What they are testing is the stuff made in Scotland called "whisky".

The brown spirit made in other countries (including Ireland, Japan, Canada and the country to the South of Canada) is called "whiskey". This is quite different.

Only whisky attracts idiots to put silly values on bottles of the stuff they are never going to drink.

The only proper thing to do to a bottle of whisky is drink it (not all at once ;-). The same applies to a bottle of whiskey, and after a few, you will no longer mind you don't actually have a bottle of whisky to drink.

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My house has stone walls 1.5m thick. These will absorb almost all of a wireless signal, and getting a cable through them is no easy task!

I use Belkin AV powerline devices to connect my MythTV/Squeezebox server to three 11g wireless access points needed to give good coverage. We can watch two simultaneous TV programmes and listen to music using various wireless access points, but not using the same access point. This suggests that in my installation the powerline is much more capable than wireless.

I have never experienced any interference problems.

They also worked well in my in-laws long Cotswold stone house that was very wireless-unfriendly.

Maybe they are more suited to the 230V single-phase ring-main based wiring systems used in the UK than the US system

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I suppose that the risk is that those using this school system will assume that the crippled KDE installation represents Linux. When they then use their mate's knocked-off copy of WinXP, and find out how much more it can do, they might be very impressed.

In other words, Linux=KDE-- therefore Linux = school headmaster's restriction. Windows=Computing++ therefore Windows is what we want out of school!

Maybe, the answer is to give them all a CD with KUbuntu to take away and put int any computer they find AND give them the root password. That might get them properly interested in Linux, but then heaven (or, much more preferably, a non-mythological think) help the rest of us since who knows what they might do!

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