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It's still almost science fiction to me the speeds data is transferred at these days. My history is 9600 > 14.4 > 28.8 > 56K (USRobotics Courier, which gave even bettter speed if your ISP also had them at their end, which all did) through dual ISDN, 2 Mbps SDSL, 40/20 Mbps VDSL and all crappy DSL variants in between, to my now 250/30 stable DOCSIS 3 cable connection. To download a Linux ISO in a few seconds feels crazy to me still.
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# ¿ May 31, 2018 10:44 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:41 |
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In TYOOL 2018, Office 365 still requires passwords of 8 or more characters with capitals, numbers and symbols. Had to come up with something fast for my new account but my password "gently caress You Micro$haft" did not work because it could not have spaces! WTF Microsoft? e: Are password rules set by the organization, or is this a system-wide thing for O365?
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 08:14 |
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Varkk posted:I was thinking a bit about this the other day but in the context of children setting up new technology. A person at work was explaining how she got a new smart TV and had to get her 8 year old granddaughter to set it up for her. I think it is because children are still in the habit of listening/reading and following instructions. A lot of adults just don’t seem to have the patience or assume because they used old thing they still know how to use new thing. Similar for the warehouse example they probably don’t use the PC as often so carefully read the information on screen before skipping ahead to the next part. So when they enter the wrong password they know the password was not accepted. Whereas the finance user (why is it always finance?) will call IT and say the program gave them some funny error. No they don’t know what it said because they closed it already. Not emptyquoting. I work at a phone repair shop and get a lot of questions about apps that fail to install and they can't figure out why. When the phone clearly states they need to delete some data to make room on their ancient 8 GB phone.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2019 08:21 |
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:A dial!? What's it like working in 1982? Mine has two: Power (W) and time. High tech!
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 17:28 |
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my cat is norris posted:You have this entire forum cheering for your success and wanting the best for you. I'm so sorry that you have to face this nightmare scenario, but I do hope it's resolved quickly.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 11:34 |
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Hughmoris posted:Pull up, thread! I have a brisk ten minute walk from the bus stop to work, five minutes from the bus stop to home. It does wonders even though it's not much.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2022 20:00 |
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RFC2324 posted:DOS 5.0 Desqview was the poo poo for hosting a two line BBS *and* running local admin for it *and* have a DOS prompt ready at all times. Multitasking? In MY DOS?
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2022 18:02 |
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Knormal posted:How many people at home actually own/buy their modem versus just renting one from the ISP? I'm pretty sure for most people the transition is going to be their ISP tells them they need to come pick up this new modem by some date or their internet will die, they'll keep paying $5 a month, and have no idea they're running on IPv6 now. I use the supplied modem and an extender (Telenor’s Snøhetta-designed ones) because I couldn’t shell out $$$ for my own and rental of the two is like $10 extra monthly. They’ve been good, no worries. And luckily Telenor runs native IPv6, gives me a /64, and I can set my own addresses at will. Of course I have ::d34d:b33f and ::b00b for my main computers 🤓 The best things about IPv6 are 1) no NAT so I can access the ::b00b at mediaserver.domain 2) addresses represented in hex for ultimate calculator-like address fun E2: gently caress I mean router. The fibre conversion box is also ISP-supplied because what’s the point of even thinking about replacing it? It works. Fibre in, Ethernet out, then to router. F4rt5 fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:41 |
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Potato Salad posted:The people who don't want to hire women would still not hire women once they see the applicant is a woman and/or trans
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 21:29 |