Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 03:54:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: dwilde1@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Minimal skills Message-ID: <20200605035443.0eb7e60a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAEC7392fq72A5p-YyfzSEH-zarC_ZqWX2RnFCOuCpHd%2B003uWg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CY4PR19MB0104A2C03F4D66A1DA251A23F9880@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604005859.ca438474.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB0104C290121BF756D57B2DDBF9880@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604020051.0c02472d.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB0104DD86F8FE6446AD1BF327F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604074134.89eb6518.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB0104DC7541A2154B5C435EA7F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CY4PR19MB01041DACEFFEF08ADB096BC3F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CY4PR19MB0104A0D479219642A1853152F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CAEC7392EgG13-nwQw32wY41PRgeTjjE%2BMSW3Hc5Q1xaN2U8_DA@mail.gmail.com> <20200605024331.51b34130.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAEC7392XgT-Ewmb2CrC28N2ts42UHMsonCQge0jBAUacSHmr1A@mail.gmail.com> <20200605030925.e4194867.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAEC7392fq72A5p-YyfzSEH-zarC_ZqWX2RnFCOuCpHd%2B003uWg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 18:27:09 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
> On 6/4/20, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:54:15 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
> >> On 6/4/20, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:08:01 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
> >> >> If it's an Android phone, whatever MUA you have on it should also have
> >> >> such setting switches.
> >> >
> >> > Emailing on a smartphone is a terrible experience. Real people
> >> > use a real computer for real stuff. :-)
> >>
> >> I'm busily re-designing smartphones in my 'spare' cycles because they
> >> barely fit my needs for a _phone_!
> >
> > Smartphones are not _designed_ to be used for phone calls. :-)
>
> ROFL VVH! Imagine that! What are they, status symbols of the
> poor and clueless?
Depends. The more expensive they are, the more they are a status
symbol of the rich and clueless. Primarily they are used to monitor
and control people who don't know better because BB LOVE YOU and
everyone needs a smartphone today. :-)
Seriously, I found that conversation quality (both in the audio
parameters and in the content) of smartphones is lower than with
nonsmart mobile phones and regular "landline" phones; I don't
know why. I'm old, so I will never understand what makes those
things interesting, I find them just plain boring. I mean, you
can't even easily program them, what kind of computers are those?
Richard Feynman: "What I cannot create, I do not understand."
> >> It sounds like the MBox format can do
> >> that, so I'll make a transition myself in some near future.
> >
> > Both mbox and MailDir can be used for hierarchical storage.
> > The main difference is that in mbox, you have _one_ file per
> > mailbox, which can lead to big files; in MailDir, you have
> > one file per message, which can lead to many files. Depending
> > on filesystem parameters, one or the other can slow down
> > message retrieval when you have millions of messages.
>
> Thanks for the edu experience, Polytropon! <(_ _)> :D
>
> Nothing can slow things down as much as Windows 10 does, out of the
> box. I have an i7 4-core tower with 16GB of DDR4 and it's a slug that
> I am always worried will do something Very Stupid(TM by MS) to me,
> like reformatting my "damaged" USB key without asking.
Yes, I've seen that and have successfully done excessive
data recovery sessions with the result of such a "repair".
> > As I mentioned, the storage mechamism doesn't actually matter
> > as in the end, it all looks the same to the user:
> >
> > +-----------------------------------------------------+
> > | [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] |
> > +----------+------------------------------------------+
>
> Dang, P! PUNCH CARDS??? <wink>
No, icon bar. Punched cards have a missing corner, like this:
________________________________________________
///SYSIN DD * HOW DID THIS GET HERE?! |
| # ## # ### ## ## ## # |
| # # # # |
|##### # # # # # |
|## |
| # # # |
| # # |
| ## # # # |
| # # # # |
| ## |
| # ## |
| # # # # # ## |
| # # # # |
|________________________________________________|
You can create them yourself with FreeBSD:
$ echo 'your card text here' | bcd | awk '!/^\// { gsub("[1-9]", " ", $0); gsub("]", "#", $0); print } /^\//'
Pipe that to the printer and enjoy. :-)
See "man bcd" and "man ppt" for details (package "bsdgames",
programs initially belonged to the default OS installation).
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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