Re: How is typical home computer used today? (back to original question)

[Miles Fidelman]

Richard Owlett wrote:

Bret Busby wrote:


Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the original poster
in the thread, had put the question To what personal uses, do people
put their computers?.


What correlation need there be between *simple* questions and *useful* 
answers?


The OP correctly phrased the question as How is typical home computer 
used today?

As I'm the OP, I should know. GRIN


Well... not sure we're typical, then again, as others have asked, what's 
typical?  Anyway, in our home:


Context:
- house
- FIOS connectivity, WiFi to most machines, hardwired ethernet to my laptop
- Chromecast dongle on order - expect to be streaming to TV from various 
machines
- TV is digital, has a computer in it, as do various game boxes, Netflix 
via Xbox

- remote backup for all machines (CrashPlan)

Myself:

- Mac laptop used for personal and my own business
-- email, web, facebook, etc.
-- writing (MS Office)
-- bookkeeping and billpaying (Quicken, under windows, under Parallels)
-- personal files
-- games
-- remote admin of servers (servers/cluster, running in leased rack 
space - from small hosting business I used to run - now used to host 
community email lists and as a sandbox - currently Debian Linux, 
probably will become LSF, Gentoo, BSD or SmartOS shortly, maybe GNU Linux)

-- some development - mostly Linux, running in VMs, under Parallels
-- various stuff

- Windows laptop from work
-- email, web
-- ms office, sharepoint, server
-- visio

- Homebrew desktop/server sitting under my desk - usually off, use to 
play with various O/Ss


- Android Smartphone
-- email, calendar, etc.
-- web
-- various apps
-- use as hotspot when travelling

- Android Tablet - mostly use as book reader - probably will use to 
stream video to TV


Wife:

- Mac laptop
-- email, web
-- music
-- mostly personal and school use (teacher, finishing up masters)

- iPad and iPhone - the usual uses

Son #2

- Mac laptop (used to be Windows, also has a netbook floating around)
-- email, web
-- LOTS of videos
-- photo, video, and sound editing (art student and musician)

Son #1

- old laptop, variously Linux and Windows
- no longer living at home, I sometimes still provide tech support
- uses our backup service

Son #3

- Windows (school) and Mac (personal) laptops
- email, web, office - all the usual
- some sound hacking
- uses our backup service

Miles Fidelman







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In practice, there is.    Yogi Berra


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Re: How is typical home computer used today? (back to original question)

[Richard Owlett]

Miles Fidelman wrote:

Richard Owlett wrote:

Bret Busby wrote:


Surely, it would have all been so much simpler, if the
original poster
in the thread, had put the question To what personal uses, do
people
put their computers?.


What correlation need there be between *simple* questions and
*useful* answers?

The OP correctly phrased the question as How is typical home
computer used today?
As I'm the OP, I should know. GRIN


Well... not sure we're typical, then again, as others have asked,
what's typical?  Anyway, in our home:
[snip details]


Thank you. That gives me a useful framework to compare my usage to:
  1. brother-in-law (retired history professor) and sister 
(retired librarian)

  2. brother (retired factory worker)
  3. a nephew (contract programmer)
  4. a friend (has BSEE but is not computer geek) who asked me 
to install a demo Linux





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Re: How is typical home computer used today? (back to original question)

[Bret Busby]

On 11/12/2014, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:


 Well... not sure we're typical, then again, as others have asked, what's
 typical?

Well put; this mailing list is, in itself, probably quite an atypical
group of people, to which to put such a question; thence, what
proportion of subscribers to this list, are limited to typical uses
of typical home computers, if either such entities, exist?

Those concepts sound to me, to be as easiy understandable, and,
applicable, by normal (ah, now there's an equally abstract and
unobtainable entity) people, as what I saw recently in a program about
Steven Hawking's interpretation of the universe; being part of a
system involving ten (yes, the number that was specified, is ten)
dimensions.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..

So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means.
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts,
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992




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