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On 30/04/2010 09:42, Rob Beard wrote:
We tended to moan frequently that Aspect[1] didn't have a Stun setting. How rewarding would that be, a really annoying numpty on the phone.. press button.... *thud* ... 'Hello sir? sir? Oh he must have gone..' End call :)On 30/04/10 08:15, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Rob Beard wrote:On 29/04/10 22:52, Eion MacDonald wrote:On 29/04/2010 20:25, Julian Hall wrote:me: Uh, no in kilobytes? cmr: How do I find out?Ah ha! memories One company I worked with in 1995 had all traffic locked. Company systems down. A director had tried to send a document, over 60MB in size, and his comment. "email is to send documents isn't it!".In those days we had to have ISP disengage the account, destroy and thenrestart! Educate users to know how they can play before giving them toys with which to play.I had that recently, well about a year ago with a customer. They wondered why their holiday snaps didn't send (all 600MB of them!). Well they would send, just not very quickly on a 1 Meg ADSL line with 256Kbit upload (of which 128Kbit was already used).It's an interesting conundrum... But I think it mostly boils down to lack of education (or wanting to learn). Your average consumer these days can have a 10mp camera producing 3-4MB image files, email, and broadband, and has never been told anything about the time/size factor in it all. Some email system still limit incoming emails to 10MB in size (bt/yahoo?) I actually restrict my own emails to 50MB after some problems I had a while back and don't get me started on customer email systems and Outlook... Got some clients whos pop3 times out even when they're on an 8Mb line due to the amount of email they get from friends who think nothing of attaching videos... Ah well, and they say that's progress for you... GordonYep, I advised them to either send them on CD or put them on a photo sharing service such as Flickr (since they were sending the photos to multiple people).Unfortunately sometimes even whacking the users with a clue bat didn't work.Rob
As for user knowledge I know people who can play DVDs, MP3s, get email, use MSN, but you ask them to use Windows Explorer and you get Mr Rabbit meeting Mr Headlights. It's like people going on a driving course to Silverstone who don't actually have their Provisional License yet. In terms of safety to other 'road' [Internet] users it's just as dangerous. These are the ones who open every attachment, accepting every file from people they don't know on MSN etc, and then wonder why their PC is running slow. Oh and then they pass the rubbish onto everyone else forwarding the virus and Trojan ridden scumware/phishing attempts.
Um. Kind regards, Julian [1] Our phone system. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html