{"id":960,"date":"2010-02-17T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:26:10","slug":"un-effing-believable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/un-effing-believable\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-effing-believable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the day when floppy disks abounded, 40MB hard-drives were tha bomb<\/i>, and WordPerfect<\/a> was the wordprocessor du jour, I bet I looked down with poorly masked derision at the old-timers who insisted on printing off hardcopies of everything they generated for peace of mind.<\/p>\n

When GoogleDocs came out, paving the way for netbooks and the diminishing need to carry your data around with you, I harrumphed and thought that only death would wrest my hard-drive-resident apps and documents from my cold, stiff fingers (and even then there are the hard and soft boobytraps lying in wait). Okay, so maybe I have a bit of an external hard-drive obsession (six and growing). And yeah, maybe my backups of backups onto a RAID 1 set-up is a little nerdy. But I have peace of mind.<\/p>\n

And so, today, I’m travelling light – no Powerbook, just my PortableApps<\/a> and flashdrives – and there’s an urgent request for some scripts that I’m consulting on.<\/p>\n

I thought to myself: How hard can it be to access a shared Gmail account, scroll through the emails, compile the attached scripts and miscellaneous docs, and flick them on through ThunderbirdPortable?<\/i> I’m using Firefox. I’m at a broadband connection. It’s mid-morning so the bandwidth traffic should be reasonable.<\/p>\n

A half-hour – fifteen minutes, even – job has extended to well over an hour as the browsing experience is excruciatingly slow. Attachments won’t download – or if they do, they slow to a crawl and then stall at 51 or 76 or 91%. Reboots, resets and restarts of various hard- and software have made no apparent difference.<\/p>\n

I am not happy.<\/p>\n

And I now have good cause for my separation anxiety when it comes to my Powerbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the day when floppy disks abounded, 40MB hard-drives were tha bomb, and WordPerfect was the wordprocessor du jour, I bet I looked down with poorly masked derision at the old-timers who insisted on printing off hardcopies of everything they generated for peace of mind. When GoogleDocs came out, paving the way for netbooks … <\/p>\n

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