Cordless phones make me feel feel sick. I can't use them for more than a few minutes. Luckily, mobiles don't do it and nor does wifi or bluetooth - although bluetooth headphones are a bit iffy.
One place i lived, the cordless phone made me feel really seriously sick after a minute or two. I'd almost feel like chucking up. That was the worst one i've come across.
I've got no idea why cordless phones affect me in a way that mobiles don't. I work all day at my wifi connected laptop and that doesn't have any noticeable effect either.
???. AOL has it. Netzero has it. Juno has it. Erols had it. Netscape has it.
None of those operate in any of the countries i've used dialup in.
And you're right it produces ugly results, but if you're on dialup you're more-interested in speed than pretty pictures.
I sincerely hope i never have to use dialup again (last time was the year before last in a remote part of Australia), but if i do, i'll stick to just turning off images in my browser. That's even faster.
Maybe. But it's not very common (not anywhere i've ever used dialup, anyway) and it produces ugly results.
V.42bis on-the-fly compression, which is handled by the modem, is considerably more common - and that recompresses image files, making the files bigger.
Second, images aren't really a big deal on fast connections because they zip right through,
That's not really true. Every image requires a separate http connection - which takes time to set up - and it has to be rendered and flowed, which takes time to do (depending on browser and processor speed etc).
and on slow connections virtually all dialup ISPs provide compression. So a 100 kilobyte photo would be squeezed to about 20 kilobyte before being sent over the phoneline... a mere 3 seconds.
Not even close. Photos are usually jpegs and therefore they're already compressed. Generally if you compress a file that's already compressed, it gets bigger.
Naw, I recommend an AC motor connected to a generator via a short shaft linkage, perhaps some gearing to ensure it spins exactly at 3600 RPM in the US, and 3000 RPM in Europe (60hz and 50hz respectively). Yes, it wastes a good amount of power because it converts electricity to rotational movement and back again...
A rotary converter. My dad used to have one of those - it was a beautifully made thing, all brass and varnished wood. Sadly it disappeared after he died. I wish i'd got hold of it.
Free software usability doesn't tend to suck. Software usability in general tends to suck - but free software doesn't suck any worse than any other sort.
You could certainly get a default kernel as far back as 1995 - if there hadn't been a default kernel you couldn't have installed a working system anyway. But back then there were no kernel modules - everything was built in - so if you wanted a smaller kernel (to not take up so much of your 256kB RAM, say) you had to build the kernel to match your requirements.
But default kernels pale into insignificance against the vast amount of configuration you had to do when you installed a new linux system. You had to configure pretty much everything. I remember it taking me a couple of days to get a server installed and set up (in about 97) - nowadays it would take an hour or two. Admittedly that's partly because i know a lot more about it now, but mostly it's due to usable defaults.
If it makes you happy interpreting it that way, go ahead. In reality though, it was more a case of not just not reading TFA, but not even reading the summary properly! However, i would certainly use subversion myself, if i wanted to sync home directories.
Yeah, it wasn't really foolish - although i may have been foolish for not exploiting it, as i think it probably affected lots of cpanel installations - or, at least, any that also provide ssh logins. But exploiting things like that isn't really my style.
However i don't think it's really the provider's fault - they're waiting for the software to be fixed. Although i have suggested to them how to set up subversion securely - but i think they'd rather wait for the solution to come from upstream.
When the most complicated application of science was sailing ships and gunpowder, you could probably expect most people could figure out how they worked.
I think you seriously underestimate the complexity of sailing a large (or even a small) ship! Sailing a ship across an ocean is well beyond the capability of most people on the planet. Most people could learn to do it - just like most people could learn to program a computer - but it requires a lot of knowledge, skill, and experience to do it accurately and safely.
If i'd elaborated, i wouldn't have made first post!
However, i use subversion for two things - backup and syncing my development system with my remotely hosted web server. Neither of which is really how i "sync and manage home directories", but if i needed to do that subversion is what i would use.
Some months back, i foolishly pointed to my web hosting service that there was a serious security hole in the way their system (cpanel) was configured for subversion - and they killed the subversion service and haven't reinstated it. So i have to do 'svn update' over an sshfs virtual file system, which is mildly irritating.
Anyway, i've got a single repository set up on my system and i check in all new web sites i'm working on. Then i check them out onto the server - and update the files on the server with 'svn update'. It's easy, reliable, and reasonably fast. It also makes backup nice and easy, as i just sync the repository with a mirror on an external hdd.
The world will be a better place when all the managers retire who were raised without computers.
I wish that was true, but just because they know what a mouse does and how to shut down Windows doesn't mean they've got a clue about ICT management. You don't have to be good with computers to manage an ICT project properly - but you do have to be a good manager. Part of the problem is that even if they start out with a brain, they go to business school and learn how to not use it.
