A suggestion from an "Anal-Retentive"

Yomama wrote:but this helps.

Yomama wrote:I know that it is easier to just hit the "Quote" button and then start typing your reply, but (whine alert), dammit, when there are quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes (ad nauseum) it gets difficult to read who said what and you gotta scroll up, then down, just to determine what was said. I wind up re-reading posts I have already read.

If ALL the posts in the "quote" are important, by all means keep them. If not, here's what you can do to make your post readable.

In the graphic below, I did a "Quote" on one of my posts and selected a bunch of crap that I didn't want to display in my new post. In this example, I only wanted to display the words "I hope the cops get crucified."







Then I deleted it. Leaving the opening bracket sequence and the closing bracket sequence (that the forum software needs for instruction purposes)



Now I just type my response after the second bracket and my response looks much cleaner.

Call me anal-retentive if you wish, but this helps.


What? lol

Gunz wrote:What? lol

Yomama wrote:PB, when the office was using dumb terminals and everything was in command-lines (Remember Gopher? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29), I used a UNIX terminal emulation software package called Reflections. It allowed scripting, so I recorded a morning routine. The scripted routine involved going out and getting weather reports, downloading weather maps, getting news, and God knows whatever else. With one command, I could run the routine every morning and have a ton of stuff downloaded automatically.

Joanimaroni wrote:I just skip over the stuff.....

Yomama wrote:In the late 1970's, we used to build computers (our own) and the chips were plugged into the boards, one by one... processor, RAMs, Bios, etc.

Before Plug-'N-Play, building a system was a son-of-a-bitch! You had to set Internet Request numbers manually and components fought for system resources, trying to reside at the same address. Boards had tiny DIP switches that had to be set for your configuration (pic)

Nowadays, you buy a board, plug it into the motherboard and the system configures to use the board.

Yomama wrote: (whine alert), dammit, when there are quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes (ad nauseum) it gets difficult to read who said what and you gotta scroll up, then down, just to determine what was said.



Thanks, I hate all the looking up and down too and it is confusing for an older person! I could never see the point of the quote after quote etc. Excellent!

Yomama wrote:In the late 1970's, we used to build computers (our own) and the chips were plugged into the boards, one by one... processor, RAMs, Bios, etc.

I took some classes back in the 60's in the days of punch cards and wiring boards using wires and plugs that (if I remember correctly)looked like the very old timey telephone operator switchboard kind of set up. Ugh.

Yomama wrote:In the late 1970's, we used to build computers (our own) and the chips were plugged into the boards, one by one... processor, RAMs, Bios, etc.

Before Plug-'N-Play, building a system was a son-of-a-bitch! You had to set Internet Request numbers manually and components fought for system resources, trying to reside at the same address. Boards had tiny DIP switches that had to be set for your configuration (pic)


Nowadays, you buy a board, plug it into the motherboard and the system configures to use the board.

alecto wrote:

Yomama wrote:In the late 1970's, we used to build computers (our own) and the chips were plugged into the boards, one by one... processor, RAMs, Bios, etc.

Before Plug-'N-Play, building a system was a son-of-a-bitch! You had to set Internet Interrupt Request numbers manually and components fought for system resources, trying to reside at the same address. Boards had tiny DIP switches that had to be set for your configuration (pic)

Nowadays, you buy a board, plug it into the motherboard and the system configures to use the board.

You might find these interesting, I ordered 5. one is going to be used for a media center pc with xubuntu. These things are awesome and have so many uses.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Floridatexan wrote:
Like Othershoe, I took EDP in 1968, when the computers took up entire rooms and punch cards were the norm, and then assembly language, just as she described, with a portable "motherboard" that looked like a section from a telephone operator's switchboard. When we accessed "the internet", we used an old black dial phone with rubber mufflers to set the handset into. In EDP, we used Cobol; the engineers used Fortran. I know very little about HTML, except what it is, but I'm basically clueless when it comes to using it, which is an obvious handicap here.

Yomama wrote:
I have been watching these for a while, Alecto. So, what are you going to do with the rest of them?

alecto wrote: The last two I plan on using as micro servers with a NAS array on the internet, they will replace an old dell server that streams audio to the internet for a radio station.

Yomama wrote:
I have had two Pogoplug devices that you hook hard drives to and access off the net. Both are slow as molasses. I set up a Buffalo NAS for a friend's business, but it quit working as an NAS and Buffalo wasn't helpful in fixing it. Please let me know how your NAS works out. My current Pogoplug setup has a RAID-1 setup (two mirrored 500-gig drives), and it will work to a certain degree, but is too slow to stream video and sometimes too slow to stream music.

alecto wrote:http://www.techspot.com/review/510-synology-diskstation-ds1512-plus/