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Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access

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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> On 02 May 2013, ~misfit~ wrote:
>
>> Good man George. It's good to see someone who isn't scared
>> of a 'stupidly big' PDF file. Those HMMs take >10 seconds
>> to d/l
>
> Yep I agree it takes ">10 seconds" to plop it off the interwebs.
> Doing the rough calculations here I find it would probably take
> about four times that long on my connection running full speed.
> Yes I know that is hardly an age, but I guess I wasn't feeling
> awfully inspired yesterday.

Ok.

>> and open in another 5 seconds in Foxit reader.
>
> Well my machine isn't really a powerhouse by today's standards,
> Firefox hung the first time I tried to open the file, so I
> stopped it loading. I could have downloaded it separately and
> opened it thereafter but didn't want to download 10MB again.

I find it odd in this day and age that you'd think twice about d/ling 10MB. 
I'm an invalid on welfare so hunted out the best value for money package as 
I have *zero* leeway with bill paying. Even so, in New Zealand (where teh 
webs are expensive relatively...) I get 17Mb download speed and 100GB/month 
allowance - which I'm lucky to use half of.

>> They
>> seem to cause 'trouble' for computer nerds for some reason.
>> <shrug>
>
> I have a computer set up for the purposes I require of it.

Ditto.

> Downloading excessively large PDFs is an uncommon occurrence and
> one that most frustrates me in any case, as I know I would only
> look at a tiny portion of that data in a case like this.

I still find it odd to call 10MB 'excessively large'.

> I could get on the upgrade train that the web inspires. The
> motherboard in the machine I'm using ten years old, back then I
> wouldn't be the only one complaining about a 10MB PDF. But I
> don't see why I should expend time and money in upgrading every
> few years just to make it slightly quicker to interact with
> parts of the web that I rarely use and find frustrating in
> principal anyway. In fact I'm here on Usenet mainly because I
> dislike the bloat and slowness of web forums.

My newest machine (my daily user) is a laptop (T60 ThinkPad) from 2007 that 
I bought second-hand in 2009. Hardly 'cutting-edge'. I too dislike (most) 
web-forums due to bloated interfaces and have been a usenetter for well over 
a decade - closer to two actually (my gods! where did the time go?).

> In any case, what I said was perfectly correct. If you feel your
> purpose here is to inspire everyone to devote themselves as much
> as possible to the good of the newsgroup, then good luck to you.

Nope, I just found that statement from someone who calls themself 'computer 
nerd' rather incongruous is all. <shrug>
-- 
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a 
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) 

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  Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-01 00:57 +0000
    Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Richard Watherstone <rwatthers@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 12:32 -0700
      Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 17:41 -0600
        Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 12:58 +1200
          Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-05-02 01:28 +0000
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 01:08 -0600
              Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-05-04 03:18 +0000
          Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 01:12 -0600
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 15:15 +1200
          Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-02 07:55 +0000
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 04:06 -0700
              Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-02 12:09 +0000
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 05:42 -0700
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-06 06:27 +0000
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 15:13 +1200
              Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-06 06:37 +0000
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 12:50 +1200
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-07 06:32 +0000
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 18:52 +1200

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