OpenWIFI in Poland?

I’m sitting at the main square of pleasant polish town - Szczecinek. As the town aims to be a resort there’s a free hotspot at the square. Of course it istn’t completely free, because every time you open a webpage it opens another tab with page of one of the hotspot’s sponsors. It also cuts off the internet (pings don’t come back) leaving me with 4 pages of the town

BUT

there are plenty other - non goverment-sponsored WiFi hotspots here which don’t require passwords, and (probably) don’t limit your acces! Is it a dream of OpenWLAN coming true?

No! It’s a bad sign. Those are probably normal home private networks which administrators either don’t want them to be secured or don’t know how to do that (or worse - they dont know that it CAN be secured).

This forces me to say that polish people should learn more before they buy their children Neostrada (popular ADSL service provided by polish quasi-monopolist in telecomunication - it’s slow, unstable, and expensivie in comparison to other broadband providers).

What does it mean that more and more people are connected if they don’t even try to get known this new invention an its rules. For them Internet, Neostrada and Internet Explorer are synonymous. Polish net is full of Neostrada’s children spending all their time on chats, and making their blogs even more pink.

However it’s not so shocking when you know that for ex-PM of this country internet is a big mystery (a land with colourful characters and ugly, slippery viruses), and bank account is nothing in comparison to his mother’s cupboard, if you want to store your money. He and other people like him show us the real attitude for internet of average Pole. Unbelievable! I don’t how it is in other countries, but definetly not so bad…

I have to be going now, because the square is getting empty - people come home for dinner - and the quare is going to be a dangerous place for a lonely boy with his laptop

Fighting with my Laptop: chapter 1

I know that writing this, I’m showing you I’m a n00b, but maybe that’s truth

I’ve installed ubuntu on my new laptop, but I’ve encountered one problem - I can’t connect to my WiFi network. I don’t want to fix it now, so I’ll try it tomorrow - conectng via ehernet and updating drivers. Maybe that’ll help.

What I’ve done till now is installing Firefox 3 RC1 on my rescueOS (yet-installed WinXP which I think I’m going to leave for mergency situations) - it looks good, some minor stuff improved (e.g. asking of remembering the password AFTER seeing if it works), but I haven’t really had ocasion to experience its speed (they say its the biggest change comparing to the earlir version).

What’s its disadvantage now (but only for the time being - before there isn’t stable version) is little amount of add-ons an almost no themes. I know there are going to be more, after release, but till that time I would be forced to use worse or none of them. I’m not so impatient - for me add-ons are half of the browser - so using new Firefox so early isn’t worth putting up with lack of them. That’s why I think I’m going to return to FF2 for a while.

By the way I found a great firefox extension - ScribeFire - it allows you to publish to your blog(s) directly form your browser. The only lack I’ve found is no tagging option (that’s why this post isn’t properly tagged- I’ll fix it up nest time I visit wordpress)

BTW I’ve created a new acount on my win. I try to log in - typing password. BAD typing again - BAD. Maybe I had caps lock pressed while typing it firstly? Typed with caps - BAD. WINDOWS IS BLOCKED. rebooting… typing nothing in password box… DONE ///I’m really tired, I guess

[update] I found it - there is “tagging machine”

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[update] but  not the one of wordpress