Daily Archives: April 4, 2022
Faster Isn’t Always Faster . . .
Yesterday I downloaded the latest update for LibreOffice, the free alternative to MS Office. At 322 MB, it took about 7 minutes to download the file at our park WiFi’s 20 Mbps.
So when I went to download the same update on our office machines this morning, I expected it to download much faster due to the fact that we average about 110 Mbps on our office Internet service.
But it took the same 7 minutes. So what’s up?
This is something I’ve noticed often in the past as local WiFi speeds have gotten faster. It’s not on your end, it’s on their end.
The limitation in this case is in the LibreOffice servers.
The data flow is being throttled on their end, not yours.
So just because you’ve got a faster signal doesn’t mean things will be faster in the real world.
A couple of our readers wondered how to moved the data from my old 1TB HDD to the new 4TB one.
Well, I used this IDE 3.0 to SATA and IDE Interface.
It’s lets you plug any of the standard drives into your computer via a USB connector. And even better you can hook and access 3 drives at one time.
And you can copy data from one drive to another very fast, without going through the computer. Perfect for this job.
And it’s only $32,
One thing I’ve noticed about ordering from Amazon is how they sometimes handle you wanting two of an item. Often when I click on something, they will tell me that I will get it tomorrow. But then when I select 2 of the item, they sometimes tell me that delivery will be in 2 or 3 days. At first when this happened, I thought maybe they only had 1 in stock at a local warehouse.
BUT.
A little playing around told me differently. I found that in every case, I could order 1, and then order 1 a second time, and I would get them both the next day.
Don’t know why. It just works every time.
Most of you know my propensity for fixing things, and now Samsung is doing their part, making parts available to repair their phones. Starting now with the S20 and S21 phones, and the Tab S7 tablet, they expect to expand it to their entire line eventually.
After my posting my BLT from Twin Peaks, with six slices of bacon,
long-time friend Dick Schell sent me this photo of his BLT from Brewer’s Sports Bar in Yuma, with 8 to 10 slices of bacon.
Told him it looked like a BLT with a Bacon Side Salad.
He did say that I won the Best Waitress Award though.
Well, not me, I guess.
He probably means Sylvia.
Thought For The Day:
When one door closes, sometimes you want to get a hammer and nails to make sure that thing stays shut.
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