Living without the internet
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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it lives !!!! good to see you back (even if hijacking the neighbours wifi for a while)
Not hijacking, they gave me the WiFi key. Only hassle was I was sharing with a 13 year old boy over a sub-1Mbit/sec connection, and had to be very circumspect as I didn't want to "kick him out of his PlayStation footie game" - which his mother browsing to FleaBay does! :omg: Mind you, he's a 13 YO boy: I'm not betting that it was his game that gets interrupted so much as his...um...special interest downloads... :-O
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not hijacking, they gave me the WiFi key. Only hassle was I was sharing with a 13 year old boy over a sub-1Mbit/sec connection, and had to be very circumspect as I didn't want to "kick him out of his PlayStation footie game" - which his mother browsing to FleaBay does! :omg: Mind you, he's a 13 YO boy: I'm not betting that it was his game that gets interrupted so much as his...um...special interest downloads... :-O
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It can suck some what. I'm surprised you didn't just buy a mobile dongle wongle and do your interneting from that.
We live in a valley between two hills, and the walls are two foot thick granite. Mobile signals don't work in the house (to make a call I have to go sit in the car to stay out of the rain). Interestingly, some friends came round who are on Vodafone, and their iPhones worked fine. So I'm looking at upgrading our mobiles to Android on Voda (currently I'm on Virgin, she's on EE)
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Was an "interesting" experiment
So it was an experiment now, was it? :laugh: Glad to see you back in action! :thumbsup:
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
It was an experiment by somebody, who now has a Certain UK Telecomunications Company after him for two cases of criminal damage after a second wire crossing his property also "broke" and the engineers took a good, close look at the cables... The phone(s) were fixed yesterday with a large police escort! :laugh:
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har ! how long till you're back on your own system ?
I am, as of yesterday afternoon. Or will be, once every piece of software I own finishes updating itself automatically... :laugh:
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OK, this is just freaky ! You disappeared when Kim Jong-Un was missing and you pop-up again when I read in the newspaper: "Kim Jong-Un appears again in public" :~
V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)Well that at least proves I am not him: otherwise he would be disappearing out the back door just as I come in the front, expressing regret at having just missed me!
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Wow, welcome back!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?! -- C++ FQA Lite
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
Living without the internet
Get over it. :rolleyes:
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Without internet i would be gathering kids around me :suss: Next baby boom predicted: Internet breakdown in 2027 :-D
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Not hijacking, they gave me the WiFi key. Only hassle was I was sharing with a 13 year old boy over a sub-1Mbit/sec connection, and had to be very circumspect as I didn't want to "kick him out of his PlayStation footie game" - which his mother browsing to FleaBay does! :omg: Mind you, he's a 13 YO boy: I'm not betting that it was his game that gets interrupted so much as his...um...special interest downloads... :-O
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OriginalGriff wrote:
special interest downloads
Richard Attenborough movies?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Surely you mean five months[^]? :baaaa!:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Only ~400 email a day?! Too few for the real OG me think! :-D
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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Only ~400 email a day?! Too few for the real OG me think! :-D
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
I wasn't posting here, that usually adds a couple of hundred. :laugh:
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
