@darry1966 Thanks ! Its been a whileAnytime Partsman great to hear from you its been awhile,
Sorry been busy 
Never is enough Puppy time ! lol 
Yes mikeb ! Thanks for your patienceThanks for the way you explain things so concisely and clearly for us non-techies understand.
yes... though you get core improvements at times its often outweighed buy tut and waffle. Windows 7 handles networking better than XP BUT at what cost.It's clear that there's a law of diminishing returns with software - where beyond a certain point the extra features no longer compensate for the extra bloat and / or instability.
Agreed, the trouble is that some sites now more or less demand up to date browsers. I've been using Soundcloud recently and that site needs either a recent Chromium or Firefox 28 or later (with Flash).mikeb wrote:yes... though you get core improvements at times its often outweighed buy tut and waffle. Windows 7 handles networking better than XP BUT at what cost.
I think one thing that's got better with cars since the 1970s is the electronic management of engines. Even a big BMW now returns the kind of economy figures that you used to get with an Austin 1800 (just as well too, with the price of fuel nowadays).mikeb wrote:Engineering does have a bell curve going on... eg the internal combustion engine. Anything in the automobile world that's changed since the late seventies? On a related subject ie the reinvention of the wheel, I grabbed an old engineering book about diesels from the 50's and funny how many 'new' ideas' are in there especially related to two strokes. Must comment on one...an engine that started on diesel but used its heat output to extract gas from various waste products...eg sawdust/leaves etc....which then could supplement or replace the engines fuel source. (diesels on biogas in the 40's and 50's !) Then again peanut oil was one of its intended fuel sources.
The beard...yes grew a big one but looked very 'coca cola red suited man' like. The picture is on my driving licence which like me is obsolete
The fluff remains below itch level for now.
Ancient...in the how old are you thread I ticked the 0-10 box...I am an anarchist....
mike
Excellent, not very fast by today's standards but comfortable, nice looking and built like a brick s***ehouse. My uncle used to have the one before that (I think it was the Minx mark II), and I remember when he took it (and us) out onto a straight road and put his foot down, and we reached....70 mph! As you said, happy days.darry1966 wrote:Gee Colonel you remind me of my Hillman Supermix which was pretty basic 1965 model I had in the 90's be worth a fortune now.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... xfordy.jpg Rootes Group Motor! - Good times.
Does it though? I haven't used it before but when i saw your comment I tried SoundCloud and it seemed ok using the Firefox 17ESR that comes with Slacko 5.6Colonel Panic wrote: the trouble is that some sites now more or less demand up to date browsers. I've been using Soundcloud recently and that site needs either a recent Chromium or Firefox 28 or later (with Flash
Thanks for that comment. I agree with you about not upgrading to the "latest and greatest" unless I absolutely have to.greengeek wrote:Does it though? I haven't used it before but when i saw your comment I tried SoundCloud and it seemed ok using the Firefox 17ESR that comes with Slacko 5.6Colonel Panic wrote: the trouble is that some sites now more or less demand up to date browsers. I've been using Soundcloud recently and that site needs either a recent Chromium or Firefox 28 or later (with Flash
I only listened to some tunes - maybe there are other features I didnt test...
I never like 'upgrading' to the latest and 'greatest' unless i understand the specific reason why i absolutely have to.
Yeah I had a Minx as well as you say built a brick ----- house.Colonel Panic wrote:Excellent, not very fast by today's standards but comfortable, nice looking and built like a brick s***ehouse. My uncle used to have the one before that (I think it was the Minx mark II), and I remember when he took it (and us) out onto a straight road and put his foot down, and we reached....70 mph! As you said, happy days.darry1966 wrote:Gee Colonel you remind me of my Hillman Supermix which was pretty basic 1965 model I had in the 90's be worth a fortune now.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... xfordy.jpg Rootes Group Motor! - Good times.
I couldn't agree more Mike, the trouble is that (as I'm sure you realise) if you want to listen to a particular musician, group or speaker online, they, not you, decide which media channel you're going to be able to access their content through. I wish things were otherwise and there was some kind of agreed standard which was accessible with older equipment and software.mikeb wrote:I remember trying Soundcloud ..they seem to suffer from the web elitism problem (vimeo was another iirc) and to me should not be supported...plenty of alternatives out their that want EVERYONE on the web to have access..after all not everyone in the world has endless supplies of money to keep buying the updated equipment needed. .... unless a 2 tiered internet is desired to match the 2 tiered societies out there.
I seem to remember playing mp3s on line over a decade ago....
mike
Yeah, agreed Mike but it's the way things are now. I can do probably 90% - 95% of what I want to do on a computer by using John Biles's Legacy OS2, but I still need a more up to date distro for the other 5 - 10% - apart from browsing "difficult" sites, I occasionally need to open files made in a recent version of Microsoft Word or Excel (something which is problematic in an old version of OpenOffice, Abiword or perhaps Gnumeric).mikeb wrote:Well thats ultimately up to them ...If I was making music i would want to reach the widest possible audience.
Reminds me of those band sites with 20MB flash intros when many were still on dial up.... bet they got a big fanbase
mike
well getting a bit draughty up on this soapboxThis has been a really good discussion btw, and thanks for your part in it .
Same here, Mike. I use gmx with Thunderbird on imap, too. Had a Gmail account for, oh, can't remember; a lot of years, anyway. Began to cotton on to Google's 'sod you' attitude with regards to privacy about 3 yrs ago, looked around for something else to use, instead.....and been using gmx ever since.mikeb wrote:gmx.com ....good free webmail...can do pop and Imap too...no catches after several years of use. They even throw in a bit of web storage. :)mike
