This series of messages names reminds me of the days before internet was available. I was working as an ecologist for the Corps of Engineers in Walla Walla, Washington. My supervisor was involved with a fish counting program at the dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Every Thursday he got a fax of the number of fish (smolts- baby salmon) counted at each dam, he then conducted an analysis and developed a report that he faxed to a meeting in Portland, Oregon. That process took at least least five or six hours each Thursday night. My supervisor's supervisor learned that I had taken computer programming in college so he asked if I could write a program to work up the fish data. Not at all being a fan of computers my supervisor thought it would be a waste of time. Rather than using basic I decided to use a program called dBase 3. Another program that I used was Cross Talk to download the fish data from each dam. It took me a while to get Cross Talk to work. After the data was downloaded the program sent the required report to the printer within 10 minutes. I bought my first desktop in 1986. It had two floppy disk drives and no hard drive. Oh how things have changed. Bob Keeland
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 6:28 AM Paul Compton via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > As well as the windows machines, I have Linux Lite installed on a Dell > Latitude E6400 from about 2008. Easy installation, the only manual > intervention was finding the WiFi driver. > > Youtube works just fine. Or at least as well as YT ever works on anything. > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 07:07, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > > evln via EV wrote: > > > There are ways around not having a strong internet connecion > > > to view youtube videos. > > > > > > You could use > > > https://x2convert.com > > > to convert the streaming video's audio to a .mp3 file you could > > > download and listen to. > > > > > > If I remember correctly, years ago, Lee held bragging-rights to > > > having his internet access via an old 486 pc on outdated operating > > > system and outdated browsers. > > > > Yep; guilty as charged. :-) All I had was dial-up, and my old Prodigy > > email program was still pretty fast because it didn't load any of the > > bloat. But it's long-gone. Any poor soul that tries to use dial-up on > > the modern internet is doomed! > > > > > I would have hoped by now that situation had changed when more > up-to-date > > > PCs... > > > > The PC itself isn't so much the problem. My current PC is an HP 6000 > > Pro, which isn't all that old. The problem is that I have a DSL line, > > which averages 100-200k b/sec. Fine for email, slow for bloated web > > pages, and terrible for video. > > > > Also, I hate Windows, and so am using linux. For whatever reason, > > Youtube refuses to work with any of my linux browsers. The error > > messages say it needs HTML5; but my browsers work fine with HTML5 files > > from any other source. > > > > > Like Peppermnt > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=peppermint+linux > > > or linux mint (or others) > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+mint > > > > I'm running Puppy linux. I've tried a few others, but got lost in > > "configuration hell". They might be fine for a linux expert, but I'm a > > rank amateur. > > > > > I had to upgrade to a new android 9 smartphone... > > > > To show what a luddite I am, I don't *have* a smartphone! For one thing, > > the text is too hard to read for my tired old eyes. For another, my fat > > old fingers can't type on the tiny keyboards. I've tried a tablet, but > > even that's too small. (I'm reading this on a 17" monitor set to > 1024x768). > > > > Also I don't have cable, and don't watch TV, and don't play video games. > > And no facebook, no twitter... I don't use *any* social media at all. > > > > > Perhaps if Lee had one of these with a weeks worth of > > > video url links stored on it, when he goes out to do his > > > weekly shopping, he could stop off at a wifi site parking > > > lot and (legally) mooch some free internet to stream & > > > watch videos like everyone else? > > > > Folks must think I lead a life of desperation without all the modern > > (in)convenieces of being totally addicted to a smartphone and endlessly > > immersed in the online world. Quite the contrary; I enjoy the real world > > a lot more than the online world! I have real friends that I actually > > see in person, and real hobbies where I build stuff that has nothing to > > do with computers. > > > > The more time I spend online, the LESS I get done! > > > > Lee Hart > > > > -- > > A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is > > nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. > > -- Antoine de Saint Exupery > > -- > > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > > -- > Paul Compton > www.morini-mania.co.uk > www.paulcompton.co.uk (YouTube channel) > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200908/c2ee3964/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