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The RF produced by microwave ovens isn't modulated, so they're not the same thing.
Cordless phones make me feel feel sick. I can't use them for more than a few minutes. Luckily, mobiles don't do it and nor does wifi or bluetooth - although bluetooth headphones are a bit iffy.
One place i lived, the cordless phone made me feel really seriously sick after a minute or two. I'd almost feel like chucking up. That was the worst one i've come across.
I've got no idea why cordless phones affect me in a way that mobiles don't. I work all day at my wifi connected laptop and that doesn't have any noticeable effect either.
The iphone's OS has no mechanism for running applications in the background??? That's stunning! Is it based on Windows 3.1 or something?
Not at all. But i did think you were talking about something other than what you really were talking about.
None of those operate in any of the countries i've used dialup in.
I sincerely hope i never have to use dialup again (last time was the year before last in a remote part of Australia), but if i do, i'll stick to just turning off images in my browser. That's even faster.
Maybe. But it's not very common (not anywhere i've ever used dialup, anyway) and it produces ugly results.
V.42bis on-the-fly compression, which is handled by the modem, is considerably more common - and that recompresses image files, making the files bigger.
That's not what i'm talking about. Nor what the GP was referring to. I'm talking about, for example, gzipping a jpeg file.
That's not really true. Every image requires a separate http connection - which takes time to set up - and it has to be rendered and flowed, which takes time to do (depending on browser and processor speed etc).
Not even close. Photos are usually jpegs and therefore they're already compressed. Generally if you compress a file that's already compressed, it gets bigger.
A rotary converter. My dad used to have one of those - it was a beautifully made thing, all brass and varnished wood. Sadly it disappeared after he died. I wish i'd got hold of it.
Conveniently, those are also required qualifications for being a manager!
Looks like that link's slashdotted! IBM? Surely not?!
Free software usability doesn't tend to suck. Software usability in general tends to suck - but free software doesn't suck any worse than any other sort.
You could certainly get a default kernel as far back as 1995 - if there hadn't been a default kernel you couldn't have installed a working system anyway. But back then there were no kernel modules - everything was built in - so if you wanted a smaller kernel (to not take up so much of your 256kB RAM, say) you had to build the kernel to match your requirements.
But default kernels pale into insignificance against the vast amount of configuration you had to do when you installed a new linux system. You had to configure pretty much everything. I remember it taking me a couple of days to get a server installed and set up (in about 97) - nowadays it would take an hour or two. Admittedly that's partly because i know a lot more about it now, but mostly it's due to usable defaults.
If it makes you happy interpreting it that way, go ahead. In reality though, it was more a case of not just not reading TFA, but not even reading the summary properly! However, i would certainly use subversion myself, if i wanted to sync home directories.
It is, of course.
Yeah, it wasn't really foolish - although i may have been foolish for not exploiting it, as i think it probably affected lots of cpanel installations - or, at least, any that also provide ssh logins. But exploiting things like that isn't really my style.
However i don't think it's really the provider's fault - they're waiting for the software to be fixed. Although i have suggested to them how to set up subversion securely - but i think they'd rather wait for the solution to come from upstream.
I think you seriously underestimate the complexity of sailing a large (or even a small) ship! Sailing a ship across an ocean is well beyond the capability of most people on the planet. Most people could learn to do it - just like most people could learn to program a computer - but it requires a lot of knowledge, skill, and experience to do it accurately and safely.
No - he was trying for 5, but only got -1!
If i'd elaborated, i wouldn't have made first post!
However, i use subversion for two things - backup and syncing my development system with my remotely hosted web server. Neither of which is really how i "sync and manage home directories", but if i needed to do that subversion is what i would use.
Some months back, i foolishly pointed to my web hosting service that there was a serious security hole in the way their system (cpanel) was configured for subversion - and they killed the subversion service and haven't reinstated it. So i have to do 'svn update' over an sshfs virtual file system, which is mildly irritating.
Anyway, i've got a single repository set up on my system and i check in all new web sites i'm working on. Then i check them out onto the server - and update the files on the server with 'svn update'. It's easy, reliable, and reasonably fast. It also makes backup nice and easy, as i just sync the repository with a mirror on an external hdd.
Subversion.
It's slashdotted already!
The world will be a better place when the older generation don't give the kids so many reasons to want to belittle them. [I'm in my 50s btw.]
I wish that was true, but just because they know what a mouse does and how to shut down Windows doesn't mean they've got a clue about ICT management. You don't have to be good with computers to manage an ICT project properly - but you do have to be a good manager. Part of the problem is that even if they start out with a brain, they go to business school and learn how to not use it.
Millions of web browsers do do exactly that - with flashblock.