How/why do you want to read people's emails?
On 24/02/07, Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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this, - search, find some incomplete/outdated web page which you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
>
>
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Derek Smithies Ph.D.
IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ph +64 3 365 6485
Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
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CM.
