Hi, > > Are there other uses? Yes. By reading developer lists in a project, I can quickly see who know what they are talking about. Thus, I get the name and address of people who know things - thus the interenet enables me to be put in touch with some clued up people.
By putting a person's name into google, I can do a quick review of someone, and form an opinion of what they are like. By reading their emails, their personality & skills is obvious. The internet exposes a person and their personality. Most times, when someone writes to a list with some new thing, I will take their email address and prepend http:// and look the company up on the web... I find a new command in some aspect of the shell or language, and the man page is not clear. A quick google on "tutorial new_command" will often provide more information - so the internet is a repositary of information on using computers. In the course of work, something crashes with a weird error - a quick cut and paste of the error message into google gives some interesting answers. It allows remote management and upgrade of remote computers. I have, while living in Christrchurch upgraded kernels, installed software & tracked the performance of computers running in the United States. The internet is also a sure and accurate path to madness. How do I do this, - search, find some incomplete/outdated web page which you immediately follow, and the computer setup is now "toast". My favourite example is having hassles in running a debugger on C++ code. You search, and will find comments like, "add -g to the compile line" "add -g and -O2 to the compile line" In fact, if you want to make it do the best possible job of debugging, change the compile line to be " -g3 -ggdb -O0" which forces no optimisation, and adds extra information to help the debugger. So yes, more uses for the internet. Derek. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Reg wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 23 February 2007 8:02 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: internet use > > > Downloading pr0n > > > > Reading slashdot > > > > Downloading TV without ads and without reduction of 16:9 to 4:3 > > > > Are there other uses? > > All the previously stated plus chatting to family > > Reg > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
