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Doozergirl wrote: »They (as in BT) say it takes 10 daysto sort itself out. Itwill drop off and all sorts before it settles.
This sounds like the old days when you had to let your telly "warm up" before it would show stuff or you had to park your hard drive before your computer shut down.
There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I'm 12.3Mbps download and .9 upload.
The National Broadband Network, Australia's super fast broadband of 'up to' (dread phrase) 100 Mbps rather annoyingly is available the other side of the main road at the end of our road but not on our side. Gah!
Pork chops with nice buttery mash and some veggies for dinner tonight. Nom.0 -
This sounds like the old days when you had to let your telly "warm up" before it would show stuff or you had to park your hard drive before your computer shut down.
I remember the TV warming up. Also the picture disappearing to a dot when you turned it off! And an old valve radio I was given which stayed on for a few seconds after you switched off.
I was listening to a fascinating thing about futurology, it was a kinda aside in a podcast. They were saying about how some stuff is relatively easy to predict: this bloke's Popular Electronics magazine predicted the spread of the car, the computer and consumer durables. What it didn't predict was the impact all that would have: women no longer staying at home to raise kids but instead making their own way in the workplace with an ever increasing degree of success.
I'm still so bloody tired after the treatment. Yesterday I had to go for a 40 minute snooze at work in the sick room. Today I thought I was going to fall asleep at my desk. This is driving me bananas.0 -
I'm on a 3 mobile Mifi at the moment, download speed of 2.450mbps and upload of 0.826 mbps..just repeated it and got 3.539 download and 1.005 upload!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Possibly, it's under-powered.... but at least has 6GB of HD space free .... but it's a slow processor too. Maybe for catchup TV I should give my hot/noisy laptop a whirl.
In-of-the-deed! Very-of-the-much-so!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I remember the TV warming up. Also the picture disappearing to a dot when you turned it off! And an old valve radio I was given which stayed on for a few seconds after you switched off.
I was listening to a fascinating thing about futurology, it was a kinda aside in a podcast. They were saying about how some stuff is relatively easy to predict: this bloke's Popular Electronics magazine predicted the spread of the car, the computer and consumer durables. What it didn't predict was the impact all that would have: women no longer staying at home to raise kids but instead making their own way in the workplace with an ever increasing degree of success.
I'm still so bloody tired after the treatment. Yesterday I had to go for a 40 minute snooze at work in the sick room. Today I thought I was going to fall asleep at my desk. This is driving me bananas.
Recovery and repair don't come free and your body is investing its resources in getting you back to normal. Unfortunately that leaves less available for you to be rushing around. Hope things get back to normal for you soon.
As regards futurology, there's lots we didn't predict back in the 60s/70s.
The future was all robots and hardly any of those boring giant computers.
In the end there are over a billion domestic computers distributed in a huge proportion of the world's households.
The robots number only about 2 million; they're all sealed away out of sight in factories making products we used to get paid to make, and they don't look humanoid, just like arms on boxes.
Except for the ones that (used to) fight on arenas on the TV.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
The woman from BT just phoned, so I asked her and she looked it up. My area is apparently "up to 2-5MB" (yes, 2 to 5, not a typo) ... and "up to".... so have to wait to see what happens in 10 days' time.0
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And obviously it'll help me type quicker (or it would do if my typing speed was what was slowing me down rather than my thinking speed/ me using my hands to shovel food into my mouth rather than typing). On which note, I put my Big Girl Pants on today and sent my the first chapter of my 2nd draft to my supervisor. I've made a (very slight) start on the next chapter too.
I hate having even slightly long nails, and typing's one reason; I loathe my nails clicking on the keys when I type. Yuck! Chalk-on-blackboard...Training not required, it's just something you are 'driven' ( sorry) to.
Driver still alive, mostly due to apologising and admitting that he couldn't get such a good job in 'normal' haulage. *ego soothed*:D
What not-normal about your haulage? Or is that too identifying?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I hate having even slightly long nails, and typing's one reason; I loathe my nails clicking on the keys when I type. Yuck! Chalk-on-blackboard...
Me too. Although it's not just typing. I don't like my nails clicking on anything.
I don't use nail varnish on my fingers, although I do varnish my toenails - but only in the summer when people might see them.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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