check boxes during the installation, being a fresh install I wasn't too worried about doing a complete format on that partition and reinstalling FreeBSD with a X Window system. This was all good and well until I rebooted after the second install (being last night now) and ending up at the tty0 shell prompt again (after adding FreeBSD to my grub menu that is). . . This time though I did some reading on the FreeBSD website and re-read the install instructions. Then I realised that X11 was installed all i had to do was 'startx'. Phew. Now I wanted KDE, just because I could all this power was going to my head. So after installing kdebase and dependencies from the second CD, I started KDE with 'kdm'. I was over the moon and now I have even set it up to start KDE straight away. Long story short I am so smart, I am so smart, S-M-R-T. I just needed somewhere to gloat and I thought here was the best spot, well maybe not for Cooper but hey. If I can do it I have faith in you. :)