Subj : Re: Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Oct 26 2019 19:26:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 16-Oct-2019 10:52 <=- BM>> Seems funny to take someone to Canadian airport but for your location BM>> probably makes more sense. Playing with Google Maps -- takes about BM>> an hour longer to drive to Boston than to Montreal. NB>> The Montreal is the closest actual international airport to the NB>> Pond... his flight from Istanbul was non-stop direct... and it's NB>> about 2 1/2 hours from the Pond... BM> So makes more sense to use Montreal. Just 'sounds funny' with my BM> limited experience. I've flown out of Toronto to Great Britain a couple of times... made for a less expensive and better connecting flight... A British friend of mine that lived here in the Rochester airport told me that she flew that way all the time when she'd make trips back home, so I gave it a try... :) BM> And LIS in a message last week, I had assumed the Swiss (airline) BM> flight to Chicago was the same as the one at Boston - nope. Guess a BM> thousand miles isn't that much more for an international flight. They do tend to use the larger planes, with a longer flight ability... BM>>>> This system (the one I'm one currently) I have multiple windows open BM>>>> concurrently and it is only using 5.9 GB. ...As long as everyone's BM>>>> happy! NB>>>> Only. 5.9GB sounds like an awful lot to me.... ;) NB>>>> Especially as I have but a small fraction of that... :) BM>>> True: everything is relative. Think I told you or you may have read BM>>> where my first IBM-compatible computer had a 20 MB hard drive -- BM>>> thought it would take forever to fill, especially as in the BM>>> flipping-floppies mindset from my first computer. So nine months later BM>>> running low on space, the sister computer becomes available (customer BM>>> return because he or she totally screwed up the OS so the department BM>>> manager sells to me for cheap) -- 40 MB hard drive. I eventually BM>>> network together for a combined 60 MB -- I'll _never_ run out of room! BM>>> ...Uh-huh! NB>>> A very common story... BM>> I think it's kind of 'funny' the amount of RAM in the video cards I BM>> use is around six times what I had for storage in my original XTs. NB>> Yup, it can be amusing... ;) Like comparing the early full-room NB>> sized computers to today's Raspberry Pi machines... ;) BM> Yup! And probably the cost of a RPi is less than one IC of BM> RAM back then! No doubt... :) NB>>>>> So now you just have to figure out how to make that work... :) BM>>>> And learn Python and other programming stuff..... NB>>>> Keeps your brain limber and flexible (as long as it doesn't totally NB>>>> overwhelm [g]).... BM>>> Right now I'd have to have a need other than 'handy to know'. BM>>> Admittedly a lot of my recent learning tends to be knee-jerk: this BM>>> isn't working, error code is , find what that means, etc. BM>>> And I really have no need to do programming -- well, in-depth, do do BM>>> some 'lite' stuff with the occasional scripting, but that's more BM>>> cookbook: patch in bits and pieces. Is more time consuming than if I BM>>> knew how to do from properly learning but.... NB>>> Maybe someday when you are caught up on all those projects, and NB>>> no But Firsts get in the way.... Maybe even take a course at NB>>> the community college, or online...? :) BM>> Isn't Googling for the answer considered 'on-line'? Actually BM>> taking a classroom or on-line class wouldn't be a bad idea. By the BM>> time all the But Firsts have dwindled down to allow for time to take BM>> the classes there won't be any crisis for me to use my new knowledge BM>> on! NB>> But it could be useful for the next crisis thereafter... ;) BM> True; really more reasons for than against taking the classes. That's what it was looking like to me... :) NB>>>>> So understanding it might make reporting bugs better/easier.... :) BM>>>> True - I'd probably know better what was expected so would be able to BM>>>> narrow down the error information. NB>>>> Or at least be able to use the right jargon correctly... ;) BM>>> That would be helpful! NB>>> A reason to consider the whole idea more strongly... :) BM>> "So that's what the wachamacallit is called!!" NB>> [snicker] BM> There are times when I have and I have seen others describe what the BM> device looks like, what the screen appearance is, etc., because don't BM> know the term ==> "the display from the computer is larger than the BM> TV's showing" "Oh, you mean 'overscan'." When one doesn't know the word, description is definitely the way to go... and then one might even learn the right word for it... :) NB>>>> Totally mind-boggling to me... I think I'll just avoid the huge NB>>>> files and stay happily in my old small system... ;) BM>>> Probably 95% of my files are the usual handful of megabytes; the BM>>> over-4GB ones are recordings of TV shows and normally I don't have a BM>>> thing to do with them other than select which one to play and the BM>>> computers handle the rest. Manual copying is rare, with the exception BM>>> of the Transfer Project. NB>>> Still mind-boggling to me... ;) BM>> Just the copying of the usual and customary small files on a grand BM>> scale! ...Though sometimes get into the little details of a file system BM>> will only handle so big a file and probably some other etc's. NB>> True.... and EXACTLY... BM> One way of learning is to get thrown into the pool! As long as one doesn't drown doing it... ttyl neb .... Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Some Animals Eat Their Young --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .