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But then every computer had very little capacity so they had to be very efficient with its use. It did force developers to be efficient with their code. I would imagine that if you ran that code on todays machines it would be lightning fast.

It would load quickly (asuming it actually ran at all!) but...

One of the primary reasons for bloat is that we use GUIs now. All those pretty pictures take up space. Then the software is just so much more refined these days.

I remember running Microsoft C on a single 720KB floppy which included the OS and all other files I needed. However, you edited the program in a text editor and built it from the command line.

These days you often use a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG designer for building the interface, and all the debug tools and everything else you can think of are built into the environment.

You are right that much of the bloat is appearances. An old excel program if it ran would be fast but unappealing to look at. It also might be in a small window, so yes most of the changes are for the good, though remember there is a lot of bloat in some products just to add new features, and a lot of legacy code which does not help unless you actually need it.

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That I need to plan my extended weekend rather than sitting there wondering what to be at.

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Done all my work and still over an hour until I can go home

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Sometimes I wonder what the first sentient protohumans made of things like pain, fire, dreams and other things which we routinely experience and ignore.

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Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:01 pm
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I appear to be developing a head cold, and I'm meant to be spending three days on Dartmoor next week with about 30 video students.
Stupid body.
Fight it!

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I appear to be developing a head cold, and I'm meant to be spending three days on Dartmoor next week with about 30 video students.
Stupid body.
Fight it!

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Plenty of orange juice and lemsip?


Tons of fluids and vits.


Anyway, I'm not a Windows person.
My sister's barely a computer person.
The last hour on the phone trying to troubleshoot her laptop would've been hilarious, if it had been happening to someone else.

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Is it possible to [LIFTED] pure stomach acid?

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Is it possible to [LIFTED] pure stomach acid?

I had to think about that for a minute, but if you mean sh!t then I'm familiar with the scenario. 4mg loperamide immediately and 30mg lansoprazole before sleeping seemed to sort me out last time.

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I'm pretty sure we don't have any.
Just staying hydrated and hope it goes away before I go offshore on Saturday.

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Why the hell a £1000+ RAID5 NAS system is only transferring at 2.5MB/s :x

Our internet connection is faster than that!!

Hard disks are fine. CPU utilisation is fine. Temperatures are fine. Everything is fine... except it should be going at least 10x faster. This has been wasting me literally days moving stuff about. :cry:

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Why the hell a £1000+ RAID5 NAS system is only transferring at 2.5MB/s :x

Our internet connection is faster than that!!

Hard disks are fine. CPU utilisation is fine. Temperatures are fine. Everything is fine... except it should be going at least 10x faster. This has been wasting me literally days moving stuff about. :cry:

OK it's not the NAS, it's the Windows server. Transfer speeds from a Linux box in the same rack go at 30MB/s

Yep, that's 1000% faster...

Although Linux is using NFS, so maybe the fault lays with SAMBA...

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Sometimes I wonder what the first sentient protohumans made of things like pain, fire, dreams and other things which we routinely experience and ignore.


Much the same as us I imagine. I don't routinely ignore pain, fire or dreams.

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I'm sitting up, waiting for a few hours to pass, getting ready to work Friday night. I was initially going to post a small rant about being given one days notice for the plans.
But then I sat and had another think. I am one of two people in the country that does what I do, on a railway line that has a number of world firsts. Yesterday I was in Derby on some ex-37s converting plugs for new screens and installing new software, today I was fault finding shorts in a recently added data logger, and tomorrow I will be guiding a driver through the testing of a new signal box software version, which if successful will be commissioned on the same night.
I'll have Monday off as my Saturday will be spent recouping from Friday night, and there isn't currently anything major planned for Tuesday.

There are things to moan and rant about, but on the whole I like my job.
The worst two things about it are that Faye has moved away to do teacher training, so I've been living on my own for the last six months and haven't seen her often enough, and that the next job similar to this isn't scheduled for another 3-4 years, which of course will overrun and be 5-7 years.

I wonder what the next few months/years will bring.


Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:34 am
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Why does changing the stock software on a device sound dirty?

Rooting? Flashing? All I want is pre-installed bloatware to fcuk off and die, and to stop crippling perfectly good apps :evil:

I'm so afraid of bricking the tablet :(

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